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snappy engaging title to make you read :)

09 Jul

Huh, how about that? It felt really fine to get things completely Finished!

Sea Change has her backing and sleeve now, and is on her way to FAN‘s Waterworks exhibit in August at the Chapel Gallery in North Battleford, Sask. I do wish i could see this particular show–there are 40 pieces that members are showing! I had originally planned on another piece but it made me really unhappy so it was set aside and will be reworked. I think Sea Change is perfect and needs her day in the sun! (I also need to take a better photograph!)

I had dawdled and dawdled with this one, thinking it needed “more”. This week made me realize that enough is enough and it’s complete also.

barr arlee_girl strength_full view

“Girl: Strength” 14×12½, naturally dyed silks and cottons, ecoprinted silk border, hand and machine embroidery

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“Girl: Strength” detail

Now i can move on to working on my residency exhibition pieces, hoping that either or both will have enough work done on them to show, even if not finished! One of them is this piece, and has FrankenStitch stitching started (which i’m not showing yet, simply because there ain’t that much stitching!):

have big plans for this largish piece/ 28×42″

and the other is this, which has only notes so far!

needs boobs and some padding too!

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Posted by on July 9, 2012 in ACAD residency 2012, art quilt, Contextural group, embroidery, FAN/F(ibre)A(rts)N(etwork), hand dyes and ecoprints, in progress, shows, slow cloth

 

6 Responses to snappy engaging title to make you read :)

  1. marginmirror

    July 9, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    Oh I do like “Girl: Strength” — very much. The ‘strength’ of the black blossoms…yet there is delicacy too. Wonderful!

     

    • arlee

      July 10, 2012 at 6:34 am

      Thanks Marg :) Learning that less is more sometimes!

       

  2. Ersi Marina

    July 10, 2012 at 8:14 am

    I like everything about ‘Girl: Strength’, beginning from the title and going through the delicate layered effect to the beautiful stitches. Lots of strength in that gal!

     

    • arlee

      July 10, 2012 at 8:28 am

      Thanks Ersi, that lace and the delicate effect “caused” by it in my stitching is showing up in a lot of places :)

       

  3. MA

    July 11, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    Sometimes less is most definitely more and the trick to it is to know when to stop. I think you mastered that beautifully!

     

  4. Mo Crow

    July 12, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    ooh Arlee, that largish piece with the golden page has a story to tell !

     
 
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