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Dedicated Bayeux Discipline blog.

Now I'm wrting two blogs a day.

This one and the dedicated Bayuex Discipline Blog.

One of the meaningul things about this journey is that I have visited and photographed 95% of the places depicted on the tapestry.

In the next few days I will be creating Mont Saint Michel, and in this blog I can add a slide show of the images I took.

 

It's raining it's pouring.

It's been raining all day, great for the garden, the olive trees and the tomatoes say "thank-you"

But I hate it. I don't like to look out of watery windows.

Tomorrow will be better. It's the first day of Autumn and already some of the trees have turned.

NO, I'm not ready for winter yet.... Please.

 

For the first time today, I thought.... "I need to get away. I need to do something different", and I find myself planning my time in way in June, July.

I love what I'm doing here in the studio, but I'm pushing my limit.

In two weeks time I will attend WOMADE, World Music festival,  and I'm going to concentrate on photography.

April 11th, Melbourne for the quilt show. 9 days. First I will do  a photographic shoot for my assignment. Go to the show, and then a trip with a friend  from the USA.

We plan 3 days on Ocean Road and she does have to see Koalas and Kangaroos so I think the Grampians would be best.

Any suggestions.?

Today I worked an illustrated costume as opposed to the machine embroidered costume.

 

It's been an amazing day today. More excitement that I can cope with and it had nothing to do with the excaped prisoners being hunted in our area.!!!

I'm going to give myself an early minute tonight and have a coffee by the TV.

I had to update to a new phone so I think I will play with that.

 

 

 

What are those helicopters doing?

I hope you enjoyed the coloricious video.... I was transfixed and I'm going to try it.

I will use pigment inks though.

Well, the helicopters have been overhead for 2 hours now. I wondered what it was there for. It used to be common place to have a helicopter go over when my son worked for the news... they would come and cirlce the shed.... FUN

 

Two more escapees have been caught by police, only one remains at large, after eight youth managed to cut their way through fencing surrounding the Cavan Training Centre, north of Adelaide on Monday night.

South Australian police have arrested two more of the escapees, after they were allegedly travelling in a stolen white Holden Commodore sedan, on the South Eastern Freeway.

OK, thats the answer.

I finished the embroidered piece of costume yesterday....I was really pleased with the results. The video is up on the dedicated Bayeux Discipline site

It means more work, but I really like the effect.

I will do another notebook quilt tomorrow and get the Gabriella Gazebo up.

 

 

 

Visit Colouricious a wonderful site for Textile Artists.

Talking Threads is one of my favorite sites.  The videos are wonderul and I just found out that I can share them.

Visit Myfanwy's website here to find out more about her and her work, click here. You know when you need just that right shade of colour for a certain project, well she has produced some wonderful hand dyed threads, fabrics and supplies which you will adore here.

visit Colouricious for more information

 

This is amazing

Simon Beck has spent a lot of time at Arc2000 in the French Alps this winter, but he hasn't been skiing. Beck spends his days doing something entirely different: making snow art.

Many compare Beck's work to "crop circles," but this is not the labor of "aliens" who've chosen a wintrier medium. This "snow art" is the work of a lone artist who spends hours trudging around the French ski resort to fashion his designs.

Beck's intricate creations come in a range of forms from spirals to cubes, snowflakes, and abstract figures.

These snowy "crop circles" are created by the simple act of walking in the snow wearing raquettes.

"They aren't hard to do," Beck boasts on his snow art page. "Good exercise, yes, but not particularly difficult. I've placed it in the walking category as they are made by walking about in snowshoes."

The Oxford-educated self-employed map maker typically walks for about five hours or until he gets too tired, using a headlamp if it gets dark first.

The shapes are created by a kind of reverse orienteering. The main lines and points are surveyed using a sighting compass with distances measured either by pace counting or string.

