Picture time Monday, Jul 2 2007

Here are the photos from the second forum meeting. This time we were more and the others brought a lot of works. 

http://pics.livejournal.com/ternezia/gallery/0003ptpe

We also visited one of our girl’s neighbour. She is an elderly lady who designs classical gobelins, without using a computer. This means the tremendous work with paper, grid, pencils, magnifier - you can imagine; but then you could also imagine that the technical quality of her designs is much higher than those which are mainly done through software. Her projects are remarkable with their similarity to the original paintings - and she says this is her main goal. One of her (IMO) best designs took 2 years of work, as she decided to convert a watercolor painting. It came out perfect.

This one seems to be the most “modern” of her designs. More here http://pics.livejournal.com/ternezia/gallery/0003q60z

She is also (as usual for this generation of needleworkers) adverse to cross-stitch. Coming from the old Wiehler background (although she criticized Wiehler as well), she is using only Anchor threads for her projects. Overally there are more differences than similarities between us but still her works are nice to see to gain experience, and I did learn a couple of new things. Can’t be sure if she also gained experience from the projects we showed her, because after all it is a matter of willingness, and it also proves to be difficult for such people to step out from the “fortresses” they kept building during their whole life. Such visits make me wonder what kind of person *I* will be when I reach her age?

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Stitchers forum meeting 13.05.2007 Monday, May 14 2007

A bunch of photos from our BG forum meeting. We were only 4, but minding that overally the most active people there are not more than 5-6, four was a good number for a first try. It was really a great feeling to see this people offline.

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Embroidery Exhibition June 2006, Sofia Wednesday, Jun 14 2006

Wow…tired. Just came back and sitting to write this review. It will be a long entry.

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First of all, lets say I was kinda slightly disappointed. It is that I expected the show to be similar to those in UK, meaning there to be at least more items for sale/display. Indeed there were a lot of gobelin tapestries, but I am sick enough of those and expected to see more *new* additions to the exhibition, like the presence of firms like Lanarte, Vervaco, etc. Actually there were only Dimensions with their representatives, and the local gobelin community members. I was also hoping for some non-bg charts or leaflets but aside the already known there were none for sale.

In any way the Dimensions stand was enough of an event of itself. For the first time I saw completed projects of theirs. Only thing I can say, is wow. Something incredible. But that will follow in more detail with the photos.

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