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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Aug 27, 2022 19:58:49 GMT
I assume that Lyn and Annie already have something in mind for the next Challenge, but in case no-one has got to thinking any further forward, I've had a couple of thoughts. I was looking for one of my completed pictures as I thought it might do for an IFA exhibition coming up soon. I hunted high and low and came across one of my boxes of UFOs (yes there's more than one) and I thought that finishing one might be a good challenge - and help us get on with it. In my case, the difficulty would be to choose which one. Of course the challenge could be to get as many finished as possible in the 3 months of the Challenge. Then, not finding the picture I was looking for, I started to look through my crates of stored stash bags - they contain everything under the sun, each bagfull denoted by the complimentary colourways it contains. Which made me think that perhaps the second Challenge could be to make something using only bits from your stash. That would also be a help - which I need, otherwise I'm never going to reduce it. At least my search has reminded me what smashing stuff I have in store, so that I can stop being jealous of Jan and her recent trip to Twist Fibre Festival. Next time I feel that way I will go and have a root around my stash. Who knows I may even get to use some of it even if we don't use the idea for a Challenge. And I still haven't found what I was actually looking for!
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Post by lyn on Aug 28, 2022 6:40:45 GMT
Thank you Ann for the good ideas - watch out for the new challenge on 1st October!
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Aug 28, 2022 7:56:01 GMT
Thank you Ann for the good ideas - watch out for the new challenge on 1st October! Can't wait!
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Post by Shepherdess on Aug 30, 2022 19:31:08 GMT
And I still haven't found what I was actually looking for!
Ye, don't know what that's like.
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Oct 6, 2022 19:57:55 GMT
Here's another idea (or set of ideas): I've just received another newsletter/email from what used to be one of the Interweave Press magazines (I hadn't realised that they no long produce these magazines, they are now produced by Long Thread Media who I think bought the titles - or maybe took over the company I'm not sure which) The Newsletter I received was from Handwoven Magazine, which I used to take all those years ago when I was still weaving. Anyway the newsletter directed readers to this web page: Handwoven Article and I think that the suggestion of a palette of colours to use in producing a piece of textile art (weaving in their case) might be a good idea for one of our quarterly challenges. ? ?
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Post by lyn on Oct 7, 2022 7:11:51 GMT
All ideas gratefully received!
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Oct 14, 2022 19:21:06 GMT
And yet another idea. I've just been reading through the latest NEWSLETTER from the producers of Inspirations magazine. Have a look, if you've time. About halfway through they've mentioned a response from a reader who was showing what she had produced in response to the Challenge ‘Interrupt a Still Life You Admire’. She had produced a reinterpretation of a detail from Van Gough's "Sunflowers". It's amazing. So there's the other challenge idea ‘Interrupt a Still Life You Admire’. That could be fun, if it could be finished in 3 months. At the rate that I work it would have to be an annual challenge I think!
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Post by Ann @ frabjous fabrica on Oct 15, 2023 8:30:47 GMT
Here we go again. I've just been looking at the BBC's page "Your pictures on the theme of ..." I'm not sure if it can be viewed outside the UK but I hope so. The theme was "Textures". This is part of a continuing series of challenges to the public to produce their interpretation of, usually, just one word which they give us on This Page. Having seen the pictures submitted for Textures it occurred to me that if Lyn & Annie run out of ideas they could perhaps crib from the BBC. �🤔�
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Post by lyn on Oct 16, 2023 7:40:10 GMT
Here we go again. I've just been looking at the BBC's page "Your pictures on the theme of ..." I'm not sure if it can be viewed outside the UK but I hope so. The theme was "Textures". This is part of a continuing series of challenges to the public to produce their interpretation of, usually, just one word which they give us on This Page. Having seen the pictures submitted for Textures it occurred to me that if Lyn & Annie run out of ideas they could perhaps crib from the BBC. �🤔�Thank you Ann
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