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"Go on working freely and furiously and you will make progress."   Paul Gauguin

Day three with the new machine.  Finally I got the tension figured out, and taped in place so this doesn't happen again!  I got all the errant lines cut out and ripped off the tape that was supposed to keep said lines straight.  I repined everything I ripped out and re-quilted the bad parts and then finished up the undone parts.  I just finished squaring it up and sewing on the binding and turned the machine OFF.  We are ready to bind this sucker up and call it a day!  Yeaaa-  I love it when I see the end of a project!  

AND I got an email from Bernina detailing what is wrong-  I need to have a start-up board (?) replaced, not the mother board, I wrote it down and stopped by the repair shop but it was closed Monday's-  will drop off my note from Bernina tomorrow first thing.  Thanks to Sandy Gregg for telling me to contact them TWICE before I actually listened!  Took a week for them to get back to me but hopefully just in time.

Of course, while doing this I have also been slapping a new quiltish project up on the wall.  Plus I have the throw I'm knitting from 2" double sided hexagons-  I can do two in a good night so I figure that by next summer at this rate I will have a little mountain of hexagons to sew together.  I don't want to sew anything until I have lots more colors so there won't be 'pools' of the yarns I have a bit more of.  And I have the two sweaters finished that I just have to put together (my most dreaded knitting job!)  they turned out larger than I anticipated so the wee baby won't be needing them for a year or two but I want them in his drawer asap!  

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From the INCOMPLETE MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE,  by  Bruce Mau

• Allow events to change you. 

• You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

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Three lucky tourists snapped up artwork by elusive British street artist Banksy in Central Park over the weekend, shelling out just $60 for canvases estimated to be worth as much as $31,000.

The graffiti guru – who is on a month-long New York “residency” in which he promises at least one new work per day will show up on city streets – set up a pop-up boutique of about 25 spray-art canvases on Fifth Avenue near Central Park Saturday.

Banksy chronicled the surprise sale in a video posted to his website noting, “Yesterday I set up a stall in the park selling 100 % authentic original signed Banksy canvases. For $60 each.”

There is a wonderful interview over on TextileArtist.org with our own Linda Colsh.  The owners of that blog, Joe and Sam Pitcher, are fascinated by textile art. The reason? "Our mum, textile artist Sue Stone. We want TextileArtist.org to be an invaluable resource for stitch artists and practitioners working with mixed media techniques, including embroidery, print, crochet, appliqué and quilting. But we also want to include those of you who aren’t necessarily artists yourselves, but have a passion for the diverse medium of textile art or enjoy experimenting with fiber and fabrics as a hobby."  The site was only launched in January of this year and so far it's amazing what they have accomplished.  If I were you, ahem,   I'd stick it in my reader right now to follow the great interviews they are showing.

Elaine Reicheck is a New York-based artist who uses embroidery to explore conceptual and aesthetic ideas in art.  Though she has a background in painting, actually receiving an MFA from Yale in the subject, she began to question her training and wonder what kind of statement she wanted to make with her art.  Though she experimented with knitting wool, hand-paining found photographs and other techniques, embroidery emerged as Reicheck’s material of choice.  She creates beautiful works on linen using needle and thread.  Usually selecting a theme to base a series around, Reichek’s latest embroiders consider the myth of Ariadne.  Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of thread with which to retrace his steps allowing him to escape the Minotaur’s labyrinth.  Reichek created art-historical portraits, many of which contain Araidne’s image, and paired them with quotes from literary sources such as Nietzsche or Catullus.

And how to turn a cucumber into a snake:  

Poor bun had an infection when he was a wee one and it left him with permanent neurological impairment and a permanently tilted head.  But ya know what?  He's a happy guy and has a lovong family.  What more could a crooked bunny ask?  I know my bunnies and I betcha he would love a chocolate chip.