Surprise, surprise...

Today I received two pictures and an inquiry by my friend Béatrice Bueche, the owner of the Butterfly garden that I have mentioned before (see pictures on my German blog), who came to the opening of my exhibition in Freiburg. 
She had only now downloaded her pictures of the opening from her phone and was surprised to see this:

Taken without a flash...

and

... taken with a flash.

Béatrice wanted to know what had happened. This is what it is:
The second picture shows wonderfully how I have used reflecting fabric in Shapes 10. Which is not noticeable in daylight, of course, and doesn't really show on photographs, either. Unless you use a flash.

Back from Freiburg

I have just returned from a few days in Freiburg, where I had the opening of a small exhibition of my works in the gallery space of "quiltart".

Here is Sophie helping me with the hanging - she is almost ten inches taller than I am, and of course used to the hooks in her gallery:

Sophie Maechler hanging Shapes 7, 8 and 9

If you are an attentive reader of this blog you may have noticed that the blue one during its evolution originally was referred to as Shapes 8. However, I saved finishing the binding for when I was finished with the yellow one, too - meant to be Shapes 9. Which led to confusion when stitching the names onto the backs - and when I wanted to put Shapes 9 onto the yellow one, I realized I had already put Shapes 9 onto the blue one. Because I had already closed the seam I really didn't feel like ripping it out again and simply changed the numbers. Not that it makes much of a difference. They could be hung in a different order, too.

Here are a few other views into the gallery:

Attentive guests at the opening:

And a shot of me:

With an official statement about my change of hairstyle, because so many people asked me about it: I really prefer to have my hair completely short. But as my hair colour is changing, the quality of hair changes, too, and I looked like a hedgehog fresh from a severy fight every morning I got up. So my hairdresser suggested to let it grow longer a bit, and she was right, as the increasing length pulls it down a bit. But this as about as long as I am going to let it grow. Looks better than I thought it would, too, I think.