Margaret, do your quilt....the way you do your quilts....Whatever comes from the INSPIRATION and LOVE you have for the Siddi quiltmakers...will the the RIGHT quilt...YOU ARE SUCH AN INSPIRATION to me...Hope you feel better SOON....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Have a wonderful SPECIAL DAY!!!!!!! You are FANTASTIC.....
Margaret, I'm surprised at you. When a wine is made from grapes grown in Italy, It is completly different from the wine from the same grape grown in California. This difference is celebrated by wine connoisseurs all over the world. The ground is fertile, let the fruit grow the way it will. Happy Birthday, you beautiful person.
Can't wait for you to show us how to make these quilts. So interesting. I love the bright colors and abstract designs. Hope you feel better soon. I know you'll figure it out. ;)
I hope that you solve the mystery of making a quilt like the ones your friends in India make. I have no doubt you will find a way to get create beautiful pieces that reflect your own heart. I look forward to seeing them. I finally finished a quilt. It is crib sized and very traditional, and I am now working on a more modern looking one that is much larger. I posted some photos over on my blog at The Ark. You are my inspiration. Happy 82nd Birthday Tree :)
Get over that cold, young lady. Consider that an order. I see a symmetry, and geometry, in their quilts. Yours have a more random flow to them. They're unique. You're unique. Does that make them wrong? If you go with your heart, it *will* differ from theirs, and maybe that's the point you're missing. Trying to make them look like them, instead of looking like you? What do I know. I'm just pleased to see you again, and to know that yet another project has you stumped.
Fascinating quandary. Do you think it may have something to do with the quilts being made as a communal activity? (I am guessing this is how they are made). Great to see you posting again and Happy Birthday!
hope you feel better Tree.. and wishes for a lovely 82 nd year . you are a beautiful woman , sending you pink rainbows to brighten your day , i am in ohio when will you go to indiana again?? i will drive to meet you it would be a dream come true of mine
I LOVE this quilt look! Since when do you try to be like someone other than the "one AND only!" Margaret?!? Where did Margaret go? Bring her back!!! :)
Well, first I hope you feel better really soon. Colds are so annoying! Hope you are well enough to actually do something you enjoy on your Birthday! For the quilt footage, I am sure no one would mind if you just posted all your raw footage- it would be like we went on a little trip too. That aside, maybe you could contact a film school/film student/art studio etc, maybe someone would want to make some short independent film about it, using your footage? They best hurry though, I can't wait!
This discussion reminds me of a theme in Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited", where the aesthete Anthony Blanche warns the protagonist Charles Ryder (an aspiring artist) against falling for the charm of the wealthy Marchmain family. Ryder holds an exhibition some years later, after visiting Africa, and the reviews acclaim his "wild" paintings. Blanche hastens to see them, then takes Ryder aside telling him that all he sees is pure English charm, playing tigers. It seems we are probably inescapably infused with the sensitivities of our own cultures. Not a bad thing, but we always seem to aspire to the different light of other places.
@@atree3 Hi Margaret. I have been following you for many years and am feeling inclined to attempt a Kawandi quilt. I thought I would review your videos on them. I hope you are doing well under the strange current circumstances.
I remember Brideshead . . .. think I saw it as a movie/video. enjoyed it. I had an Evelyn Waugh period, when I was in college. Loved One. . .Have you read him recently. ?
@@atree3 I have read all his novels and many of his non-fiction works. I fell in love with his wonderful vocabulary and eccentric characters when I was about 12 and devoured his works. I lived mentally in a world of Grand Houses and 1920's Oxford - quite strange for a working class boy from a poor outer suburb of Perth! I used his syntax as my model for all my school work and would pepper my verbal responses with arcane multisyllabic words, which no doubt irritated my teachers (while amusing my classmates). I most recently read again "Decline and Fall" - one of my favourites for its outrageous situations and fatalistic comic outcome.
Happy Birthday To You... Happy Birthday To You.. Happy Birthday Dearest Margaret... Happy Birthday To You! I'm a day early....but I wanted to be the first. XOOXOXOXOXO
@atree3, Your quilts are beautiful. I feel about your quilts as you do the Siddi quilts. Mystified and anxious to see another and another one, etc.. All of your work is breathtaking. Do you think you will ever consider selling any of them?
Hope you feel better soon Tree. I'm completely mystified about your desire to create/reproduce a "Siddi" quilt. Use the construction technique but do what's in your heart. Isn't that what the Siddi quilter told you? I believe the mystery is for the beholder not the creator. Does any of this make sense?
I think what might be part of the problem is that you come from an academic tradition. It is so different from their experience. When the women touch their hearts, it's the equivalent of how people explain what goes into making "soul food", i.e., it comes from the heart, it's made with love. I think that's what they're trying to say to you. You can't ever escape from the traditions that you come from but you can try to abandon some of the control when you're making this type of quilt.
I also wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday, but I ran out of characters ... A perfect example of control! Google doling out 500 characters and only 500 to express yourself!
Just found out about this type of quilt a couple days ago, then after a few related clicks RU-vid lead me to you. Looking through your old uploads.. was trying to see if you shared those women teaching you.
@@atree3 awesome!!! Thank you! After my comment, I had sorted your videos by "oldest first" and scrolled a few years worth of videos and started finding some footage, but I had to keep sorting and scrolling every time because the list would default back.
Feeling like Hell is a good reason to feel like vegitating. Hope you have a quick recovery. Would an assistant help you in any way (when you're better)? Adapt this technique to your straight haired Caucasian self. Years of cultural influence color their work. You've had very different influences and culture plays a big part in how we see the world,. Take what you've learned and bend it to your will . Not easy.
I was frightened by your video title because I thought you'd suffered some horrific physical malady that left you partially paralyzed in a literal sense. Thank goodness I was wrong! I think you might be intellectualizing the Siddi quilt-making a bit too much. I also have a tendency for over-thinking, so I mean this not as a criticism, but merely an observation. As long as you're enjoying yourself as you make these quilts, then the rest is gravy so to speak. Happy birthday & feel better soon!
