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By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:18:24 +0000

Anne, I remember finding that post of yours about the fabric covered car… Phenomenal!
Thank you so much for sharing your reactions/insights into my African Fabric wall hanging. You’re so right about the importance of ‘honoring’ the makers of such artistic material.
Stay safe – and continue to use your gift in these more difficult times.

By: Anne Xopeland

Anne Xopeland — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:17:57 +0000

I truly love your creativity and respect for the fabric. I too am a fiber artist (art quilter) and a recycler as well as an upcycler. I also work in mixed mediums, and so it has a wonderful feeling for me. Somewhere back in my old posts, there are photos of my very old Honda Civic Hatchback (my hippy car I owned for I think 27 years) and I covered it with recycled cloth from all over – thrift stores, tailgate shopping (otherwise known as finding perfectly good garments and other things made of fabric in the trash bins in our senior mobile home park – everything can be washed, and some things still had price tags on them. Many of those things over the years became new garments for me, and to tell you the truth, I feel good about doing these things. Oh, I used acrylic gel for the glue, and then painted three coats of clear polyurethane over the cloth. For me, it was more than just using fabrics I found and loved from everywhere. It was the difference of how people began to treat me on the freeways, roads and parking lots. Before they used to show fingers to tell me to get that old piece of junk off the road, but later they all would put up peace signs with fingers, and thumbs up and high fives. And everyone wanted to take photos of it and me with it (not too bad for an old lady – though I wasn’t as old in those times), and I made a lot of friends. Then a couple of years ago when we were in a tight spot with what we had in the way of income and bills, out of nowhere came this most unlikely couple through our park, and they offered me $500 for that old sweet friend of mine). I told my hubster we already had one vehicle, his old Ford Escape SUV, and we could use that, so it went away, but I will never forget the experiences and the feeling of turning two old things (the fabric and the vehicle) into a thing to inspire others and to make good use of the fabrics. As I noted, if anyone visits my WordPress blog, allinadaysbreath, they will find it somewhere down near the beginning posts with the photos on it. Thank you for sharing your beautiful work. I absolutely think it is really wonderful, and honors what is vibrant and alive from its makers.

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 02:28:42 +0000

In reply to Laura. Yep!

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:18:13 +0000

In reply to laura bruno lilly. Snort! You know me! :)

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:12:35 +0000

In reply to Dione. Thanks for the encouragement, Dione!

By: Dione

Dione — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:26:37 +0000

How great to hear that you’ve had a magic moment in your fmq journey. Like riding a bike or driving a manual car… it’s a skill that clicks with practice, even if there is still more to be learned after that. Thanks for sharing your happy moment at the Chameleon’s Colour & Inspiration Tuesday.

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:17:03 +0000

In reply to Catherine de Seton. Sorting supplies is part of being a creative, right?

By: Catherine de Seton

Catherine de Seton — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:11:37 +0000

I would hate to have a list of “goals” …. I’m in the process of taking some time out, which has included “looking at supplies etc” and I realise even when I threw out into recycling bin a bunch of paper this last week – I will never truly run out of paper…some of the boxes are organised, many aren’t. One big box had around 7 pieces of interesting layered-on paper …. I just thought, I’ll put that out in the accordion making space, they might look interesting semi-cut up!
One area that needed revamping was “shelving units” interesting that many of boxes/packets are in front of the shelves on the floor, mission over these next few days it to put them on shelves – and if the shelf is jumbled, sort it up – not necessarily in any order (that might come later…)

By: laura bruno lilly

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:17:50 +0000

In reply to Mariss Stevens. HA! You should know!

By: Mariss Stevens

Mariss Stevens — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 16:39:46 +0000

In reply to laura bruno lilly. Ah yes, Kantha. But beware, you might become addicted