tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2247555246463728382024-03-13T22:37:54.850+01:00Uta Lenk - justquiltsUta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.comBlogger854125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-26200266949982366352024-03-09T10:56:00.001+01:002024-03-09T10:56:00.181+01:00Meeting Deadlines, making the most of it<p> Just a couple of days ago I entered a quilt I recently finished for the Brno Patchwork Meeting (formerly Prague Patchwork Meeting). Because the 20 Perspectives Group will be exhibiting there I figured it would make a lot of sense to enter a quilt in one of their challenges. The topic 'Zero Waste' spoke to me as it seemed a good way to finally work out an idea I had been having for a while. This idea included using red plastic tops from syringes I had been collecting at work, caused by a misunderstaning on my part.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B-zXA5SOFBsAtDjURFV8unN6quyZLTAxWKo0GhvdhRSb8cDoT4HhiHHoCR2kmzxX44pUQ2MgKvpFwta9sqQSIRDBm0ArD-TCg_adKauhpigzEf1pZFSVtFM6Eh_QWbjGEq38NmRRIQJKFOrarrB721J0aQ_h_OcG8JYtZvKzPET_m3oZ6fQuvsUs0w/s600/20230906_094429a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0B-zXA5SOFBsAtDjURFV8unN6quyZLTAxWKo0GhvdhRSb8cDoT4HhiHHoCR2kmzxX44pUQ2MgKvpFwta9sqQSIRDBm0ArD-TCg_adKauhpigzEf1pZFSVtFM6Eh_QWbjGEq38NmRRIQJKFOrarrB721J0aQ_h_OcG8JYtZvKzPET_m3oZ6fQuvsUs0w/w300-h400/20230906_094429a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Because these little parts had a little hole at the top I thought this would extend all the way through, and I had collected quite a few of these before I realized my mistake. I mean, it doesn't really make a lot of sense that syringe stoppers would have a hole all the way through, and I don't quite understand why I harbored the idea, except maybe that my 'green' or 'ecological' heart was suffering badly when seeing all the plastic, wrapping, gadgets and instruments that go to waste in a dialysis practice every single day. And especially these red tops... </p><p>First stitches for this quilt began during the last summer already, and it was a long and laborious process. Somewhere along the line I also had the idea of including some more of
the still relatively numerous embroideries by Afghan women in my stash (<a href="https://www.guldusi.com/en/stick-projects.html" target="_blank">Guldusi Embroidery</a>),
and originally I had wanted to make it a rather turquoise/red quilt, for
which I begged for turquoise scraps from my good quilting friend Bea @capricornquilts because
I realized my abundance of turquiose scraps was low.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1ZHUyenmqc2MdxAPnWGTh_gq78rVZDcc7Ak6GuYtMw8D3I_4v1vbyrdzANMTv8x63ksS2rxg8El6KENTuKPTZ1QGg3E5sC3Gxua5e-W9tWytuYs8C0M2HvK3fDgQi6PqEZSq0ak5gvBH0lisqahyphenhyphenNDz88jNFwA0a1w7EuC_GBM_fKlaXRRhsepBUhg/s638/20230907_082225-a-kl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1ZHUyenmqc2MdxAPnWGTh_gq78rVZDcc7Ak6GuYtMw8D3I_4v1vbyrdzANMTv8x63ksS2rxg8El6KENTuKPTZ1QGg3E5sC3Gxua5e-W9tWytuYs8C0M2HvK3fDgQi6PqEZSq0ak5gvBH0lisqahyphenhyphenNDz88jNFwA0a1w7EuC_GBM_fKlaXRRhsepBUhg/w376-h400/20230907_082225-a-kl.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMEaUnX-2F8fuqhGqLXdj4NDuf2z-D-9oYYGXxPXbe59fFmT5ByngWWWrahrxo6YS3OBxo9ruzTGHZaAuwJJBS-UJluV_SVYw3aCqSa5EMLiNNMwztdOLj4l-VIhirDiRvvr4FNHuRY3m5HapgvzBnXcUS7fp9sbrLZWikRKNfIPOTiGyuOtxbGpGTvw/s600/20230825_141229-kl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMEaUnX-2F8fuqhGqLXdj4NDuf2z-D-9oYYGXxPXbe59fFmT5ByngWWWrahrxo6YS3OBxo9ruzTGHZaAuwJJBS-UJluV_SVYw3aCqSa5EMLiNNMwztdOLj4l-VIhirDiRvvr4FNHuRY3m5HapgvzBnXcUS7fp9sbrLZWikRKNfIPOTiGyuOtxbGpGTvw/w400-h400/20230825_141229-kl.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>In the end the quilt turned out a lot less turquoise and red than I had envisioned. And the red tops needed a special kind of treatment to actually end up on the quilt top because, as I mentioned, the hole did not extend all the way and I could not stitch them onto the top. But I finished on the time before the deadline (which is still a week away! so early!), and I stayed within the size restrictions relatively easily because I was so smart to outline the size cirumference on my design wall with string and pins and thus managed to keep within the boundaries. And I had it professionally photographed - and then happened to delete the file accidentally and had to ask for it being resent. By that time I had gone north again, did not have a printer available, could not print out the entry form for the challenge nor download a workable version of the pdf-reader that would let me fill in the form digitally. I had to ask at work whether I could print out the file from my private mail account... fill it in by hand, take a photo of it, turn it into a pdf and send it ... it was a thorny way indeed before I managed to get in that entry.</p><p>As I have also decided to try and enter it for SAQA's Europe/Middle East call for entry "Wide Horizons" (deadline end of this month) I am not showing any other pictures right now. The jury for Wide Horizons should have decided before the meeting in Brno, so I figure a double entry is not outside the rules, which don't say 'must not have been shown anywhere before' anyway.</p><p>I also hope to have a second entry finished for Wide Horizons, perhaps, which, should it not get accepted, could be entered somewhere else. Give them many chances...<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-87781484103415582852024-03-04T09:48:00.004+01:002024-03-07T21:54:46.959+01:00Participating in PatCH Swiss Anniversary/EQA Round Bobbin - to be seen in Vicenza in October<p> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Just before
I left for Abilmente recently I had finished the last stitches on a very
special piece. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJ5gkAErJR-vo9lTT18wcT80AKdqxuyEwDZXBjbett_8GV9vCCAGj4YPtLYuOqGCiiDzbpxabU1NOdgAINAPHsdGVOS6Grg0B9F1qmf7QTMWUP_FpMZ1z_Tmg9ZPs6KB4tE5NvyDUjxaxCDV9Lf9a9DJqKF5sOd_-YvEkPGDcImHG8wb47qM1XTNsow/s600/20240218_155727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJ5gkAErJR-vo9lTT18wcT80AKdqxuyEwDZXBjbett_8GV9vCCAGj4YPtLYuOqGCiiDzbpxabU1NOdgAINAPHsdGVOS6Grg0B9F1qmf7QTMWUP_FpMZ1z_Tmg9ZPs6KB4tE5NvyDUjxaxCDV9Lf9a9DJqKF5sOd_-YvEkPGDcImHG8wb47qM1XTNsow/w300-h400/20240218_155727.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the fall
I had decided to participate in PatCH Swiss’s <i>Round Bobbin</i> challenge
that had been opened for members of other EQA countries as well.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However, I
had taken a very long time to get started because, I admit, I had a hard time
figuring out how to go about. Definitely not my usual stuff, to be working
along such a list, and it took a lot of pondering to come up with an idea. But when I had
decided to stick to one color, (I had been lucky to receive a bobbin in my
favorite color, yellow, and therefore stayed in that color family!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VywzB1vK-nIxpg7uthK4ks3LkRke0B13LazrxI1XwtN1J1Z6B4VhtfoAaJlH8Wv1g1o2oSktKq-bkwvp130CeYPSbYrR0s1TKETf_zW_8uBvhUOtJfyqFbPLUxbrNJgqDGyWtsCRVpkvQLJJz4Yk4THSWuN6mzdW6nuABNiW_Yat_zwM9eezaCHW0g/s600/20240130_164741.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VywzB1vK-nIxpg7uthK4ks3LkRke0B13LazrxI1XwtN1J1Z6B4VhtfoAaJlH8Wv1g1o2oSktKq-bkwvp130CeYPSbYrR0s1TKETf_zW_8uBvhUOtJfyqFbPLUxbrNJgqDGyWtsCRVpkvQLJJz4Yk4THSWuN6mzdW6nuABNiW_Yat_zwM9eezaCHW0g/w400-h300/20240130_164741.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">to look for
composite nouns in German that somehow included whatever cue word was given, I
finally got off to a good, if late, start. I stitched line drawings of some of
the terms given, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_WW3nLVf9BbVpZ8821dMkimy5BIOjbkmfw7B4F2NEPBRSzJmcXQZH9sbACWv93jt8M-tSV2P_j80E_LC_wQ8cbOa6TZiMoFe0-l91PYtMsd0_qzuI9VTBqkg1McsYphfrhl32Gatbnfxed0KP9COhg-mzWDLVeI5h5B4JsP-SBG3xvYQMAuBcK8XDA/s600/20240129_203731.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc_WW3nLVf9BbVpZ8821dMkimy5BIOjbkmfw7B4F2NEPBRSzJmcXQZH9sbACWv93jt8M-tSV2P_j80E_LC_wQ8cbOa6TZiMoFe0-l91PYtMsd0_qzuI9VTBqkg1McsYphfrhl32Gatbnfxed0KP9COhg-mzWDLVeI5h5B4JsP-SBG3xvYQMAuBcK8XDA/w300-h400/20240129_203731.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> but sometimes the part of the compound that would be ‘the
other’ part. <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQ_iQMyqTZuWXbpwKqfCVu10SBXO0Gac5_Kupoo6uRrLcRApg0kxdpWFKp49MgouPWHxIq1c96RozA9xnXjJBbDipIoR-jEwFTtc33pAPufoZj8RFnQklWuP7WKEMnX6aEUI-XiGwDFRqojn3t_SSiEGKB6lnko62Ftg1fziUog1dYlyLxW_ycSE_uA/s600/20240130_171809.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQ_iQMyqTZuWXbpwKqfCVu10SBXO0Gac5_Kupoo6uRrLcRApg0kxdpWFKp49MgouPWHxIq1c96RozA9xnXjJBbDipIoR-jEwFTtc33pAPufoZj8RFnQklWuP7WKEMnX6aEUI-XiGwDFRqojn3t_SSiEGKB6lnko62Ftg1fziUog1dYlyLxW_ycSE_uA/w400-h300/20240130_171809.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Or a chemical symbol. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCsRhZp1m8WWTT-rA-fJ7-m62mlmAan69IpcY83ApvC3BmwEEujhn0bvv-2FJ_D_TGjcdW4OGJws7woKyHrpJkur9fWaCxHuTIs8Od6LlQF37nK2j8sCF2bJQyrI42gyBraCYAacEiOdd9Tnug-SN-84WHrwOhcqVGjAZBwb-V62ae6aqbKZE7gBI4A/s600/20240130_104234.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGCsRhZp1m8WWTT-rA-fJ7-m62mlmAan69IpcY83ApvC3BmwEEujhn0bvv-2FJ_D_TGjcdW4OGJws7woKyHrpJkur9fWaCxHuTIs8Od6LlQF37nK2j8sCF2bJQyrI42gyBraCYAacEiOdd9Tnug-SN-84WHrwOhcqVGjAZBwb-V62ae6aqbKZE7gBI4A/w400-h300/20240130_104234.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Or a phrase
that includes the term in some way.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSck2qu3rNa2TiXP-LMSWt8OU98oTxNqOvkuRuZFKZth5Gazgs9LET46pyibX1eELSLIrjHPvzU75GnfC5bTwBwtDLAvrUz4kVNNkjBUrkmk7IFV6gp4VQLpR2wk6CJ775Fx2PuGQz1Oo0pWWIcMecNXyThwvK1SV09uR4O8NBLAdo3q2JHGG_tnYjsA/s600/20240130_165447.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSck2qu3rNa2TiXP-LMSWt8OU98oTxNqOvkuRuZFKZth5Gazgs9LET46pyibX1eELSLIrjHPvzU75GnfC5bTwBwtDLAvrUz4kVNNkjBUrkmk7IFV6gp4VQLpR2wk6CJ775Fx2PuGQz1Oo0pWWIcMecNXyThwvK1SV09uR4O8NBLAdo3q2JHGG_tnYjsA/w400-h300/20240130_165447.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the
good thing was that I could hand-deliver the finished bobbin to Susan Vogel in
Vicenza, saving me the postage, her the potential hassle with customs. Now I am
looking forward to seeing that exhibition, which will be huge. Susan says she
sent out almost 600 bobbins, even if not every single one will be returned… The
entire collection will be shown at Abilmente in October. A selection of the
Swiss contributions will be presented for the Swiss Guild at their AGM in the
end of April, and as far as I know another selection will be shown at the
European Patchwork Meeting in Ste. Marie-aux-Mines in Septemer, as well. So
much fun to be included in this, even though I barely made the deadline!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLk491JUNR0wXBLRrbOcXIc-kpGy-9-50fah1ld2mLSL3mchPNp7wiJAnJwru98g6VwqGQWyaZ_vwGjA0Tg6LafPQQqVuj-GZtpx2v3XfYazL5q2DdxsId5hWxjwKPi8uktn3sB_TyIqtWv4OZ0UXlOBfkUgzxz3dT-5UuF8rAOy9P8yquoLlzA1Dd8A/s600/20240130_172422.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLk491JUNR0wXBLRrbOcXIc-kpGy-9-50fah1ld2mLSL3mchPNp7wiJAnJwru98g6VwqGQWyaZ_vwGjA0Tg6LafPQQqVuj-GZtpx2v3XfYazL5q2DdxsId5hWxjwKPi8uktn3sB_TyIqtWv4OZ0UXlOBfkUgzxz3dT-5UuF8rAOy9P8yquoLlzA1Dd8A/w400-h300/20240130_172422.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-66825585400955802032024-02-27T17:12:00.005+01:002024-02-27T17:12:58.377+01:00Returning to and from Abilmente<p><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Many years
ago I had my first international solo show at the Abilmente Crafts fair in
Vicenza. This year I returned there in my role as International Representative
with a group of other EQA colleagues. This is the place where I had that show, up on the pedestal between the columns.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNNSXpRjtA7xfmuVt18bslE8Z-hZxwY4upVhhexXu21IXqAslUSQrox-PdCjGp31Qrq_EyaOx6U2bGcMnwC71Gh6d-WW5O8ny3XqgIhcOYocPiFJUUB-pU-2l3aGXY8llc7gXJXvOtm_ukxFd46-LJxpCxBPHR2qd8r5OrtDYyIB8nHtXgc61eAs4fw/s600/20240223_094051.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNNSXpRjtA7xfmuVt18bslE8Z-hZxwY4upVhhexXu21IXqAslUSQrox-PdCjGp31Qrq_EyaOx6U2bGcMnwC71Gh6d-WW5O8ny3XqgIhcOYocPiFJUUB-pU-2l3aGXY8llc7gXJXvOtm_ukxFd46-LJxpCxBPHR2qd8r5OrtDYyIB8nHtXgc61eAs4fw/w400-h300/20240223_094051.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This time around EQA presented and stewarded a collection
of two quilts from each European Guild as the organizers of the show want to
enhance their patchwork segment of the show. I arrived
too late to help in the hanging, as a special security pass was needed and I
did not have one. So I immediately on a short trip to the old inner city,
taking the bus just opposite from the hotel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8KT8JHIkVF3l5l7iGmd4yIGfldMvmX8kxHBiH9zVNHqFIlMkQ4GHDLp1qTFp0C07ITNXK74E3Uu9gIntXPpYSP7F1RB8ZAZu3QDfbqcLLiJ_66xkootHDBfj5bK0mlMghHbtm64qDc1dtWOMWRf6YM5mk7yH9qTSlIjyCIuzJMCx_i1jFQsYzCssRg/s600/20240221_164945.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl8KT8JHIkVF3l5l7iGmd4yIGfldMvmX8kxHBiH9zVNHqFIlMkQ4GHDLp1qTFp0C07ITNXK74E3Uu9gIntXPpYSP7F1RB8ZAZu3QDfbqcLLiJ_66xkootHDBfj5bK0mlMghHbtm64qDc1dtWOMWRf6YM5mk7yH9qTSlIjyCIuzJMCx_i1jFQsYzCssRg/w400-h300/20240221_164945.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHtiqRtlwWqbN0i9jU5YjYDNaVu5CYnWqqOuXli3kc-vOcCCNg-rl_2O2BzuRU7rTfn7qVr_IOW2pcSRgLsDhTNqx-xvsPS31zbYfwhUT-SLQi-GeYtHNDi9lEg_SlsOyCcYJKjhP5hzztB8en6EkoM0ZnUHqNr4SdTzM-i3G1zCgCi_pBVBxWYZH2A/s600/20240221_163915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipHtiqRtlwWqbN0i9jU5YjYDNaVu5CYnWqqOuXli3kc-vOcCCNg-rl_2O2BzuRU7rTfn7qVr_IOW2pcSRgLsDhTNqx-xvsPS31zbYfwhUT-SLQi-GeYtHNDi9lEg_SlsOyCcYJKjhP5hzztB8en6EkoM0ZnUHqNr4SdTzM-i3G1zCgCi_pBVBxWYZH2A/w400-h300/20240221_163915.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">As an honorary member of the SAQA Special Interest Group 'Gelato' <br />I had to do a testing of this opportunity that arose...</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And well
that I did take that trip because the next days were long, opening hours from 9.30 am until
6.30 pm., and it rained heavily, which would have made it rather uncomfortable to go into town.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNu38dhdq-aSfIZL3QD_jhmWh9oRqRJuE6z72rOruGA_dY98gjek6np6vbNp4Man1VFx8Gzdbqe0uloTfMRpF1yEBZZzPuPG0WQT-TgKDIwYBa9SkPmdD7Np1F0asm38so7168o02oeJAUyyh94HY4A3L2oWmZpJBdntVC1GVWpgvp4sMjRhEprv1YFQ/s600/20240223_175434.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNu38dhdq-aSfIZL3QD_jhmWh9oRqRJuE6z72rOruGA_dY98gjek6np6vbNp4Man1VFx8Gzdbqe0uloTfMRpF1yEBZZzPuPG0WQT-TgKDIwYBa9SkPmdD7Np1F0asm38so7168o02oeJAUyyh94HY4A3L2oWmZpJBdntVC1GVWpgvp4sMjRhEprv1YFQ/w400-h300/20240223_175434.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">View down onto one of the vending halls from the upper floor <br />(where there was a very good café with exceptionally good coffee!)</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We were
given a strategically well placed exhibition space between the two vendors’
halls, a lot of people were passing through! The
selection of quilts was supposed to be a couple of the quilts that had been
part of the EQA’s 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary exhibition “Threads without
Borders”. But some countries chose to select other artists to spread the option
of exhibiting, or because they had not even been represented in that original
exhibition at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here you
can see a couple of photos of the exhibition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46oqnK4_4kgnsuCBBwg9h2WYSSv4uUD0C2g5egkFpc844rtwvWHi2QZj6GF_e5PnM-O64NO-n7iKFhlTiZuzjEKMAB9Z5R1P_eEwfWS4zCN9yTpqKQO-0JIXUiH6X3S82k2o0eNYY3j9NE7aYQxmMT46jSi0c523MND24-yeJjMnKhuL6N9Owamr6-Q/s600/20240222_092016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh46oqnK4_4kgnsuCBBwg9h2WYSSv4uUD0C2g5egkFpc844rtwvWHi2QZj6GF_e5PnM-O64NO-n7iKFhlTiZuzjEKMAB9Z5R1P_eEwfWS4zCN9yTpqKQO-0JIXUiH6X3S82k2o0eNYY3j9NE7aYQxmMT46jSi0c523MND24-yeJjMnKhuL6N9Owamr6-Q/w400-h300/20240222_092016.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgilM7PsV5d-hi94YSVMCmPZOUtBX8ffORBXiW8wBVSvIp7_AKEOD4jswdGKw2JgwsyeY2mndQw3Fm81nvFYrBtbWT269cQ3B8uiV1w7vAgAF54f-hiThTSdac0zjMctdBTbIgCqRpWboJnAYh4LV3HmTPS4_Jouel_bh-oAD7A3X4wib9p0qSApvogVg/s600/20240222_092118.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgilM7PsV5d-hi94YSVMCmPZOUtBX8ffORBXiW8wBVSvIp7_AKEOD4jswdGKw2JgwsyeY2mndQw3Fm81nvFYrBtbWT269cQ3B8uiV1w7vAgAF54f-hiThTSdac0zjMctdBTbIgCqRpWboJnAYh4LV3HmTPS4_Jouel_bh-oAD7A3X4wib9p0qSApvogVg/w400-h300/20240222_092118.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The group
of EQA representatives that were assembled were a lot of fun to work with, and
I really enjoyed spending time with them. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBuGyYS3yfeLdJ_UUAU2g3oJfJRJgqeqJ9Pb9Sc70quiaL4UlYyiPgQfXGqe_EQkdmYgbymhEa1O8KjjaDTGK0-cPK2lZYlVIz1yiDTA3M0kaBqWzVSAIzyWF9GqV9CVlr_r3ViOiecqHIDpi6QjU-1hvAzGXkuRvFTQIJVj6xwL65Rn8pSdk77wtsRQ/s600/20240223_165440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBuGyYS3yfeLdJ_UUAU2g3oJfJRJgqeqJ9Pb9Sc70quiaL4UlYyiPgQfXGqe_EQkdmYgbymhEa1O8KjjaDTGK0-cPK2lZYlVIz1yiDTA3M0kaBqWzVSAIzyWF9GqV9CVlr_r3ViOiecqHIDpi6QjU-1hvAzGXkuRvFTQIJVj6xwL65Rn8pSdk77wtsRQ/w400-h300/20240223_165440.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>One suitcase had been lost in transit and arrived only toward the end <br />of the 2nd day, at which point discussions ensued as to where to put up the quilts <br />that had been missing at first.<br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We had many conversations about the future
development of EQA and its needs, but mostly ‘on
the side’, as the main concern this time was the presentation of this
particular show. It was not a working meeting as we used to have in
Birmingham. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course,
memories from my first encounter with the public came back – it was the first
place where I had seen visitors pulling trolleys to hold their purchases as on
