tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71909176119578678062024-03-14T17:54:29.551+10:30stitch and collect with raeleneRaelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-90383552320987995352021-01-14T17:41:00.000+10:302021-01-14T17:41:01.556+10:30<p>Some stitching and photos from 'that COVID year'...</p><p>Samplers for the TextileArtist.org online challenge - a double challenge being locked down in Tasmania without my stash and supplies. But with a few embroidery threads, a bit of wool, a handkerchief and badge from lost property, the lining of a torn cushion, a feather and even a COVID mask they turned out OK and I learned a few new tecniques. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIyUd6c_ncmlmzYF-k20wBwVOdTrFru-GcUtybEjZ2J9U7uQ1OmKSjUTzZN1XSgSv-kpI6DjtBVmqfkXKnBUCXBREoYpFMf1wWw-t_NYXvkeMUZ7mt2scWxAeKIr2f9a-f55dhIoLJUx8/s1600/DSC02582.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1600" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIyUd6c_ncmlmzYF-k20wBwVOdTrFru-GcUtybEjZ2J9U7uQ1OmKSjUTzZN1XSgSv-kpI6DjtBVmqfkXKnBUCXBREoYpFMf1wWw-t_NYXvkeMUZ7mt2scWxAeKIr2f9a-f55dhIoLJUx8/w320-h313/DSC02582.JPG" width="320" /></a> </p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Couching<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1566" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZLRmBJQMLFniFbqQr58NhGjIMqdhaeMU9qQB8QHI2O7Zk9x6S4COvTulpNkTUIcfJ-LUIRNCK_oaXKBp5283ODyelGS46ctaMFQggfE2fTs-w61JWqU_m8r2qwVfLSRyI2V1cqL8y7zk/s320/DSC02589.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Stitching eyes</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivV1ACX1WmJZdkY6NndB4wTE583v2YZp4K0AyIfK1eLEWEhF4kBpzq8hIr1ozzISgDUpQ4zHRUl0gn4rQ8c9S7dTVMGfnkN66fZmWX33WtOBhTo7fUbcI3bbzfIXfHln3of-X86B8nRoA/s1600/DSC02587.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1562" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivV1ACX1WmJZdkY6NndB4wTE583v2YZp4K0AyIfK1eLEWEhF4kBpzq8hIr1ozzISgDUpQ4zHRUl0gn4rQ8c9S7dTVMGfnkN66fZmWX33WtOBhTo7fUbcI3bbzfIXfHln3of-X86B8nRoA/s320/DSC02587.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Stitching a shadow <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpw-Dgdtm8rbKxK99YfCkku1_3_pmZ-_fHEu-PpLRckHrNIj_hL636J6tG47prPuurTf_DxVUoo4gv5_qPmPwi8erRJOoDKJ3bZFZ9T3EUEbPkmRLiGUzauUfx24A8i-bDucPJqcvMEKQ/s1600/DSC02073.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpw-Dgdtm8rbKxK99YfCkku1_3_pmZ-_fHEu-PpLRckHrNIj_hL636J6tG47prPuurTf_DxVUoo4gv5_qPmPwi8erRJOoDKJ3bZFZ9T3EUEbPkmRLiGUzauUfx24A8i-bDucPJqcvMEKQ/s320/DSC02073.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><p><br /></p>Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-81112899236115631642021-01-03T16:35:00.001+10:302021-01-03T16:35:31.158+10:30<p> And a New Year begins. </p><p>Well I thought it was early 2020 that I last posted, but apparently not! So a very brief recap. Highlight for 2019 was becoming a grandma for the first time. A few other events included a major birthday (I made it to 70!) and trips to Brisbane, Stanthorpe and Toowoomba in Queensland, and Canberra in the ACT for tulip time as well as a couple of trips to Tasmania.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiTP1xTcfI5s3eV0XAQ-c9g_8ErlgTHdKyXSFi9kIkFS5ZcU3VPCCkn0Oia4nE-i4Voqef37IIn-tWT-FrfsO9QPxmpNoijJ0oek9Q3mpEl86plrPrGvg34smNyOIIOKimn1hXrOppvIQ/s1600/DSC01680.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiTP1xTcfI5s3eV0XAQ-c9g_8ErlgTHdKyXSFi9kIkFS5ZcU3VPCCkn0Oia4nE-i4Voqef37IIn-tWT-FrfsO9QPxmpNoijJ0oek9Q3mpEl86plrPrGvg34smNyOIIOKimn1hXrOppvIQ/s320/DSC01680.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Tulips in Canberra<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hgfhugoQsQaVk_y4u9ZdCpwWgaNCgTz5nEWxhvaCk0qfGjSgcpS4e24GmBQCg7xm6yTwHIuhciFvSxWCu6QKoxers_82tkYx7yi-pLokwrGWwb9VI1YO13lfKUH_mvAFss4ymmAwp_o/s1600/DSC01403.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hgfhugoQsQaVk_y4u9ZdCpwWgaNCgTz5nEWxhvaCk0qfGjSgcpS4e24GmBQCg7xm6yTwHIuhciFvSxWCu6QKoxers_82tkYx7yi-pLokwrGWwb9VI1YO13lfKUH_mvAFss4ymmAwp_o/s320/DSC01403.JPG" /></a></div>A special birthday cake - with real flowers. <br /><p></p><p>2020 was a mixed bag like for everyone - the huge, world wide impact of COVID19 and the doubts and fears with my family in different states, getting stranded interstate and having to quarantine on return, postponed/cancelled travel, cancelled meetings and exhibitions etc all so unexpected and unimagineable. Stitching, drawing, photography - they kept me busy but seemed so small in the grand scale of events. Also, my collecting of jugs and echidnas was curtailed due to having run out of storage. I have reconciled to the fact that with around 700 jugs and nearly 400 echidnas it was probably time to stop - that is apart from the odd one that I can't resist or receive as a present! The storage remains an issue... but I guess I still have plenty to show in photographs.</p><p>A couple of works from 2019</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP4-0Z3MWMmMVnsURYBsPb0rQDNiibtnFMQMB0HzZsoJtbErNxcFekFtYPm5hJ4Skb38uWCF3aiT50qLnxB5EDQFWO5rQ1bLD1Y9ZZz-Y_p8zJe-AblUCOEhp6RO-WVo-8KsFNojZjqlM/s1600/DSC01022+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1361" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP4-0Z3MWMmMVnsURYBsPb0rQDNiibtnFMQMB0HzZsoJtbErNxcFekFtYPm5hJ4Skb38uWCF3aiT50qLnxB5EDQFWO5rQ1bLD1Y9ZZz-Y_p8zJe-AblUCOEhp6RO-WVo-8KsFNojZjqlM/s320/DSC01022+-+Copy.JPG" /></a></div>Machine embroidered folder cover. 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I have joined with 2 like minded groups of friends, JACKARD+ and Half Page Textile Artists. (I have just realised that that is in addition to my 4 quilting groups and the Fibre Art Network!). For the Half Page group our work must be as the name says, while JACKARD+ likes to utilise more sculptural forms, and makes challenges to create 'repurposed art'. 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Collaged backround on a reversed frame, with fussy cut and machiune embroidered birds. It's called 'Aviary at Flight Central"<br /><p></p><p>Our exhibtiion of work from the Half Page group is rescheduled for this year, so no pictures until after that. I did have something in the rescheduled FAN (Fibre Art Network) exhibition which has just closed, but more of that in another post.<br /></p><p>Since last posting I have completed an Embroidery Basics course with the Embroiderer's Guild of South Australia, and I am just beginning their advanced Certificate Course. Yes, I have embroidered in my projects, but minimally, based on the 5 or so main stitches that my Mother taught me. However, I have always been interested in different regional and ethnic embroidery styles and this has been heightened by my textile tours in recent years. 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It is quite time consuming and I find my notes are not always filed as they ought to be.<br /></p><p>My newest activity has been to try decorative painting on my brother's wood turning. 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the virus, along with the coming vaccines provides a better outlook for this
coming year. My hope is that 2021 will be a Happy New Year for all.</p><p> </p>Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-87616226810338327662019-01-02T23:39:00.001+10:302019-01-02T23:39:38.832+10:30A new year begins<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Good wishes to all for a great 2019. I wonder how long it will take me to remember to write 2019...<br />
What will it bring? I have been stitching yesterday and today - postcards and journal covers, but hopefully a good start to a creative year. Travel wise, apart from visiting Rachel in Tassie, I have nothing planned. I think I need to finish off detailing the last one here, before I think of any new trips.<br />
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So, back to Poland and Krakow. We stayed near the splendid Old Town in a lovely hotel called the Art and Garden Residence. That had an enclosed garden, and works of art in every room.<br />
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Thought the folk in this fine sculpture at the entrance might feel a little chilly in winter.<br />
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We had a little rain here, but not enough to spoil anything.<br />
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- gold topped dome on part of the Church<br />
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- interesting paintings under the verandahs<br />
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Around the Old Town and Square<br />
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- beautiful horse drawn coaches for the touists (didn't take one)<br />
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- somebody startled the pigeons<br />
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Us making traditional pierogi in a specialist pierogi shop/restaurant<br />
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We visited the class rooms of paper specialist Professor Buczek-Sledzinska at the Krakow Fine Art Academy and saw her students' final year work. It is all paper, but the techniques apply equally to fabric. These are sections of two works<br />
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We did a Mark Making workshop with her, using stamps. I'll be trying it on fabric...<br />
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We visited the home and studio of mixed media artist Dorota Pietrzyk. <br />
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and painted icons and then enjoyed a superb traditional meal.<br />
