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I started out with a lot of leftover-fabrics from costumes I sewed years ago for my brother, friends and myself. Evenso I am not a lover of glizzy stuff, carnival is different!! It cannot get shiny and glizzy enough! There are lots of confetti all over the piece. Watching a carnival parade usually means I get [...] Lots of colour and laughter – but also lost children, picked- pockets, swindled customers and tummy aches and hangovers. My carnival piece looks at the traditional fortune-teller. You see the woman with a long skirt and bandana looking at the hand of the client, who is holding a crystal ball. She is seated at a crimson [...] in Italian or Harlequin in English, that’s the title of my piece for our carnival theme. I settled on Carnival in Venice quite quickly, perhaps because I’ve always wanted to see it. I originally intended to make a mask. Masks feature a lot in carnival and of course they are an essential part of Carnival [...] Not sure if my last post made it to the site but I’ve been looking at the darker side of carnival, the idea being able to do bad and mad things under cover of night-time and disguise. I’m also still working on my bird and women theme, and am presently looking at harpies (dreadfully misunderstood!), [...] I gave myself a shove and pulled out some fabrics to start on my carnival challenge piece. My calendar is looking pretty busy so I’m only making a fairly small piece. I’m treating this challenge as a chance to try out one or two things and to practise a few others. I’m not telling you [...] I have been doing a bit of research into the history of carnival. Most the information in English is about the Mardi Gras type of carnival in the US and the Caribbean. I was more interested in the history of carnival in Europe. I found a couple of websites in German that had some interesting [...] When I suggested February as our first deadline I knew I was in danger of getting my least favourite theme – Valentine’s Day. So I am really glad that Cäcilia chose a different one. I just don’t like hearts as a subject. The shape itself appeals to me, but I just find all the associations [...] |
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