Art @ The Hermitage: PIQF - Day 1

Thursday, October 11, 2012

PIQF - Day 1

I had a great time in my Day 1 class with Janice Gunner. Janice hails from London, and had a wonderful array of quilts with which to bedazzle us, and, after a brief trunk show, launched us into a wild and wacky day of turning the good ole tried-and-traditional Log Cabin pattern on its ear. Her latest book tells it all...

Make your new cabin block with strip sets, background fabric, more strips sets, more background, then make another block or two, and slice them up and surround the original block, and, well... you get the idea... truly something new and different! Here's my "running start"...

It needs two more sides for the border, then another strip set and border, then it's going to get turned on point, and find itself surrounded by a couple more blocks that have been chopped up, and will ultimately yield "something" like this...

Tomorrow's class, also with Janice, will find me in my element... working with those gorgeous African prints I love so much... y'know... the stuff that looks like this!

Stay tuned...

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Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,

and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;

you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann