What a wonderful event! This past weekend marked the first time that all three
artisan guilds held their fall shows under one roof. The Convention Center hosted the event, and I heard nothing
but praise and enthusiasm for this new change of venue. Musicians played in the lobby and the
Convention Center set up a café with tables in one of the rooms. It was just a delightful experience for
the patrons. I was fortunate to
have a doorway booth for my art with my own exhibition space (the Roger’s Gallery)
across the hallway.
My ‘Looking atWater’ exhibition was still hanging there. It was wonderful to have so many people go in and look at
the pieces then come across the hallway to talk about the work. I was also thrilled to have four of the
sixteen pieces find new homes before the exhibition came home on Monday
morning. In addition to the
weavings, many Re-Shirts, sweater petals with pins and my new headband sweater
petals found new homes.
The
headbands are hard plastic that I wrap with black yarn and attach a sweater
petal flower and some leaves. I
think they look very cute, and they turned out to be a big hit! They will be available at Wonderlab if
you’re interested in seeing them—check out the new Big-Headed Ants exhibition while
you’re there!
To prepare for the Guild show I spent big blocks of time
over the past two weeks making twenty-six new Re-shirts. I found a new source of black double
fold bias tape, made in the U.S.A., which was fortunate for me.
I went through 130 yards of the
material! I also spent little bits
of time here and there over the year collecting bobbins for my sewing
machine. Before I started I wound
all of my bobbins. It is so nice
not to have to stop and wind a bobbin before continuing to sew. Of course I fill in my down time as I
watch the boy’s activities with my needle felting.
This time I finished up some tomato slices for a commission
piece I’m trying to finish. I
finished the celery, which means that it is now green. My finger has healed enough to wet felt
a little, so the little while root tails for my radishes are complete too.
Speaking of needle felting, I had a crazy idea this
week. Since I’m only doing one art
fair (and it’s over!) I thought it might be fun to do a workshop to demonstrate
how to make felted ornaments.
I’ll
be running at least one workshop through Gather, the new craft shop in Fountain
Square Mall here in Bloomington.
We’re
advertising the first one for Saturday, December 6th from 1-4
p.m. If you’re interested, please
sign up here. The cost is sixty
dollars and includes all materials and plenty of laughs. I will come with half a dozen ornaments
to give people some ideas, but they’ll likely hang on our Christmas tree.
My personal life is proceeding nicely, with my almost-healed
finger back in action. I picked up
some cozy wool socks and pretty red tea towels from Peg Dawson at the
show. In fact, being able to get
started with a little Christmas shopping is nice part of the Guild show. With the snow and cold weather this week past week I made good use of the socks!
Tommie and I went to both IU men’s
basketball exhibition games last week and had a great time cheering. It’s the closest I’ve come to finding
hockey games to attend in Indiana.
I missed Friday’s game due to the show, but now I plan to be in front of
the TV rooting for the Hoosiers for the rest of the winter season. I hope they do well! And dare I say—there was no pie this
week! Must I wait for pumpkin pie
at Thanksgiving?
Until next week,
Martina Celerin
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