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Next stop Zakopane. It is a popular resort for skiing in winter or walking othertimes. We were meant to visit one of the mineral spring resorts but it was closed for some refurbishment. We substituted with a great cable car ride to a snow topped peak in the Tatra aMountains.<br />
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Around Zakopane - local cheeses with decorative moulds <br />
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- timber fence tops<br />
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- interesting fibre works in an exhibition<br />
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- a huge hotel<br />
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- nearby point to view the mountains. All the white lines are aircraft con trails!<br />
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- my linen/burlap and lace find at the viewing spot - obviously a local parking spot. The bottle was empty<br />
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Lublin<br />
- a superb public park designated about 1836 - as old as Adelaide!<br />
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- beautiful autumn colouring<br />
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- the Castle Museum<br />
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- exhibition of East Poland crafts - included costumes<br />
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- flaming icecream at a restaurant<br />
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- restaurant decor<br />
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- Ethnographic Park where we saw linen processing, spinning, thread and rope (made from the fibres discarded when preparing for spinning) making<br />
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- thatch, Polish style<br />
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- baskets hanging on the fences for waste bins<br />
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- traditional costume<br />
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In Lublin, an interesting Cultural Centre building has a garden and beehives on the top floor. This is a traditional bee hive<br />
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Visited Lublin Catholic University to meet academic Pawel Adamiec - to see the fibre art learning space for the courses he takes - this is a joint student work using just seeds -<br />
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and then to hear from Pawel about his own work as landscape architect, designer, photographer, wearable art and costume designer. One of his headdresses.<br />
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We then attended an exhibition opening of his photographs from an interesting cooperative venture with a group of seniors. <br />
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Renaissance town of Kazimierz-Dolny<br />
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- scene shows the town close to the river. The town survived the war unscathed, when soldiers turned back at the river. It is now home to many artists.<br />
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- wooden flowers for sale<br />
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chimney tops<br />
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That's it. Just a glimpse really, of a fabulous trip. Re-living it while selecting these photos, it probably won't be too long before I start dreaming of the next one...</div>
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Well Christmas is over now and I hope it was happy for anyone reading this. Mine has been, and though it is my excuse for not posting, it has been fairly quiet - not much cooking as I joined the family at my neice's house. The most annoying part has been (still is) the high temperatures we have been having, which apart from the discomfort for most of us, bring fears of bushfires. Temperatures where I am have fortunately been a little lower that in much of Adelaide.<br />
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On the stitching front, I have been making some postcards and finishing (until I look at a piece and decide it needs more!) the embroidery on my 25 block crazy patch quilt. Now I have to decide how to put them all together.<br />
I have been busy making a photo book of my recent trip, so it should be easier now to select some photos as I continue with the tour of Poland here.<br />
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The trip, which I can highly recommend was with Experience Poland Artisan Tours, run by Jolanta Szymczyk, from Brisbane. Polish born, a textile artist and photographer, Jolanta has lots of experience and connections, and the tour for a small group (7 plus Jolanta as guide and translator) included home and studio visits with several artists. You can find more information at <strong> </strong><a href="http://www.experiencepoland.net/">http://www.experiencepoland.net/ </a><br />
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So, here are a few photos:<br />
Warsaw - Landmark Palace of Science and Culture <br />
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Warsaw Museum - Polish Design Exhibition <br />
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Artist Anna Slawinska's Home studio - scrumptious traditional afternoon tea and a look at her studio. <br />
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- a few of her beautiful and original pieces </div>
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(She has a blog at <a href="http://annaslawinska.blogspot.com/">http://annaslawinska.blogspot.com/)</a><br />
Roadside restaurant - every table and available space hade a piece of embroidery or lace and my delicious soup came in a cob loaf<br />
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Then to Gdansk - walked the Old Town, checked out the markets and attended a Philharmonic Concert. <br />
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- beautiful amber for sale everywhere<br />
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Gdynia - where we visited the Museum and met the artist who established the biennial Baltic Miniatures Exhibition <br />
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Sopot - resort where folk go to take the mineral waters (extremely salty!)<br />
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The Baltic Sea<br />
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Torun<br />
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- Copernicus University<br />
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Lodz - interior of our hotel, in the Manufaktura - an area of converted, disused fabric manufacturing buildings<br />
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- old brick manufacturing building like thoses being modernised all over the city - beuatiful brickwork<br />
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Home studio visit to Julita Pierzchala - linen and amber accessories, and soft toy maker. <br />
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- all this followed up by a splendid barbeque.<br />
That is about halfway, so I will stop there, and finish the tour in a separate post in the next day or so.</div>
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In Lithuania - starting on the Curonian Spit. Obviously a favourite holiday area in the summer but we were a few weeks after the end of the season, when it was much quieter.<br />
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Fish for dinner, still warm from the smokehouse. Not sure what sort the large round flat one was, but there is a salmon on top of it.<br />
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The view from Europe's highest sandhill <br />
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Walking back to Nida. The weather looked threatening but the sun continued to shine. As it did for almost all of our trip. <br />
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Trying out the seesaw on the path to the sandhill<br />
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In the town of Nida<br />
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Sign for the Hill of Witches - a very pleasant walk through magnificent woodlands or forest<br />
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with huge wood carvings either illustrating traditional legends or made into playground equipment and seats - some intricate and delicate, some chunky and quirky<br />
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Another huge sandhill area with a sad history, is under UNESCO control.<br />
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Some straw (?) sculptures on the water which were to be burnt in a celebration a day later.<br />
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Travelling to Trakai - rain in the distance <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kernave, the site where the first settlers to the area came around the ninth millenium BC.<br />
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Lovely gardens in the nearby monastery <br />
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Lady selling very small quinces <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Trakai Castle<br />
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Houses in Trakai with 3 front windows - favoured by the Tatar people who came to Lithuania probably after the collapse of the Mongol Empire<br />
