To celebrate the publication of "Willoway" in Fons & Porter's magazine, Love of Quilting (see previous post) and it's soon to be visit to the PA National Quilt Extravaganza, I am offering a free folk art pattern. I used to offer this as a class when I taught at The Country Quilt Shop in Montgomeryville, PA.
I have a split personality. I love contemporary art quilts and I also love primitive folk art. This is clearly my primitive side. Click on the photo either here or in the sidebar for the directions and pattern.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Sawdust Art
Last March my husband and I travelled to Puebla, Mexico. The reason for the trip was to see the buildings covered with Talavera tile and to visit the authorized factories. It was an amazing trip. Since neither my husband nor I speak Spanish, we hired a guide through our hotel. To visit another factory, we had the good fortune of being hooked up with the daughter of a friend of a friend of a friend of a business acquaintance. Her name is Kenya.
She picked me up after she was done with work one day. At 27 years old,
she still lives at home, because she is not married. She is a lawyer and has a boyfriend. She was just adorable and we really hit it off. I think we got along so well because she is the same age as my kids. She shared so much with me about the Mexican Culture and was a wonderful translator at the Uriarte Talavera factory.
Yesterday she sent me an e-mail with these wonderful photos from her cell phone showing the streets covered with painted saw dust for a religious celebration called The Charity’s Virgin. I don’t really know what the holiday is exactly about, but I am always so amazed by their culture and traditions and their folk art.
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