The Best Laid Plans...

plan [n1] scheme, design, way of doing things        -Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary Form

"I have no plans and no plans to plan."     -Mario Cuomo

"I've never been able to plan my life.  I just lurch from indecision to indecision."    -Alan Rickman

A week ago last Friday, I had an opportunity.  I was invited to the wine and cheese schmoozefest that accompanies the gallery openings at the Overture Center in Madison, Wisconsin.  I planned to go.

"If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans."     -Woody Allen

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."   -John Lennon

I have two (count 'em, two!) pieces hanging in Gallery 2 that are part of the show that accompanies the play, "1000 Words."  (Click here for a link to the show.)  The reception was on (dum dum DUUUMMMM) Friday the thirteenth.  I planned to go.  I wish I had gone.

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."  -Eleanor Roosevelt

But I forgot.  By Friday, I was exhausted and became part of the couch immediately following dinner.

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."  George S. Patton

So I went to the gallery on the Sunday following and took these pictures.  They did a really nice job of hanging our fiber art with the photos.  I think that the ladies room sign was an interesting choice.

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."      -Publilius Syrus

This was taken at the third floor gallery -- my kind of doorstop.  Although it begs the question: what happened to the other one?

"We can't plan life.  All we can do is be available for it."    -Lauryn Hill

I planned to post this right after I took the photos.  Almost two weeks ago.  Oh well -- better late than never.  

More Progress on Words

There is still little change on my design wall because I am still working on my cutting table.  And there is considerable progress on my colorful interpretation of the 1000 Words piece.

I have found that it's best to leave the paper on to stabilize it, but I just couldn't resist removing a little of it to see what it looks like under there.

To see other people's design walls, click here to go to Judy's blog.

I always think I should save the pieces from the pattern.  But what for?  So I can make it again?  

Working on Words

Because my design wall looks much the same as last week and because I'm working on my cutting table, this is a photo of my latest project.

It's related to the project pictured below -- only in color.

And I've mostly finished the thread work on this one.  Now I'm trying to decide how much ink and paint to add.

This is the appliqué project that was just a bunch of stems last week.  It's moving along -- although veeeerrrrry slooooowly.

It almost seems that cutting out and pinning take longer than the actual sewing.




For more design walls, click here to go to Judy's blog.

New Project for the Design Wall!

This is my design wall for today.  You may notice that all the previous stuff is still there, just shifted around to make room for that big whitish blob.  It's my latest work!

I'm making a piece to be displayed at a showing of the play "1000 Words" next winter/spring at the Overture Center in Madison, Wisconsin.  The show will move at some point to Milwaukee.  "1000 Words" is a play about the photographer Walker Evans, his purported progeny, some missing photos, and some quilts.

I've been dragging my feet about what to do because I didn't want to run afoul of copyright laws, but I really wanted to use one of his photos.  So I found one that was in the public domain and I dyed up some cotton sateen to look like an old stained photo.  I think I'm going to do a whole cloth piece using inks or paints and thread.  I might make a colorful one too -- we'll see how this goes.

This was taken at the Belle Grove plantation in Louisiana around 1936.  I was drawn to all the angles -- it reminds me of an M. C. Escher print.

To see what others have going on on their design walls, click here to go to Judy's blog.