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On to Vilnius, the capital. Along the way we tried dumplings cooked in different ways - boiled, uncooked content and fried, and cooked content then fried, and even managed to negotiate some salad. Not so keen on the boiled (not shown here)<br />
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Our spacious apartment had beautiful old furniture and fittings with 'modern' touches - flashing and coloured lights everywhere (we couldn't find switches to turn some of them off!) and Marilyn Monroe sheets and the cushions below<br />
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Went out to the Square and found huge crowds lining the streets - waiting to see the Pope as he was just about to leave the country after a short visit. Bronnie snapped at the right time -<br />
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The Cathedral and Bell Tower<br />
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We bought some lavender cheese - tasted lavender but looked green <br />
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Took an Old Town tour, dodging a bit of rain.<br />
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Next day we flew to Warsaw in Poland, for a whole new adventure.</div>
Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-66981827374599506642018-11-22T13:37:00.003+10:302018-11-22T13:37:54.138+10:30recent travels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From the date of the last one a post is long overdue. I had 5 wonderful weeks travelling in Europe so it is time to share some photos. Apparently I've been back 3 weeks now, though it doesn't feel like it.<br />
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Before that, here is one of a wall hanging I made before the trip to showcase a piece of Italian lace. Friend Dawn gave several of us a piece of antique lace cut from a larger piece she found in Italy last year. It was interesting to see how differently the pieces were used when we revealed them on Tuesday. Sorry, I didn't photograph the others.<br />
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This has a confetti style workshop sample, remnants and part of a graduation silk as well as the given lace (the one with the tassles) and a little bit of beading. I am calling it 'Last pieces'.<br />
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I have been embellishing my crazy quilt started about 25 years ago. There are only 25 blocks being hand worked, and I have been slowly working on it in between other things (including a queen size crazy one by hand and machine for daughter Rachel). I think it is time to finish it now.<br />
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I am working on another couple of small challenges/projects too, but more of them later.<br />
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Now for an instalment on my travels, a five week trip taken with my friend Bronnie. Firstly we flew to Riga, Latvia to be met by friend and quilt artist Maryte Collard from Lithuania, whom I met at the European Patchworkk Festival in 2016. You can find her work here. <a href="http://marytequilts.eu/">http://marytequilts.eu/</a> After one night in Riga and a tour through the city next morning we spent 4 nights in Lithuania. It was wonderful having our own 'local guide' - we saw and learnt much more than we would have otherwise. It was lovely seeing Maryte's work too.<br />
After that we had a 2 week tour of Poland and 2 weeks visiting family before returning home.<br />
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So, to Riga, with firstly a visit to the Dome Cathedral<br />
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Of course we noticed the plaited rag rug in the area for children<br />
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The cloister had interesting museum pieces, lovely flowers and a pretty, laden crabapple tree in the courtyard<br />
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Then we took a tour throught the narrow streets of the Old Town<br />
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A contingent of police or security officers marched into the square for some instruction or a briefing(?) <br />
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One of several large bronze sculptures in a children's play area - big enough to sit on <br />
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A street market <br />
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The Lida, a huge cafeteria style restaurant on the edge of the city with gardens and playgrounds. Not sure of the significance oif the windmill<br />
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Evidence of the international drink near the car park<br />
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On the road to Lithuania <br />
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In Lithuania, the Hill of Crosses - site of memorial crosses raised initially to the memory of young men fighting against the Russians around 1948, but re- erected and added to over the years.<br />
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At the base of a large cross <br />
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Maryte, and two quilts made from African fabric for a school in Ghana (which she has just delivered)<br />
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Maryte with an amazing scrap quilt made by hand. The scraps come from her from her other pieced quilts (some in the backgroungd of the top photo) made from her own dyed fabrics.<br />
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This is getting lengthy (and it is past lunch time!) - I think I'll continue with Lithuania in another post. <br />
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What strange weather we are having. We have had wind, rain and dust storms, and the month ended with the hottest August day for many years, but it is back to cold and rainy today with gale force winds.<br />
The time seems to have flown since I returned from Tasmania, and I have done quite a bit of stitching. Part of this was at the always friendly and relaxing, annual retreat, for the 'Material Girls' at Mannum on the River Murray. Once again we stayed in the Caravan Park Bunkhouse,<br />
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and hardly noticed the wild, windy and rainy weather on a couple of days. Otherwise the days were bright and sunny and the river looked splendid.<br />
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There is no bridge - traffic crosses the river by the 2 ferries. </div>
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The old paddle steamer the 'Marion' is berthed near by. It takes cruises and functions. </div>
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The water level was quite high - a much better sight than in the following photo, the same view as the last, but taken in drought time in 2008. Then the lagoon was a sea of deeply cracked mud, and mooring points along the river were way out of the water in many places.<br />
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The bird chorus each morning (and much of the day) was wonderful. A recording would have been good - I did get this galah<br />
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and by the river's edge I watched 8 pelicans do their morning grooming.<br />
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Thought the two headed creatures in this one a bit amusing - actually the centre one is 3 birds.<br />
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I did quite a bit of stitching - 2 table runners for a Threads group project for a local aged care facility, <br />
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some piecing and planning for a quilt to use a large bundle of coordinated fabric that I won a while back, <br />
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and some more embroidery on my one major unfinished work - a crazy quilt started about 25 years ago! It only has 25 blocks - I'll get there one day. I have about 7 blocks to complete, but each time I look at the 'finished' oness, I think I should have done more work on them... Still much to do on these.</div>
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Between stitching we checked out the craft market and local shops, and enjoyed a great meal (no room after main course for a dessert!) at the Mannum Hotel.<br />
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Following are a couple of photos of the very picturesque town of Strathalbyn that passed through on the way to Mannum.This Norfolk Island pine has not recovered after being stripped by cockatoos<br />
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Since then I have made some journal covers after a session at Threads group<br />
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and been working on a project with lace and paper. This is a couple of pieces.<br />
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It will be some time before this work is finished (especially as I havent quite figured out how I put it all together)<br />
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Out and about I enjoyed going to Adelaide Oval for a football match (even though my team lost!) and took these photos as I crossed the footbridge to the station with thousands of other folk after the match.<br />
