*sob* Re-framing… and rebuilding the last post…

February 13, 2008 in Admin, Quilts and Quilting | 6 comments

Ok, let’s try not to think of this as a monumental cock up. I’ll think of it as a chance instead to have a new start.

Quite frankly, the old blog’s architecture grew like topsy, and things were not as organised as perhaps they should have been.

So - a fresh start is a Good Thing, right?

But just so you know - the very last post before I hit that delete key one too many times was about my Dancing Beijing challenge quilt for the Toowoomba Quilters Club.

“Olympic Hope” - my quilt for the Toowoomba Quilters Dancing Bejing challenge.

So here it is again. As I wrote before *sob!* I don’t know quite what the appliquéd shapes represent - some people have seen them as athletes, some as kits, or banners… what do you think?

And btw - please please update your bookmarks/blog reader and links for me? Ta ever so.

  2. v3.0’s avatar

    v3.0 on February 13, 2008 at 12:50 am

    I personally saw the shapes as gags to prevent speech. Then along came this information about silencing criticism, and I thought I may be onto something.

    http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/2008/02/australia-must-pull-out-of-2008.html

    There’s more here:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513362&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
    and I’m not sure whether Oz athletes must sign something similar, but it really cocks a snook at any idea of fairness and the brotherhood of humanity, and all that.

    http://www.vincentchow.net/1615/how-beijing-olympic-got-its-logo is an alternate view of the logo.

  3. monica’s avatar

    monica on February 13, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    great quilt.

    And yes, it’s a travesty they OG are held in China… but I do think we should support all the athletes that worked so hard to get there AND if some of the horrible injustices come to light… that is a very good thing too.

    The world needs truth.

  4. catsmum’s avatar

    catsmum on February 14, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    here you are - i saved it for you:

    Dancing Beijing Challenge Quilt: “Olympic Hope”

    “Olympic Hope” original design (?! ha! as if I design, it’s TOTALLY serendipity when things work!)

    15? x 29?

    Caitlin O’Connor © 2008

    Commercial and hand dyed cottons; polyester; fusible web; paint; pencil; cotton, rayon and polyester threads.

    Vliesofix (fusible web) painted with lumiere paints then enhance with Inktastic pencilSo here it is! Man oh MAN was it hard for me to only use 8 fabrics!! Technically I only used 7 - the blue is painted vliesofix (wonder under) then enhanced with blue Derwent Inktastic pencil. The rule interpretation was that “if it comes on a roll/as yardage, it’s a fabric”… so I guess it will have to count as one of the eight.

    I haven’t yet written my artist’s statement - 40 words is SO HARD!

    I have a method of writing artist statements that works for me but is quite time-consuming - I write PAGES of stream of consciousness stuff about the piece, then gradually refine that into something that makes sense, and then I refine that down to the word limit.

    Like Julia Camdetail showing some of the quiltingeron’s famous “morning pages”, writing EVERYTHING out often leads me to new discoveries about the piece. Things I hadn’t registered will suddenly pop out of all that verbiage as being REALLY OBVIOUS.

    I also enjoy getting feedback from viewers about what THEY think the quilt is about. So my artist statements focus on the ideas around the work, not what the abstract shapes “really are”. Today at quilters, some people interpreted the appliqued shapes as fighting kites; some saw them as banners, and some saw them as athletes. I don’t have a “right” answer for what they are.

    (What do you reckon it’s about? I’d love to hear.)

    Mr Beloved pointed out that this is the third quilt I have made with essentially the same palette of sky blues and shades of greys. Hmmmm. Neither of them are my “favourite” colour, and maybe they’re a little bit simplistic/broad brush in conveying emotion. I will have to think about that some more.

    I’m not off for a cuppa and a timtam - the new issue of Mark Lipinski’s Quilters Home magazine has just arrived - wooooooooohooooooo!

    (next post will be about the !@#&*%& mark up on magazines, sheesh!)

  5. Caitlin’s avatar

    Caitlin on February 14, 2008 at 4:45 pm

    DARLING SUSAN - *hugses hugses hugses!* Ta so much for saving that post!

  6. catsmum’s avatar

    catsmum on February 14, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    well, we couldn’t have an unhappy Caity now, could we ?