Sorry for the break between posts! Sewtopia Palm Springs outings on Day 1 ended with a visit to the Palm Springs Art Museum. We had a little trouble getting in to the museum--there was apparently a miscommunication about payment and we had to wait about 25 minutes before it was sorted out. There were lots of great art pieces--I'll just share a few.
The San Jacinto Mountains looked very quilt-like in this very wide and narrow painting.
Interesting bio for this 1960 painting.
I left the bit of the museum floor to show how large the Pueblo painting was. Love the colors of this painting.
There were also sculptures.
One could not exactly tell what this was at first glance, though I did have an idea before reading the bio.
Can you see the horse now?
Upstairs were lots of modern art pieces including one of my favorites...
A very large sculpture by Alexander Calder.
I don't really see a lizard, but I liked the shapes! It would be fun to see this in motion. Okay, just one more to share...
This huge basket sculpture was made from an usual group of materials.
Crushed aluminum cans mounted on a satellite dish!
There were many more pieces of art I enjoyed--and there was also a turn through the museum store--but later I learned from my sister that I missed the basement treasures, including glass art by Dale Chihuly. Oh well!
Finally we returned to the hotel and at last entered the sewing room for some actual sewing. I started with my main sewing project, Sidewalk Chalk (pattern by Meghan Buchanan), sewing together all the HRT pieces before calling it a night.
The next morning we had buffet breakfast in the conference center and then got back to sewing. It was great to have a design wall close by and I slowly filled it up with the blocks over the hours.
It was slow going to keep track of my different fabrics versus the pattern colors for each block, but I managed to get them all done. then I made my task longer by sewing each of the block pieces together individually, but I wanted to be sure of my placements!
I ended Friday night with the individual rows sewn and packed them away to assemble into a top at home.
One more post to finish off Sewtopia 2022--and share the destination for Sewtopia 2024!
2 comments:
The art museum looks like a fun excursion. That first painting you show is my favorite from what you shared. You made good progress on your project too. So fun excursions and productive stitching, you can't ask for much more.
I love what you're working on, great visual impact! The trip to the museum was a treat, thanks for taking us along. Who would have ever looked at the side of a crushed can and thought "this would make a great mosaic?"!??!
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