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e point nature reserve the nature reserve has gorse scrub and rare limestone meadow i included both of these together with dropwort cranesbill and harebell and a little lesser whitethroat which are all found there my work is painted appliquéd hand and machine embroidered i left a tiny margin of calico round the edge of my piece because i wanted to reflect the fact that this was the base on which everyone constructed their very different works but in retrospect i m not sure this was the right thing to do this is a really wonderful project and i am grateful to have been involved you can read more about it here and see all the marvellous pieces that other contributors have made posted by catherine at 10 00 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels forthlineproject monday 1 november 2021 the endeavourers 15 a quilt inspired by a newspaper headline b y covid this is my quilt for the latest quarterly challenge from the endeavourers our challenge was to make a quilt inspired by a newspaper headline my quilt doesn t need much explanation it represents the majority of headlines at the moment and pretty much sums up my feelings as the current situation drags on we re probably all getting a bit fed up so i had wanted some way of adding a small bit of hope to my quilt when i dug this newspaper print out of the drawer it seemed perfect because it is actually full of positive thoughts i m not always keen on fabric like this but i thought that the message be gentle with yourself and references to the good things in life beauty friendship family home and garden etc were a good reminder that although covid sometimes occupies centre stage as it does in my quilt the things that make life worthwhile are still there my headline is painted with fabric paint and i quilted in black round the letters which are based on a font called impact there is a double layer of batting under the white paper which is stipple quilted the background newsprint is quilted in random geometric shapes inspired by the print i liked the way that the asterisks look vaguely like the covid virus under the microscope i m sure i m not alone in feeling uninspired to be creative recently and it was very good to have this challenge as usual i m looking forward to seeing what has inspired the other members of the endeavourers you can check them out on the group blog where you can also find links to each individual member posted by catherine at 11 01 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels theendeavourers theendeavourersquiltgroup art quilt finishes quilt the endeavourers saturday 1 may 2021 the endeavourers 14 colour theory the spirit of summer the theme for this quarter s piece was colour theory and what a massive and complicated subject that is essentially it s about describing and explaining relationships between colours and why we find some satisfying as quilt makers most of us have probably come across the colour wheel at some point we often use it as reference when considering which colours might go well together the particular wheel we are familiar with the subtractive colour wheel which is based on mixing pigments and uses the primary colours red yellow and blue only represents one way of describing the relationships between different colours there are other models which depend for example on whether you are considering the properties of light the additive colour wheel or the physiology of the human eye as i was feeling my way round the enormity of the subject and at a bit at a loss i thought about making an abstract quilt using two colours with a particular relationship however i couldn t get away from a picture in my head of pink blossom against sunny blue skies and i really wanted to make that quilt the spirit of summer for me this is a really exciting combination of colours if you look at my header you will see another quilt in my header which uses it using the quilters subtractive colour wheel red of which pink is a tint and this green blue are split complementary colours interesting that unlike most tints pink is significant enough to have its own name instead of being pale red green is red s complement the colour with the highest contrast and blue green is an analogous colour to blue which makes it part of a split complementary colour scheme with red using the additive colour wheel the blue here is close to cyan which is directly opposite red and is its complement if we think about how the human eye works red and cyan stimulate different photoreceptors and together they are visually exciting so this quilt doesn t address the theme of colour theory head on but it illustrates two colours which have a particularly strong relationship with each other we don t have to know why we find a particular colour combination appealing but colour theory helps us to explain and describe colour relationships we like and to put other combinations together edited to add colour theory is a useful way of describing colour relationships when making decisions about what to use but the theme and mood you are conveying is just as important if you look at the other members posts on our group blog you can see all the wonderful and very different results posted by catherine at 10 00 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest location edinburgh uk monday 1 february 2021 the endeavourers 13 memories treasure box today is the reveal date for the latest piece for the endeavourers art quilt group our theme for this quarter is memories it s a broad subject covering a lot of possibilities so i am excited to see what my fellow endeavourers have done you can find out here as usual it was lovely to have such a thought provoking theme to mull over to begin with i wondered about making a scene illustrating a particular memory then about trying to represent the biochemistry of memory and the way it depends on synaptic connections between neurons finally i started thinking about the relationship between our memories and who we are the way they contribute to who we are as a human being we can have experiences but it is the memory of those experiences that allows us to learn and change and develop as a person memories are layered and stitched together colouring and shaping our personalities and our attitudes to the world while i was wondering how to translate this idea into a piece i thought about the treasure box i keep under my bed as i m sure many people do and about the way the objects in a collection like this represent their owner s individual memories the collection as a whole is more than the sum of its parts too and also reflects the owner as a person in fact a person is like a treasure box we are all treasure boxes together the box and its contents symbolise us as the keepers and the product of our memories so here is my imagined treasure box and it is not a quilt this is my first 3d textile work for the endeavourers and i have made what is supposed to look like a precious lacquerware box full of treasures the box is stitched together and the lid is made using crazy patchwork to represent the layering and stitching together of memories into a person with different shapes and colours representing the variety of memories this variety of memories is also shown by the treasures on a bed of tissue paper inside a couple of shells a baby shoe a dried corsage or buttonhole some old pine cones a fossil and a