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And a bit of the natural world - part of a splendid bird's egg,fallen from a tree<br />
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flowers on a small conifer, <br />
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a fungus (?) in a lawn, <br />
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and cheeky sparrows inside a restaurant!<br />
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They come in and out under the door, through a gap of about 2 inches/5cm at full flight!<br />
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I'll digress and begin with a few photos I took walking around Hobart whilst waiting to be picked up.<br />
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Not sure of the meaning of this sign!<br />
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The Antarctic vessel in port<br />
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Entranceways <br />
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Decoration on the gatepost<br />
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Colour in the puddle and a plant (albeit a weed) struggling through the pavement<br />
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The Great hall and highlander Pub<br />
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Reception<br />
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Hydro display<br />
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... and cottages<br />
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The lake (dull and rainy that day)<br />
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I walked to Tarraleah Falls, (about 1 hour there and back)<br />
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If you are lucky, you can see lyrebirds on this walk. I heard them but didn't see tham.<br />
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The pipes descending to the Tarraleah Power Station, from the Lookout beside the Tarraleah Lodge and Edge Function Centre, and at the start of the walk to the falls<br />
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Around the gardens - evidence of days gone by, and some winter colour<br />
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A very large and dense pine or fir tree. I've never seen anything like it before.<br />
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A native parrot atop a tree fern<br />
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and kookaburra outside my window<br />
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And the geese again - this one hissing and showing me its teeth!<br />
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Top view of a duck! I was trying to capture the pattern of the feathers, and the brilliant turquoise/ green in the sunlight<br />
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I had a few hours away looking at some of the local forests, lakes, canals and pipelines of the hydro scheme, some of it under snow, and with all the rivers rushing and/or flooding<br />
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This power station overflow is a white water rafting course for national and international events<br />
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The cairn beside the lake marks the geographical 'centre' of Tasmania<br />
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A highlight for me was seeing this original wooden pipeline. Made of King Billy pine with metal tension bands it extended for about 6 km. Some has been replaced but there is still a good deal there - <br />
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with occasional leaks spurting out<br />
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and grass, moss and even trees growing here and there.<br />
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Logging of planted eucalypts for paper<br />
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And the Tarraleah Power Station - at the bottom of the pipes<br />
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That's it. Now I am looking forward to seeing it all in the summer.<br />
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I did some stitching while I was there - I made 6 chef's aprons and a table runner for a cupboard in one of the cottages, but I didn't touch the embroidery I took.</div>
Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-82335263871116400622018-07-31T23:38:00.001+09:302018-07-31T23:38:22.877+09:30visiting Tarraleah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Time for a recap on my recent trip to the Tasmanian highlands. (I couldn't post from there as I had no phone or wifi because I have the wrong phone carrier).<br />
I went to Tarraleah Estate <a href="http://www.tarraleah.com/">http://www.tarraleah.com/</a> which is almost in the middle of the island. It is a great "hotel on a village scale"' in buildings of the former Hydro town including houses, the community hall, the Lodge, the church, school and pub. After beginnings as a tent town and then singleman's wooden huts, it grew to a town with 2 churches, 3 pubs and a hospital. The town suffered a decline in the 80s and 90s as the Hydro works were completed, and eventually closed as people moved away. Purchase of the village in 2006 saw the beginning of the Estate as it is today.<br />
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The accommodation is primarily self contained/self catering, but they also have function venues for weddings, conferences and so on.<br />
The church<br />
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Both a bit hidden, but this is the Highlander Pub, with the Great Hall to the left<br />
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The art-deco style cottages - all are furnished individually<br />
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... a chair for you Michele<br />
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The Scholars house (part of the old school) <br />
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The square and fountain, and the reception building<br />
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and some of the residents - geese (with Scholars House and Great Hall in the background)<br />
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ducks<br />
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and Highland cows, including a new calf<br />
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My daughter and her partner have a very busy life managing the Estate, and I went to see what they do, and to help prepare for, and attend their Christmas in July function. It was a great night, much enjoyed by the 100+ attending.<br />
This is where the bunting I was making ended up -<br />
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The hall looked amazing with rows of little lights between them<br />
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I made table decorations using locals plants (including holly)<br />
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Outside decorations on trees by the Church and the Great Hall<br />
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It was cold, cold, cold - frosty some mornings<br />
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with frost still in the shaded areas after 10am. At least those days were clear and sunny.<br />
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Frost on the bark mulch<br />
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It rained quite a bit and it snowed one day<br />
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though I didn't see much of it as I went sight seeing (where there was plenty of snow) for a few hours and it was gone on my return.<br />
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I'll post again of some of what I saw round about, some of the plants and a few scenes from Hobart.</div>
Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-77968793813164413472018-07-07T11:16:00.001+09:302018-07-07T11:16:58.021+09:30a blue ribbon <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just a short post to say it was an exciting day yesterday, finding that I'd won a first place at the Quilter's Guild of South Australia Festival of Quuilts exhibition - for the quilt I spent many hours quilting but didn't show you. Looking very closely you might see there are some cicles / orbs in the quilting, as well as the many, many close rows.<br />
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Not the best picture. I forgot to take any before I entered it and took a couple hurriedly yesterday. (It doesn't seem to be hanging flat on the top rod - makes it a bit ripply). It is my own design pairing charm squares from bundles that I had collected, and cutting and interspersing them to get the graded colourings. It was in the Modern Section - something a bit different for me.<br />
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Not sure what comes next. I have a couple of bundles of fat quarters that have been on the shelf for a while now, so maybe I'll do something with some of them. And I have a couple of art quilt challenges to do. <br />
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The FOQ is a great exhibition (as usual) with a lot of variety and several special exhibitions. I',m sorry I won't get back to have another look, but I'm off to Tassie to deliver the bunting, and be even colder than I am here at the moment!</div>
Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-72647617235453857062018-06-16T17:44:00.001+09:302018-06-16T17:44:42.698+09:30Cutting things up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'll begin with a photo from a couple of weeks back when with my Quilters' Dozen friends I hosted a Biggest Morning Tea to raise money for the Cancer Council. My photo taking was hardly successful, this being the only good one (I was too busy being hostess)<br />
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but the day was. The weather was ideal for our display around the garden, the food was plentiful and the company relaxed, interested and appreciative of the display. We raised $573, and my thanks go to my Quilters' Dozen friends and all those who supported the event.<br />
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Since then I have been busily cutting quilt top kits for the Threads group. There must be something I can do with all these bits??? <br />
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and cutting to make bunting for my daughter. They are now stitched and ready to attach to a tape or cord when I go to visit her.<br />
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In the process I have managed to cut a piece off a finger with my rotary cutter - OUCH. It hasn't stopped me, but it is quite inconvenient, and I don't know how long it will take to heal. That might be quicker if I didn't manage to bump it every now and then - I hold it out of the way, but because it is my middle finger and longest, it manages to bump into something else!<br />
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I have also finished a small piece of cross stitch I bought in Sweden. It is a traditional armband piece, but I'm not sure what I will do with it. <br />
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To finish, a couple of bright spots in an otherwise dull garden - some pretty pansies<br />
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and an unusually deep red nasturtium<br />
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The weather is cold, windy and wet, and here is the first snowdrop</div>
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It is time to start a new project, but which one? A ufo or something new?</div>
Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-60504505155951498682018-05-28T14:38:00.000+09:302018-05-28T14:38:42.837+09:30studies in green and yellow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was a rather dull day yesterday with occaional rain showers but as I walked around my small garden I saw splendour everywhere, with patches of green and yellow or gold wherever I looked. Some plants as they grow, and some showing autumnal colouring -<br />
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Not necessarily 'perfect' specimens (nor brilliant photos), but beautiful, cheering and inspiring none the less.</div>
Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-9834093439292493242018-05-22T22:28:00.000+09:302018-05-22T22:28:00.096+09:30one new, several antique quilts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A bit of a contrast here, between the new and the old, between last week and this.<br />
Last week I had a great day at Victor Harbor with Fleurieu Quilters where we made what are generally referred to as 'Bedford quilts'. An amazing group of ladies led by Lessa Siegele raise money for Bedford Industries, who, in their words, <i>are a trusted and sustainable business that
changes the lives of people with disability by building their skills to
participate in the community.</i><br />
For some years now they have been preparing and selling kits containing pre-cut fabric, pattern, and instructions for a quilt top 48" square. The group facilitate days for groups to make the tops, or individuals can purchase the kits and make them at home. To date they have raised an amazing $250,000. That's a lot of kits at $50 - and an awful lot of fabric cutting!<br />
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I finished my blocks at home, though I still have to put them together. It's bright and cheery.<br />
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If you are clever you might spot that one block is wrong - I put one strip on the wrong way around and will need to change it before I join them together. Or maybe I could leave it ...<br />
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In contrast, today I attended a great event as part of our South Australian History Month. Hosted by the Inman Valley Quilters, it was a very interesting session on Antique Quilts presented by Pam Holland. Her examples were both Australian and American, well loved utilitarian pieces which highlighted that many quilts were made with what was available, for tops, padding and backing. All made and quilted by hand, some were truly patchwork with bits added this way and that, with differing, colours, fabrics and patterns.<br />
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Here are pictures of a few American ones<br />
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This was crazy patch blocks including some patterned blocks - quite charming and appealing<br />
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and close up - a lot of care and work as each piece had been embroidered around <br />
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Heavier furnishing fabric here<br />
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Made from feed sacks and shirting<br />
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Me with Pam <br />
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and a pretty 'summer quilt' made of Suffolk puffs<br />
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It was well attended - mostly by quilters - and we were well fed by the Inman ladies. Thank you to them all. What better to do on a cold, dull and rainy day?<br />
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Out in my garden I spotted these mushrooms yesterday - already quite a bit larger today when I photographed them. I had some come up last year around the same tree stump. They are an ochre shade -'orangey brown' <br />
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Finally, something a little unusual I captured recently. It might seem larger here, but it was only a small feather, about 3cm, dragged into an ant hole<br />
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Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-78975643837888649202018-05-15T23:16:00.002+09:302018-05-15T23:16:23.416+09:30back in 5 - or more<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Under the guidance of friend Cher McGrath who is an expert paper maker, I and some of my Quilters' Dozen friends had fun recently making a few small sheets of paper. The results were very pleasing - much better than when I attempted it with daughter Rachel many years ago.<br />
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The white is the recent lot hung on my clothes airer to dry. The pink (cardboard thickness but soft and unfoldable and consequently still unused) was what we made years ago - at least I know now where we went wrong. Now we are each tearing up a bucket of natural fibres to return another day and try to make some paper from that. By way of comparison, I though I'd show how it is done on a bit bigger scale. This is what I saw in Gujurat a few years back, where they were working with calico off cuts, and their sheet size and drying lines were a somewhat bigger!<br />
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While I had some spare time in the city recently, I thought I would check out a shop called Sahara which I had been meaning to do for some time. It sells Moroccan and Middle Eastern goods, and had lovely colourful mosaics on the outside.<br />
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Just my luck though, it had a 'Back in 5 minutes' sign on the door. Since it is in a quarter of the city which I know very little about, I thought I would take a walk while waiting.<br />
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On the lawns of the nearby square where these ibis<br />
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and then in the side streets I found the historic Adelaide Mosque<br />
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There were once many Afghan shops and properties in the area, and the camel trains provided a very important means os transportation up through the centre of the country. A modern day result of this is a problem with feral camels in the inland - they are now even exported to the Middle East.<br />
After walking for half an hour the shop still wasn't open so I went on my way. A little later in another park I took these photos. The plane trees, like those near my home, were clearly stressed from lack of rain, and the leaves were just dying rather than turning autumn colours, but they were still quite beautiful against the clear blue sky.<br />
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Later I turned around to see this perfect contrail<br />
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When I visited the beachside suburb of Brighton another morning (for a fine brunch) these red, knitted poppy words fom the Anzac Day Rememberance service a few days before, were brilliant against the blue of the sky and ocean.<br />
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Similarly these red Gawler Hybrid bottle brushes(Callistemon) at Port Noarlunga were striking as the sun shone through them against the clear sky. <br />