a market at home. Before that I had never seen that at a quilt show in Germany. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8q_tRX2e0KgnELJCPaI1KAuMJ0qGFdVfyGAJ3S50jL1z0ootWeoQggPk5sQqvtw1Na5NA0TGgTkLP40W0YhhimARw18iz_ZbBcjLRP9X9M1oj2TQj_r8h6p-wjWvn-lf0vgVqRApYwoQN7va8N2YBj8J-GmoVQvWmZEfhHyvF5V8kUJ7bPuyWaCRtKA/s600/20240224_144657.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="600" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8q_tRX2e0KgnELJCPaI1KAuMJ0qGFdVfyGAJ3S50jL1z0ootWeoQggPk5sQqvtw1Na5NA0TGgTkLP40W0YhhimARw18iz_ZbBcjLRP9X9M1oj2TQj_r8h6p-wjWvn-lf0vgVqRApYwoQN7va8N2YBj8J-GmoVQvWmZEfhHyvF5V8kUJ7bPuyWaCRtKA/w400-h263/20240224_144657.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But it also
brought back vivid memories of the struggle to keep the many many many people
from touching, caressing, turning, inspecting and picking on the quilts. The nature
of the show is mostly oriented towards vending materials for multiple types of
crafting, where, of course, anybody who wants to buy something touches what
they are considering buying. The lack of other exhibitions on the premises makes
it hard to understand for the mostly-buyers that this particular exhibition space
in the hall is a non-touch area. And when they touch, turn over, scratch the
pieces it is a sign of interest, I do understand that. But it’s hard to be
standing guard there and telling people to keep off in a languge you don’t
really know – although those few words necessary I did remember right away. And
when quilts with these characteristics are displayed, it is simply asking for
trouble!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxyM4eB5ZGW4wnqWThoKiSteBsAokOKm_9_8xhJRt8f9-nPpcBAP_eeOSis6XWcuzgVuHb1yqZHUaBf4Wi1j9_sXBX2RW6n6pT5Zh6fhpPYx8b2WF1aJxFKGBaAbmPx3NWXBG7hiW2vl9StxvG3zre2ARfOuus27L5JFbzN-RMd7EytLqppxTjyDO1Q/s600/20240224_125412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="600" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDxyM4eB5ZGW4wnqWThoKiSteBsAokOKm_9_8xhJRt8f9-nPpcBAP_eeOSis6XWcuzgVuHb1yqZHUaBf4Wi1j9_sXBX2RW6n6pT5Zh6fhpPYx8b2WF1aJxFKGBaAbmPx3NWXBG7hiW2vl9StxvG3zre2ARfOuus27L5JFbzN-RMd7EytLqppxTjyDO1Q/s320/20240224_125412.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wouldn't you want to flip these up, too?</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgK_JawNLJhKTruDCLVEHnrqE3ypJWPZOULanc0tgReU2OaIW6dF38A9GF8bcvJXxYSaYGYJ8STqWcM6TF6TqOEGatA10lSCIsW4OJprP6OGc_vhG_fkcByUqbEwnNo1P-AF-Axgw3wepqM2L3p-E2r-Yt0YmLS4WP8OPWfkV-32Tbc9ybJEbCqle-xQ/s600/20240224_125422.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgK_JawNLJhKTruDCLVEHnrqE3ypJWPZOULanc0tgReU2OaIW6dF38A9GF8bcvJXxYSaYGYJ8STqWcM6TF6TqOEGatA10lSCIsW4OJprP6OGc_vhG_fkcByUqbEwnNo1P-AF-Axgw3wepqM2L3p-E2r-Yt0YmLS4WP8OPWfkV-32Tbc9ybJEbCqle-xQ/w300-h400/20240224_125422.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This type of fringes, of course, is asking to be stroked.</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1tHRdsrH7Uu4Y_mOXq7P_xFLh0jQz1R5_F2NY-HZiN9wqsrNi5jdpELzLmkqA-VLjYkU8CuoeWtO_rqaWwaOGiSXOjNsWlDTVr1cjpadR5q7zHXY7u5_1D8OjLIK0Zcf8eCRRldjxAmbERpCzaOSZoNIvVxLT8bf1Eth9kl27-C-yoBxI6hvy8Ieg8w/s600/20240224_125514.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1tHRdsrH7Uu4Y_mOXq7P_xFLh0jQz1R5_F2NY-HZiN9wqsrNi5jdpELzLmkqA-VLjYkU8CuoeWtO_rqaWwaOGiSXOjNsWlDTVr1cjpadR5q7zHXY7u5_1D8OjLIK0Zcf8eCRRldjxAmbERpCzaOSZoNIvVxLT8bf1Eth9kl27-C-yoBxI6hvy8Ieg8w/w300-h400/20240224_125514.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pointed insertions like this need to be inspected, preferrably <br />by scratching with your fingernails...</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLv49Gi-izgmIrbAMgwTukY1pvPt1SyLhp0trVbkdAMarf964dR_zfw07XsRj47m3abtUemGKhmH_7Jm7kcJUoHm55my-yHYCrnXc4eWlzxPHcUr1MnwtD1yfIDz5HkCNaG0omPaXVn5unoSk9kmb8kf2nJyQxNogLji4Jur-Ixd5wF5svwupyT9uluA/s600/20240224_125346.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLv49Gi-izgmIrbAMgwTukY1pvPt1SyLhp0trVbkdAMarf964dR_zfw07XsRj47m3abtUemGKhmH_7Jm7kcJUoHm55my-yHYCrnXc4eWlzxPHcUr1MnwtD1yfIDz5HkCNaG0omPaXVn5unoSk9kmb8kf2nJyQxNogLji4Jur-Ixd5wF5svwupyT9uluA/w300-h400/20240224_125346.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>This one was the most endangered piece - the lower left hand corner, <br />but also a close inspection of the crochet branches attached...<br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We learned –
bring white gloves next time! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But the
food was delicious, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6OZxGqqsgu-q0_pzS9h7h1VqSQk20nJaWXJWerGycNK3oJ_v90gWz9FMgwQ09VsqLgVECBUu9KWTPLEPWsqBF2hpzMBEFxPn230x58SUobwslZ0e_oiva8SKWhyI9CTKBPA3iH1q0t4eJSorUUhG8geMqMlZF9v2pQRBkdBRFT9Qf0pQGpZ7OS7nvXA/s600/20240223_115508.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6OZxGqqsgu-q0_pzS9h7h1VqSQk20nJaWXJWerGycNK3oJ_v90gWz9FMgwQ09VsqLgVECBUu9KWTPLEPWsqBF2hpzMBEFxPn230x58SUobwslZ0e_oiva8SKWhyI9CTKBPA3iH1q0t4eJSorUUhG8geMqMlZF9v2pQRBkdBRFT9Qf0pQGpZ7OS7nvXA/w400-h300/20240223_115508.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the group vibes fantastic and it should be interesting to
see what kind of relationship the EQA will establish with this organization in
the long run. Perhaps we will be going to Vicenza on a more regular basis.</span></p><p>
And then next time one might consider looking into acquisition of some local special products!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6w1o7ESG8pdXSVbOoy_4BFRpEA4Nk_TDV50A9Ug8y-pQS7GYSZ4ukVkfyhcP87eKL-1ay1BvcmG_5nRBPGRpsel1D7NzGV2Td-99-xQMwuFXETJJsJ1GbjL3HOD42Xrwea92ZFe7mRz7t-xy4gg7BFXvEha6UTHQs-mL1ZnGK0y72p-ZuoXtwlzAxGQ/s600/20240224_190553.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6w1o7ESG8pdXSVbOoy_4BFRpEA4Nk_TDV50A9Ug8y-pQS7GYSZ4ukVkfyhcP87eKL-1ay1BvcmG_5nRBPGRpsel1D7NzGV2Td-99-xQMwuFXETJJsJ1GbjL3HOD42Xrwea92ZFe7mRz7t-xy4gg7BFXvEha6UTHQs-mL1ZnGK0y72p-ZuoXtwlzAxGQ/w300-h400/20240224_190553.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Murano glass display at Venice airport</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-649576209412993782024-01-26T13:39:00.002+01:002024-01-26T13:39:56.547+01:00First stint completed<p>And just like that the first two weeks of my new job in the north of Germany have passed and I have been back with my family for six days already. Things up north have developed nicely and I am beginning to think that it was indeed the right decision, despite the fact that many people (including my own mother) are more sceptical than as exuberant about the arrangement than I am.<br /></p><p>I even found an apartment already - I agreed to take the first one I looked at because it was so absolutely convenient in terms of distance to the clinic and the lake and the town center and the bus stop for the bus to Hamburg that I would have been very stupid had I not taken it right away. It will be a few weeks until they have exchanged the windows, before I can move in. Until then I will stay in the nurses' dormitory, which is nothing to write home about, but a place to stay, and also very conveniently located in terms of distance to the clinic, the lake, the town center. The main question that is still open concerns the ease of commuting as reliability of the German rail system, once known for its punctuality that was even incorporated in a saying 'as punctual as the train', has severely deteriorated during the years since privatization of the organization, and that may be a special training in resilience. But we will see.</p><p>So far I have been enjoying the lake, and the long walks I take there after early shift.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Ow3m1vclrVCfOXOaT1PR9jL8_TR2VHGL-Rw45UYN8bOq4dUCAHMouHJ6_pr93XlHQHccnCUIMI-sJAg62W8ao3RLkkyY9sCCYF8q88JtGeNZHfGtqB1I0i8UIyu_s473EyB-RGAK2DlA9RM3Fw4yhvjwdd7-5dkUa2m5Rjiq1HK6WM1CHaYyE_6QPw/s600/20240119_153649a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Ow3m1vclrVCfOXOaT1PR9jL8_TR2VHGL-Rw45UYN8bOq4dUCAHMouHJ6_pr93XlHQHccnCUIMI-sJAg62W8ao3RLkkyY9sCCYF8q88JtGeNZHfGtqB1I0i8UIyu_s473EyB-RGAK2DlA9RM3Fw4yhvjwdd7-5dkUa2m5Rjiq1HK6WM1CHaYyE_6QPw/w400-h300/20240119_153649a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Stitching has been limited to a good amount of knitting and I have finally finished (the body of) a shoulder wrap that has been years in the making, I am certain it was started before the big plague, and now there is only a long i-cord left to finish it completely.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJT1KqTZwUjvYRDiMgA955syHsEhNjAdH0h0mH4MjbxkCcOpnSuBB2yU07TFngJmWhXWUxFhfUuDxbA2bfVy4b7wYL3Ht45xqYdEk6eQ9uImsk51fxaLJrB4ggX8GReTWtTk-F8qnVZ29L-0EJSHPVHa0TKdncQwWRdUJ8oMVtI9xruWBdVW_Qz6-g5w/s600/20220409_182954a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJT1KqTZwUjvYRDiMgA955syHsEhNjAdH0h0mH4MjbxkCcOpnSuBB2yU07TFngJmWhXWUxFhfUuDxbA2bfVy4b7wYL3Ht45xqYdEk6eQ9uImsk51fxaLJrB4ggX8GReTWtTk-F8qnVZ29L-0EJSHPVHa0TKdncQwWRdUJ8oMVtI9xruWBdVW_Qz6-g5w/w300-h400/20220409_182954a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>When that is done I am allowed to start a new knitting project! <br /></p><p>I took many pictures when walking along the lake and have decided to use one of them to make my personal entry to the current EQA-challenge on birds.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilgK_-63TkOEtKJp3H9LMQFli880M5dJEHnjO1gGwPY6PpC70IjjbyD3_D86KmL4WDWFrQ5g1CSEVM6LxUvfcTzGj9GnYOM-EKTrBUQrThUtNPQXCXPf3LXdQr9Rd4Ba_yUclAR3o5zZ8XmSVbgn0rmTH7aXqgGt2wumnGBQ1Td8nvIzYJZ1dPRzoGHg/s600/20240114_150924a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilgK_-63TkOEtKJp3H9LMQFli880M5dJEHnjO1gGwPY6PpC70IjjbyD3_D86KmL4WDWFrQ5g1CSEVM6LxUvfcTzGj9GnYOM-EKTrBUQrThUtNPQXCXPf3LXdQr9Rd4Ba_yUclAR3o5zZ8XmSVbgn0rmTH7aXqgGt2wumnGBQ1Td8nvIzYJZ1dPRzoGHg/w400-h300/20240114_150924a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Although I haven't quite figured out where I am going to include the fabric heart that somehow came along home with me from FoQ last year, and Susan Vogel of PatCh Swiss and I had rashly said we would include those in our contributions...</p><p>Since I came home I have finished my entry for Brno, made a decision about how I want to enter SAQA's Wide Horizons (time pressure! deadline!) and made plans for my bobbin for the Swiss-EQA Round Bobbin that I had said I would participate in (but haven't done a stitch for yet - more time pressure!). Sleeves to be sewn on. Things to be sorted... But I am content with my decision and optimistic that things will develop nicely.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-45303952350220157722024-01-05T14:16:00.002+01:002024-01-05T14:16:20.283+01:00A full week<p> This past week, inbetween jobs, years, with lots of changes coming up, has been a bit emotionally draining. Original plans to do the first commute by train were all worked out, but the German train engine drivers are threatening a major strike, plus we had one day when the local line we live on was completely without service as all their engine drivers were all sick. And I had already been receiving messages from the train people that my original connection wasn't possible, I should check the new suggestion. Two days ago I finally decided that I would go up by car, canceled the tickets, and have been feeling a bit better since then.</p><p>I worked on clearing my cutting table and made a lot of progress, even though the result is not completely and entirely satisfying yet.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl5fxuDdNhom8n57rgS2snAkXoGq_rcFqdlXlQIZhTM6j81t_-tbrvv6qiRIaalyakxBrhcETl7LUDfeGusF5p-6QKnPohGK6syNjeRE4z9wceUk4hmk3GKnRBbBTzfFKqbQFEg3rJvwn5GeFRqS9MewOfx4ua8wVPa37JR7UebsG0QAGpveeqyaS6bw/s600/20240101_161227a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl5fxuDdNhom8n57rgS2snAkXoGq_rcFqdlXlQIZhTM6j81t_-tbrvv6qiRIaalyakxBrhcETl7LUDfeGusF5p-6QKnPohGK6syNjeRE4z9wceUk4hmk3GKnRBbBTzfFKqbQFEg3rJvwn5GeFRqS9MewOfx4ua8wVPa37JR7UebsG0QAGpveeqyaS6bw/w300-h400/20240101_161227a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><p>I could stitch a bit, working towards a completion of the piece I want to enter at Brno Festival.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7D1XdM5CratNOJYSOZ4usY4OzK6ivXCDWClva7EtlZTfCcuLXf2VYC4TzpbgYaNhYsalUQ7OnKQMsmYyzKF_3t-cIXwuScOhJgEsCRcP8XfJ-9V8Y9NDnxNXSIdSl09pnQ8p3kydfXMPYfq-r6BTsBzGjlAeLGGiH6Bg8RY2mRiheetW4csRKgrSeQ/s600/20240104_203740a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7D1XdM5CratNOJYSOZ4usY4OzK6ivXCDWClva7EtlZTfCcuLXf2VYC4TzpbgYaNhYsalUQ7OnKQMsmYyzKF_3t-cIXwuScOhJgEsCRcP8XfJ-9V8Y9NDnxNXSIdSl09pnQ8p3kydfXMPYfq-r6BTsBzGjlAeLGGiH6Bg8RY2mRiheetW4csRKgrSeQ/w300-h400/20240104_203740a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p>It has progressed so far that I can proceed to deeper layers of my design wall that were hidden.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivg_YnArA1itZuUZVx8odLxSfHdLFxptyuSTozCrNxJw99P2VzfC9tWMeys3N3A5ufTnieLSJIACI3yBdpbl2ws8NOCDmtHeEixDOvbKhb0ZEN0WDBr9Y6d_8ySYaSACGv2IrLS5bYmV4UIWxE5khVbAJYeYEoL7R5wLdFO_go2MoVnzVB1FVVCmdNuw/s600/20240104_144234a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivg_YnArA1itZuUZVx8odLxSfHdLFxptyuSTozCrNxJw99P2VzfC9tWMeys3N3A5ufTnieLSJIACI3yBdpbl2ws8NOCDmtHeEixDOvbKhb0ZEN0WDBr9Y6d_8ySYaSACGv2IrLS5bYmV4UIWxE5khVbAJYeYEoL7R5wLdFO_go2MoVnzVB1FVVCmdNuw/w400-h300/20240104_144234a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>And I started swatching for a new sweater I have been wanting to knit for about a year now, the Spot Sweater by <a href="https://anneventzel.com/" target="_blank">Anne Ventzel.</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6uX7TtW6xHmTkqs5ZgtV9VyH6OXtDVCWV0a41cBzflIpk5igaOUOyV0h15EpxPHj3oEBazNmM_bYn0vvguQwXJygCAiFAFz9uIFQyOL_VxlZs0JQA_H2yt_0aF_kGYvNCnLv1TZAgMfqqYvQ6ipL3LBiIuBZtf2qXFudcMD_wt8ta5Zern028E0a_g/s600/20240104_135104b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6uX7TtW6xHmTkqs5ZgtV9VyH6OXtDVCWV0a41cBzflIpk5igaOUOyV0h15EpxPHj3oEBazNmM_bYn0vvguQwXJygCAiFAFz9uIFQyOL_VxlZs0JQA_H2yt_0aF_kGYvNCnLv1TZAgMfqqYvQ6ipL3LBiIuBZtf2qXFudcMD_wt8ta5Zern028E0a_g/w300-h400/20240104_135104b.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>But I am not yet allowing myself to take the yarn with me when going north, as there are two other knitting projects that must be finished first. </p><p>Tomorrow I will leave, and it will be an entirely new phase in life.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-50965257615803190892023-12-31T10:03:00.005+01:002023-12-31T10:03:19.811+01:00Changes coming up...<p> Yesterday I took an outing with a friend of mine, enjoying the sunshine, training our resilience in terms of reliability and punctuality of German Rails, and visiting other friends.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic26xnSghN0XMuk5oFYgmkH4gMNh8yY4IP6FxjmE_94RIFVVnXKJxCTSxSZHdo_Gu9WwIvbSMheYRNcUnIelpBJ3i9iQg7uYBUFtTLFYgjjB7X9oyyaFoh38r5kG-Lo-4X4h4xJZ011A03Lrd-wf8_p_pydxMCPCrmXDYv81AhyXkR3PxwPiZkz3qXTQ/s600/20231230_093159a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic26xnSghN0XMuk5oFYgmkH4gMNh8yY4IP6FxjmE_94RIFVVnXKJxCTSxSZHdo_Gu9WwIvbSMheYRNcUnIelpBJ3i9iQg7uYBUFtTLFYgjjB7X9oyyaFoh38r5kG-Lo-4X4h4xJZ011A03Lrd-wf8_p_pydxMCPCrmXDYv81AhyXkR3PxwPiZkz3qXTQ/w400-h300/20231230_093159a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I posted this picture on Instagram yesterday, as 'Picture of the artist taking a picture', <br />because that is what happens when I am waiting for the late train at Landshut main station <br />- usually it is one of the graffitis on the waggons, but this time it was ...</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>this gorgeous piece of found art.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Zkwlbsd8Phoq_ayM4s5bqnVT2eAez_I8kBXjTtnDPLhCH_Gg0hFiDNtN90BIk_na8y-J1HJucSPSdOTjm6CHTJym4NRQSGmsdAVaH_yue_aqX1i8Ls5FoeoBs2sDfy1lT92_fNQb1AfVGlu5X1gUpKM-mmeP6vo5TfVmdvpzZ9DpVIjGksrf8_S08g/s600/20231230_093154.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Zkwlbsd8Phoq_ayM4s5bqnVT2eAez_I8kBXjTtnDPLhCH_Gg0hFiDNtN90BIk_na8y-J1HJucSPSdOTjm6CHTJym4NRQSGmsdAVaH_yue_aqX1i8Ls5FoeoBs2sDfy1lT92_fNQb1AfVGlu5X1gUpKM-mmeP6vo5TfVmdvpzZ9DpVIjGksrf8_S08g/w400-h300/20231230_093154.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>It was a nice day, and the train issues were the preparation for my upcoming more frequent travels when I start commuting on a bi-weekly basis by the end of this week. My last three days at work this past week were two thirds ok, one third straight from hell in terms of stress and enjoyability, fortunately that was not the very last one. So I went out of there with a sigh of relief and a bit of regret at leaving a number of nice colleagues who were indeed pleasant to work with, but couldn't even out the brat's misbehaviours. Now I am ready to start the new. And hopefully get back to some more concentrated making in the textile and fiber realm. I can't quite oversee how the daily routine will work out when I am up north, but I am planning to do daily art again, and will decide later today just what it will be that I am doing.</p><p>Right now I am getting ready to pick up my son at the airport after a few days with his friends on Malta, and then a quiet New Year's Eve with my husband after a visit to a small local theatre.</p><p>Wishing you all a Happy New Year, all the best for 2024, and looking forward to what this year will bring!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXelE5LT8xOcnO7oiOSpnBvqR16bVuB4BvZzEa5Z4O1LSYeKqY40ncT4rDJ74J-6As6oQB2y8NdxauDcmb7yJ8j_03hDeZMnYMdPP-MiV_5ne25EMIQ3Vq8thvTlu9ivDG9Y0PNp_k1s5JLlLnqiAMTBxtyNChD2-Wpgrl4xuq7SzI90BKHh_v0w2DqA/s600/20231219_123927a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXelE5LT8xOcnO7oiOSpnBvqR16bVuB4BvZzEa5Z4O1LSYeKqY40ncT4rDJ74J-6As6oQB2y8NdxauDcmb7yJ8j_03hDeZMnYMdPP-MiV_5ne25EMIQ3Vq8thvTlu9ivDG9Y0PNp_k1s5JLlLnqiAMTBxtyNChD2-Wpgrl4xuq7SzI90BKHh_v0w2DqA/w400-h300/20231219_123927a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Not a crystal ball, so not suitable as a means to tell the future... but certainly <br />good enough as a container for all the good wishes to all of you, <br />and the hopes and wishes for myself!<br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-35819125567881006382023-12-24T14:17:00.000+01:002023-12-24T14:17:02.270+01:00Merry Christmas!