All the birds call thee blessed, They come with thee in flocks,

They come around thee chirping : 
In truth there is not one like thee.
Ah! pretty, pretty, Ah! beautiful little partridge! 

~from an Armenian folk song

Is this “The little partridge” that the “Pear Tree” left me?

Trees are sanctuaries.
Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

Most people know me as a fine artist, a painter that uses methods… strange methods. The real truth to the story is that all these methods are textile related, because that has been my dream! Cloth and thread has been something I have been attached to forever something similar to a mother’s apron strings. It gives me comfort.

It’s been years in the making to even get close to this world in a larger sense other than the fabric stores. I made it a mission in the past couple of years to learn everything I can about this market. It has been tricky and at times very disheartening, almost like this industry takes place in faraway exotic tents.

Well a couple of years ago I exhibited at Surtex thinking I would get in touch with this field by my presence there. But nothing consequential happened other than meeting some very nice artists and realizing there are other places where the action is. A place of action is at the Quilt Markets, a booming industry circling all around the wonderful craft of making quilts. Quiltmaking is a huge craft today in the United States and it involves the bolt fabric industry. There is a whole art about making the perfect design for quilting fabric. In a future post I’ll give a bit of insight on this. 

Next week I am finally attending the International Quilt Market in Houston, it will be very exciting to finally connect to this warm and beautiful field!

Blankets wrap you in warmth, quilts wrap you in love.  :heart:

Goethe’s observations with a prism showed him that light did not split into seven continuous rainbow hues but that the beam had a red edge, turning to yellow, which became white in the middle until it passed into green shades that darkened to blue along its other edge.

Newton’s colour wheel contained the seven colours of the rainbow that he observed.

The 6-Color wheel proposed by Goethe, colours were diametrically opposed to each other,
as they “reciprocally evoke each other in the eye.”

Thus, yellow demands violet; orange, blue; red, green; and vice versa: thus… all intermediate gradations reciprocally evoke each other; the simpler colour demanding the compound, and vice versa.” ~Goethe, Theory of Colours, 1810  —Love this wheel!

This opened the way to symmetric color wheels with harmonious and complementary relationships.

They tend to come out a colour called ‘Pants left in wash’ ~Eddie Izzard

At the Anchobee Blog, her author Andrea Rincon has these fun briefs every week. Apparently  she wanted to see what possibilities were out there in pillowing her sofa! PLEASE VISIT and see what other designers created for that blue sofa, they were stunning!

“Chatroom Champs” a decor cushion design by ©LisaRivas – suggested size: 18″ x 18″ – fabric: linen

“There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.” ― French proverb