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tornado of fabric by i was done then it all has to be folded and put away another time waster with a painting deciding which inspiration photo to work from printing that one out and not having a great pile of possibles saves me a lot of time when teaching workshops i ve sometimes seen people taking a whole day to decide which photo is the one to start from another time waster is looking for a particular tool if you find yourself more than a couple of times taking time to find a basic tool buy some more of them i have scissors everywhere then i don t waste time looking for a pair i also fill about a dozen bobbins at a time and just have 3 bobbin colors light medium and dark in the garden i have a spade and a trowel and gloves waiting for me in each area of the garden 6 i really try to avoid other people wasting my time politely of course if it s a nuisance call obviously one just puts the phone down and lets them prattle on to thin air if a friend or relative i say well i mustn t keep you translates as i m afraid i m not going to let you keep me a great way of avoiding them wasting time is to combine social time with exercise makes the exercise easier and makes double use of the time 7 i try to use distractions as reinforcements e g checking for emails only after so many minutes on task studies have shown that office workers spend almost a third of their time on emails social media etc 8 simple filing systems help to organize papers etc so they don t get lost i have spent hours looking for a vital piece of paper 9 talking of paper try to handle each piece of paper once only if you write to me you may well get your card or letter back with something scrawled on it if you email me i tend to reply straightaway so then i don t take the time to read it twice quicker to hit reply while what you ve said is still in my mind of course some friends hate me doing this 10 and of course it s important not to do that which does not need to be done such as ironing all the fabric just iron the bits you are going to work with yes i know ironing is lovely smoothing out the wrinkles of the world but it does take time tidying up the studio do you really need to have everything arranged just so i must admit i don t understand the drive to have the perfect studio do we really need to know who has the biggest one 11 i try to set goals well ahead of time with the big task split into many little ones and something accomplished towards it each day like writing a book or an online course 30 minutes a day is i find much more possible than larger chunks of time which take a lot of working up to 12 when i write a blog i try to make it relevant to something i need to do like manage my time more wisely having said that i m off to make a cup of tea a very wise use of my time so if you have been thanks for reading and i do hope you found it a good use of your time do share any time management tips that you have too we all would love a couple more hours of creative time per day elizabeth posted by elizabeth barton at 9 02 am 16 comments sunday june 13 2021 i ve been vlogged above are some of the many photos i shared with popular french vlogger liana voia also there s a long interview with yours truly you can see my new covid hair do i e nothing done except washed and power points of many quilts and watercolors and photographs over the years the top photo is a book a friend and i self published back in the 80s next is one of many local newspaper clippings the third one is to commemorate me donated the two quilts hanging behind us to the public library they are they to this day and i added a third so much better than malingering in a cupboard and the last photo is of the member of aqn ny at least 20 years ago you ll recognize some famous faces i m sure we did have one male member michael james but he went on to bigger things please do go and look and the vlog and let me know what you think here s the link elizabeth barton or if the above doesn t work please copy and paste https vimeo com 561805092 all good wishes elizabeth posted by elizabeth barton at 8 58 am 3 comments friday may 14 2021 sewing therapy recently i was hospitalized with a disorder caused or at least aggravated by stress and when i got home i decided to add in several more stress relievers to my day as well as the damned pills they prescribed and i discovered that giving myself 30 minutes of time to do nothing but sew no tv radio podcast or most importantly people just me and the cloth and the scissors pins needles and sewing machine i discovered that this was the most calming thing of all the important thing is not to feel guilty for taking time for yourself nor to have any sense of having to reach a certain goal or certain time frame i know a lot of people use yoga for this but that never worked for me instead just calmly cutting and sewing and not feeling like i need to get anywhere or justify the activity to anyone at all getting totally into the flow of sewing movements and focussing only on those seeing it as an important activity for health breathing into it this is what works now i know it would not be calming if you couldn t sew you d just get frustrated but i m sure everyone that reads this blog is a sewer oops i don t mean a drain no but the calming quiet contemplative activity will drain away your tension don t see this activity as an excuse but rather a very important medicine for your life try it a full 30 minutes at a particular time each day with no pressure completely quiet your space your time nobody can interrupt feel your tangled thoughts smooth out your heart rate drop your breathing become calm and rhythmic and let me know how this works for you i m sure hoping this will keep me out of hospital and if you have been thanks for reading elizabeth posted by elizabeth barton at 6 23 am 8 comments thursday april 29 2021 designing art quilts with line two problems solved while in art quilts our main medium is shape pieces of cloth cut into shapes most of us usually design using line and this can often be misleading because our lines simply delineate the edges of the shapes to me this creates two difficulties first we re designing one thing but making another so it s really hard to see what the quilt will look like finished so many times people say to me but i know what i want in my head but what comes out is nothing like it i know we ve all felt that my answer is that if you want your quilt to be a beautiful and exciting arrangement of shapes then design with shapes cut out the shapes in paper or in cloth and arrange and rearrange on a background that resembles in value at least also texture the background of your finished quilt you don t need to glue them down just take a photo of every arrangement you come up with and then look at the different ideas simultaneously on your computer you ll easily see the best one second we re missing an opportunity to create a design featuring line itself and these can be very beautiful and elegant not so easy to reproduce in fabric you say actually not so difficult as you would think cut fairly narrow strips as narrow as you can comfortably work with but sew very wide seams thus reducing the width of the narrow strips considerably as i did in this quilt below when considering a linear design begin with a sketch which obviously you ll design by drawing lines on a piece of paper if your design is based on a photo or some similar inspiration then one you have