If it seems like an excessive amount of work for such a fleeting image, there's a purpose:

"The main reason for making them was because I can no longer run properly due to problems with my feet, so plodding about on level snow is the least painful way of getting exercise," Beck said. "Gradually the reason has become photographing them."

Courtesy IBN Times

 

A few Changes

It's been a  week of ups and downs, one day I was fine, the next I was almost unable to stand and had the hot and cold shivers... I was fine the next day and then got it again the following day and so it continued. Strange. But other family members have had it too so it is a virus.

Understandably  I've been a bit slow on the blog front but I've been working on new ideas for sharing information with you all.

First of all I was afraid that I was saturating  you all with "Bayeux Fever", so I have set up a specific blog for dedicated followers. On that blog I will add more detailed information than I could on my normal blog.

So  today the Bayeux Discipline blog is now at this link. You can RSS so you will be updated each time I add a new idea.

Tomorrow I will make a video of machine embroidering one of the costumes of the soldiers in the quilt which will be my video blog of the week.

It's been hot and delightful most of the week. I'm quilting a very large quilt that is for display in Dublin... I absolutely love it, and it's the quilt that the notebook quilts will be a part of.

So, the plan is to do another notebook quilt this week and as part of the "Gabriella Goodness and her Angelic Friends Quilt" I will present the "Gazebo Pattern". It's one of my favorites.

We had a family birthday today,  Kodi turned 8 and the garden was crawling with wet kids  toting those huge water pistols... I was in fear of my life...  (well actually my camera)

I think the Dads had just as much fun.

This photo is of Kodi as he was presented his Volcano birthday cake.

 

More books.

New books arrived today adding to my library. Each one brings a different perspective to the story of the Bayeux Tapestry.

The real world of the Bayeux Tapestry by Michael J Lewis.

In this introduction to the Tapestry, Michael Lewis looks not only at the story of the Tapestry itself, but also explores the design and production of this great artifact, and looks at how reliable the evidence it presents for 1066 actually is. This is a fresh and dynamic approach to one of the 11th century’s most famous survivors.

The Bayeux Tapestry New Interpretations.

Edited by Dan Terkla, Martin Foys and Karen Eileen Overbey, the book is a collection from a combination of well-established scholars and voices new to Tapestry studies. “We truly hope to live up to the title of the book, New Interpretations,” said Terkla. “Not only does the book take a multi-disciplinary approach, with scholars from fields ranging from history to art to Anglo-Saxon studies contributing, but its particular mix of seasoned and young scholars can provide a new perspective.”

The other two books are for the grandchildren.

I had a photography assignment to complete, the written ones hang like lead weight around my neck, and I feel a huge relief when they are done, but the practical side is a joy.

Specially when I ended up with the the hot and cold shivers and a tummy bug, I'm falling to pieces folk.

I think I'm in a bit of a rut... the big quilt has taken over my life, it occurred to me that I may be in danger of loosing my creative ambition if I don't experiment with other things...so I quilted another quilt today. It felt wonderful.

Maybe it's just feeling ill that brings on the feeling.

So, I've had some extra rest over the past couple of days...  but the coming  weekend is full of family involvement and it's going to be HOT... fabulous.

 

Our Fringe festival begins tomorrow and I will be there with bells on. Adelaide Fringe is an annual open-access arts festival run over 24 days and nights in Adelaide, South Australia during February and March.

Unlike a curated festival, the open-access nature of Adelaide Fringe means that anyone with a show, exhibition or cultural event is able to register and be part of Australia’s largest arts event. The result is one of the most diverse arts festivals in the world, renowned for fresh ideas, spontaneity and fun.

I love it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video Diary No 6.

 

 

A busy week this week. Lots of different things to look at and do. but I'm behind schedule so I have to make up time this coming week.

Steven Bowers work.

Mt Sister Heather encouraged me to take a look at the work of Steven Bowers.

 

Absolutely unbelievably beautiful...OK, so that's not very good english... but its the way I feel.