Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles: Subversive Stitchers 2010

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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Question: What would you like to see at Subversive Stitchers?

Virginia Spiegel's Blue Waters shown here reminds me that all things are possible as we drift through this life. My thoughts turn to 2010 and I'm wondering about Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles. What direction should it flow in 2010?

So, I ask you, who have been a part of this fun ride thus far, "What would you like to see, or would rather NOT see? Whose work would you like to see posted here or what guest blogger are you dying to hear from?"

Please let me know your ideas or feelings or wish list for Subversive Stitchers!

I'm also wondering about a logo for Subversive Stitchers? Any thoughts or drawings or ideas are definitely welcome. Maybe a contest?

Thanks so much. I've had such a pleasure meeting and interacting and sharing with all of you. I'm looking forward to the next year and hope you are too!

Dawn

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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."

Subversive Stitchers: Women Armed with Needles

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Question: What would you like to see at Subversive Stitchers?

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