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Val d’Argent 2019

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flag-alsace-svgMi sbagliavo.
You know what news, direte voi.
But the novelty is, namely that I was never so happy to be wrong.
I think for a while 'you noticed in my post shadow of fatigue, it seems a veiled pessimism in regard to the patchwork, as if I had stopped to wait on the distant horizon of the sea should rise this thread of smoke, colorful means, and that they were dissolving the illusions to which I have always clung ever since I started to cut and sew the cloth fragments.
I confess that, in the past, some have done his worst to demoralize, this in spite of everything I have endured and all I could stand still, but ultimately I could not withstand the discomfort caused by the feeling that I was witnessing a sunset, the folding of the patchwork on himself, the repetition of themes seen, the joints in the direction of the pure effect, the unrealistic performances in which lacked both the art that the technique, e, sore, the smallness of a promising generational change.
The first cracks had formed a few years ago, When they were too frequent already seen, the impression of heated soup just to understand, and to receive praise and awards were the usual suspects names.
Ah, what a mistake my! I was blind, but now I see.
Who made the miracle?
One name: 25° European Patchwork.

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Wiener Neustadt – Quilt Fest 2018

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banner2This article is also a warning about how easy and hard to come around with us.
Easy, because there are no pre-compiled programs, imposed mandatory targets and route plans march.
Difficult, because you go a little’ adventure, adapting to what is due and always sympathetic to the unexpected or the unusual.
Easy, because there is nothing to do but get carried away, by a bus, a train, a current, emotion, illusion.
Difficult, because it does it with the slow pace dictated by logistical contingencies and our phlegmatic temperament.
Wanting to put us over charging eleven you let me remember how much our "travel" style may seem, a ragione, injudicious. Continua a leggere →

Come sempre, diversamente da sempre

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praguearmsEccomi qua.
In ritardo come al solito.
So già cosa vi state aspettando, la mia periodica tiritera su quanto siano affascinanti Praga e la Boemia in generale, tanto più in occasione del Prague Patchwork Meeting. Insomma il solito strazio.
Errore.
Calma, calma, non si pensi che Praga abbia ormai perso la sua capacità di suggestionarmi, o che, dopo ben undici anni, undici presenze, undici viaggi, io non trovi più ragioni per andare a vedere il patchwork boemo. Non sia mai detto. Continua a leggere →

Tagliare per ricucire

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Premise, tanto per esser chiare (ma quando mai…).
Su questo post non tratto di patchwork, di cucito creativo, e nemmeno di stoffa, ma in fin dei conti nulla può prescindere dal patchwork, dal cucito creativo, e dalla stoffa.
Cerco di spiegarmi (illusa…).
Anamnesi: inverno, poca luce, polso e mano doloranti, umore grigio ardesia, ispirazione latitante.
Diagnosi: metereopatia strisciante e inizi di malinconia.
Prognosi: aggravamento dei sintomi in assenza di trattamento polifunzionale.
Cura: vedi qui, di seguito. Continua a leggere →

Fête du Fil

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Un mese, no dico, dal mio ultimo post un mese senza telefono, e ovviamente senza internet, ma come si fa?
Finalmente qualcosa si è mosso, e allora, prima che la linea decida nuovamente di sparire, ho buttato giù in fretta e furia questo articolo su un’esperienza sinestetica che difficilmente dimenticherò.
occitaniaC’è chi va in Val d’Argent, chi va a Birmingham, chi va a Karlsruhe, chi va a Houston, chi va a Tokyo, chi va a Biarritz, chi va a Paducah, chi va a Veldhoven, e c’è anche chi si inoltra sino ai piedi della Montagna Nera per una mostra patchwork, ma soprattutto lo fa a sua insaputa.

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