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Creating a sense of movement.

I have been cross posting on the Quilting Arts Community web site for the last 9 months, time that has seen the release of my book, my efforts to promote it, my move back to the East Coast, and the settling back into my creative center after having written a book. These are and were major pieces in the fabric of my life.

It is time for me to make melanietesta.com and this blog my home again. I would like to spruce this ol' blog up, give it another face lift, as it were, and I would like to reevaluate the manner in which I choose to blog. More on that soon.

If you are coming here from the Quilting Arts site for the first time, welcome! If you are a mainstay of this blog and have always read this blog in this location, thank you.

This is the only image I have of the following Boro tatter prior to fixing it up.

This piece or Boro tatter has captured my creative imagination. Originally, it was covered in lint, probably as a result of having been part of a garment and being laid against cotton insulation. It had a few more rips in it and a few less patches. And, you are looking at the 'wrong' side of the cloth, although, this really is the right side of the cloth. At least for me.

I love the composition of patches and felt the need to patch up a few additional and neglected holes. I await a shipment of water soluble stabilizer. I have plans for this little piece of blue...

Then there is the Slow Nude I have been working on.

This piece came to a halting stop and I couldn't figure out why. So I put it aside.

A few months ago, maybe even a year ago, a friend gave me a stack of handkerchiefs. They are a collection handed down from an aunt, many are well used and stained, all are heavily washed and very soft and some are down right playful. I love the entire collection.

So I took out the lot and started playing with the little hemmed squares.

When I saw the little calico scallops and how well they played with the colors of my Nude, I knew that what the piece was asking for was a sense of movement. A move away from what it had been and toward what it could be. The little scalloped addition to this Nude is an opening, a broadening of what the piece could be. This piece seeks completion and has been jogged out of its comfort zone, sparking a new sense of awareness and excitement.

Very suitable, I think.

Posted by Melly at January 26, 2010 11:00 AM