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As well as looking good they obviously were a great source of nectar, as several New Holland honeyeaters were busy feeding on them. This one was quit happily feeding upside down...<br />
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When we finally got some good falls of rain I came out to see these lovely, large water drops on every junction of one of my the 'blackbird proofing' covers in the garden.<br />
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Not so lovely the day I found 6 of my cabbages had been eaten by something.!! From this<br />
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Just 2 remain, and I had to go out and buy poles and netting to safeguard them. I still don't know the culprit, but at least nothing has attacked the passionfruit vine - or should I be crossing my fingers?<br />
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Finally we have had some reasonable rainfalls, though decent follow up rains are needed for the farmers. It has suddenly got much colder, but that has made staying indoors easier. I have finished the quilting on my large quilt and now have to bind it. I have also been creating recently...<br />
I have redone the top of the bird feeder. I redid it a few years back using brush from a diosma bush but that got too straggly and had to be removed. This time I used eucalyptus bark collected from under a huge gum at the property of friends. I like the effect - just hope it is firm enough to last a while as I didn't get the wire very tight (wire and I don't get on very well!)<br />
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Also did some painting and stencilling on fabric with Threads Group. I used mostly leaves, as stencils and stamps.<br />
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...then I made some postcards, using some of them and adding a little machine embroidery.<br />
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I've also made a picture to preserve my latest echidna 'find'. I looked down at some debris in a parking lot and saw this echidna - actually some dead brush, maybe part of a banksia. There had been some heavy rain but there was very little vegetation around so I'm not sure what or where it came from. Of course I had to bring it home, but being quite fragile I thought that if I was going to keep it, I should do something with it. So, a fabric background with some fussy cut applique and dried eucalyptus (picked up ages ago when they were quite colourful) and here is my picture. It's already on the wall.<br />
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Now out and about.<br />
This is an interesting art piece/sculpture in the grounds of the Fullarton Community Centre where I went for a meeting recently. It is 'Vine Lady' cleverly created by Slvia Piddington.<br />
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In my garden ... I have a coulpe of sweet potato vines, very healthy looking, but they have been there a good while and I was wondering whether I should be harvesting them. I looked among the leaves and saw this, the top of a sizeable tuber. <br />
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I dug it out, and to my surprise, this is how big it is, here alongside one of my passionfruit.<br />
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I haven't dug to see if there are more, I'll enjoy the green for just a little bit longer. I have read that they need to come out before any frosts, but they are pretty unikely here although it is certainly getting colder.<br />
A splash of colour on the nandina <br />
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and interesting shapes and shades of green in the shadehouse<br />
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I have just found some pictures that I intended to post last week. I will put them in a separate post.<br />
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Posting for the second time in a week is certainly unusual for me but I had a great day out on Tuesday, going to the Port Elliot Patchworkers Biggest Morning Tea in support of the local Cancer Support Group.<br />
To begin we were entertained by the tuneful River Port Singers, a Community singing group from nearby Goolwa, before morning tea. After that the special guest was the very talented Cheryl Bridgart <a href="http://bridgart.com/">http://bridgart.com/</a> who does stunning machine embroidery. I love her work - it's original, very creative, and often quirky.<br />
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Cheryl works on both fabric and paper from her own sketches and drawings, but she doesn't use markings or cartoons on the work surface. She starts 'drawing ' a light outline with the needle and then works more and more colour and detail into it. <br />
Zebras and black and white often feature in her work, people<br />
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and nature. <br />
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These are Cheryl's interpretation of a Turner painting on a waistcoat.<br />
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She makes pictures, hats, bow ties, masks, brooches and original clothing - including all her own<br />
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Her daily drawings and journals are fascinating too. I wish I were so disciplined, and that I could draw so readily!<br />
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I've done several workshops with Cheryl over the years. I have used some of her techniques like here on the front of a vest...<br />
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but my masterpiece is yet to come!<br />
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The lunch that followed was superb. Well done to the Port Elliot girls for a great get together and very successful fundraiser.</div>
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Among other things I've been busily quilting - about 35 hours so far on this project, with around 1/3 still to go... just a little look here<br />
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So often we walk straight past or take for granted the beauty, the sights, the inspiration that surrounds us. I am always delighted to see this mosaic wall when I go to my local library. It was created through our Council's public art program.<br />
The first picture is a street view giving size and perspective for the other close ups.<br />
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This big, reflective 'silvery egg' appeared in the Art Gallery section of the light parade.<br />
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Seeing it in daylight it gives a completely different look - superb reflections of the surrounding buildings, blue sky and green trees, on this bright sunny day.<br />
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It is about 3 weeks since this finished though it seems ages ago now. These are some of my shots of the fabulous light parade on North Terrace during the Adelaide Fringe Festival.<br />
Some of the sequences took about 10 minutes, and some could be ordered by onlookers. This was the Institute Building, portraying Aboriginal history and culture<br />
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Elder Hall, with stories of early settlers and endangered species<br />
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The Art Gallery giving a classical take<br />
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Bonython Hall had a younger appeal with a search and a chase going on<br />
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The 'Northern Lights' - brilliant on my second viewing when it wasn't blowing a gale and trying to rain<br />
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It's very popular - and there is a great atmosphere with hundreds of folk of all ages strolling up and down.<br />
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Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-62039371318374415732018-04-11T23:35:00.002+09:302018-04-11T23:35:42.956+09:30some recent stitches and pics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm behind yet again with posting. They say the world is paved with good intentions, and I have surely contributed my share!<br />
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About 3 weeks of my time was taken up recently emptying rooms and cupboards to have carpets replaced with floating flooring - lots and lots of books and, no surprise, a lot of craft gear. It was a very exhausting process, but I am happy with the result.<br />
I've made several journal covers, a couple as a result of teaching to local groups. These are great to try out emroidery stitches on my machine. I seem not to be trying too many though as I have found a couple that I really like and I keep on using them...<br />
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These were small notebooks. The other was an A4 cover to showcase a small piece of natural hand dyed bamboo given to me by a friend. The plants used were gum (eucalyptus) leaves, and I did a little hand and machine embroidery on them.<br />
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The colour in the picture of the front is truer than front and back picture below<br />
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I also have a much larger dyed piece to work with, but that is going to take some thought.<br />
