Bookmarks

If I am making Rosh Hashana resolutions, perhaps I should resolve to figure out how to use my digital camera and how to upload pictures.I made these two fabric bookmarks for the Koffler Centre of the Arts Bookmark 2008 Project. The theme of this year's project is "Insert". So aside from making the bookmarks, I had to write an artist's statement and a bookmark statement for each one, explaining how I made them, how they tie into the "insert" theme and the connection between them.
I didn't find out about the project until about a week before the deadline so I really had to rush. Making the bookmarks was the easier task. Writing the statements was more difficult.

On another note, I have substantially completed Eshet Chayil, a challenge piece for the Pomegranate Guild, and am pleased with the result. I wasn't sure where I was going with her but once I got going, the ideas fell into place and she turned out quite well. I suck at free motion embroidery but other than that, I'm getting better.

I wasn't sure where I was going with the FibreArts exhibit at the North York Public Library in March. The group decided on a broad theme of "travel" and each of us is doing 3 pieces. Midway through Eshet Chayil, I decided to repurpose her as part of the NYPL show. My take on travel is time travel through Jewish texts, in this case, Hebrew. So if Eshet is biblical, my next piece will be middle ages, and I found a poem by Ibn Gvirol with wonderful imagery.
The third piece will be modern and I am considering Erev Ba. Right now I am grappling with copyright issues for use of the English translation for Ibn Gvirol and both Hebrew and English for Erev Ba.

I also am trying to use up fabric I have. I made a gorgeous place mat from fabric samples for my sister and b-i-l's at whose home we celebrated Rosh Hashana last night. This is the first time in many years that the get together wasn't chez nous. B and S outdid themselves. And it was a real treat for us to sit back and enjoy, although Menachem did make gefilte fish.

Today and tomorrow we're off work so we're just taking it easy. Shana Tova to anyone reading.