<p>I would like to wish everybody who is reading this, and, of course, everybody out there in the entire world, a Merry Christmas, whether you celebrate or not. Who is not hoping it will be a more peaceful year ahead of us?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Gr2jbuA9qNqJ9J_mmCw82i09QjqMZHntadC1Dt2ZkopMhjO-TQcuiUVMoxv7BoUNkXKXBpfINxnOqpXDBN3dGwHUocpR-otaq09JUwk8z6RnvSQ_3WntilbkrLmMdg9_jCHxx16bDd7WDlSetAUb8WI47jnzgZchTPua0-lWLSdARAbffYCDFeH-QA/s688/1000031630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="550" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Gr2jbuA9qNqJ9J_mmCw82i09QjqMZHntadC1Dt2ZkopMhjO-TQcuiUVMoxv7BoUNkXKXBpfINxnOqpXDBN3dGwHUocpR-otaq09JUwk8z6RnvSQ_3WntilbkrLmMdg9_jCHxx16bDd7WDlSetAUb8WI47jnzgZchTPua0-lWLSdARAbffYCDFeH-QA/w320-h400/1000031630.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>My husband is a fan of candle-driven pyramids, and we have two, both of which are not out and taking his attention to keep them in motion. So besides the choir of angels (barely visible in the background) Christmas decoration is now in full swing. <br /></p><p>As has been the tradition in my family since my son was very young we had our family celebration yesterday evening already, and today is a severe work day for my husband, who is busy with services and all the necessary. A few times I would take my son to the Olympic pool in Munich in the morning of the 24th, keeping us out from my husband's feet when he was busy with all his preparations, especially in years when there was a children's musical to be performed in the afternoon service. This was before my son could participate in that. It used to be really quiet at the pool, and I always enjoyed that outing. Too bad he is too grown up now to come on a trip with me nowadays (but he did write me a very nice letter for Christmas, which touched me deeply.) If I remember correctly, last year I was working, but today being a Sunday that is not necessary, and as I have said before, my next (and last) days of work are Wednesday and after. So I now have time to start preparing dinner that will be served when my husband is finished and we will have our Senegalese guest over, who has been joining us for Christmas dinners for several years now. A little bit of time to reminisce a bit more, though.</p><p>Yesterday, as I was scrolling through pictures, I found this very old picture, which must have been scanned from a paper print, from way back then, when our group of exchange students from the Charlotte Exchange Student Program was on a trip west at the end of the year. Honestly, I had not remembered that I had this picture, though I did remember that we had stopped in San Francisco. 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Never happened...</p><p>The good thing about celebrating a day before is that one is basically 'done' on the real day, and in earlier years I used to be completely relaxed in case I still needed to do a bit of shopping for the upcoming days when the supermarkets would be closed. Today, Sunday, I could just sit down in leisure and play with my sewing machine. </p><p>I finished the baby quilt I have made using up the blocks from my aborted first attempt at making a temperature quilt. It hasn't been given to the child yet, but I am happy with it. Actually, I was amazed at how lively the colors shine in the quilt, which seemed to suggest that it wasn't a bad choice of color range after all - although you can't see it well on the picture.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToETwq_TzI5FBRUBXR98HtSDNRmF9euYY2UC4WDXh4BmKcDQrtIAPEzFKxWxekhLpfh95M-9PtNtlqPPwOLyGeO2LkTxuIHIt3oLs38Nni5yeksGW5izOnf54Eo5qzXqd0flmkGK7WQJBv9fCwzNDnkfGi9xvwpiO-eTFrRjpNEuWfQn1PRfBB2NSeg/s618/1000031765.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhToETwq_TzI5FBRUBXR98HtSDNRmF9euYY2UC4WDXh4BmKcDQrtIAPEzFKxWxekhLpfh95M-9PtNtlqPPwOLyGeO2LkTxuIHIt3oLs38Nni5yeksGW5izOnf54Eo5qzXqd0flmkGK7WQJBv9fCwzNDnkfGi9xvwpiO-eTFrRjpNEuWfQn1PRfBB2NSeg/w389-h400/1000031765.jpg" width="389" /></a></div><p></p><p>But it was over-intellectual in how I was trying to incorporate an average temperature in the large triangles. Now I am glad it's found a purpose, nine single blocks remaining that will be the background for my contribution to the EQA-Birds-Challenge coming up.</p><p>And I continued on my piece that will be entered for Brno. Still some work to do, and some issues to figure out, but I was happy stitching.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMkuxbdkDTZuodBFJ2_JCJx98996jWfNvFzzZ5EzkmPussg1rFyGgeUPO2Od7M90Zc3aUia85UWjlStvoxNGA986qFjDPmE6XfOMdR86MUlDbUrU5a3575J72R1nGyuQqX149UGoZxUNTue0CYMa2Wa2_6CXM9YsdRmulsDN1AW0LalwSrTlpvX4VDg/s600/1000031767.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijMkuxbdkDTZuodBFJ2_JCJx98996jWfNvFzzZ5EzkmPussg1rFyGgeUPO2Od7M90Zc3aUia85UWjlStvoxNGA986qFjDPmE6XfOMdR86MUlDbUrU5a3575J72R1nGyuQqX149UGoZxUNTue0CYMa2Wa2_6CXM9YsdRmulsDN1AW0LalwSrTlpvX4VDg/w400-h300/1000031767.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Thanks for following this blog, wishing you a peaceful and quiet time and change of year!<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-12739418053495579422023-12-22T14:33:00.001+01:002023-12-22T14:33:04.763+01:008, (7,6,5,4) 3…<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibM5MpCt888JTamNoz03CuDJLDrv_uSPjFb7lvxkiOX1H4jOYS6ahjAKUw2Qm2xyipPCNhkzn03Ucgcacby_j54Tz_NYz95iEbl63ytKsAjTCbgvRCzAiA2wsS4lGT3lqitHhttjqFB3ZgF9L-uvWx8kwVC3mzGsDxSD5LXqTeFGgl1PSG4GKfyPe2HA/s600/20231219_123927a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibM5MpCt888JTamNoz03CuDJLDrv_uSPjFb7lvxkiOX1H4jOYS6ahjAKUw2Qm2xyipPCNhkzn03Ucgcacby_j54Tz_NYz95iEbl63ytKsAjTCbgvRCzAiA2wsS4lGT3lqitHhttjqFB3ZgF9L-uvWx8kwVC3mzGsDxSD5LXqTeFGgl1PSG4GKfyPe2HA/w400-h300/20231219_123927a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The countdown is on. When I handed in my <a href="https://utalenk-justquilts.blogspot.com/2023/09/unforeseen-developments-and-epm.html" target="_blank">resignation at the end of August</a> I knew the remaining four months at the practice would
seem longish, but I also thought that two periods of vacation and the overall
arrangement of working 3 days a week, usually all in a row following each
other, would make it relatively feasible. The feisty brat, too, has held back in
her unpleasant behavior. Not talking at all except for an occasional ‘hi’ is
much preferrable to her usual bitchy tone of voice. Which even – albeit very
briefly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> let me wonder whether it would
have been possible to stay there if she had been behaving like that all the
time. But thinking about that is nuisance, as there are indeed several other
issues that contributed to the decision to move on. And the new arrangement
just seems so much more pleasant now, with the lake looming as a daily
possibility. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V4G72iIE4l6xiC89AuvV3bUBr7k-YlR1bQGEtlAyFhwt75LSKxe2KQN_lBDj40WES8ZOsSC3KifW6Aa5NdU5-klGYnWf1j4eC1oyHi5ueO1ipPWAd4EqMTMXEAnCgKGSE_IXW4Fe2lhPf_24RxW_hZalP6a5F3YI0goamoR9cbyv5TE1J-Wwxi9Y7w/s600/20231026_105249a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V4G72iIE4l6xiC89AuvV3bUBr7k-YlR1bQGEtlAyFhwt75LSKxe2KQN_lBDj40WES8ZOsSC3KifW6Aa5NdU5-klGYnWf1j4eC1oyHi5ueO1ipPWAd4EqMTMXEAnCgKGSE_IXW4Fe2lhPf_24RxW_hZalP6a5F3YI0goamoR9cbyv5TE1J-Wwxi9Y7w/w400-h300/20231026_105249a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The only thing is the fact that I am planning to commute by train,
and given the current situation of the German Railway system, that may be a
training in resilience. We will see.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Had a creative brainstorm meeting with my good friend
Barbara on Wednesday last week, we met in Landshut in a café. Barbara gave me
one of her quilts that is going to Abilmente with me in February, and we had a
wonderful time talking about options, ideas, textile projects. When I returned
home I immediately laid out the dimensions needed for the upcoming challenge
for Ste. Marie-aux-Mines, and positioned a couple of pieces I had already made
in other contexts but want to include in this piece. For example, my one and
only piece for this year’s German Guild’s Sew Along “Meer Gilde” (Ocean Guild)
will become a part of this piece. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIGzOe1i6B0By6tr9dx6zDLYFzl3g4TPQ2bjzY53Sw1Gfjgr44QCzumLTT3grSvUU9IRbeHl31QtNJIegcYelSg4V_4QMSvpcA7aeqC4a_cQ28n73KGxCycKmeNzxXgKRALUF703iWK5ldtXjPTuxNcciCP19qxEkTTfjjbjBo6FgNiq9Yjb8dNhj7bg/s600/20231222_140809a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIGzOe1i6B0By6tr9dx6zDLYFzl3g4TPQ2bjzY53Sw1Gfjgr44QCzumLTT3grSvUU9IRbeHl31QtNJIegcYelSg4V_4QMSvpcA7aeqC4a_cQ28n73KGxCycKmeNzxXgKRALUF703iWK5ldtXjPTuxNcciCP19qxEkTTfjjbjBo6FgNiq9Yjb8dNhj7bg/w300-h400/20231222_140809a.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">My island in the Sun....</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then Thursday was day 8 before goodbye from the
practice, I had been feeling unwell all day but had gone to work nevertheless.
When I came home after the early shift I returned my lunch to the sewer and
took myself to bed. Friday a trip to the doctor gave me a 6 day-sick call,
which cut down the remaining 7 days of work to three. The doctor suggested a
corona test, which was negative, as was the second one a couple of days later, but
so far I have been taking a very long time in getting better. I was able to do
a little bit of stitching on Sunday, in deed working on the new piece for the
Ste. Marie-aux-Mines competition with the challenge topic ‘ocean’. It gives me
the opportunity to try to put into fabric an idea I have been hovering for a
few months now.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6hVJ_P4mMXVCFzw3WOHxkFLc4wFLsmHSxd52gPXrTYa3Vlzee1EjOecTPpdMtmznX3lrmYBUQsY-HwaFZvYdTZMIIF8eFSCtx1NWoREJPRW4-eauUmH4rPr-DpdJ_Q1dCm-Zo38XEtJAKd1MuW3UrzR3xFPVd-hh2fXUzCft5C-YOKdp_EjUOuLMmfA/s600/20231216_152728a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6hVJ_P4mMXVCFzw3WOHxkFLc4wFLsmHSxd52gPXrTYa3Vlzee1EjOecTPpdMtmznX3lrmYBUQsY-HwaFZvYdTZMIIF8eFSCtx1NWoREJPRW4-eauUmH4rPr-DpdJ_Q1dCm-Zo38XEtJAKd1MuW3UrzR3xFPVd-hh2fXUzCft5C-YOKdp_EjUOuLMmfA/w400-h300/20231216_152728a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rather more pictorial than I usually work, but why not try something new?</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But it’s been a roller coaster since, I haven’t been
able to do much at all and am simply hanging out in bed, using a lot of tissues
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and coughing. I don’t think I have felt
as miserable as this since the corona infection in July 2022, but as the tests
say negative, and the cough feels very different from the one back then, I hope
that it really is just one of the other viral cough infections and this pandemic
unpleasantry will pass me by. The remaining three days of work are up after
Christmas, I hope to be able to recuperate until then. After all, solstice is over, starting today the days will be getting longer, that must have an influence on my physical well being!<br /></span></p>
Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-878432741719100262023-12-08T22:54:00.004+01:002023-12-08T22:54:59.201+01:00A Month from Today<p> When I returned from California I found waiting for me the contract for my new job, which I signed and sent off as soon as I had clarified the last details necessary for my start there. I will again be working in a dialysis practice, and I am starting on January 8th. I am looking forward to that, and as there are only 8 work days left for me now in the old job, I am sure that I can get through them with nonchalance and coolness. Better to leave some things unsaid than dwelling on stuff that will soon be behind me.</p><p>Late last week we received a record snow fall of 'the most snow within 48 hours since the beginning of weather records', or something like that. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCR2xpi9WR3HcCACSObJ0AtSQe4G6UNmAnEZK434tz8X6oLGiSl-eAHC6fO0KkvWyMGe3AKIZhof1OOLIPnA_-fWSuMxC_S0td1a1OiDEhYlGvFuV3jdV1ZpBWZOlZz2s1XyYv-DpCeQ95GGPfxsndYroJwhn0pncQ7jxEoB7Kz5IfFkp7jZfyelFMrA/s600/20231203_104701a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCR2xpi9WR3HcCACSObJ0AtSQe4G6UNmAnEZK434tz8X6oLGiSl-eAHC6fO0KkvWyMGe3AKIZhof1OOLIPnA_-fWSuMxC_S0td1a1OiDEhYlGvFuV3jdV1ZpBWZOlZz2s1XyYv-DpCeQ95GGPfxsndYroJwhn0pncQ7jxEoB7Kz5IfFkp7jZfyelFMrA/w300-h400/20231203_104701a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>I love snow, and I was fortunate that I did not have to go anywhere last Saturday, so could stay home. At one point I thought we were actually getting snowed in. Our magnolia tree did not fare too well with it all. Two major branches broke from the weight of the snow last Sunday, and yesterday I saw that another major branch had come down, probably due to an avalanche from the roof behind the tree.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGwIwGfucscAWjnNoj85ddOplI5kUmPa89kuOiSA-dkD7bbymykp67i_R3f69-umGSK_yXl9fWaSiU_M1OeKL2N_6VpIWWSPbsCfZbpTjv68-ibJ5IviEVpDCazbnbFY4B_T5UUvEvqPQNswALk2bPyTvAmVWDwu7tT6U_-nVku8hzllwASOrf23MwiA/s600/20231202_091950a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGwIwGfucscAWjnNoj85ddOplI5kUmPa89kuOiSA-dkD7bbymykp67i_R3f69-umGSK_yXl9fWaSiU_M1OeKL2N_6VpIWWSPbsCfZbpTjv68-ibJ5IviEVpDCazbnbFY4B_T5UUvEvqPQNswALk2bPyTvAmVWDwu7tT6U_-nVku8hzllwASOrf23MwiA/w400-h300/20231202_091950a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">There will be a lot of cleaning up to do once the snow melts!</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p><p>It would have made for a record snow-dyeing frenzy, had I had any pfd-fabric in the house. I didn't, and I still don't, but I did take a bit of an inventory of my dyeing utensils. It's been years since I looked into that cupboard after closing down my fabric dyeing for the fabric club.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-MznXKjm4PYsADAonBZrqXAH2dsqQ6LRK_hcnGRAU2_5Do6tw-Em1k7UhXzFYN4MLda75c2KR1qgV5IUjeaYJ-W0QLmPDg7TMcIDmTXXmXu4MJQsWeQJN7jHks9lsVe11s1vSENdxsOWhmdCTN0Coy3rIXDUqOgkpBNc3FPXFhsN0dXmsazQocli6A/s600/20231208_193549a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-MznXKjm4PYsADAonBZrqXAH2dsqQ6LRK_hcnGRAU2_5Do6tw-Em1k7UhXzFYN4MLda75c2KR1qgV5IUjeaYJ-W0QLmPDg7TMcIDmTXXmXu4MJQsWeQJN7jHks9lsVe11s1vSENdxsOWhmdCTN0Coy3rIXDUqOgkpBNc3FPXFhsN0dXmsazQocli6A/w300-h400/20231208_193549a.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I had only a rather dim idea of how much material there is still<br /> available at my fingertips. Should I prepare fabrics - <br />or will we have to wait for another 5 years before another<br /> snowfall will make snow dyeing possible?</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>In another corner of the cellar I found this piece of ice-dyed fabric which I haven't washed yet, obviously I was intending to add some more color in one way or another.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLq_l1xBa6Hywh3jZTouC9MtIXKGEgCBqs4nd5H7yX23IQwi9-5hNRr6WFRpyBtxZS6gPv21PffErukmFs85DImdZ3MNsss-mxwwgrJCiuUH3GX05wlQeHzvAuDd5LGWXokptnCdvJn_C1UZ3KJ1KNVpsEXT7qdvxSjkXFdfXFREM5fwf7UU4ff5odbA/s600/20231208_193554a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLq_l1xBa6Hywh3jZTouC9MtIXKGEgCBqs4nd5H7yX23IQwi9-5hNRr6WFRpyBtxZS6gPv21PffErukmFs85DImdZ3MNsss-mxwwgrJCiuUH3GX05wlQeHzvAuDd5LGWXokptnCdvJn_C1UZ3KJ1KNVpsEXT7qdvxSjkXFdfXFREM5fwf7UU4ff5odbA/w400-h300/20231208_193554a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Of course, the kind of ice-dyeing I had been doing is possible even without snow. However, the results of my snow-dyeing had always been more to my liking than the ice-dyes - which weren't bad, either, but...</p><p>With these days of relative quiet I have managed to return to a piece on the design wall which had been up there for far too long.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju8iydJi9wG6or6AVkHwNDcZO6DPPbnL5Ye4vWgsshhyEWsEX8AiNqCSZtZB8t0jIO6hZwmZP2EfHM0aQoj6CEHyQp5v6IFFNUk6eB895-RR7a152hBX31FxoqUsM7zSLlv3OjftKcWOKpXvFbaDp4jFfZd3zljsFOlzBObRPQ8L387kyIWn7DX9Tt6Q/s600/20231201_190029a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju8iydJi9wG6or6AVkHwNDcZO6DPPbnL5Ye4vWgsshhyEWsEX8AiNqCSZtZB8t0jIO6hZwmZP2EfHM0aQoj6CEHyQp5v6IFFNUk6eB895-RR7a152hBX31FxoqUsM7zSLlv3OjftKcWOKpXvFbaDp4jFfZd3zljsFOlzBObRPQ8L387kyIWn7DX9Tt6Q/w300-h400/20231201_190029a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwwmvU8lwC5PkwnFH7HFxF3OTBH-n1O05P6MFCO3Vm0_I8imvm5OZEPmEePq_qEpIa_s1thdXMw62XWFB9WlkAinY3fXcJHdRgEok4XFJUcbGTVXYH6oJdRbVM-Lrhno62rh8CY6uEfsePh9OrTdmBVBUHlz9ngx3SBq8oXhJbVVNfN9R1hyphenhyphenw4PAbCA/s600/20231208_213959a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwwmvU8lwC5PkwnFH7HFxF3OTBH-n1O05P6MFCO3Vm0_I8imvm5OZEPmEePq_qEpIa_s1thdXMw62XWFB9WlkAinY3fXcJHdRgEok4XFJUcbGTVXYH6oJdRbVM-Lrhno62rh8CY6uEfsePh9OrTdmBVBUHlz9ngx3SBq8oXhJbVVNfN9R1hyphenhyphenw4PAbCA/w300-h400/20231208_213959a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p>It has turned out completely different from what I had originally thought I would be making. At one point, just during this last week, I was ready to take it down and throw it out because it seemed so unyielding and just wasn't coming together. But I persuaded myself to keep going and get it done so I would be able to start something new without presenting myself with a feeling of failure before that. So I persisted and added into the corners and pieced and... finally finished the last seam this evening. It's been basted already and will be quilted soon. We have black ice on the ground now, can't go anywhere, still.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-8609059226548622562023-12-01T12:58:00.001+01:002023-12-01T12:58:06.791+01:00California Fiber Adventures<p>The sightseeing I did in California, of course, also included the Golden Gate Bridge. Actually I went there twice, the first time because the person I was going to visit didn't open the door when I arrived a mere 90 minutes ahead of time (it turned out their doorbell was broken, she simply hadn't heard me). As their house is right on the edge of the Presidio (talk about a very attractive place to live!) I consulted my phone and maps app and decided there was time to walk to the Golden Gate Lookout and be back for an on-time-appearance. That way I got to experience a sunset at Golden Gate Bridge. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29FdKmIhZ_0-EgtlnVz5n98FqXCYT7kj1WBdqoD7B-PanbCE4kn8_sqP32X3hitRJ5FiMXpll3W631k2sOBbrxBevglQbS7QJiGg5_xCLFtWYeYGE0jd4Okf5nXwI3sHhSqDcFhJn9I3jvS6JaONL48MMJCsYrEEfOQaCESQ0HLv_2gAn1lhWe__CFg/s600/20231112_165304a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi29FdKmIhZ_0-EgtlnVz5n98FqXCYT7kj1WBdqoD7B-PanbCE4kn8_sqP32X3hitRJ5FiMXpll3W631k2sOBbrxBevglQbS7QJiGg5_xCLFtWYeYGE0jd4Okf5nXwI3sHhSqDcFhJn9I3jvS6JaONL48MMJCsYrEEfOQaCESQ0HLv_2gAn1lhWe__CFg/w400-h300/20231112_165304a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>The next morning I parked my car on the eastern side of the bridge and went up to it, saw the visitor center and the interesting display on how the bridge was built, and then took a long walk along the bay.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8Obw7q7KW_uWvvdVm7Y9oWeR_BXPHSIttIyknN-Lz-9pKeQEIKDtt5lY0az-ojmaOzIrFNXO2IshvP_duUR4e1nYUjGSKei1XUm9DEPvZfD0BCDg7XvxtzeOMKAKNwo64u8-fKLDu7BGZ8ygA4NPbaAaPW1i6K3cG8WQSE8KMKZd2nHPCJtYfwNF-g/s536/20231113_103918a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8Obw7q7KW_uWvvdVm7Y9oWeR_BXPHSIttIyknN-Lz-9pKeQEIKDtt5lY0az-ojmaOzIrFNXO2IshvP_duUR4e1nYUjGSKei1XUm9DEPvZfD0BCDg7XvxtzeOMKAKNwo64u8-fKLDu7BGZ8ygA4NPbaAaPW1i6K3cG8WQSE8KMKZd2nHPCJtYfwNF-g/w336-h400/20231113_103918a.jpg" width="336" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Did you know that there had been thoughts for painting the bridge black and yellow?</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuS81XuL6ug56JmoLnXaff7Q3oGeqTCYMjxTWqo49AxstLdYkQHDRQSHLJ9nmapjWaiRm7D3uHfADw_Ol9Ri7BROB8i8JiIEl2qQDdMItQm23GfTg0lfkyeWfIrjuW2OzthBeDy2im0PoZDrhfRy_LjRzWqA_8H5QqlYatcDe3mQE8Dyju8QYOHU_-mQ/s1193/20231113_110042a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1193" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuS81XuL6ug56JmoLnXaff7Q3oGeqTCYMjxTWqo49AxstLdYkQHDRQSHLJ9nmapjWaiRm7D3uHfADw_Ol9Ri7BROB8i8JiIEl2qQDdMItQm23GfTg0lfkyeWfIrjuW2OzthBeDy2im0PoZDrhfRy_LjRzWqA_8H5QqlYatcDe3mQE8Dyju8QYOHU_-mQ/w640-h242/20231113_110042a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>My travels also included quite a bit of fiber activity.</p><p>Apart from meeting Dolores Miller and Judith Content as I have already mentioned, I also went to see Ula Ludie's exhibition which she had posted about on Instagram, @ulaludie, just a little bit before I departed for my trip in a bookstore on 16th St. (For once I managed to easily find a parking space, right in front of the shop, but then almost left my phone there...)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3N9wZo69Jg11YC3DE3zRqOXgccrNvjiBGOI-VLXBJumC6toQ9kC0I4sgrWSmSfOoUGg1meu5haF_216zbaxMa-ITFZ4APlzFfzg_BLKZv6VTYnRJ_4MtdlV1cbC68fVXQvi8SiG_Ak09f096-UWRKFZGsRpefH3JqQIxVnQ2azPAWI6oCn-WMqfdxA/s600/20231112_145551a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3N9wZo69Jg11YC3DE3zRqOXgccrNvjiBGOI-VLXBJumC6toQ9kC0I4sgrWSmSfOoUGg1meu5haF_216zbaxMa-ITFZ4APlzFfzg_BLKZv6VTYnRJ_4MtdlV1cbC68fVXQvi8SiG_Ak09f096-UWRKFZGsRpefH3JqQIxVnQ2azPAWI6oCn-WMqfdxA/w400-h300/20231112_145551a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The next day I visited <a href="http://www.joecunninghamquilts.com/" target="_blank">Joe Cunningham</a> in his gallery on Market St., a meeting we had talked about when I saw his exhibition at Festival of Quilts in Birmingham.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3isSlhodhM7658lW1pvp0XziNBKmvVxqsCv_OUmZtLjpuGq9BLG8w__V3BBRdTgcQZ7WFDjWcOEaLi7-EcQ5u-RDZGWVcUsxBY0jzCEmRCkkzSDav664_5lLhuiXTP6Vg_newJhYe2OeITPAzFXw3D4V-kIIF0wTtNshRR-doAPlrKuJLL8HvWdRgA/s600/20231113_134643a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3isSlhodhM7658lW1pvp0XziNBKmvVxqsCv_OUmZtLjpuGq9BLG8w__V3BBRdTgcQZ7WFDjWcOEaLi7-EcQ5u-RDZGWVcUsxBY0jzCEmRCkkzSDav664_5lLhuiXTP6Vg_newJhYe2OeITPAzFXw3D4V-kIIF0wTtNshRR-doAPlrKuJLL8HvWdRgA/w400-h300/20231113_134643a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin29KB2QC0EPBOYHfm-cKbJHm8frL1UGpbXRi-KcUMdBZ1PWMlpYaONGS47_5kcCb2xSSCZjuRvxaBJ9CEeYgReuPIsT2IoxUSuNXZoab8afPZW3_4U4V-wA35nv2o7LT8T3na3xFJIYrWIzkMdWjJ8AojFSr8QN-RNT-NhvkdGjouTNOabzn9Od64AQ/s600/20230806_094356a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin29KB2QC0EPBOYHfm-cKbJHm8frL1UGpbXRi-KcUMdBZ1PWMlpYaONGS47_5kcCb2xSSCZjuRvxaBJ9CEeYgReuPIsT2IoxUSuNXZoab8afPZW3_4U4V-wA35nv2o7LT8T3na3xFJIYrWIzkMdWjJ8AojFSr8QN-RNT-NhvkdGjouTNOabzn9Od64AQ/w400-h300/20230806_094356a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">At Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, Joe Cunningham and I in front of <br />his triptych "Marisupol" in remembrance of the lives lost during <br />the Russian attacks on the city during the ongoing war on Ukraine.</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p> </p><p>And then, for the remaining four days of my stay, I got to spend time with the <a href="https://www.pixeladies.com/" target="_blank">Pixeladies</a>. First stop with Kris after a stroll across campus and through the Berkeley University Library <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Va_i4BpxNoBIUl8-UY_EOl-Zv_Pap-VVs8StcL_cvhQ67DtgxxOUBl39sozrKraqIfnIonJtwcjoS4yW56Xk_fc9ghBpw-g0mDvSmV2I8dtWyRY6q2ioGEpyWf3O15cqMDV9_Y27xqHl2j0QeFOQx_7szBn-L3PYatpqyGWI1HBlNEaIZ5W3I7PQHw/s600/20231114_105802a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Va_i4BpxNoBIUl8-UY_EOl-Zv_Pap-VVs8StcL_cvhQ67DtgxxOUBl39sozrKraqIfnIonJtwcjoS4yW56Xk_fc9ghBpw-g0mDvSmV2I8dtWyRY6q2ioGEpyWf3O15cqMDV9_Y27xqHl2j0QeFOQx_7szBn-L3PYatpqyGWI1HBlNEaIZ5W3I7PQHw/w400-h300/20231114_105802a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thirty years ago, when I was an exchange student in High School and <br />all my classmates went off to college I was already disappointed<br /> that I was not a resident of California, because I really would have liked<br /> to attend UC at Berkeley...</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>and Indian Food for lunch was ... a yarnstore.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJDsIM-93Nt48edb4QlNoMiP7B9CXt32AQIjeoNc-r-ifZSrVkY-l2muJHg29dNrFEdvDDg9G9xiEnZJtlQm7kiDMiJKFmCr7ysB3xZPDc7DoWyrZNZgI5JKeRihW9HwWVBKOIYlL6sPucs1Y_FdLYRf14xRKPYMCnkqjGctTBHDJ4r9-2fwmcmKXDWQ/s600/20231114_131600a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJDsIM-93Nt48edb4QlNoMiP7B9CXt32AQIjeoNc-r-ifZSrVkY-l2muJHg29dNrFEdvDDg9G9xiEnZJtlQm7kiDMiJKFmCr7ysB3xZPDc7DoWyrZNZgI5JKeRihW9HwWVBKOIYlL6sPucs1Y_FdLYRf14xRKPYMCnkqjGctTBHDJ4r9-2fwmcmKXDWQ/w400-h300/20231114_131600a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Very tempting, of course, and I did give in to temptation, a little bit.</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>These days with the Pixeladies, of course, were not only fiber talk, but a lot of fun activities plus fiber talk on the side. We went for a wine tasting in Napa Valley as a group</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oXV_-3RkWIB6nK19Z4uO2ZD5O2fF8DVzELOm5ImWtHK6_KAcrYrNJleFBnvjLhB2072PoO3_RmNezHCjxozMrXgyusENDBbthULCaTXaPudCbqooZflBA4uJQK0DsKIesciqvznO-S-ysdXwjMvLJnYsIGeEgP-nsRRThFAKEw3sKnJhEzRdejfUNQ/s600/20231116_112326a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1oXV_-3RkWIB6nK19Z4uO2ZD5O2fF8DVzELOm5ImWtHK6_KAcrYrNJleFBnvjLhB2072PoO3_RmNezHCjxozMrXgyusENDBbthULCaTXaPudCbqooZflBA4uJQK0DsKIesciqvznO-S-ysdXwjMvLJnYsIGeEgP-nsRRThFAKEw3sKnJhEzRdejfUNQ/w300-h400/20231116_112326a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGCrxMxFqQLMc3IDGkiAplpRc497Li9KR3g6BNXM-Av4YoM_qqirWxX9X44dKDWI6dff8CA8JEyAymHWefu7MQXfO504sMdqD-qoeAXboP3XlxSMHDzlLQqqEghPHz7IioHnUra1_oELrQxQBdgwcoyiHRCN8tU2H4-lBi2nporTpRGgKj3GSZ0sYig/s600/20231116_123722a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="600" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGCrxMxFqQLMc3IDGkiAplpRc497Li9KR3g6BNXM-Av4YoM_qqirWxX9X44dKDWI6dff8CA8JEyAymHWefu7MQXfO504sMdqD-qoeAXboP3XlxSMHDzlLQqqEghPHz7IioHnUra1_oELrQxQBdgwcoyiHRCN8tU2H4-lBi2nporTpRGgKj3GSZ0sYig/w400-h308/20231116_123722a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dolores Miller, me, Deb Cashatt, Kris Sazaki, Jan Soules (from left)</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /> with a conclusion of the trip at the <a href="https://www.dirosaart.org/" target="_blank">di Rosa Gallery</a> with the Northern California Funk Art collection.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08q02f0f2Vc525dcQJguj98YovgRcJET9Wwf4svg-5MrskiJ9hc8a1qq6Jm0XyPyAIEpT8tgyMhW_10vxP9ehyphenhyphenGSKy5xtvyOU_QwzAAioOalbFBpFyZFVKeq1E9JqUjo8SnX7SttqiX7Zq0HuGAP16eyYxBqVdOjtjktFii93URafFY0vMYFFPVE9hg/s600/20231116_143833a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08q02f0f2Vc525dcQJguj98YovgRcJET9Wwf4svg-5MrskiJ9hc8a1qq6Jm0XyPyAIEpT8tgyMhW_10vxP9ehyphenhyphenGSKy5xtvyOU_QwzAAioOalbFBpFyZFVKeq1E9JqUjo8SnX7SttqiX7Zq0HuGAP16eyYxBqVdOjtjktFii93URafFY0vMYFFPVE9hg/w400-h300/20231116_143833a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Deb taking a picture of this installation, which, unfortunately, <br />I did not get the details for...</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqNY1xVSBdNnQ6EkBFx1PxhdsZjiimhMZEAWtuPK-9zFz5YIkZM2vRDg5Wel17FS9qmuUPzXHh-dzOF1_dLDwNpbQT9C9D897d4KYHaJqtSHZOOE8R0NlpH0o1MXd-s9jXlIwGO58cOUzxiafTeaDOxogcUN33MnKR56dG1UU3UnpDNH_-0P7YDR4-A/s600/20231116_145347a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqNY1xVSBdNnQ6EkBFx1PxhdsZjiimhMZEAWtuPK-9zFz5YIkZM2vRDg5Wel17FS9qmuUPzXHh-dzOF1_dLDwNpbQT9C9D897d4KYHaJqtSHZOOE8R0NlpH0o1MXd-s9jXlIwGO58cOUzxiafTeaDOxogcUN33MnKR56dG1UU3UnpDNH_-0P7YDR4-A/w400-h300/20231116_145347a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Richard Shaw, Sinking Ship in Couch, 1971</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>I was very much intrigued by the feeling you get when entering this house made from glass bottles. Yes, not a construction method for houses all over the world (certainly not in German latitudes as insulation would be slightly difficult during winter), but...<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnrxzlfbAS3goVgPgkex4B7tY9SlKPnz8dlMU750EAM1_knitPsr3Iehs5dyRuzx9lLyEtjWtdXhMHh6oWVh2Tcfxe2F0X_eiuxU4nyqm8rGJQb6yxzZngdXC_O2m92QJuI2pqo58rGT9pCVcldQudd84YlD2lGgTOOkBummN2Q1tGNskcB4bQ_CsUZw/s600/20231116_145712a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnrxzlfbAS3goVgPgkex4B7tY9SlKPnz8dlMU750EAM1_knitPsr3Iehs5dyRuzx9lLyEtjWtdXhMHh6oWVh2Tcfxe2F0X_eiuxU4nyqm8rGJQb6yxzZngdXC_O2m92QJuI2pqo58rGT9pCVcldQudd84YlD2lGgTOOkBummN2Q1tGNskcB4bQ_CsUZw/w300-h400/20231116_145712a.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mildred Howard, Memory Garden, Phase I, 1990</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4F3cTNFhuxNU4lf7b3SBP2-O2oKpDXLxcwotdff_zHhR9TDTvMKvSFS9MGsMJdDyTMu_bASxxyAou0AgT9_CLWy1I5Vmdbfmy9l4-K_FAjM8wsHZu3z2dkToULXa-I_jQIWagRdT5kHB40RpME7uRaEauh-wI5uKTIonsqogX0SFMjMniHibCLz1G1w/s600/20231116_145735a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4F3cTNFhuxNU4lf7b3SBP2-O2oKpDXLxcwotdff_zHhR9TDTvMKvSFS9MGsMJdDyTMu_bASxxyAou0AgT9_CLWy1I5Vmdbfmy9l4-K_FAjM8wsHZu3z2dkToULXa-I_jQIWagRdT5kHB40RpME7uRaEauh-wI5uKTIonsqogX0SFMjMniHibCLz1G1w/w300-h400/20231116_145735a.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I mean - wouldn't it be interesting to live in a surrounding like this?</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>I spent a full day with <a href="https://debcashatt.com/" target="_blank">Deb Cashatt</a>, first touring her studio and then interviewing her for the Guild's magazine, probably the issue after next one, and we enjoyed exchanging aspects of our fiber involvement and thoughts on making quilts. Now that the Pixeladies have 'retired' their joint venture, she is embarking on a promising solo trip in the quilt world, with a quilt in Quilt National and several others in other prestigious events as well.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzjpx20oGM3B0hnFae66JrW60F31IAPadv1MB7rhmmWyBauFqF2d8FLuv669NQ2Ly4Pv9byIrH2YWV21HNMNmaDVf1MbiF5_vZKBiaTC_izT0M9uYC9_6SwspeiZqauqbFAItZf1qagX_jVF8ygC0Ij8iE8ZIEtHDbPiBT8cMQrlygF1LPvxxewGprQ/s600/20231117_095012a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSzjpx20oGM3B0hnFae66JrW60F31IAPadv1MB7rhmmWyBauFqF2d8FLuv669NQ2Ly4Pv9byIrH2YWV21HNMNmaDVf1MbiF5_vZKBiaTC_izT0M9uYC9_6SwspeiZqauqbFAItZf1qagX_jVF8ygC0Ij8iE8ZIEtHDbPiBT8cMQrlygF1LPvxxewGprQ/w400-h300/20231117_095012a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>A special facet of fiber adventure was my attempt at sending a printed copy of the Guild's magazine to <a href="https://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/" target="_blank">Sarah Swett.</a> I had thought it would be cheaper to mail her personal copy with the article on her from within the United States than from Europe, and so I ventured out to the post office. On a Saturday morning - bad idea, and we should have just got the postage on the computer. The long line quickly convinced me to try the self-postaging machine in the hallway, and after only three or four attempts Kris (who had be then come to assist me!) we did manage to get it off. Sarah has since confirmed the safe arrival of the little package, so everything went well. And it was still just a little bit cheaper than from Europe, if not by much. </p><p>By now I have been back for 10 days already, with many wonderful memories, and I do feel inspired to get back to my sewing machine, making method(s) and fiber concerns. A lot is changing here in my daily set up as I will be starting a new job in January with a completely different arrangement of living circumstances, but right now I am taking it easy, weathering off a cold which I caught from my son and looking out at the snow.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcb4JQA8Mdm-kQapersqUfW614ZQxTYjx60M6Sf_lRg2N4iMioI9Ix2a2Ov0AjKd4mp0mJRsMWr1STA0rAR-BFZ8YpQbQjlsN7EhhlAK8WclAI4O4USNmIW5tXP22tUmcbAee0lNuSp6iSOoo1HmAK9c6Jy-NuvbpSCAxX4is5FNR5t9znwzx4xXfhCw/s600/20231201_073213a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcb4JQA8Mdm-kQapersqUfW614ZQxTYjx60M6Sf_lRg2N4iMioI9Ix2a2Ov0AjKd4mp0mJRsMWr1STA0rAR-BFZ8YpQbQjlsN7EhhlAK8WclAI4O4USNmIW5tXP22tUmcbAee0lNuSp6iSOoo1HmAK9c6Jy-NuvbpSCAxX4is5FNR5t9znwzx4xXfhCw/w400-h300/20231201_073213a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-35964772648207184702023-11-19T08:04:00.070+01:002023-11-26T23:16:25.287+01:00California bye bye....<p>(This post was started while I was still in Sacramento, California, just before I had to start thinking about packing my suitcase. However, putting in the pictures and even more importantly the headings under them proved to be so tedious on the small devices I had with me that it did not get published before I left, and then the coming back etc. Here it is - and will be continued, as promised below.) <br /></p><p>My vacation in California is drawing to an end. Only a few hours remain before I have to be at the airport, and I am a bag of mixed feelings after two wonderful weeks, having to go back to a cold and grey country where some issues remain to be solved.</p><p>I loved my visit to Joshua Tree National Park, where I had gone right after Quiltfestival. I stayed in a motel just outside the park, between two entrances to the park. I drove through various sections of the park and went on an almost extensive hike. 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</div><br /><p></p><p>And perhaps, time permitting, I will try to enter for one of the challenges next year? But oh, the shipping...</p><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-55141415693989212682023-11-02T10:43:00.001+01:002023-11-02T10:43:36.006+01:00crying for Daily OakAbout two weeks ago, when I was on my way to fetch eggs from the local farmer where I always go for organic eggs, I passed the site of my Daily Oak, which had been my project many years ago - a dozen? It looked completely different, and I realized it had been split in half, only the western part of it still upright. <div>I was shattered. This doesn't cause a digital outcry like the vandalism of the Sycamore Tree at Hadrian's Wall just a few short weeks ago (which I understood in a way, but also compared to the not-really-happening outcry about the ongoing destruction of the Amazon forest), this oaktree doesn't have a digital following, nor do its just about 240 years of age make it one of the 'ancient trees'. But I have grown very attached to it, and every time I went by I would look up at it, greet it, often pause, although I wasn't going there daily any more withthe purpose of documenting how it looked at various hours during the day, how it fared throughout the seasons. </div><div>A couple of days ago I could finally muster the strength to go back to take a few pictures, trying to assess the damage. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div>If you check back with the photos from when I was posting about it back then you can see how much its silhouette has changed.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div> The entire situation has changed completely. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div><br></div>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-35021726515811287322023-10-23T17:04:00.000+02:002023-10-23T17:04:04.273+02:00CQC Int. Inc. (or, Clandestine Quilt Carriers on the Move)<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Is it because
I have been more obsessed with the price of shipping quilts in recent years, or
what has changed that I get the feeling I have become a member of a ‘clandestine
quilt carriers network’?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One thing
is bringing EQA-challenge quilts to Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, to
exhibit, or back after they have completed their tour. This has been a common
event for all the years that I have been the international representative for
the German Patchwork Guild. Another thing is taking a number of quilts from a
number of different quilters and all supposed to be going into different
exhibitions or locations after having been handed on to somebody else. (Not to
mention finally getting back my quilt from the SAQA-tour which customs wouldn’t
give me back, which I have written about before.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Ste.
Marie-aux-Mines I picked up my quilt from the Wide Horizons which finished
earlier this year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtST86eizyb329ttffTTs1QN9_xUqBFa3zrTwjAGX2Gfz64-nQHG_BgAk2skl4c7EnAN4gwEMQxjKVfwI6zTs6J0GUqpFosUYDkf1mAHFZ5M5js6Gx-8uoWcUSi07cnJ1qtAExLCbS3piMq3Hlh_KLIJHxoVnW2fjG_UGx-EBMQQ9s-aJGinl2664X-g/s400/A_Scrap_A_Day_full1a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="400" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtST86eizyb329ttffTTs1QN9_xUqBFa3zrTwjAGX2Gfz64-nQHG_BgAk2skl4c7EnAN4gwEMQxjKVfwI6zTs6J0GUqpFosUYDkf1mAHFZ5M5js6Gx-8uoWcUSi07cnJ1qtAExLCbS3piMq3Hlh_KLIJHxoVnW2fjG_UGx-EBMQQ9s-aJGinl2664X-g/w400-h348/A_Scrap_A_Day_full1a.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>A Scrap a Day</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And received
back one quilt from a 20 Perspectives tour after it had been traveling for a
year. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh39toZrAXeIhTyUZHrlBrr3aHSQjotTcVgBkewZ4IDmKbkv2nY02mv-Q5nmG3F2k0l9WxIWyqUF5P3Fin6aI0EL3Z-Rhqzd4ne9sjOkKm3cE9vXTXf5yjqRw64Nj60dcufgyM_UuxBcedHaZolXiwGOtxVzV3cR28FUw9yRbP9oOchaNLfwxHCAfW2Pw/s655/IMG_2549a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh39toZrAXeIhTyUZHrlBrr3aHSQjotTcVgBkewZ4IDmKbkv2nY02mv-Q5nmG3F2k0l9WxIWyqUF5P3Fin6aI0EL3Z-Rhqzd4ne9sjOkKm3cE9vXTXf5yjqRw64Nj60dcufgyM_UuxBcedHaZolXiwGOtxVzV3cR28FUw9yRbP9oOchaNLfwxHCAfW2Pw/w366-h400/IMG_2549a.jpg" width="366" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bridging the Cultural Gap (2022) - <br />note that this one contains pieces from the same vintage kimono <br />I am using for the piece I am currently working on, see last post.</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I also collected quilts from several other 20 Perspectives members to be
shown in Brno in April. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYS3schZ6gG6hafeTo6t55t_DGH0kmwKPxwOqlrUf0ReSOGtusYA_GGU8i4VNzYmNDsg74sEiue64akNBO-RR9LTvsh9vDRwTzY9lE2UwBEEqlpZxsOmIuDLw1pBLqcds-GG8z8HD23XcxVEUZx2XMIoCD_GuhIIycQNfNlpAiBdm-sDT36keiCinZWA/s600/20231022_144553a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYS3schZ6gG6hafeTo6t55t_DGH0kmwKPxwOqlrUf0ReSOGtusYA_GGU8i4VNzYmNDsg74sEiue64akNBO-RR9LTvsh9vDRwTzY9lE2UwBEEqlpZxsOmIuDLw1pBLqcds-GG8z8HD23XcxVEUZx2XMIoCD_GuhIIycQNfNlpAiBdm-sDT36keiCinZWA/w300-h400/20231022_144553a.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Collecting quilts from 20 Perspectives for Brno in April</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>But before the event I had also been contacted by <a href="http://destulipesetdescoeurs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Annie Labruyère</a> about five Germany-related
quilts from the 70,237-project which were still in her possession from just
before the pandemic, would I take them back because she just couldn't store
them anymore at her house. Of course I said yes, and I picked them up from the
stand of <a href="https://www.francepatchwork.com/ " target="_blank">France Patchwork </a>after Annie had to go home earlier than expected.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEIeOWwHQ2qRcurJlGXE-R5ylu-RYUCDfOaShi83-ocOBeTJZIVjENwpCwpe1UhD8x3_SVUA8u_NPTvk3genCLae-F5Y4yMum1JZMkHO0eQsXn2VIWI_opR4lzKGP5KGX5BlyDV8pG5BJ4cPIZnBTkb64ZWMRgrWtW21p0P5TxfAncmdPgt8QUrQRiA/s600/20231022_131803a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEIeOWwHQ2qRcurJlGXE-R5ylu-RYUCDfOaShi83-ocOBeTJZIVjENwpCwpe1UhD8x3_SVUA8u_NPTvk3genCLae-F5Y4yMum1JZMkHO0eQsXn2VIWI_opR4lzKGP5KGX5BlyDV8pG5BJ4cPIZnBTkb64ZWMRgrWtW21p0P5TxfAncmdPgt8QUrQRiA/w300-h400/20231022_131803a.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The bag with 5 quilts in it</span><br /></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJtvMge_J5_o4fXKkk6y44w-jdo-b8SiEq-AN6-_juc8QMVDzgGj46e1mg0WAAxdl4ftiR_DgngQ2Pxpeo153-VmHBi7zPgAy_NG2w-LN2Wn0NVXN6PpZB05a87L4ZgV2IqGy-MLiIZbD0YHPdRQ93WJ6IclMRC0x9ShmV364ieRVKia-ATh7CAHgfA/s640/521a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJtvMge_J5_o4fXKkk6y44w-jdo-b8SiEq-AN6-_juc8QMVDzgGj46e1mg0WAAxdl4ftiR_DgngQ2Pxpeo153-VmHBi7zPgAy_NG2w-LN2Wn0NVXN6PpZB05a87L4ZgV2IqGy-MLiIZbD0YHPdRQ93WJ6IclMRC0x9ShmV364ieRVKia-ATh7CAHgfA/w375-h400/521a.jpg" width="375" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Quilt no. 521, combining patches from Israel and Germany, <br />for the 70,237 project</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now I am
taking these quilts on to Houston, and either I will give them to somebody who will
take them to Tennesse to then be picked up to go on to Atlanta.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Houston,
also, I will take over several quilts, again from members of 20 Perspectives,
to come to Germany with my and then be shown in Brno. As far as I know right
now, I am not taking a quilt of mine to give to anybody there because that will
go to France to be taken to Australia… if I remember correctly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Do you understand why I sometimes don't know where my quilts are? <br /></span></p>
Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-32761295262038821152023-10-16T18:00:00.001+02:002023-10-16T18:00:10.134+02:00Café Leisure - almost<p> It has been years since I last used that heading for a post, and it feels like many more years that I have actually done that. Sitting in a café without any pressing matters or stuff going on. Can't even blame it completely on the pandemic, because the last time I used that label was 2017. ok. before I started the nursing course, a lot changed with that already.</p><p>So today I went to Landshut to get myself an international driver's license so I will be driving legally in the US when I go to visit in November. The last time I visited the US (and rented a car!) I never even thought about bringing one or needing one, so I guess it was just as well I didn't do any serious speeding. But this time the travel agent told me to get one, so I managed to figure out how to make an appointment online (not extremely straightforward - made me wonder how to people do that if they are elderly and even less computer savvy than I am?) and figured I would spend a bit of time at the café before going to my Spanish lesson later on. But then I realized I needed a plug adaptor, too, because mine seems to have disappeared, and I went to the phone company to clarify my contract and how to deal with it all in the States, and then I thought it was too late to sit down in a café and just lounge. Although I had taken the computer with me to be prepared. So the café visit was canceled. Perhaps next week, between my job interview and the next Spanish lesson? </p><p>The first part of last week was spent at Petersberg and we had three quiet and peaceful and warm and sunny days of sewing. Nobody talked about the news from around the world, nobody talked politics.</p><p>I made progress on my piece for the next 20 Perspectives challenge.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdxtkYVs4SG5mlaqD4Hw-xYQs-GCFMVlGsPfLVKoJER8IPEOrySddCtHnB3s6Mvk5JvpgojdSwFqsS6zleAOCvSmzBXzRq4pleiMZfUcWzscV-r_nsxYGOSEYZy_8pcb9EZA96W5kYVPDKubp_PiFRGhx25UPVlHF0eWzWKRu2TCR110F6y1sApgmUdw/s600/20231009_135859a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdxtkYVs4SG5mlaqD4Hw-xYQs-GCFMVlGsPfLVKoJER8IPEOrySddCtHnB3s6Mvk5JvpgojdSwFqsS6zleAOCvSmzBXzRq4pleiMZfUcWzscV-r_nsxYGOSEYZy_8pcb9EZA96W5kYVPDKubp_PiFRGhx25UPVlHF0eWzWKRu2TCR110F6y1sApgmUdw/w400-h300/20231009_135859a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>It needs to be finished in a week, so I better get going with the quilting, which I did not start there.</p><p>I also continued making blocks for a self-trial based on an interview I recently did with <a href="https://geometriquilt.com/" target="_blank">Caroline Hadley @geometriquilt</a> for the next issue of the member magazine for the German Quilt Guild. I love her Sunday Posts of quilt designs and was captured by a very yellow version of her <a href="https://geometriquilt.com/2023/08/13/sunday-sketch-372/" target="_blank">Sunday Sketch #372</a> a number of weeks ago. Caroline is kind enough to be happy when somebody tries to put her designs into fabric, and I had started pretty soon after the post appeared. But it had not progressed far beyond a few prototype blocks to figure out prolific production, so a chance at actually sitting down and prolifically produce was very welcome indeed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhupGi1CJ76489NRlvWcZPGdw23jCLzSm1FQFq18oUJ8CnXaep8E0hAfn2v6euaMx7G3X-1J9OL1F1T_YdtP1YdNVA8kBPUtRrKH3XBfoeTs9tRQvKrA7BjnOA8ThKm37-h_vwhgJkKt5chxvXUkujT1gEouU2PwH0q7xcg6jmjUeVRqCoY3btcKvNk8w/s600/20231011_103109a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhupGi1CJ76489NRlvWcZPGdw23jCLzSm1FQFq18oUJ8CnXaep8E0hAfn2v6euaMx7G3X-1J9OL1F1T_YdtP1YdNVA8kBPUtRrKH3XBfoeTs9tRQvKrA7BjnOA8ThKm37-h_vwhgJkKt5chxvXUkujT1gEouU2PwH0q7xcg6jmjUeVRqCoY3btcKvNk8w/w300-h400/20231011_103109a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p>Of course, by now I have some own ideas I will incorporate into the top, to make it more mine, which will be fun to figure out. And looking at this picture I think the yellows need to turn a bit more yellow still, but perhaps that is due to the unflatterin lighting in this picture.</p><p>While at the retreat I saw that Ursels <a href="https://www.quiltcabin.de/" target="_blank">QuiltCabin</a> had just had a shipment of <a href="https://pappersaxsten.com/" target="_blank">PSS's </a>oval templates arrive in their shop, and because I had been wondering how I could get at those without having to pay the outrageous post-Brexit customs and shipment costs I went ahead and ordered them. 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Every once
in a while I like taking a look at my photos from the cloud, with a curiosity
for those they will show me as ‘on this day x years ago’. A few days ago I was shown
this one:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjly0SipTeOtQo8gSB8mmrLdZJ43-7Bfkn5m3CaesOX6qJ2VJChtxQuyMY4brIJFEI-Lr4PYGPhPqX69xPXbqQhaXuz_50tlIlD0XbnLLw7PzfLZtphCI5AFXSMMvXx4CvyAetKHPhEBWB_Nra8nTkI_Hic0O2OLBTeXmdHggZYnSc3rN4QePGz713snA/s600/IMG_20210930_201748a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjly0SipTeOtQo8gSB8mmrLdZJ43-7Bfkn5m3CaesOX6qJ2VJChtxQuyMY4brIJFEI-Lr4PYGPhPqX69xPXbqQhaXuz_50tlIlD0XbnLLw7PzfLZtphCI5AFXSMMvXx4CvyAetKHPhEBWB_Nra8nTkI_Hic0O2OLBTeXmdHggZYnSc3rN4QePGz713snA/w400-h300/IMG_20210930_201748a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Two years
ago I was visiting Berlin for a couple of days, meeting with patchwork friends mostly,
but doing a little bit of sightseeing, too, of course. My birthplace, and
sometimes I wonder what would have happened with my life if my parents hadn’t
left the city when I was 4 years old? The Brandenburg Gate figures prominently
in the images that are in the public mind when it comes to Berlin, most likely
so because it was behind the wall for so many years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL213rl1azCLyNG_bI5qOHbfku779Zr6tkt0L-iD-BsfC2foaqY-kkdQveuswHnvncF6tKyrVS80YKSy59jLI8DH7abIbTnljKJRBCVEk1rwujsFnZm48J2Ijn-UT5ZxXlmKuJMUo9BZNvieiA4cFzfXCPy6_vOrvIgD7BysjQw10430pW7NmHq76u6g/s2560/B-Tor%20Kopie.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1717" data-original-width="2560" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL213rl1azCLyNG_bI5qOHbfku779Zr6tkt0L-iD-BsfC2foaqY-kkdQveuswHnvncF6tKyrVS80YKSy59jLI8DH7abIbTnljKJRBCVEk1rwujsFnZm48J2Ijn-UT5ZxXlmKuJMUo9BZNvieiA4cFzfXCPy6_vOrvIgD7BysjQw10430pW7NmHq76u6g/w400-h269/B-Tor%20Kopie.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Picture taken via this link, where you can find many <br />more photos of the Wall:<br /><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.tip-berlin.de/stadtleben/geschichte/berliner-mauer-frueher-heute-fotos/">https://www.tip-berlin.de/stadtleben/geschichte/berliner-mauer-frueher-heute-fotos/</a></span></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And because
it was the place where people partied on November 9, 1989, when the Wall was
opened for the first time in 28 years. <a href="https://www.hdg.de/lemo/bestand/objekt/foto-maueroeffnung-brandenburger-tor.html" target="_blank">Find a picture here</a>.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A few days
earlier, the picture I was shown was this one.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFTs6Y5s5h24pjRZI8GuMzq8u9Gx4k4V1Mz_h39WJ4vt5fIdgMa9hecz_AfuZSkw7tClcjQ1W9bYnwKtkoOkWbJsXaZ1DyHOpbx9NvXZHc57StsJ_rjAUSniDY65bmAlOxyFz_jMaTo5eALkwbGlMDrbSc8I28nZbi7JtxZEZe0_S_M_b4IHu_OsyFmw/s600/IMG_8834a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="600" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFTs6Y5s5h24pjRZI8GuMzq8u9Gx4k4V1Mz_h39WJ4vt5fIdgMa9hecz_AfuZSkw7tClcjQ1W9bYnwKtkoOkWbJsXaZ1DyHOpbx9NvXZHc57StsJ_rjAUSniDY65bmAlOxyFz_jMaTo5eALkwbGlMDrbSc8I28nZbi7JtxZEZe0_S_M_b4IHu_OsyFmw/w400-h285/IMG_8834a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It showed me that at that time I was working on the quilt "Everyone has the right", inspired by this newspaper picture.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXDwj9ZC9j_i5_bGYU3WWRRh4w_jN7SeX7tajW8dI3LgKMcBL5QeNp543-vFStze6eWbydRQJ5jkmeWAbJ1KMwv0uJvQdcJAsLhOZ__A2LcMNIjvLDQ_I9i6LDqy-P-uYVUh0SMj8OLhOHb5cuYujrDUIxtXefnM4CMr4L77cQq9sSla3vvhKyBSCXA/s600/IMG_5587a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPXDwj9ZC9j_i5_bGYU3WWRRh4w_jN7SeX7tajW8dI3LgKMcBL5QeNp543-vFStze6eWbydRQJ5jkmeWAbJ1KMwv0uJvQdcJAsLhOZ__A2LcMNIjvLDQ_I9i6LDqy-P-uYVUh0SMj8OLhOHb5cuYujrDUIxtXefnM4CMr4L77cQq9sSla3vvhKyBSCXA/w400-h300/IMG_5587a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It has
since traveled with SAQA’s exhibition “Forced to Flee” through several
countries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6S6mmAdSwwr7rE62RGBm8a9lMCRYLmsZBWEBoiHqzdv4QJLZIe9FMeQHAsJVgopS_A0dRSPFaokCr61U81s8DSlgpAWQEWO6i_V88LCZ7doyPha1vvauakIaU_RXW1wHY0m3MYzsvhScPCUECBFp9i5vwrNX11WnxIs-m9R3z22sM7gM92WG2SF5KPQ/s600/20231007_204222a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6S6mmAdSwwr7rE62RGBm8a9lMCRYLmsZBWEBoiHqzdv4QJLZIe9FMeQHAsJVgopS_A0dRSPFaokCr61U81s8DSlgpAWQEWO6i_V88LCZ7doyPha1vvauakIaU_RXW1wHY0m3MYzsvhScPCUECBFp9i5vwrNX11WnxIs-m9R3z22sM7gM92WG2SF5KPQ/w400-h300/20231007_204222a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQ-pv0AKFQzeFr39iqwA8px6rLqfVbTudXGrcag4jSi18N408L2p4HTYF6pKKkVqpV8LYqksX6O3p8VyjwJhXjUuacIPnOt5RqK53spBVuzw2iE1gU7sQFmnohdwtnxwXiiiTOA4u2W2NlbVmw9RdV-ClBQ0KjuD2oTPL-b7jsCCwPIIOCzvRJRoahw/s600/20231007_204205a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQ-pv0AKFQzeFr39iqwA8px6rLqfVbTudXGrcag4jSi18N408L2p4HTYF6pKKkVqpV8LYqksX6O3p8VyjwJhXjUuacIPnOt5RqK53spBVuzw2iE1gU7sQFmnohdwtnxwXiiiTOA4u2W2NlbVmw9RdV-ClBQ0KjuD2oTPL-b7jsCCwPIIOCzvRJRoahw/w300-h400/20231007_204205a.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>A detail from my quilt appeared on the front cover of the catalogue.<br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And it gave me a hard time getting it back from the States: the carrier
would not deliver it to me because they claimed I could not prove it was mine,
and I would have to pay customs to retrieve it, contrary to SAQA’s agreement
with the US side of this particular carrier. Clandestine ways have since
brought it back home. When I saw this picture from five years ago, I thought
how very unfortunate it is that pictures like the one that originally inspired
me to work on this quilt are still everyday matter – except that they are not
really being shown in the media anymore. Because so many Europeans are sick and
tired of seeing pictures like this, hearing stories of hundreds of people a day
arriving on Lampedusa Island and other islands further east in Greece, having
crossed the Mediterranean on skimpy boats, and who are now being put into camps
already full to the brim. Right now there is no such thing as the 2015 “Welcome
Culture” to be seen, Germany has turned xenophobic and anti-refugees to a
degree that is frightening. Instead, elections are being won by talking about the 'refugee crisis'.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Also this
past week, but not through a photo from my cloud, we celebrated the 33th
anniversary of the reunification of Germany, just a little over a year after
the party at Brandenburg gate mentioned above. On that day, October 3, I was in
Canada, traveling with the Student Orchestra of Freiburg University. I remember
that clearly because there was a lively discussion whether on this particular
day the concert program should be preceded by a select four members of the
orchestra playing Haydn’s slow movement from String Quartet op 76 no. 3, the
variations on the tune that nowadays constitutes the German national anthem.