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Whilst recovering from moving stuff and watching Commonwealth Games I have been doing a bit of cross stitch on a small sample piece I bought a while back in Stockholm. I'll take a photo when it is finished. At the moment I am doing some fairly intense quilting on a quilt. I'm not fast, and have done about 24 hours so far, on possibly a third. The picture for that will have to wait.<br />
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When I need a break I escape to the garden for a while. One day I spotted a small narrow upright type of toadstool. The next day when I looked I saw a flower there.<br />
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Closer inspection showed that it was the toadstool which had opened up and split, but so evenly it looked like petals on a flower - so much so, that when we tried to identify the toadstool using a photograph on Google, it only came up with flowers.<br />
A couple of weeks later in the same spot was this<br />
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The weather lately has been so warm, and it is currently so hot that it is breaking records for April. We have had lots of big bright blue skies with some fascinating cloud formations (unfortunately not rain clouds though - we all have our hopes set on tomorrow's forecast for some rain).<br />
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I tried to capture the shiny silvery leaves on this eucalypt at Meadows the other day. I wasn't very successful, but it looked so spectacular with the sun shining on them and another bright blue sky behind.<br />
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Here is a little show of my back yard wildlife.<br />
When I moved craft books onto the back patio area while the flooring was done, next day I discovered this cheeky (and quite chubby) gecko on the top of a book...<br />
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Another day I looked up from the outdoor table and spotted a couple of cheeky little rats on the rail of the back fence and going back and forth into a native hibiscus. This is one of them - look for the black beady eyes in the middle of the picture.<br />
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After they scampered off somewhere I discovered what they had been doing - stripping the bark from the hibiscus, I guess for a nest.<br />
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Another day I came across 2 small wasp nests. They looked rather like round small pine tree nuts, until I disturbed them and wasps emerged from the different little sectors<br />
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This one is hanging from the one little stalk under a bird's nest fern leaf.<br />
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Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-88886518826284313622018-03-13T22:11:00.000+10:302018-03-13T22:11:25.596+10:30end of our journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The last few days in Morocco took us to the coastal port of Essouira, through some very dry and desolate stretches, <br />
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and irrigated areas and vines - this raised water channel is running beside an adobe wall or fence,<br />
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past makers of decorated nomad tents <br />
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and native pines and argan trees, here with the infamous goats in the latter,<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">to a women's coopera</span>tive which processes and markets argan oil, with an extensive product range. These women demonstrated the stages of the processing.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The fruit of the </span><span style="color: black;">argan</span><span style="color: black;"> tree
is small, and round, oval, or conical, with a thick peel covering the fleshy pulp. The
pulp in turn surrounds a hard-shelled nut representing about 25% of the weight of
the fresh fruit, and the nut contains one to three oil-rich </span><span style="color: black;">kernels. </span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: super;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Briefly, extraction is done by workers first drying </span><span style="color: black;">argan </span><span style="color: black;">fruit in the open air and then removing the fleshy pulp. Then the nuts are cracked to get the kernels which are roasted, ground and pressed to get a cooking oil. The remaining press
cake is protein-rich and often used as animal feed. Cosmetic </span><span style="color: black;">argan</span><span style="color: black;"> oil is produced similarly from un-roasted kernels.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally to Essouira, the<span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline;"> old fortified trading port on the Atlantic coast. The Portuguese built the
first fort during their occupation in the first half of the 1500s, and numerous
other countries tried to control it thereafter. For many years gold, salt and
slaves were traded to the Americas and Europe. More recently, in the 1960s
and 70s it became a haven for the rich and famous, and hippy culture - it was a
favourite of Jimmy Hendrix and Santana. Nowadays it is a busy fishing port </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline;">and
very popular tourist and surf destination.</span></span></span> </span></span></div>
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There was a mix of small and large fishing boats. We watched some of these small ones, with an outboard motor on the back, go out at dusk one evening, in what seemed to me quite quite a choppy sea. There were many larger vessels and long-line trawlers. This old one was being refurbished alongside where the fishermen sell their day's catch on the wharf.<br />
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Narrow alleys before trading hours<br />
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This gentleman crochets these caps to sell<br />
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More fine plaster work, painted woodwork and gardens, splendid mosaics and another fascinating medina ...<br />
The mausoleum of the Royal family<br />
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The Bahai Palace which is now a museum, was built in 1866-67 with more than 150 rooms, including a harem section, courtyards and gardens. Visitors see only a portion, including council rooms with impressive fireplaces and painted cedar work, and a large riad surrounded by citrus trees <br />
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Numerous herbalist shops<br />
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evidence of change<br />
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Inside the medina, the alleys were not as narrow as in Fes.<br />
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the metal workers <br />
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the dyers and their dyes<br />
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olives, preserved lemons and pickled peppers<br />
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The Jardin Majorelle, a garden of exotic and rare cacti species from around the world, was established by French painter Jacques Majorelle in 1917, and he painted all the walls 'Majorelle Blue'. It was opened to the public in 1947 but closed on his death in 1962. Bought by Yves St Laurent and Pierre Berge in 1980 it was restored and reopened. It now houses a very fine Berber arts museum (no photos allowed there)<br />
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Next time th last stop - Essaouira</div>
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A short excursion from Fes took us to see the button makers in Balil, a small village where many of the old houses were built as caves in the hillside - about 23 remain.<br />
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Our friendly guide Mohammed took us to his family cave home. His daughter and her family live there now, while he lives above it.<br />
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They gave us traditional mint tea, served with ceremony, and poured from a great height! Then we saw some of the local village women sitting together to make the little buttons which commonly decorate the jelabas of both men and women. They look like little knots, but are made with a crochet hook, and come in many sizes, from about 1/4 inch up.<br />
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Can't help wondering whether the younger generation will continue this tradition?<br />
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Travelling on to the High Atlas Mountains and Marrakech we saw<br />
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macaque monkeys in a forest area<br />
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a peacock and a pea hen in the gardens of our hotel (he didn't oblige and display his tail for me)<br />
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along with a cactus in bloom - not really. They are bouganvillea flowers caught on the spines<br />
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a town market<br />
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and rising higher into the mountains, panoramic views of the green plains under agriculture,<br />
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the roads winding up and down the mountains,<br />
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snow on the peaks in the distance<br />