your sketch take the photo away just focus on the sketch this is your blueprint now are there any lines you can remove and still retain the idea that inspired you get rid of those first they are surplus to purpose then see if you can extend or add or augment your lines for example drawing strong lines that go through much of the design and create a basic structure remember that horizontal lines suggest a peaceful scene vertical ones strength and stability and diagonal ones my favorite are dynamic don t have just one kind of line but do have a preponderance of one kind if you use diagonals be sure to have a few that go in the opposite direction otherwise you ll have all your viewers leaning to one side next think about the quality of the lines sharp pointy ones give a feeling of energy perhaps anger smooth undulating ones are calm tender loving short bold ones are dramatic fine whispy ones are smokey suggestive and tentative what mood do you want to create use your lines some lines should be avoided because they are boring or affect the balance of the design these are lines that are exactly parallel to the edges or lines that bisect a corner or cut the design into two equal halves you don t want your quilt to be really predictable like elevator music use the fact that our eyes tend to follow a line to direct your viewer s gaze towards a focal area or around the piece whatever you want and if you have been thanks for reading i do hope you ll try some of these ideas let me know if they are helpful and i love comments and will always reply so please feel free elizabeth posted by elizabeth barton at 6 56 am 5 comments sunday april 11 2021 a change of subject a friend asked me yesterday why she wasn t getting into local art shows when her paintings were actually much better than several that had been accepted i went down to the show and realised that the juror just didn t like traditional landscapes everything she had chosen was about rawness ugliness and distortion protest was another major theme in fact she even expressed surprise in her remarks in the catalogue that landscapes were still being painted so i advised my friend that if she wanted to get in she would need to change her subject matter but i felt strongly that one should always make work in whatever medium you use about what is in your heart what makes you glow or shimmer or weep or jump for joy and then i started thinking about my own work when i first made art quilts i was still a fairly new immigrant to the usa and still visiting my home town york uk regularly and again walking and dreaming in the old roman city with its medieval houses it wasn t surprising that that became the subject of my quilts but this is not what is in my heart now now i live in a beautiful green oasis a large garden two lovely and intriguing parks close by a university that prides itself on its landscaping every window looks out onto amazing beautiful natural patterns of tree branches and leaves and sky and it is so inspiring and uplifting so my art forthcoming will be about the trees i want to make a quilt and several paintings of the photo at the head of this blog and for the first time in ages i can t wait to begin follow your heart said joseph campbell many years ago and he was right jurors who prefer the ugly bedamned if you have been thanks for reading and do please comment oh yes i will respond and now my desires lead me to a nice cuppa tea elizabeth posted by elizabeth barton at 5 31 am 9 comments sunday february 28 2021 lockdown diary and dubious accomplishments plus a project i keep reading about all the amazing things people are accomplishing during this time of isolation like teaching your children to tap dance well i don t have the oomph for that or the child who wants to learn but i have got quite a few things done decided to try to learn spanish again it is much easier than english but i can t get out of the habit of pronouncing words the french way sort of high in the back of the palate exercise what to do as a swimmer i was a bit stuck with the pool closed hard to swim on dry land after all but i did discover a couple of parks very close and duly masked have perambulated through mud and leaves in the hope of achieving fitness not yet but still hoping in the park i saw people trying to play tennis on small courts with little paddles and whiffle balls turns out it s a new sport called pickling so i m trying to pickle not very good at it and my first teacher gave up on me cos i wouldn t take it seriously and kept laughing i mean pickle of course you should laugh getting into death cleaning as the scandinavians call it i e clearing out all the clutter those bulging cupboards of stuff that might come in some day has lead to several projects 2 summer bed quilts made from scraps of liberty fabric i brought to the usa with me when i emigrated years and years ago a big pink scrap art window quilt for a friend which nicely used up all the pink fabric i have never ever wanted to use in any quilt it s funny how there s one color you avoid i am just not a pink person i also sorted out all my knitting yarn and now have it divided into neat piles with a specific pattern or idea and the right size needles i only allow myself 4 rows a night of knitting arthritis but it s surprising how quickly you can make something with just that little amount i often use 3 strands together and that works up very quickly it s also a great way to make something unified that could be very bitty you take one yarn that you have a lot of which is usually a boring dreary color that was on sale and then you add in all the fun stuff the boring yarn holds it all together visually and the bits of fun give it pzazz so then my death cleaning got into my class notes and power points i ve taught a lot of classes over the years and working with them i updated a couple of my www academyofquilting com classes the art quilt from start to finish formerly inspired to design and abstract art for quiltmakers i usually work from a rough sketch like below sometimes from a watercolor but the most fun and useful i think is from a collage working from a collage is a lot of fun you can use plain paper in just 3 values or cut out images or parts of them from magazines not quilting magazines just from the adverts in an ordinary news magazine and try to make little compositions with them fitting them together onto card and glueing them down or you can use those sticky sheets you get in photo albums if anyone still has them i like to take apart old christmas and greeting cards and just keep the blank bits or glue the cuttings over the existing images make a few of these and you ll begin to be able to get a sense of what makes a good composition then take the best one and make a quilt based on them send the others off for birthdays etc have fun and let me know how this worked for you it definitely shifts you into working another way and thinking along different lines which i love and if you have been thanks for reading elizabeth ps please comment also look out for my article in the upcoming issue of quilting moderne posted by elizabeth barton at 11 42 am 8 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me elizabeth barton i love learning art watercolor music piano psychology why and how i have a weird sense of humour great curiosity and determination view my complete profile my website my email address if the link above doesn t work for you try 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