conker while the choice of objects gives some clues about the person it belongs to here is a closer look at the contents of the box and the pieces all made of fabric that i made to represent what is important in the imagined life and personality of a particular human being a little douglas fir cone and a larger scots pine cone my own treasure box has a cedar cone which is a reminder of a very long ago family picnic with my grandma during a sunny summer holiday i thought that a fir cone might seem like a trivial thing but in terms of memories represent something very significant a couple of shells kept as a general reminder of jolly walks on the beach or of one special trip a fossil since they are treasures in themselves but also represent many happy hours of fossicking an old conker on a string maybe a reminder of childhood games but also like fossils times spent scuffling around looking for them and the magic of finding a good one a dried corsage buttonhole saved from a happy or romantic occasion a wedding or an important dance maybe a baby s shoe when my oldest daughter was very tiny she seemed to grow much bigger during the day by force of personality and it was only when i saw her shoes after she had gone to bed that i remembered how little she was this shoe is made from satin silk perhaps the owner made it from scraps of a wedding dress and hidden away inside there is a tiny box treasure box s mini me because there are some memories locked away that we perhaps don t take out very often or share with other people for some treasures the significance of the memories might be common to many people but for others we can only guess at their importance and the effect that they have had on their owner when i was working on this piece i thought a lot about the film blade runner as an exploration of how memories contribute to your identity and what it actually means to be human you can t get much better the replicants in the film began their lives programmed with a set of someone else s memories but they have also made their own they have treasures too so they feel and want to be understood as human i love rutger hauer s final speech more of a poem really which makes it clear that he is no less human or important than anyone else i ve seen things you people wouldn t believe attack ships on fire off the shoulder of orion i watched c beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate all those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain time to die when our memories are lost part of who we are begins to fade away but even at the end of our lives we live on for a while in our treasures and in other people s memories until eventually these are lost too making the treasure box has been such a distraction from current events i really enjoyed thinking about the imaginary owner of the box and what might be in it i set myself two challenges 1 to make a piece that was constructed only using textiles and stitch and 2 to only use materials i had rather than buy anything new the first was partly to fit with the aims of our group as a textile art group but both of these also seemed very important to fit in with the idea behind the piece apart from some jewellery wire in the stems of the corsage i nearly managed the first challenge almost everything is textile and sewn together but i had to resort to using some glue to secure the padded lining inside the lid and to fix the hinges and key plate i just couldn t work out a stage in the construction when i could sew them on in and be sure they would end up where they were supposed to be and i couldn t force a needle through them afterwards the second challenge was very satisfying i was able to use up some tiny scraps of flimsy interfacing to make the carnations and fabric crumbs went into stuffing other objects the fir cones were made out of a piece of furnishing material reclaimed from a sample book the box is reinforced with some stiff tapestry canvas which i happened to have in exactly the right quantity and is made from black velvet cut from a torn old favourite jacket sewing it all together was crucial to the idea but i did occasionally wonder why i was putting myself through this torture when it would just have been an awful lot easier to wrap fabric round a cardboard box the hinges and lock are made of scraps of suede painted with metallic fabric paint for final decorative details i used cold tea to age the corsage dipping in the carnations and then putting some of the damp tea leaves on the fern and leaving to dry and i used watercolour on the rosebud and shells and to add shadows to the quilting on the fossil it took a while to think about how to make each object but as the box and its contents symbolise a human being and their memories it felt very important to try to make everything look as precious as possible sometimes i wonder about the point of making things me not anyone else occasionally it does seem a bit pointless but putting a rather obsessive and possibly rather mad level of effort into this box was a lot of fun and i decided that that is really the point it shouldn t matter about the circumstances or the result or what anyone thinks and anything is a worthwhile endeavour if it makes you think about and see the world in a different way so thank you very much again to all the other endeavourers for making this such a great group to belong to and do please have a look at what they have come up with posted by catherine at 10 00 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest location scotland uk friday 20 november 2020 a life on the ocean wave having finished my sea themed quilts for the endeavourers after rather a long period of creative drought i suddenly felt inspired again i do think that the sea as a theme offers up so many possibilities and i am going to keep going i ve just finished another little quilt a life on the ocean wave inspiration for this quilt came from an unusual source my coffee pot i suddenly saw a beautiful wave and an idea came into my head pretty much fully formed it is lovely when that happens i had such fun making little silver fish out of the metal from tea lights thanks to fiona who used this metal for her beggars tokens and seagulls out of modelling clay i ve hung the quilt on a piece of driftwood and am just waiting for a less wintry day so i can take even more photos posted by catherine at 12 32 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 7 november 2020 the endeavourers 12 the sea the endeavourers art quilt group have been working on the subject of the sea this quarter resulting in a beautiful collection of quilts featuring all kinds of different techniques check them out here i m arriving late to the party the last few months have been difficult for us all and like many people i m sure i haven t felt much creative enthusiasm but as people say in motivational books i gave myself permission to play for a bit this subject is very close to my heart as i grew up near the sea and still live near to it albeit in another part of the country further down the coast i find the colours and textures endlessly fascinating and it was these that i decided to think about to begin with concentrating first of all on wave forms i started with the simplest wave quilting on calico it s a very peaceful and meditative exercise then i pieced some waves i love that this piece almost looks carved in stone after that i progressed to colou...