Embroidery in Roma

Found in the windows of Roman shops - where the nuns and priests shop.

Very interesting to see 'tours' of nuns being shuffled around to all the famous religious sights.

Religious garbs have long been the traditional work of embroiderers.

Misc Rome shots

The Roman Colosseum
Ah, the weather...

ivy vines, random columns, and gorgeous yellow wall

hungry??

I LOVE ICELAND but the volcano, not so much...

Our trip to Italy was three weeks after the big air space shut down from the Icelandic volcano and we spent the time going back and forth deciding whether or not to fly. But everything settled down and nothing was heard about the ash cloud. Unbeknownst to us, another eruption happened three days before we were to fly. Our flight was delayed for 2 hours and we arrived at the airport in time for the new departure, then we had to wait in the lounge for another hour for (as the announcement went) major cleanup because so many people had been sick on the flight over! A little apprehensive with that, but once we got on, our flight was smooth and unexciting – although they did have to file a new flight plan going around the ash, further north over Iceland and directly down the North Sea into Germany.

Our original flight was through Frankfurt, onto Zurich, then into Rome. Because the original flight was 3 hours late we missed our first connection – that was good in that it resulted in a direct flight to Rome, although once again a new flight plan what to be filed going through French air space. Our getting to Rome was great but unfortunately that led to all of our troubles with the luggage.

We ended up spending 6 days straight in our original clothes while phoning airports and call centres trying to trace our bags. We were originally planning to spend 3 nights in Rome and get over jet lag before heading north into Tuscany.

We got out to lots of sights – all the big names, but my oh my, there are a lot of them in Rome!! But were continually checking in with the hotel as things were promised to be delivered but never were. We also spent an extra night – requiring picking up our rental car at the airport and driving it into the middle of the city and finding a parking lot (actually a lot easier than it sounded like it was going to be!) Our hotel staff were all amazingly helpful making the phone calls and keeping the pressure on. One suitcase was found right away and flown into Rome but the other remained missing in Frankfurt for days. They were going to deliver one, then they waited for the other to arrive. Supposedly once it was delivered to a courier it was supposed to arrive within 24 hours – that promise got broken a few times.

The Vatican and St. Peter's

Quilt Canada 2010

As invited stitch artists to the national QUILT CANADA 2010, our group Articulation was thrilled to be a part of this major show. Held at the Convention Centre in downtown Calgary this past week, we talked to a large number of the approximately 2000 people who entered the doors each day.

We started the week with three cars loaded to their brims with art, tables, ladders, a tool box, and easels.




Once we entered the building and started hanging the show... two days had past!




Gradually it all came together and we gathered to do our ritual tour where each artist talks about their pieces so that when the time comes to tour other people around, we can all talk about every piece in the show.

We had two scheduled 'gallery talks' during the four day show and were able to break into smaller groups as seven of the nine Articulation artists had travelled to Calgary for this week. For all the rest of the time we would talk to people individually and explain who we were and the stories behind our art.


above: Gloria S. Daly's Tangled - and Leann Clifford's (top) Autumn Leaves (bottom) Wheat


Ingrid Lincoln's Graffitti and Cityscape - and Lesley Turner's Meadow


Vickie Newington's Alley - and Wendy Klotz's The Kelly Building


Lesley Turner's Provisioning - and Donna Clement's Motif de Fleur

Spring Clean-Up

My daughter has returned from her 6 months of travelling the world, and my son has returned home from university - suddenly we have a full house once again.

While they are looking for summer jobs, I have put them to work on web site updating.

My daughter is in charge of my personal web site, so is in the process of adding a lot of pieces from shows from the past 2 years, plus small pieces from sales I have done, including my line of jewelery (I usually create a new stitched brooch every year.) Slowly, slowly, it will become current! Keep checking for the latest...
web site - www.donnaclement.com

My son is in charge of the Articulation web site. Lesley Turner and I are the ones who post on the Articulation blog. Steve is gradually adding photos from all of our past shows, more information about our yearly study sessions, but mainly colour and art! He tends to do the additions on-line then upload it in batches, so that will be a gradual process as well. Keeping checking for the latest...
web site - articulationtextilegroup.com
blog - articulationtextilegroup.blogspot.com

(All of these links can be found in the column on the right hand side of this page.)