Wen Redmond Workshop

I’m looking forward to taking a workshop with one of my textile idols, Wen Redmond, whose work includes collage, photos, ground-breaking takes on art, textiles and paper. Her work has inspired me for quite a while, and she has a workshop through FibreArtsTakeTwo. I’ve been looking for a way to incorporate more of my thousands of photographs (yes, thousands!) into quilting and am not always ecstatic with the photo-to-fabric results. There are so many B/W photos I would like to use, but how to choose?

For the past week, I have been taking out my notebooks full of 35mm film and it has been a walk down memory lane. I’ve chosen a number of pics I want to use, but I never really appreciated how much the digital age has made taking pictures easier… until now. If you don’t like how an image turned out, delete it, and most of the time you can take another shot immediately. You can edit your photos on your phone, from fixing the color automatically, to cropping, highlighting, and 50 other edits. All of this magic happens with the tiny computer that lives in my back pocket. I always know where my Canon is, and it always has a full battery and SD card ready to go, but I seem to use it less and less on a daily basis. Are 35mm cameras going to go the way of the typewriter?

So here are a few of the photos I might like to use: Ansonia roses, chihuly glass sculpture, and Fairy Light garden glass

Beth