H is for How

In our Living Your Word of the Year group we are using a fortnightly (bi-weekly) A-Z challenge throughout the year to help us focus on our word and live it out.

Because of the way I have made my journal it's a case of going with the flow of what background the pages have when I turn to them.

Valerie, Mary & I have a conference call each month when we discuss our Living Your Word group and ideas for questions and activities.  We decided that we would each take the word How for H.  Valerie has written a wonderful post on How?  Do click on the link to go and read it.

I thought I had taken a photo before I started working on the page - but obviously not!  Anyway I'm sure you can tell what it looked like.

Not only am I trying to use my washi tape, I'm also trying to use up my scrapbooking stash.  I wanted large letters but in this set I had already used the W.  I altered the M to make it fit! I drew round the letters with an orange pen to help highlight the letters.

I loved the questions that Valerie asked but haven't had time to think about them let alone answer them.  I was away for 2 weeks and when I got back I had a workshop to attend, a hospital appointment and two days of stewarding an exhibition.

So I decided I would take Valerie's questions and stick them into my journal.  This way I can keep coming back to them - and you never know I might answer them at some point.  It would be really good to do so.

I finished off by drawing round the paper strips with different colour pens.

One of the questions Valerie asked was: 'What do I believe?'   Here's a video that tells you some of the things I believe.

Thank you for joining me today.
Bernice
 

Join Our Inspirational Facebook Group: Living Your Word of the Year

Join Mary Brack, Valerie Sjodin and I in our Facebook group where we are giving participants the opportunity to live out an A-Z of their own word throughout 2019.  Mary explains what we are doing in her blog post.  We don't like a lot of rules, so we will have suggestions and options to spark creativity, and to help in recording and exploring our word’s meaning in visual and fun ways. We will each blog about our experiences and our art.

 Living Your Word of the Year 2019

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Pattern, shape & design

I have recently been to the United States for two weeks and I will be doing blog posts about the various places I visited for all you armchair travellers.

But first I thought I'd share some photos of the various things that caught my eye to do with pattern, shape & design during the 3 days I was in Chicago.  They are shown in the order I saw them rather than curated as collections.

No descriptions.  Just photos!

 

 

 

I hope  you enjoyed the photos.  What things catch your eye when you are out and about?

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Traverse & Uttoxeter

This coming weekend Traverse will be exhibiting at the British Quilt & Stitch Village at the racecourse in Uttoxeter.

This will be the big reveal of our exhibition: Revealed.  Although to be honest most of my work is the antonym of revealed - Hidden.

My Mother Said
This bodice began with writing on paper about my mother not allowing me to show even a hint of my underwear - not even a bra strap - when I was in my teens.   I built up the layers of paper and fabrics on top of the writing and then stitched it to a felt backing.

This piece is called Hidden Support.  It is about my broken fingers.  The base of the piece is made from the slings I was given.  I printed most of the photos I had taken about my hand and my teeth onto cotton poplin which was then bondawebbed to the slings.  The top layer is made from machining a grid onto the hospital appointment letters and then washing away some of the paper.  The tags are all the appointments I had between June 8th and December 31st with the consultant, the dentist and various hand therapists.  The ends are made from pencils and eraser toppers.

It's over 2 metre long so here are some clearer photos.

My third piece is from the felting course I went on.  You may remember I cut up the sample from the first day of the workshop and here it is reassembled as Piece by Piece 1.  The techniques used reveal what is hidden beneath.

My 4th piece is Piece by Piece 2.  You can find out about the two felt pieces in my Traverse blog post: If in doubt, cut it up!  It similarly reveals what is hidden beneath.

And finally my Master Practitioner piece: Hidden Meaning.  This was originally going to hang on the wall closed up so that people could unfold it to reveal the contents.  However I've now decided it will sit on a table so people can touch the different textures.

Thank you for joining me today.  I hope to see you at the Uttoxeter Show.  I'll be there on Saturday & Sunday.

Bernice