Opinions were very divided – I, too, thought political reunification at that
time was not the right thing to do. And I still think many things should have
been done differently. Perhaps the high rates of agreement with the extremist
right wing party in large areas of former East Germany could have been
prevented if reunification had been less traumatic for citizens in that part of
the country? It is the year 2023 now – and one hundred years ago, 1923, is often
called the beginning of the rise of Nazi Germany, with political developments
and inflation that caused the complete psychological destabilization of the
population. Recent German federal states elections have brought terrifying
results – from a viewpoint of a deeply felt democrat – for extreme right wing
parties, and not only in what used to be the Eastern Part. What have we
learned? Are we really repeating it all, have one hundred years been enough to
let us forget?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And Israel and Palestine... I lack words for that. My heart breaks, because violence and shelling is only going to cause retaliation. And more victims on both sides. <br /></span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Any Vacation is
always too short … my husband and I have been back from our trip to Northern
Germany for over a week already. We spent a few days in Ratzeburg, a small town
south of Lübeck, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdYcSbSEI4f4fhRK7Ttepe6aPKegEMxlimT7ZvOeT3x_gBrQ0XelcZUag3GO9QSayUaVbVw_ZCQfLndLQH_OghyNYljNimhPV4C6C6NPCfRalxBhTZOTSafZqsBSiP3kErwjUhMEwepwjfuIIS6ho0L3b56ia4czDz5j3pWt8ExcA9pxiNaZAtTDQ3Hw/s600/20230919_103957.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdYcSbSEI4f4fhRK7Ttepe6aPKegEMxlimT7ZvOeT3x_gBrQ0XelcZUag3GO9QSayUaVbVw_ZCQfLndLQH_OghyNYljNimhPV4C6C6NPCfRalxBhTZOTSafZqsBSiP3kErwjUhMEwepwjfuIIS6ho0L3b56ia4czDz5j3pWt8ExcA9pxiNaZAtTDQ3Hw/w400-h300/20230919_103957.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Making sure we had plenty of 'Butterkuchen', bike trips, swimming in the lake.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmScXpY6lKAp2bRDGe6cG4B6WfRfv0vsnZH1sRIIekKtU5oWRcORJn39GI3ZA96T8CJTbA1A8WuaqH2yTH91MYvVMgrjaVtMVvjTQN_-GFStDfk7hyphenhyphenk3OwIMP6Pt6jpp4xSH38NiJUN2l_XLwLFhbPmn4zQOOnl3CPND09K4KzEuDgik39VMamj7iIQ/s600/20230918_140041.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="600" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivmScXpY6lKAp2bRDGe6cG4B6WfRfv0vsnZH1sRIIekKtU5oWRcORJn39GI3ZA96T8CJTbA1A8WuaqH2yTH91MYvVMgrjaVtMVvjTQN_-GFStDfk7hyphenhyphenk3OwIMP6Pt6jpp4xSH38NiJUN2l_XLwLFhbPmn4zQOOnl3CPND09K4KzEuDgik39VMamj7iIQ/w400-h283/20230918_140041.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ywjV8fPo5X6RFCtJy1uUvrglGQWMfYJHhx-AZsd_6zc29xncytvxYvOWomh4Yn6UKnjTvfA8N5eWm70DZlxjS1cQGF58Yb0ZIU5NzRqPqAh19xTb7b9lobyGRje7tjHJLeeQIiCTgaHOImUzgg6D1ncsxg7yTy18ErIjvmvixoIc-I-LGkciJPbQHQ/s600/20230920_151909.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ywjV8fPo5X6RFCtJy1uUvrglGQWMfYJHhx-AZsd_6zc29xncytvxYvOWomh4Yn6UKnjTvfA8N5eWm70DZlxjS1cQGF58Yb0ZIU5NzRqPqAh19xTb7b9lobyGRje7tjHJLeeQIiCTgaHOImUzgg6D1ncsxg7yTy18ErIjvmvixoIc-I-LGkciJPbQHQ/w300-h400/20230920_151909.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdDhGlBBI0lSB3itruW3kZEEveq8kGPpiiEo6DdeP3Y4-s3qYs2dvyaKu1Ksui3HKofCOTCYOMGYWtPcIPNhEifvWroKus01sYoZ2nZ9JCROIOLoIEPpj0OvWrmJBskC6ByBnFb-1mHyZDX3wmMMKTVVdeFp0_U6ZZUYFoQmyry8Tf25M3brgJlULdw/s600/20230924_133340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdDhGlBBI0lSB3itruW3kZEEveq8kGPpiiEo6DdeP3Y4-s3qYs2dvyaKu1Ksui3HKofCOTCYOMGYWtPcIPNhEifvWroKus01sYoZ2nZ9JCROIOLoIEPpj0OvWrmJBskC6ByBnFb-1mHyZDX3wmMMKTVVdeFp0_U6ZZUYFoQmyry8Tf25M3brgJlULdw/w400-h300/20230924_133340.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After a few days we then relocated to Plön, yet a bit further north. Both
towns are situated on a lake, and I went swimming every single day. Sometimes twice. I simply enjoyed being away from work
and the current problems. I even managed to not think about it too much.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhjAJMsNH842kgLOiU4dVXfBKt4sOrrEkysS5-pGyHipyOOhyphenhyphen2AFuKwzNr5Yg-rY6aQKa0Qmmfo_w_s_gkXFrA9xAQR9t1hzxT7bLAm11MRdbOPeovF37Z_w-2fPHYHNOfYChJlkrOwCZrWKKHCay2Kuj3m0C2Dyz0Z71eyOlw2QA0GiSwfYMexiXj6Q/s600/20230924_185659.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhjAJMsNH842kgLOiU4dVXfBKt4sOrrEkysS5-pGyHipyOOhyphenhyphen2AFuKwzNr5Yg-rY6aQKa0Qmmfo_w_s_gkXFrA9xAQR9t1hzxT7bLAm11MRdbOPeovF37Z_w-2fPHYHNOfYChJlkrOwCZrWKKHCay2Kuj3m0C2Dyz0Z71eyOlw2QA0GiSwfYMexiXj6Q/w400-h300/20230924_185659.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It did catch
up with me after our return, though, when I started wondering what will happen, what do
I want to be doing, am I being too picky with the characteristics of the job I
am looking for? A spreadsheet listing the abundance of ideas I had come up with,
most of which more or less out of the question, but still, keep bouncing ideas…
turned out to be somewhat helpful, although it didn’t show up as colorful as I had
intended. Add to that the fact that my husband’s opinion about some of the
alternatives doesn’t exactly coincide with mine. But by now I have sent off two
applications and already received an offer to come for a trial. Slowly I am
beginning to feel better.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And I have
sat down at the sewing machine again. Two projects are on the design wall, both
of which have a deadline, one more pressing than the other.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I want to
enter a quilt in the “Creative Challenge” for the next <a href="https://www.bvv.cz/ppmbrno" target="_blank">PPM in Brno</a>, since I am scheduled to go
there with the next exhibition of the 20 Perspectives group in April. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One aspect of ‘waste free’ is using some more
of the many pieces of Guldusi embroideries I have in my stash, although that is
not the only aspect of how I am interpreting the topic. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX6ebd5Qs1BQbKhnmMqjZWEy0U5Tq-BNl9-ZBr_bDBVM6pRiX-gLTsWVgvXcihJk8Az6w4ztqeUPzcZFuyJGvGY88YlQO-J2EMw9DJYWWC2su2rXqxFbvdIns_3eglXaFuZkofK4ggqIxlRW_oanyAyY6X1gxl9k84V1LM1ALKcfc_1RiIRnamwGtoFQ/s600/IMG_3636a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX6ebd5Qs1BQbKhnmMqjZWEy0U5Tq-BNl9-ZBr_bDBVM6pRiX-gLTsWVgvXcihJk8Az6w4ztqeUPzcZFuyJGvGY88YlQO-J2EMw9DJYWWC2su2rXqxFbvdIns_3eglXaFuZkofK4ggqIxlRW_oanyAyY6X1gxl9k84V1LM1ALKcfc_1RiIRnamwGtoFQ/w300-h400/IMG_3636a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That deadline is in
March. I am not showing too much detail because I am not sure about the restrictions of showing the work online beforehand.<br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The other
project is for <a href="https://www.20perspectives.com/" target="_blank">20 Perspective</a>s’ next challenge, and that deadline is coming up
rather soon, our internal reveal date is October 24. I had my idea early on,
but started working only rather recently and now time is short. Some first
thoughts don’t seem to work as well as I thought they would, and the creative
process is of course slower than I figured – as always, but that’s no real
surprise.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiTw5eI5eviOYBtMKhA2sVT_VOiuYav7gEd3GumrdTaXGQGofFuXK1unQscjaBgahyphenhyphenle-73JUs-DR1rK_kqBBAY8fVgnVcC6qgmaRp6Tm9TMkMJYfoOPJ7BkL70PWlnw3fFofXoviueHxgdfXs7xvwK-3QKogugJsTfebs-TIfTPOevpHOsmeE2jS9Q/s600/IMG_3634a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEiTw5eI5eviOYBtMKhA2sVT_VOiuYav7gEd3GumrdTaXGQGofFuXK1unQscjaBgahyphenhyphenle-73JUs-DR1rK_kqBBAY8fVgnVcC6qgmaRp6Tm9TMkMJYfoOPJ7BkL70PWlnw3fFofXoviueHxgdfXs7xvwK-3QKogugJsTfebs-TIfTPOevpHOsmeE2jS9Q/w400-h300/IMG_3634a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNSDSEQNEFYoy7EDYbukmB8-i7zZdxiPpo0Sc_vCqSH4EL5zt9MfJYEssvK1jjCfsho8Qno2j8JtqdSUHb9x8DgufS2ffhwcP0efErbNShyHEWEki1fbIyPrMvI2QygT-rUcZRi-EEvNCkmO3wOXr65Pv2FeqlO2pbdPiLkis5tlMkam36JxpSpnWpA/s600/IMG_3637a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNSDSEQNEFYoy7EDYbukmB8-i7zZdxiPpo0Sc_vCqSH4EL5zt9MfJYEssvK1jjCfsho8Qno2j8JtqdSUHb9x8DgufS2ffhwcP0efErbNShyHEWEki1fbIyPrMvI2QygT-rUcZRi-EEvNCkmO3wOXr65Pv2FeqlO2pbdPiLkis5tlMkam36JxpSpnWpA/w400-h300/IMG_3637a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It's just a
question whether I can fit it all in. Fortunately the weekend is free, and next week a three-day-retreat at Petersberg is coming up, so although I am 'teaching', the character of the setup there will give me a good amount of time to work myself. So perhaps I will be able to finish on time.<br /></span></p>
Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-17472726028415275222023-09-23T21:17:00.007+02:002023-09-23T21:17:59.249+02:00SAQA Benefit Auction - still on...<p><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This year,
once again, I entered a piece to the <a href="https://www.saqa.com/auction" target="_blank">SAQA Benefit Auction</a>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last year’s
donation took a while before it finally sold just before Christmas, and that
had a bit of a dampening effect on my eagerness to produce a donation quilt.
But I had managed to send it off sort of on time, at least, paid a lot of
postage for it. I did not get around to choosing or posting my personal dream
collection, nor did I request a ‘bid on me’ promotion picture of my quilt. I
had intended to post about the auction, before it started, but the recent developments
in my professional situation plus the fact that Heather from 20 Perspectives
was coming to visit and we then took off to Ste. Marie-aux-Mines together prevented
that. On the day when Diamond Bidding started I thought about it once more, but
we had insufficient internet at the accomodation at that point and as an
aftermath of last year’s experience I briefly thought ‘aaghhh – mine won’t sell
right away anyway’ and thought I could still do the promotion stuff on my side on
the train after leaving Ste. Marie, which would still have been sufficiently
early before the regular beginning of the auction. Imagine my surprise when I
received Jennifer Solon’s mail on the morning of the Sunday when I left France
that my piece had actually sold in the Diamond Bidding period of the auction.
It’s gone… no promotion of my quilt necessary anymore. That’s what I thought.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This
morning I received a mail from SAQA that there had been a ‘bidding error’ and
my quilt hadn’t sold after all and was being ‘repositioned to section 3’ of the
auction. So right now it is still for sale – currently at the price for diamond
bidding, because as I am writing it is still section 1 in the running for US$100. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkoViUr0hujHYQd5zfzaMmc4XMdKOdH0c4B_m7_KD16PIL0wPrwwXvuU8FIbcq-o0ajc4l3P5nHGeKa8oDuuyNrOUkYHk4oyWCQIZ0A0uZ42rjWy412c67Yw3PdEUVfzCFS9I6dmqW8t4bq7d66gEY9-toipoWWMqWhs2bRgr1rZm8b3_zJpBRJy1RA/s1235/2023Postcard%20Back_v2b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1235" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwkoViUr0hujHYQd5zfzaMmc4XMdKOdH0c4B_m7_KD16PIL0wPrwwXvuU8FIbcq-o0ajc4l3P5nHGeKa8oDuuyNrOUkYHk4oyWCQIZ0A0uZ42rjWy412c67Yw3PdEUVfzCFS9I6dmqW8t4bq7d66gEY9-toipoWWMqWhs2bRgr1rZm8b3_zJpBRJy1RA/w350-h400/2023Postcard%20Back_v2b.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Please take a look at the quilts still for sale – whether you like mine, or
another, perhaps you feel like supporting SAQA in their annual fund raiser.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The auction
will be on for a couple more weeks, until October 8. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now I just
hope mine won’t linger in the store until Christmas…</span></p>
Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-81689915915676869802023-09-19T21:32:00.002+02:002023-09-19T21:32:24.113+02:00Unforeseen (?) developments, and EPM<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Little did
I know when I wrote my last post that it would mark the next step in
development with my work situation. I should have known, I guess, because that
last time, when I wrote about those pink socks and how they were related to being
included and accepted in the team, it was that same, writing about it made a
statement that brought some thoughts together and set more things in motion… Without
going into too much detail here, I handed in my resignation from my job just
before end of August, which now leaves me time until Dec 31 to find a new job.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Right now I
am on vacation with my husband and have told myself I will be thinking about that problem seriously when
we are back home, next week, but that is easier said than done. Ideas, thoughts and
various scenarios are wavering through my head, but mostly I am pretty good
about not actively searching. Mostly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHBmUtQNG_aI5UMv93ou_iK6WWRieArs_cdMOhgAD8l85U3427HqAHkeWl8Sr4nxo_XJOUsQvkc-oCV-e2NoTS3GEbg_nJd7oO7pCxgZYl6uWUBEtWLj3Lvu2UILVsNWUsN00RRUr_7iPpvNGjkvAt2zE2gg5tD7sM_HTlVpXj9tqXDyy1OJpybcR18A/s600/20230918_121154a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHBmUtQNG_aI5UMv93ou_iK6WWRieArs_cdMOhgAD8l85U3427HqAHkeWl8Sr4nxo_XJOUsQvkc-oCV-e2NoTS3GEbg_nJd7oO7pCxgZYl6uWUBEtWLj3Lvu2UILVsNWUsN00RRUr_7iPpvNGjkvAt2zE2gg5tD7sM_HTlVpXj9tqXDyy1OJpybcR18A/w400-h300/20230918_121154a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I went to
Ste. Marie-aux-Mines with Heather Bennett, another member of the 20
Perspectives group, and friends from the German Guild. Heather and I put up the
“Nature” exhibition of 20 Perspectives, and I had another quilt in the German
Guild’s “Tradtion bis Moderne”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHbp2IQCp0ZlopofMFTVZAz_kU0HHnqdsoOo-j6XFv-xrWlDCA7tyxMW4B6XdFXhpsmYTu14dxlie5-fKDtkLQwnQDX1ddN-yJz4aUuJJihImaTKiC4YDFfEFRhKhkIqf-lDjqOZrZMAdMx3ZvRPobJL4ZFl-uXYVLQ8dqfbvpyWcYRot1sTIR-NNmtA/s600/20220409_182954a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHbp2IQCp0ZlopofMFTVZAz_kU0HHnqdsoOo-j6XFv-xrWlDCA7tyxMW4B6XdFXhpsmYTu14dxlie5-fKDtkLQwnQDX1ddN-yJz4aUuJJihImaTKiC4YDFfEFRhKhkIqf-lDjqOZrZMAdMx3ZvRPobJL4ZFl-uXYVLQ8dqfbvpyWcYRot1sTIR-NNmtA/w300-h400/20220409_182954a.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Heather Bennett in front of the église Madeleine <br />after we had finished hanging the 20 Perspectives exhibtion.</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxFkDZmUMN4stc5_l_9TxCGq_AyKSt2IZQh__lT3cSVNzAEchLjzV6ODXjFAj7vDC8hXFOigmswXgPicvpY3RdxfYExvJeTxdcXp7Iu-EnZIUM6iL0gakPpDm6ZjQgc3HxpY2eiHvkyPhzh_AwG3CqR_-N5AZW_5D-tBOJvy2SfA6rM0va840tTXGnRA/s2992/20230913_123209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="2992" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxFkDZmUMN4stc5_l_9TxCGq_AyKSt2IZQh__lT3cSVNzAEchLjzV6ODXjFAj7vDC8hXFOigmswXgPicvpY3RdxfYExvJeTxdcXp7Iu-EnZIUM6iL0gakPpDm6ZjQgc3HxpY2eiHvkyPhzh_AwG3CqR_-N5AZW_5D-tBOJvy2SfA6rM0va840tTXGnRA/w400-h400/20230913_123209.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"I'll follow the Sun" in 20 Perspectives: Nature</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz2vmeDH0O--KWEELlvy2fplebnqDtyPakHNyIuelA73jiaSrX0ESWcubiN4G0Teo6bcC4oq9vgiY0DJTWU6sDKIxyWyohHdjqyWgO5MqIIYEiQIPfGKZ18TMsFMNrBOfosU0fZ6XlR57D8Q0BmgueJbLCOVhL64fu9f9nBu2fplg1jKmS2U7c5Ig_HA/s575/20230913_161220a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz2vmeDH0O--KWEELlvy2fplebnqDtyPakHNyIuelA73jiaSrX0ESWcubiN4G0Teo6bcC4oq9vgiY0DJTWU6sDKIxyWyohHdjqyWgO5MqIIYEiQIPfGKZ18TMsFMNrBOfosU0fZ6XlR57D8Q0BmgueJbLCOVhL64fu9f9nBu2fplg1jKmS2U7c5Ig_HA/w313-h400/20230913_161220a.jpg" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Mellowed Yellow" in Tradition bis Moderne</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Between
stewarding in both these exhibitions I tried to see as much of the event,
spread out through the valley, as possible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Several
exhibits were impressive, but the one that emotionally struck me most was by
Pascale Goldenberg, the initiator of the Guldusi embroidery program. I have
always admired her work, have taken two classes with her several years ago, and
have been impressed with her involvement and dedication to start, run and
maintain that program in Afghanistan, which she continues to do so even today,
in the direst of circumstances. To have the strength and stamina to keep up
producing own work, and at this degree of intensity is a sign of a true artist.
She explains that a lot of her time is spent traveling, and so she has turned to
handstitching as well. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2-2Oy44kW5f1tI2yTjRy5Qvw2iQKFeZkWZnd1G28s-loaLuqz-vJJS9Jtlg3AyOk8LZpnMzjZxuuD0emBMHEtu7hqdjCAxLgOjH_oCo6W-5UiUmxd2dCE00DaIGbWLpXAPW9ym5zo4eykRIWVaSOtJW5jxG_VctFA5iluIXpjizxCeETEt-tGq5-Stg/s522/20230915_092243a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2-2Oy44kW5f1tI2yTjRy5Qvw2iQKFeZkWZnd1G28s-loaLuqz-vJJS9Jtlg3AyOk8LZpnMzjZxuuD0emBMHEtu7hqdjCAxLgOjH_oCo6W-5UiUmxd2dCE00DaIGbWLpXAPW9ym5zo4eykRIWVaSOtJW5jxG_VctFA5iluIXpjizxCeETEt-tGq5-Stg/w345-h400/20230915_092243a.jpg" width="345" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Nightdress" Pascale Goldenberg</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGecNr-DxqTY8PSds-1DK9sX8mqAzo6cBv4P3nuWKBbpGDnmsWuT8plTVJkr1Af9iBAlBAL6IZkmSaxTymoJOaV1vxY5BFpwRZoGTssCNouY21t2SxJYMgX8KK3GiztSJhnWnmPYl4Kd7K5HfCS-RYRwL-OpbgvNEdlxk4uddTE__8e7wpoUWQZ4F4Q/s772/20230915_091945a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGecNr-DxqTY8PSds-1DK9sX8mqAzo6cBv4P3nuWKBbpGDnmsWuT8plTVJkr1Af9iBAlBAL6IZkmSaxTymoJOaV1vxY5BFpwRZoGTssCNouY21t2SxJYMgX8KK3GiztSJhnWnmPYl4Kd7K5HfCS-RYRwL-OpbgvNEdlxk4uddTE__8e7wpoUWQZ4F4Q/w234-h400/20230915_091945a.jpg" width="234" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Flying Away" Pascale Goldenberg</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeVaO2mmun1NKQ7kS9oqtneWzbMTVFjh1oeKYTCCHZJ_GOXCCMU3NpT3NiYls28T67mC0BDg_-EHuBeDf9_ajIOC1LLEGMpzo7tt_SteD2YSGoNjWKJJcV5B-QTffMocSRIqXp0MjNofs1nEt1LfoW8nx7zoLbQB4_rmmH62HHQVxoYLFgKzi39vSmJA/s600/20230915_091608.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeVaO2mmun1NKQ7kS9oqtneWzbMTVFjh1oeKYTCCHZJ_GOXCCMU3NpT3NiYls28T67mC0BDg_-EHuBeDf9_ajIOC1LLEGMpzo7tt_SteD2YSGoNjWKJJcV5B-QTffMocSRIqXp0MjNofs1nEt1LfoW8nx7zoLbQB4_rmmH62HHQVxoYLFgKzi39vSmJA/w300-h400/20230915_091608.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Perhaps I
will show some other pictures from EPM later, but right now I want to let
Pascale’s stand on her own. Although my pictures don't do the expressivity of her works any justice. <br /></span></p>
Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-89769039235937329152023-08-22T17:57:00.000+02:002023-08-22T17:57:06.443+02:00Work, and its pleasures<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last time I
wrote about something relating to my work life, in the first half of 2022
(about knitting pink socks, my absolute non-favorite color, for somebody whose
favorite color it was) that post resulted in a conversation with the head nurse,
who is a friend in fibers. Subsequently I took the post down, but the
conversation had also shown me how many aspects of the work situation there
were not contributing to me feeling satisfied. Follow-up conversations with my
husband led me to start looking for a new job. Which I took in July 2023, and
where I was pretty happy in the beginning. I am still content with the overall feeling
within the team in total, although by now some dampening of my initial
enthusiasm has happened, regarding organizational aspects, the head nurse’s
behavior in general – I do think she is a bit of a brat with less than good
manners, and I do not hesitate to say that here - and a few other things that
must not be spelled out in detail. Some of these aspects caused me to cut back
on working hours in April, now only 3 days a week, some others, more dissatisfying
ones, have occurred since, and I am again considering options. Of which there
are not many, as I don’t want to go back into a hospital, I do like the fact
that I don’t have to work night shifts in dialysis, nor Sundays. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With three
days a week it has gotten a lot easier to arrange a few days off by placing
early requests so that more flexibility arises to move around. Thus I can go and
take care of my ageing parents, or plan a trip to a quilt festival, for
example. My trip to Birmingham was possible by using up only one of my vacation
days, for example, although I was gone for 5 days altogether. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is
amazing, though, how much of one’s life quality is affected by that environment
you encounter in your workplace. Perhaps I was naïve because I had not been
involved in a lot of work environments with many people – academics in the
field I was in tend to work individually, after that I was self-employed as a fabric
dyer, and the other part of work environment was the family at home. I didn’t
have to deal with the issues I am facing now. Perhaps I am too old to be
disrespectfully kept on at by somebody who is only a bit more than half my age
and lacking leadership qualities. Perhaps I am getting a bit sensitive in this
regard, but most of the other team members are saying the same thing. Perhaps …?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I cut back
on the working hours in April because I thought I had found enough of a footing
in the field that I could now turn back to having a bit of making time in my
real life. As it turns out, it is not easy to start being creative, with these
things going on in the background, even on the days when I am ‘not working’. I
still make as in knitting, spinning, fiddling small pieces of fabrics around
paper templates for a wildly oversized something so I can fondle fabrics, but
that is far from the kind of quilting I used to do. I have lost my former ambition
for marking my spot in the art quilt world. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But when I
decided I wanted to enter a piece in the competition for the Prague Patchwork
Meeting that has now moved to Brno, and took note of the entry date, I finally
returned to my sewing room and the design wall. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wpYPkArDUVYBP-h3gnchySK9NIEHsFla3twZvISwGoJRxeWCV9BEv9bIJcDFoQvid4MP1hQOCyqcvcAiiu6wBtNdtc7P8ZIqtKK-GU3AjogTAyvaYtPBrjoRXfIhFOJiY_UZZgq7kbR2aXTmqXTNVnvl9QdOv8II2UC7zBDYfFzkkbjmDuzktdd7pw/s600/20230817_213834a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wpYPkArDUVYBP-h3gnchySK9NIEHsFla3twZvISwGoJRxeWCV9BEv9bIJcDFoQvid4MP1hQOCyqcvcAiiu6wBtNdtc7P8ZIqtKK-GU3AjogTAyvaYtPBrjoRXfIhFOJiY_UZZgq7kbR2aXTmqXTNVnvl9QdOv8II2UC7zBDYfFzkkbjmDuzktdd7pw/w300-h400/20230817_213834a.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The entry guidelines call for ‘unusual
materials’ to be used in the piece, and I have a certain range of options that
can be included. I had forgotten how it feels to be piecing fabric together,
getting back up to the design wall, putting it where I thought it would go,
seeing that it might not have added up in exactly the way I had thought it
would. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg16id0n6OSXkwRSbxjo0yiRvVZLwW9dw5uEfCXgNBAEFBW-5w9LLxXteOFrN3WcR7_HYuAP5CbeQAVaaGp4eroCsWLg0Q6OVtpYL-AfQYgTNNZvGl8LxNHiA7ZdEgxVxL7ByTr5rwriUPf5Qyb4xjMnBfoVr8NfYeLqAwOWZ-nR6tQhd4nW6Me0DmB5A/s600/20230820_172531a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg16id0n6OSXkwRSbxjo0yiRvVZLwW9dw5uEfCXgNBAEFBW-5w9LLxXteOFrN3WcR7_HYuAP5CbeQAVaaGp4eroCsWLg0Q6OVtpYL-AfQYgTNNZvGl8LxNHiA7ZdEgxVxL7ByTr5rwriUPf5Qyb4xjMnBfoVr8NfYeLqAwOWZ-nR6tQhd4nW6Me0DmB5A/w400-h400/20230820_172531a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And how it feels
to sit and look at the design wall, waiting for an idea how to move on. That is
the real kind of work that is enjoyable. I hope it will tie me over the other stuff, and give me strength to just bide my time there until we find out about my husband's health, and possible changes on his side.<br /></span></p>
<p> </p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-6752959248131665562023-08-13T17:42:00.001+02:002023-08-13T17:42:09.508+02:00'Meeting' somebody via Zoom<p><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I don’t know
how it happened that at some point Sarah C. Swett appeared in my instagram feed
a few years ago . But I do know that I was delighted by her posts, enchanted by
her comic drawings and always had a smile on my face when I had seen a new post
of hers, or read a blog post. Making yarn out of coffee filters. A Sweater,
somewhat slanted. Making yarn out of milkweed plants by meticulously securing
the fibers, spinning these - and then weaving tapestries from them… Stuff like
that. Things I find absolutely fascinating to read about, being able to go part
of the way with them (I mean, I do spin, I quilt, sometimes I hand-sew large
quilts, I have hand-quilted large quilts, I knit…), but not all the way entirely.