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the mighty Ouzid Falls at Azilal with a macaque welcoming committee<br />
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with strangely brown falls after heavy rainfall during the night.<br />
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We shared a tasty tagine for lunch with local musicians playing traditional instruments<br />
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and travelled on to Marrakech, known for its many palm trees<br />
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This is the splendid minaret of the Koutoubia Mosque, the largest in Marrakech - no building can be built higher than it, so nothing in the city is more than about 5 stories high.<br />
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We chanced on a wedding procession for the groom<br />
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and found our way to our next splendid riad, hidden once again behind a very plain doorway.<br />
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The rooftop dining area<br />
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looked out over the city. More about the city next time.</div>
Raelenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04650284649434072673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7190917611957867806.post-14584171992296821422018-02-19T23:45:00.000+10:302018-02-19T23:45:09.577+10:30a little stitching interlude<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;">A break from the travel record for some stitching and local photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I've made a few more journal covers recently, prior to teaching how to make them at Fleurieu Quilters. I enjoy creating them from left over bits of favourite fabrics, technique and class samples or by recycling/repurposing other items. </span><br />
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I recently finished off a sample needle-turn applique block started many (15?) years ago. I am not planning to do more of the same, so I it might find its way into a journal cover some time...<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Back in November I made a wallhanging to incorporate some Tambani African embroidery pieces I bought in France in 2016, at the European Patchwork Festival. (Hence the name I gave it - 'The long way from South Africa') From a community project to help the women of a very poor area of northern South Africa, each piece of embroidery tells a Venda folk tale. I wish I had bought more...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The background fabric is from Ghana and the hanger is bamboo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I recently visited the China and the World Exhibition at the SA Art Gallery. <a href="http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions">www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions</a> I enjoyed the exhibition which includes some brilliant embroidery pieces, but I think I was most taken by this account of how the gold thread is made - </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> But the thread is so fine! Fascinating and amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now a little bit of nature that has caught my eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Finally, some beautiful lisianthus blooms on my kitchen bench. Lisianthus is one of the flowers we were growing when it was just new to the cut flower market - that all seems so long ago now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once again in Morocco - next stop Meknes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Meknes was formally an Imperial</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> City. These enormous structures, a
Granary (above) and stables, were b</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">uilt by Sultan </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Moulay</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">
Ismail, one of the more ruthless Moroccan rulers,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to house and feed his 12,000 horses, and make
him unbeatable in times of conflict - cleverly positioned</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> with the granary over a canal, and a
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Also visited an artisan workshop to see embroidery, jewellery, silver and wood work. This traditional Fes embroidery is done by counting threads, not marking, and is as good on the back as the front!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tile cutters. The sides of each tiny tile are chamfered</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br />
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and the pattern laid out upside down, before covering with a concrete or mortar <br />
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Tile and pottery paimters<br />
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Beautiful, embroidered linen<br />
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The rooftop<br />
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with a kind of reverse tile decoration. The glazed surface, usually plain tiles, is cut away leaving the pattern<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> Fes has the very famous Medina in the old city which can only be traversed on foot or by donkey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> A place one could easily get lost in, with many incredibly narrow alleys. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The
Medina began</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> as a fortress as well as a
dwelling and market place, so everything was/is available there. The narrow alleys (this the narrowest) </span></span></span></div>
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The real estate office, with keys on the wall<br />
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Cording machines<br />
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How to wear the cactus silk<br />
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The back in 10 minutes indicator (cord and chair)<br />
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An old school building<br />
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The famous tanneries<br />
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Travelling on in Morocco... to the Rif mountains with beautiful mountain scenery and the very charming and popular city of Chefchaouen.<br />
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It's known for the blue colour everywhere - on houses, mosques, government buildings, public squares and even lampposts. It has a 500 year old fortress at its centre<br />
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... and a vibrant, interesting old town and market place. Narrow streets and lanes marked by blue doors in the early mornings, until the shops open up -<br />
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Quality fruit and vegetables in the market. This was noticeable everywhere - a great variety and well presented. 30% of the economy is based on agriculture, primarily trade with the EU. <br />
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Here dried figs<br />
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Colours for the white wash - only seeing blue and white all around, I guess the insides of the houses are more colourful than the outsides<br />
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and cactus (agave) silk threads in any colour you want. This is one shop - one wall, <br />
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the next wall<br />
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The courtyards of our riad <br />
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and a view from the top<br />
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Courtyard of another riad, now a museum and library<br />
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and the courtyard of the old caravanseri<br />
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More blue walls <br />
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and a blue mural<br />
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On a trip to a waterfall in Azchour National Park -<br />
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In the car park<br />
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... a not so frinedly sign! <br />
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A challenging foot bridge up stream<br />
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but like everywhere, in the most amazing out of the way places, somewhere to sit and drink mint tea<br />
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For us Aussies it was Anzac Day - remembered by the red poppies in the fields<br />
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Travelling on to Meknes and Fes, rolling plains of grain and chickpeas</div>
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a butcher shop</div>
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and a stop at the amazing Roman ruins at <b>Volubilis</b>. Once a grand walled city with 8 gates</div>
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The old mill<br />
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and a few of the amazingly well preserved mosaic floors</div>
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