Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles: April 2011

Helen Remick's YoYo Tricks!

A show of 16 of Helen's quilts is at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, 703 South 2nd Street, La Conner, WA. Quilts will be on display now through December 31. Hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm. Click on photo to go to the museum web site. Helen's class, New Yoyo Tricks, will be on November 8 from 10 to 2. It includes lunch and a private exhibit tour. Remick and students will make altered yoyos and explore their design possibilities. Cost for museum members is $55, for non-members $65. You can make reservations by calling the museum at 360-466-4288. Shown is YoYo 2 -- Trip Around the World.

Heart of a Tree....

Lorraine Roy created this piece in 2002 as part of a solo travelling exhibition inspired by rare an endangered tree species in the Canadian Carolinian zone of Ontario (where she was born and still lives). She writes, "This particular species, native Flowering Dogwood, is best known for its beautiful white spring blooms, but I portrayed in full red fall colour. Why? In my research on this tree, I discovered that the Native people used decoctions from its fruit as a heart medicine. The name Dogwood originates from its former name, Daggerwood... because its very hard, resilient trunk and branches were used in making daggers. Combine this with the plant's resplendent fall colour, in leaf and berry... and the love we all feel for this endangered species... and you have all the elements necessary for the heart motif connected by the 'coursing blood and veins' of the tree's roots."

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