(I don’t do hand-spindling, for one thing.) Sarah has meanwhile changed her
mode of publication from her blog of many years (<a href=" https://www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com/blog-2014-2021" target="_blank">a field guide to needlework</a>) to <i>The
Gusset</i> on Substack (find <a href="https://sarahcswett.substack.com/" target="_blank">it her</a>e)
and is continuing to delight readers with her adventures in fibers, weaving,
comics and the new-in-her-life dog.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When the
topic to be covered for the German Guild’s magazine called for ‘<i>Strafarbeit’</i>
(work/chore as a punishment) I knew I wanted to get in touch with Sarah and
write about her. The things she does are nothing like a <i>Strafarbeit</i> for
her, I knew that before I talked to her, but I know there are many people out there
who would consider these activities exactly that. (I mean – when you knit in
public, how frequently do you get comments about the amount of work, the time
it takes, that the person commenting would never know how to do that nor care
to do that either?) Perhaps not too many people like these appear amongst the
members of the <i>Patchworkgilde</i>, but even there you can find some who
would be appalled if you tried to talk them into doing a bit of English Paper
Piecing, for them EPP is very close to a <i>Strafarbeit</i> indeed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I got in
touch with Sarah, she was gracious enough to grant me two extended zoom
interviews, supplied several pictures of her works, explained a lot of details
about finding, harvesting, stripping, preparing, weaving milkweed, doing the
coffee filter thing and other aspects of life that I considered myself to be a
very fortunate person indeed, having to write on the topic of <i>Strafarbeit</i>
for the guild. It was like meeting a soul mate, and it felt as if I had found a
friend out there in the depths of Idaho. Talking to her came easily, and it
wasn’t even necessary to prepare a series of questions to exert any information
from her because it all was one easy-flowing conversation about common interest
matters. I could have gone on talking to her for hours, hadn’t it been via
computer screens.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course,
I am only one of her zillions of admiring followers, and living far away that
is what I will remain, an admiring follower from the distance. But it was an
interesting experience to feel such a degree of connectedness merely on the
zoom platform.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The issue I
am talking about will be published by the middle of September, and I am not
going to show any of the photos here, merely a wip-photo of my <i>Sweater Somewhat
Slanted</i>. It hasn’t made a whole lot of progress in the past few weeks as I was
busy spinning for the Tour de Fleece and with all the other things going on
lately, but I am planning to get back to it soon-ish.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1uQ1vItAj5EbgIw_jL1K6j760OMld5_gu0cLDyOlGlFfgXrWgX9eLlOpZSCc6w6D5ccmvID-KdWQN0OW9MTpXtCvpu9__3zIbSN8tPdsS5UPhcYU9esHN1ecbTfGyoaMytVcP4z_OHH5hlkXfH5ygXHJs3NnJXg3N2cj5ufL3neuvdR7_LesbiMZbsg/s5184/Slanted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3888" data-original-width="5184" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1uQ1vItAj5EbgIw_jL1K6j760OMld5_gu0cLDyOlGlFfgXrWgX9eLlOpZSCc6w6D5ccmvID-KdWQN0OW9MTpXtCvpu9__3zIbSN8tPdsS5UPhcYU9esHN1ecbTfGyoaMytVcP4z_OHH5hlkXfH5ygXHJs3NnJXg3N2cj5ufL3neuvdR7_LesbiMZbsg/w400-h300/Slanted.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The pattern
can be bought via Sarah’s shop on her website, or on <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/account/login" target="_blank">Ravelry</a>, the free website
for knitters, crocheters and fiber artists .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sarah had a
wonderful article in the spinning <a href="https://simplecirc.com/ply-magazine/item/5815/the-consistency-issue-34" target="_blank">magazine Ply</a> a couple of years ago and she was
recently featured <a href="https://witnesswilderness.com/features-sarah-swett/" target="_blank">on this podcast</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Instances like
this make me happy, being a ‘writer’ for the guild magazine is certainly
enriching in many aspects.</span></p>
Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-66044340718522230912023-08-08T15:04:00.006+02:002023-08-08T15:04:58.541+02:00EQA (European Quilter Association) at FoQ (Festival of Quilts, Birmingham)<p> <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last
Thursday I got up almost as early as I would have, had I been going to early
shift at work. However, I was more fortunate, took the train to the airport,
boarded a plane to Birmingham, and got to spend four lovely days at the
Festival of Quilts, 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary edition. </span></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpKPziq1NXABKB6xw_HA9VSDC-b3YWoHCp_V4rpHG0CLzGI-mQQC69ygu5_LomvGogRHFSjxbV52cLdzOKC8Wj2nRmO2ZmJxaILwZ4r-XIMxgDQfnuWxEXjIkL0Mi52B4elLte2kwt66n4GbNWCBYBTcP-m7Mx4tF6FVAI5gT7I4gl_0qFxOaBk-IQA/s600/20230803_110728.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpKPziq1NXABKB6xw_HA9VSDC-b3YWoHCp_V4rpHG0CLzGI-mQQC69ygu5_LomvGogRHFSjxbV52cLdzOKC8Wj2nRmO2ZmJxaILwZ4r-XIMxgDQfnuWxEXjIkL0Mi52B4elLte2kwt66n4GbNWCBYBTcP-m7Mx4tF6FVAI5gT7I4gl_0qFxOaBk-IQA/w400-h300/20230803_110728.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was the first time for
me in a while as I hadn’t been back there yet after the pandemic, so I assume
2019 was the last time I was there, just before I went on to South Africa. This year I did not
enter a quilt myself, as I am still not convinced that shipping to FoQ after
Brexit has become feasible again. One member of the German Guild’s report on
her difficulties in getting her quilt there on time, indeed, at all, has merely
increased this conviction of mine. I was there mainly for the EQA meeting and
exhibition, and as writer for the German Guild’s magazine, looking for
interesting topics and possible future interviewees. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was
interesting to be back and see the differences. It feels a lot better with the
additional space in the aisles between the vendors. The ventilation system must
have been improved dramatically because it was almost drafty and sometimes near
on cold in the halls, which I don’t remember from earlier visits, which used to
be a bit stuffy, very crowded in the vendors’ area, and not a whole lot of
space between display walls for the exhibitions of the competition quilts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A number of
the interesting vendors I would have liked to shop with were not there – some of
whom I know have gone out of business. Overall, supplies on offer did not
fulfill my needs, I only bought a few pieces from <a href=" https://www.leahhiggins.co.uk/, " target="_blank">Leah H</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href=" https://www.leahhiggins.co.uk/, " target="_blank">iggins </a>and
four African fabrics fat quarters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One thing I
noticed was that there seemed to be fewer international visitors. I believe
last time I was there I could hardly move from one place to the other without
running into several people that needed talking to, this was not the case this
time around. Yes, I did meet some people, but it didn’t seem so numerous. And I
must say, I was not particularly impressed with most of the First Prize
winners. I am not sure whether that results from the fact that by now I have
seen so many quilts in my life that not much will give me a ‘wow’-effect-reaction.
Similar as with the yearning to be able to listen to Johannes Brahms’ Requiem
or Antonin Dvorak’s 9<sup>th</sup> Symphony for the first time again and repeat
that feeling of awe and admiration. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But as I
said, I went there for the EQA-meeting, and although we had some serious
business to attend to, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4kY9v8J-pc34CJI-VeIC806UYdClPZgwYcmwC9kVYZTPGkoKS3fGKq1Q1aVZBr6SwbjcRgKkJXIKKji1mXJp10U4DTSCK-nEc-gS-XooTjdS5xHB_Z4eOqH5BgiqKXup6CFms2Uh0KVGUZZ4TzjhaqU-oGf0S2i4hm6Ysfyqo7kGQYD5e7ads35lS8g/s600/20230805_125420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4kY9v8J-pc34CJI-VeIC806UYdClPZgwYcmwC9kVYZTPGkoKS3fGKq1Q1aVZBr6SwbjcRgKkJXIKKji1mXJp10U4DTSCK-nEc-gS-XooTjdS5xHB_Z4eOqH5BgiqKXup6CFms2Uh0KVGUZZ4TzjhaqU-oGf0S2i4hm6Ysfyqo7kGQYD5e7ads35lS8g/w400-h300/20230805_125420.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">we had a good time together. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLOhw9HYEhOfDT5JDjZV8-nCocnWiDFF8d0hIXmDzHyHvaWsVqkIDUaSeUdv9egLE6ecf0G6jO6CEMCPis7J_llAEirdV3NOmDXHsaIl1dgCHDEKf3KXfJG2tUnBZFRSLf2DLaAEp-6eIfKuUdEPJbDUjsUjdhtNzdVmOIg2E6cUfZ4hB0dx2zJ8QUA/s600/20230806_083958.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSLOhw9HYEhOfDT5JDjZV8-nCocnWiDFF8d0hIXmDzHyHvaWsVqkIDUaSeUdv9egLE6ecf0G6jO6CEMCPis7J_llAEirdV3NOmDXHsaIl1dgCHDEKf3KXfJG2tUnBZFRSLf2DLaAEp-6eIfKuUdEPJbDUjsUjdhtNzdVmOIg2E6cUfZ4hB0dx2zJ8QUA/w400-h300/20230806_083958.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
exhibition had been put up by a few other international representatives, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_aoyT26PCIHZQOdb0qfaeOd2eP6M3fa6QF_tO3j3o_FX9hTxvy_c1qANaz2xtjmPnLsqLvsOiqF2ZP6hNTwhjXoUOyXEbUXxj1LSpAflGiKbM8t5cteNoC2F2CSZVgqaxZ4zpIj2GciSIxdxKw_SalRsBYFjHpIl7QXn-Ul2KH9ES-kHgCfcCKY3VWA/s600/20230805_084844.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_aoyT26PCIHZQOdb0qfaeOd2eP6M3fa6QF_tO3j3o_FX9hTxvy_c1qANaz2xtjmPnLsqLvsOiqF2ZP6hNTwhjXoUOyXEbUXxj1LSpAflGiKbM8t5cteNoC2F2CSZVgqaxZ4zpIj2GciSIxdxKw_SalRsBYFjHpIl7QXn-Ul2KH9ES-kHgCfcCKY3VWA/w400-h300/20230805_084844.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I came
when the festival had already been officially opened, and stayed on to take the
exhibition down after the closing on Sunday afternoon. When I remembered the
amount of work (and anxiety!) that had gone into preparations for this
particular exhibition earlier this year, I was very pleased that the final
effect turned out to be so convincing. We were showing a carpet of flowers, and
visitors were delighted at the overall appearance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfHyh1z9xJ2gg00SU6lyFPm4Pdss8JQYNiuKQEADK-4XeM2a2wpWPtnRMVtriDkY11CDtKQ6KHT_2VU8pgAt2GHDk7-tLKdbqFlZcbGC0KAiUe1EbhI7SGmaBFFfzdmMaeOa50hatcVu1Ly9o2dR3VbwsEi124zmIda5or3jD1JAXf28pn1_1hkNcxBQ/s600/20230806_170250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfHyh1z9xJ2gg00SU6lyFPm4Pdss8JQYNiuKQEADK-4XeM2a2wpWPtnRMVtriDkY11CDtKQ6KHT_2VU8pgAt2GHDk7-tLKdbqFlZcbGC0KAiUe1EbhI7SGmaBFFfzdmMaeOa50hatcVu1Ly9o2dR3VbwsEi124zmIda5or3jD1JAXf28pn1_1hkNcxBQ/w400-h300/20230806_170250.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Taking it down is always so much faster than putting it up!</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7P4Qkz-SNB0rCzlYMtFHfEb7Uv0meV58wIlN2Ka-3XfcvnIQV9BWM3Zm62kxzK4e-0Xr6dQQgOsGusosZ4LJYwXD04CLPvouAZeEsa8r77IJV6DquhztNavHxY9VNJcTMwWK_U8TXKvLD9OEpT_a9qlbLQ4vb_phpxoK_6EJs5RX-bAb1myneiTRFQw/s600/20230806_173255.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7P4Qkz-SNB0rCzlYMtFHfEb7Uv0meV58wIlN2Ka-3XfcvnIQV9BWM3Zm62kxzK4e-0Xr6dQQgOsGusosZ4LJYwXD04CLPvouAZeEsa8r77IJV6DquhztNavHxY9VNJcTMwWK_U8TXKvLD9OEpT_a9qlbLQ4vb_phpxoK_6EJs5RX-bAb1myneiTRFQw/w400-h300/20230806_173255.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Finished - Mary Hunter (2nd from left) took them directly to the<br /> airport and proceeded to put them up in Ireland the next day, <br />i.e. yesterday. That must have been the fastest turnaround of any EQA exhibition <br />ever.</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> The future
of EQA-exhibitions at FoQ is everything but certain, and we are trying to
figure out how to proceed from here. It will take negotiations with many
players, everything burns down to the question of costs, and right now we don’t
even know whether we will be able to go back next year. It is rather difficult
to integrate the amount of volunteer work, outside effects and appearances created
by that in quilting communities – how much of a pull factor is a small quilt
hanging in Birmingham for an ‘ordinary’ quilter to come and visit, and does
that justify the amount of hotel costs we have been granted so far? – with a
strictly business-oriented organization that sets up the festival. We will see.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A bit of 20
Perspectives was thrown in as well – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Bqf1T1C9lB1huMKiz9Z2ztqY6L9eMmv6JN2IwxfmLVLSd1a5qsyvpzQBcb2ETjIg4V5Eu-DHQxVfVJUJieBQZrCLff2QG-lTT_vMltEkcWVzJZ-XMWN7ClCFHw2lnRFK6aoe1Ci4WGaXZLPbgIZ9bTdtQkHbc58yampRBxTr22dq0JJ0xV3KdzdG7w/s600/20230804_131033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Bqf1T1C9lB1huMKiz9Z2ztqY6L9eMmv6JN2IwxfmLVLSd1a5qsyvpzQBcb2ETjIg4V5Eu-DHQxVfVJUJieBQZrCLff2QG-lTT_vMltEkcWVzJZ-XMWN7ClCFHw2lnRFK6aoe1Ci4WGaXZLPbgIZ9bTdtQkHbc58yampRBxTr22dq0JJ0xV3KdzdG7w/w400-h300/20230804_131033.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Allison James (left) and Ildiko Polyak (middle)</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and I met <a href="http://www.joecunninghamquilts.com/" target="_blank">Joe Cunningham </a>in his exhibition, whom I will visit in his gallery in November, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmv-8XOpjp8u-sO1DxZxT-_0_RGZsJkQbJVT716FISP4J7aU3HOGVgmWglxYEnRjqp4RppvqOQuqF9urZwx978GuhpVbbEwxRPWvLx09T1uILiIRRsZtUY-3GRnKExgtdwRQMIadyZTJEgAQXrt5n5JMAJfZ7yN5XYwFxay3p2ly60wUXPrGgZtIuCw/s600/20230806_094359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhmv-8XOpjp8u-sO1DxZxT-_0_RGZsJkQbJVT716FISP4J7aU3HOGVgmWglxYEnRjqp4RppvqOQuqF9urZwx978GuhpVbbEwxRPWvLx09T1uILiIRRsZtUY-3GRnKExgtdwRQMIadyZTJEgAQXrt5n5JMAJfZ7yN5XYwFxay3p2ly60wUXPrGgZtIuCw/w400-h300/20230806_094359.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">so it was a time with many different
and interesting encounters.</span></p>
Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-17323558294611165102023-07-30T20:51:00.003+02:002023-07-30T20:51:17.014+02:00You have a new subscriber…<p>
About eight months ago I signed up for a Substack subscription/account/identity – I don’t even know, what it really is called. I had seen that Margaret Atwood was now publishing on Substack and I wanted to follow those posts. Soon followed India Flint, and by Sarah C. Swett (more on her in another post in a few days). As for ‘browsing’ and finding interesting new voices, that has not turned out to be the case for me, so far. I do not want to spend too much time on it and going down a rabbit hole, as I would rather spend more time making things than being caught in the digital web. </p><p>But imagine my surprise when, a few weeks ago, I received an email with the title ‘you have a new subscriber’, and supposedly somebody has signed up to follow me on substack. I am not aware that I have registered as a writer, I thought I was just signing up for reader, and the only thing I have written are a couple of comments where I am allowed to. I am not a paying subscriber to India Flint, so I am not allowed to comment on her, although I might have given her a hint on the Bach piece she was talking about a little while ago.
I do understand that this app is offering a place for writers where it is supposed to be easier for them to earn money for their writing by acquiring paying subscribers. While I am considering upgrading, perhaps, I had not even remotely thought about writing on Substack myself. When I was young, into my teenage years, I did say I wanted to be a writer. To be honest - the two or three novels I wrote as a teen were lousy and have been lost to the obliteration of times. And somewhere along the line I gave up that yearning to write novels. Can't come up with a good plot and pull it throuhg, although I did find three or four fantastic first sentences that would have made good entries.</p><p>I have indeed published a book – my PhD thesis, not exactly a bestseller that made me rich, and, to be honest, I don’t even know whether it could still be bought, after all, that was 20 years ago. I have written a good number of more or less interesting newspaper articles for our local paper, but gave that up a while ago because that was rather low paid. I write this blog – not regularly enough, and, for my liking, not always interestingly enough, although some posts were pretty good, I think. And I write for the German Guild’s quarterly magazine for members, which is fun. Unfortunately a couple of times the people I wanted to write about had just been ‘done’ by the commercial magazine Patchwork Professional, which meant that we put off the feature in the Guild’s for a while and may return to it at a later point. </p><p>However, I wonder what that lone subscriber was expecting, how he (male name) came across ‘me’, and why on earth he subscribed to somebody who had not published a single post. </p><p>Since April I have been working 60% and had thought I would be more relaxed for sitting down at the sewing machine. Then I would have had interesting stuff to write about here, too. Hasn’t happened. The 60% is still encompassing a lot of emotional energy, my husband’s illness is not exactly for the light-hearted, or at least I can’t take it light-heartedly. And July was Tour de Fleece, as mentioned in my last post.
As last year, I spun along. This year I did not have 3 weeks of isolation, so I wasn’t expecting to accomplish really much in that area, but as it is the closing date today and I looked at what I managed to spin, I think I did pretty well. </p><p>First goal had been to ‘spin every day I am in town’, and finish as much of the red as possible. That happened pretty quickly. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2WubGsefbAVsgCUtia70iK4NviARY4jIb2_uDywdPY5m4L1kbZKJDHFm2RUcJetgWQnqYj6EaFRZeErYXKdBLNzV7Vo2w44yKTNi0s6A03I-QWHo0qh2dY3qNIV4xSbhfhvK8Edc9P9IQdZJLSt5zMb5FtqAsu3YgDLVMSKSAJz7SyH3YXjUjZ5NVGg/s600/20230706_172445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2WubGsefbAVsgCUtia70iK4NviARY4jIb2_uDywdPY5m4L1kbZKJDHFm2RUcJetgWQnqYj6EaFRZeErYXKdBLNzV7Vo2w44yKTNi0s6A03I-QWHo0qh2dY3qNIV4xSbhfhvK8Edc9P9IQdZJLSt5zMb5FtqAsu3YgDLVMSKSAJz7SyH3YXjUjZ5NVGg/w400-h300/20230706_172445.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Went ahead to spin the third thread for the 3-ply.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWzXcw2f7__KrsIm4-T2ChiUn4xh2nrirS-Y_KypUwbCmD9PKpS2Tnt7GJMXTXOsOcbzuWns6bwP6UFi64PN0Psbym5odZ09MWlEdci6_MrkMdzjGBLLLNo3ZvG71Zt3N53BHSz0wnmvuGotQYy0twYl79t93or27Pz5Cu1edoh-uXuvR2UhQPSPMgg/s600/20230707_171229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWzXcw2f7__KrsIm4-T2ChiUn4xh2nrirS-Y_KypUwbCmD9PKpS2Tnt7GJMXTXOsOcbzuWns6bwP6UFi64PN0Psbym5odZ09MWlEdci6_MrkMdzjGBLLLNo3ZvG71Zt3N53BHSz0wnmvuGotQYy0twYl79t93or27Pz5Cu1edoh-uXuvR2UhQPSPMgg/w300-h400/20230707_171229.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>I plied the red, </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9W2O03lrqs6z2a63VzH8CULqKlzSN_leS1Hp9_5e61AD99BUl0wTC1JUg-tyK2F7tV3Z7lIwBqA2zFRY1DPxcJSjeB0TzOHRk8EXZptzhAcRHNYRyv8nHfy5x4Iu8nPgNDeX8vgLxqGUkE1Jj_BvQI8PRokCz3qhqy67b7EaKkjOt3_KQ_6bsagl7sg/s600/20230712_213606%20-%20Kopie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9W2O03lrqs6z2a63VzH8CULqKlzSN_leS1Hp9_5e61AD99BUl0wTC1JUg-tyK2F7tV3Z7lIwBqA2zFRY1DPxcJSjeB0TzOHRk8EXZptzhAcRHNYRyv8nHfy5x4Iu8nPgNDeX8vgLxqGUkE1Jj_BvQI8PRokCz3qhqy67b7EaKkjOt3_KQ_6bsagl7sg/w300-h400/20230712_213606%20-%20Kopie.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVOU_LgyovajuIYQOvPWXBIFSyDW-zkf25HX4wBcVYj1FV0T7gQhSWOQpep6ZD6Ehale_jSe914ikPAgoKKRfv2hXM8yD11KOdfqhUMzpqNLgqJlQqgle09lSOUWkwxxw4iqZtXiQ8PcF5Bjdfjesorg_ln5JjW6gu99ma69wmPNl34ms5qyG_4J0VQ/s600/20230713_214635%20-%20Kopie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVOU_LgyovajuIYQOvPWXBIFSyDW-zkf25HX4wBcVYj1FV0T7gQhSWOQpep6ZD6Ehale_jSe914ikPAgoKKRfv2hXM8yD11KOdfqhUMzpqNLgqJlQqgle09lSOUWkwxxw4iqZtXiQ8PcF5Bjdfjesorg_ln5JjW6gu99ma69wmPNl34ms5qyG_4J0VQ/w400-h300/20230713_214635%20-%20Kopie.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />then re-started on this very fine cashmere-something mixture (which I am still working on), for spinning at home, and the bobbin is much fuller now.<br /><p></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf5rfvYM-jVs7dqo3778Td0a8CHWMEhT3l8dLEiFXtHh2yvugAmcFzRCrOukH2PXRmjmK_u_wQWbmwk95lCBFMXkDGECY9QK0CRZ_LgbCYbi-ilPF4QlP3UwsJy0PwHLuEv-K7uLg_09TYVgeRMZxi9Ftd56m_d-syeHoWmTQk2mFxTC2z-3gfLtvaAw/s600/20230715_151532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf5rfvYM-jVs7dqo3778Td0a8CHWMEhT3l8dLEiFXtHh2yvugAmcFzRCrOukH2PXRmjmK_u_wQWbmwk95lCBFMXkDGECY9QK0CRZ_LgbCYbi-ilPF4QlP3UwsJy0PwHLuEv-K7uLg_09TYVgeRMZxi9Ftd56m_d-syeHoWmTQk2mFxTC2z-3gfLtvaAw/w300-h400/20230715_151532.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>And carded most of my blues together to have another spinning project for when I take the traveling wheel to go and spin somewhere. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMOKKolH6PS0Em9OivmPorEqmehQIUrZ_8mB-yU1HCtSVIXmEg58B8OgxQW-hG8mQtLLVbEJESkI14-Ir_u2asJ8r2aRRiY5mn7h0ypP0XxCJCrPttlq5X5ljqLBRNYykVcRfrku8w-ZQGlwXV1Z8WBBl9opSaZq6uw93gSq6YHm6PCNjmPWDoZGR_g/s600/20230726_142131a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMOKKolH6PS0Em9OivmPorEqmehQIUrZ_8mB-yU1HCtSVIXmEg58B8OgxQW-hG8mQtLLVbEJESkI14-Ir_u2asJ8r2aRRiY5mn7h0ypP0XxCJCrPttlq5X5ljqLBRNYykVcRfrku8w-ZQGlwXV1Z8WBBl9opSaZq6uw93gSq6YHm6PCNjmPWDoZGR_g/w400-h300/20230726_142131a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Which I did a bit this week, twice, ending up with an impressively full blue bobbin right now, and still a good load of more blues to spin in the future. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoTWCZ-kda25IyHZOepdDbPYAjW9vzrNCfeM1u2y4e44JDm_IjWYn-DmItVZyHsuNHgMwi8jHQijIWnbEx3hXtDtX2x2zCEfRmFwihSc5uWIvREg1wlF9GIX0lbiBUQwzS7d_ec7QCNr8Q1SEfE3rmnzP4bC4e0ACsfLJ6in7JkwCxB6et4A1S_kqTMw/s600/20230728_071520.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoTWCZ-kda25IyHZOepdDbPYAjW9vzrNCfeM1u2y4e44JDm_IjWYn-DmItVZyHsuNHgMwi8jHQijIWnbEx3hXtDtX2x2zCEfRmFwihSc5uWIvREg1wlF9GIX0lbiBUQwzS7d_ec7QCNr8Q1SEfE3rmnzP4bC4e0ACsfLJ6in7JkwCxB6et4A1S_kqTMw/w400-h400/20230728_071520.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>But the tour is over. A lanolin bath was in order.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWiS_LPghI7fE3IEtroM_6wDmkG-WWBzJqUQDh_yyZB-qfLXiCw7zyXUBCAzM_rg1p6Lr_CkSj-4WCLU_kl9a71utGHluSm22QvosKv6A8ZHtL7e6YinyvEJnKowdeIsTF3W_fi7f2k7sq35Yg6vE1SzNpO-ZcYZUOqvqf1acieQKH0dS4DnrBoeXeQ/s600/20230728_094137.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWiS_LPghI7fE3IEtroM_6wDmkG-WWBzJqUQDh_yyZB-qfLXiCw7zyXUBCAzM_rg1p6Lr_CkSj-4WCLU_kl9a71utGHluSm22QvosKv6A8ZHtL7e6YinyvEJnKowdeIsTF3W_fi7f2k7sq35Yg6vE1SzNpO-ZcYZUOqvqf1acieQKH0dS4DnrBoeXeQ/w400-h400/20230728_094137.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I am not measuring, but I like the pictures of what I have done.
So perhaps, hopefully, back to the sewing machine again. Putting on the backburner the things at work that have been tying up my creative energy more than I appreciate.
And – I am going to Festival of Quilts this coming Thursday. That should be nice. But not a whole lot of sewing will be going on during those days, either.
</p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-17395757020345682062023-07-10T15:12:00.001+02:002023-07-10T15:12:07.412+02:00TdF 2023, Rest Day<p> The Tour de Fleece 2023 started a week ago Saturday and I am 'participating' again, as has become a bit of a custom for me during the last years. Not taking it too seriously, for example, I didn't post myself a special 'challenge' yesterday, although it was an especially hard day for the cyclists. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Vg0aeH9iBVXlp9qJxlwaagiHkP8Mrnqth1OgWhcmd_QXpPJon36mnvmaey3aLZ55hzlyPuYJZKmgatpIFNKo7w23qiL1gYHaPRe5yIBxmCkUf9x8KPRfdVsGwr7qTM3rIAEFtbZvOkR3EYp5Yz8AxY0SHwwqIKjOIVcDPaB8tYA8at5HZGaJm9uWbg/s600/20230709_182037%20-%20Kopie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Vg0aeH9iBVXlp9qJxlwaagiHkP8Mrnqth1OgWhcmd_QXpPJon36mnvmaey3aLZ55hzlyPuYJZKmgatpIFNKo7w23qiL1gYHaPRe5yIBxmCkUf9x8KPRfdVsGwr7qTM3rIAEFtbZvOkR3EYp5Yz8AxY0SHwwqIKjOIVcDPaB8tYA8at5HZGaJm9uWbg/w400-h300/20230709_182037%20-%20Kopie.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Final goal of stage 9 yesterday... I really do like biking, <br />but I am not sure I would want to go up this hill in a race!<br /></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span><p>Fortunately, this year I am not in isolation with the grand sickness, but that, of course, means, that I don't get to spin along the tour exactly on every day. Nevertheless, I have done pretty well so far in terms of yarn produced.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-PxEV5F-O3x_SWc2rPm-M_hET7dutvHefbQ3GpJPP_4QTRdgNg2uy-BmLYdh4xFu_jzJO96pUgO0c2ebjs4g2ReDlx0IRw1mdgN8kL0sH8tiNrfRzgHe8I4Wea8iZEVsv9FNInp2FVKXRAJrJsxXSNutFNGLfs3VUODznOZmzvD5eavXa7jicfQgCQ/s600/20230706_172445%20-%20Kopie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-PxEV5F-O3x_SWc2rPm-M_hET7dutvHefbQ3GpJPP_4QTRdgNg2uy-BmLYdh4xFu_jzJO96pUgO0c2ebjs4g2ReDlx0IRw1mdgN8kL0sH8tiNrfRzgHe8I4Wea8iZEVsv9FNInp2FVKXRAJrJsxXSNutFNGLfs3VUODznOZmzvD5eavXa7jicfQgCQ/w400-h300/20230706_172445%20-%20Kopie.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>I spun the largest part of this red, only a small amount had already been on the bobbin.</p><p>Then I carded a remnant of some orange-red-y fibers I had with gray and Nassi silk.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguam6tRzqm1h5DpPLDJKcPfHB9WJGgWTRm9TU1GGpkpb9xsXA1uzoKUK_5J0rgO0mZICp06Ha4eus9YKFXO_QEZNBMiFPZ0-TmmK3b7ohOHnfi7DhbV3P1n2QRoBrgrlB1ABJOk2GtYYX-EQstpPaBDYHw5zbIq9kBVweST4uColURR6tpmzwkJg1Jiw/s600/20230706_210337.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguam6tRzqm1h5DpPLDJKcPfHB9WJGgWTRm9TU1GGpkpb9xsXA1uzoKUK_5J0rgO0mZICp06Ha4eus9YKFXO_QEZNBMiFPZ0-TmmK3b7ohOHnfi7DhbV3P1n2QRoBrgrlB1ABJOk2GtYYX-EQstpPaBDYHw5zbIq9kBVweST4uColURR6tpmzwkJg1Jiw/w300-h400/20230706_210337.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUWwbcWq5qA7sOu-gUXclWCUVLe50FJhG1FyMD1SnWFKZLrJw8_hjkPLztZ4ud6KdKIqHEiPb1qTjN7xP0BvMOv5WKmH-hSuFYzictiimbEEeBpZagHCtcbI5t6Cq5SO_cShEA4yrMeNU46YkHdW2s-1M3sbGIJqqUJc79N_3KD2xAUCZFq1m-sjyIOQ/s600/20230706_212114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUWwbcWq5qA7sOu-gUXclWCUVLe50FJhG1FyMD1SnWFKZLrJw8_hjkPLztZ4ud6KdKIqHEiPb1qTjN7xP0BvMOv5WKmH-hSuFYzictiimbEEeBpZagHCtcbI5t6Cq5SO_cShEA4yrMeNU46YkHdW2s-1M3sbGIJqqUJc79N_3KD2xAUCZFq1m-sjyIOQ/w300-h400/20230706_212114.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>It is supposed to be the third thread in a 3-ply, and I am now filling the bobbin gradually.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcz2f6YjzPhpfMArf_Eg7ouXqCjLLO4JSo2sQfRDWZcNwRvu3kKGbnp1xaXIa0tEVUa3eHRfvO8NzRRKbgAxpfj_ZC2ixXAiBgktheStq6gKzISW87MY3wWA7cxv9AyYcXTECRn-xmBYhpzUygzy-0QQu4zpsYLhVepBMguw7H9Dnt0BJELEFjw6_zhA/s600/20230706_212511.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcz2f6YjzPhpfMArf_Eg7ouXqCjLLO4JSo2sQfRDWZcNwRvu3kKGbnp1xaXIa0tEVUa3eHRfvO8NzRRKbgAxpfj_ZC2ixXAiBgktheStq6gKzISW87MY3wWA7cxv9AyYcXTECRn-xmBYhpzUygzy-0QQu4zpsYLhVepBMguw7H9Dnt0BJELEFjw6_zhA/w400-h300/20230706_212511.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsyTQmZX8RO8MbDO8fUdD9eNWhkTjEq9peQ2stSY6r6LwaDZ-lyRqqgN_5tBTCkLu2A7UdZ2MVeczZNEgcfRKty1WTO-wGJ0T2F90lF4mafoI3qLu-qchjto7s8dTXOKCymEgNjcWbsqwPl_hEZ7mgN0Y4WJdWlUnPbvrkHflIo3CJRgQtgL8I8_r-DQ/w300-h400/20230709_212550%20-%20Kopie.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p>I am more than halfway through the carded lot and thinking about plying a first attempt with the little bit of the one thread on the picture above, which, if I do a bit of weighing and calculating, might tell me whether the pure red is enough or needs to be spun on a bit.</p><p>But I have also finished the "Entangled in Yellow" binding (now it only needs a tunnel). </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8Hd5wlVGTb6q6-NTmkDy5GlvW19Cu1hffZyiFa6mu0T3vcdl62bT5nGvRUTEmusL5-NsJR6pL9u9ZFcp8vVqFER6nQual9cOGpt_ho5BCTh6RzL7q2XSyIdEUp_bAEe_9mMaGjsv__BLadlVeNngkQCNfCgBRb2ahmjF6M_P8ZWkl-3yFh3caGUvFQ/s600/20230709_130004%20-%20Kopie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8Hd5wlVGTb6q6-NTmkDy5GlvW19Cu1hffZyiFa6mu0T3vcdl62bT5nGvRUTEmusL5-NsJR6pL9u9ZFcp8vVqFER6nQual9cOGpt_ho5BCTh6RzL7q2XSyIdEUp_bAEe_9mMaGjsv__BLadlVeNngkQCNfCgBRb2ahmjF6M_P8ZWkl-3yFh3caGUvFQ/w300-h400/20230709_130004%20-%20Kopie.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>And because I felt a severe urge to start a new quilt I have been wanting to get going with I also threw a few turquoise scraps on the wall - and ended up fiddling with this little boat that wants to be made. Not sure where it will take me, or how big it wants to be.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBxq7qXCToc__S24oTcDh1qL7cSdAVrZ0U1-rs05xkD-Ylyw8ftbhSDR96hw22y2QagfnxbvHq3MCgNaYIVnM6s-017cfHf68NRUudBHABSoXKYogsvwv1xfAhAx44kwbTd4qradrXIFkns6jbLlrLm0xOdE1W0XDWC4aqtrIGuYhQZwnvtVqu1GioQ/s600/20230709_132947%20-kl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtBxq7qXCToc__S24oTcDh1qL7cSdAVrZ0U1-rs05xkD-Ylyw8ftbhSDR96hw22y2QagfnxbvHq3MCgNaYIVnM6s-017cfHf68NRUudBHABSoXKYogsvwv1xfAhAx44kwbTd4qradrXIFkns6jbLlrLm0xOdE1W0XDWC4aqtrIGuYhQZwnvtVqu1GioQ/w400-h300/20230709_132947%20-kl.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><p>In the realm of establishing order I tried to introduce a kind of inventory of my spinning fibers as well. These are not all of the boxes I own, but at least they now carry an indication of what is in them. Makes it easier to find something. Or to be reminded of all the different things available for carding and spinning experiments.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQiKFCJcZAVw5UzovacEn4cFuIG4Y1sCkGzoILeI0UcozJV5ZRjlbVg_ZI7Zt0JCmR50el5Fm-1bhXH2M-zYKsuxT15uBIyfyc18TX44Bf06k5k4ZtRaNcCLTphn177pyMmMh-Df3qPTK_g-08Lo17SmupKjPMMiHwbZ8fcYG8eyQ5EHlYwT4PECOroQ/s600/20230709_104743%20-%20Kopie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQiKFCJcZAVw5UzovacEn4cFuIG4Y1sCkGzoILeI0UcozJV5ZRjlbVg_ZI7Zt0JCmR50el5Fm-1bhXH2M-zYKsuxT15uBIyfyc18TX44Bf06k5k4ZtRaNcCLTphn177pyMmMh-Df3qPTK_g-08Lo17SmupKjPMMiHwbZ8fcYG8eyQ5EHlYwT4PECOroQ/w300-h400/20230709_104743%20-%20Kopie.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224755524646372838.post-53721635653876906502023-06-30T18:00:00.004+02:002023-06-30T18:00:31.822+02:00Confusing times<p><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">Would you pay a quarter million (in any currency) to enter a dilapidated
tin can that would take you into a cold section of the ocean near a famous
wreck to see this wreck only through the projection of a camera, which you
could see just as well by just sending that little boat-y-thing down unpeopled?
Yes, the Titanic has a reputation, and its sinking was a catastrophe. But these
past years we have had several ship wrecks or catastrophes in the
Mediterranean, and the number of victims taken together is far larger than the
numbers who drowned in the Titanic catastrophe. Our newspaper today printed the
sob-story of the widow and mother of two of the victims, and how she is
affected, as she told it in a BBC interview. I do feel very sorry for her, it
must be terrible to lose two family members at once, and in a situation like
that. But who is talking about all the widows and mothers and children who lose
their relatives in the Mediterranean waters, and often they don’t even know
what happened, contact with their relatives just stopped. 5 rich people dead in
the North Atlantic (who is paying for those search missions?) – thousands of
poor and desperate people dead in the Mediterranean, and the EU is paying
heavily to maintain Frontex patrol boats to keep these people out of EU waters,
ignoring distress calls. There is speculation now that push-back boats may have
caused capsizing by ramming – my tax money is paying for this, and I am finding
it distressingly difficult to think about it.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">Then there was this fake? thing in Russia – or do you believe this was a
real live rebellion, when nobody held them up, and everything was settled by
negotiation within a few hours? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">Germany has a first district governor from the very right wing party that
is being watched by Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and support
for the front ruling party Social Democrats on a Federal level is plummeting … What
is happening in the world right now? How can this multiconfusion get stopped - or even only endured? <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">In situations like this my making procedures tend to turn to the
small-smaller-smallest, in terms of pieces I am thinking of assembling.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6Uh4ZCkRQqzMHm89lSm1HJHBnZ7uTyn2E9yJVHhLkqr3t2_FOctJt5d6r7DgAyNpANIHi1Aw3joKHlgaQxTAlTriL1NtHfJoNdliWaQ1KCg_SccRRxhz_eHqsAa6utq2uHiG30-1zQiXZd6gvqMSDUCoO-yQNy5XJITbBEdfLVjO9BS6xrF8oKtf_w/s600/confusion_IMG_3240a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6Uh4ZCkRQqzMHm89lSm1HJHBnZ7uTyn2E9yJVHhLkqr3t2_FOctJt5d6r7DgAyNpANIHi1Aw3joKHlgaQxTAlTriL1NtHfJoNdliWaQ1KCg_SccRRxhz_eHqsAa6utq2uHiG30-1zQiXZd6gvqMSDUCoO-yQNy5XJITbBEdfLVjO9BS6xrF8oKtf_w/w400-h300/confusion_IMG_3240a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> It's all more a thing about keeping the hands busy rather than making art. When the hands have something to do it keeps the mind from wandering...<br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">And then grand ideas have a hard time keeping their head above surface. But I
do want to start on a piece to enter for the challenge for the Brno festival, an
idea that has been hovering in my head for a while, and that I have gathered
material for. So cross your fingers that I will get around to it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">Last Tuesday the 20 Perspectives group had the internal reveal of our
pieces for the ‘Monochrome’ challenge. Today the individual blog posts <a href="https://www.20perspectives.com/" target="_blank">were published on the group blog</a>. For the reveal mine wasn’t entirely finished, and
I thought all I needed to add was the facing, but when I started on that this
morning by measuring the width I realized that once again I have a size issue. I
use the parquet tiles on my floor to ensure straight edges, and realized it is
one inch too narrow to meet the required width.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhAHuMUwVgffUszPvf55jwxU2imj7fNzVSI8_l1pT2L6hQiZrvY5QMzGttLBy6fDRO6gTP7o86tOQu_ztwvriYRBXEjVRNlRGQEV0zvBEaCbaVnbA00IGdgwO7e1B2AagRBMGURMYJpeSdOmgxk5RP3OiwnHmTpy-uCcJChSqUYrV-xAxz9i0g91cbw/s600/toosmall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhAHuMUwVgffUszPvf55jwxU2imj7fNzVSI8_l1pT2L6hQiZrvY5QMzGttLBy6fDRO6gTP7o86tOQu_ztwvriYRBXEjVRNlRGQEV0zvBEaCbaVnbA00IGdgwO7e1B2AagRBMGURMYJpeSdOmgxk5RP3OiwnHmTpy-uCcJChSqUYrV-xAxz9i0g91cbw/w400-h300/toosmall.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">Although I was working with a preinstalled ‘frame’ on the design wall… it
just doesn’t seem to be my strong point. And despite the fact that this is not
a juried exhibition where a piece just a bit too narrow will be excluded simply
because of this formality, I have decided to cheat just a little while on the ‘finished’
photo on the Perspectives blog until I have repaired the lack of one inch and
then replace the finished photo with the new one. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">Readers of this blog will know, but who will notice for real?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">Amidst all this outside confusion and my son’s High School Graduation
Ceremony I did manage to last-minute-enter my SAQA Benefit Auction piece. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp7K9wwY4YmbE6T-cxCr9wGhyEpDIlpja4bmco65DhsX94QF88D-pwuTOKWjF-2wzI0_kBSo6ULVEyYrB6lXArsw1TR5Tr-ebavtfHGoBKPVca-eOs4QtnPpUveCNVWudJa9fIEbXZC6_3XAqb1InyJZ5ALYRiAgtCh_wy-BdDncwEAPZyXXhwvr49tA/s1214/Lenk_benefitAuction23_1200px.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp7K9wwY4YmbE6T-cxCr9wGhyEpDIlpja4bmco65DhsX94QF88D-pwuTOKWjF-2wzI0_kBSo6ULVEyYrB6lXArsw1TR5Tr-ebavtfHGoBKPVca-eOs4QtnPpUveCNVWudJa9fIEbXZC6_3XAqb1InyJZ5ALYRiAgtCh_wy-BdDncwEAPZyXXhwvr49tA/w395-h400/Lenk_benefitAuction23_1200px.jpg" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Red Eye of Reflection - Donation for Saqa Benefit Auction 2023</span></i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-no-proof: yes;">And
immediately sent it off, paying dearly for airmail and global package. €58 for
a parcel of less than 300 grams – this quilt better sell at a high level to
make it all worth while!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p>
<p></p>Uta Lenkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15641327859827054439noreply@blogger.com0