Comments on: Fortune Cookie Says… http://weaversew.com/wordblog/2010/03/02/fortune-cookie-says/ The World from a Weaver's point of view! Thu, 17 May 2012 17:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Cally http://weaversew.com/wordblog/2010/03/02/fortune-cookie-says/comment-page-1/#comment-2215 Cally Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:38:49 +0000 http://weaversew.com/wordblog/?p=2386#comment-2215 Wow, I wish my meals brought me that kind of message! I am excited because our local art gallery has just reopened after a three year refurbishment - it is like the rain after a loooong artistic drought. When we lived in NJ I was a gallery junkie and we binged on everything that NYC had to offer. Back home there is not such an abundance of inspiration and it is easy to drop out altogether, but this dry spell has made me appreciate what I am missing when I stay home. Wow, I wish my meals brought me that kind of message! I am excited because our local art gallery has just reopened after a three year refurbishment – it is like the rain after a loooong artistic drought. When we lived in NJ I was a gallery junkie and we binged on everything that NYC had to offer. Back home there is not such an abundance of inspiration and it is easy to drop out altogether, but this dry spell has made me appreciate what I am missing when I stay home.

]]> By: Julie Kornlbum http://weaversew.com/wordblog/2010/03/02/fortune-cookie-says/comment-page-1/#comment-2212 Julie Kornlbum Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:48:53 +0000 http://weaversew.com/wordblog/?p=2386#comment-2212 At the Southern California Handweavers meeting on Feb 13, I mentioned that I used to be a pattern maker in the fashion industry here. One of my first classes in school was Fashion Sketching with a wonderful teacher named Louis LaSalvia. He had a mantra of sorts that he repeated several times in every class session. At Los Angeles Trade Tech, where I went to Fashion school, our classes met four hours a day, five days a week for 10 weeks; so Mr. LaSalvia said this a lot: "You can't design in a vacuume!" This was my first semester of the two-year program in 1983, 27 years ago (eek!) and not only have I never forgotten it, but I repeated it back to my own students when I was a fashion teacher (at Otis College), and to my fellow students when I was an art student. I believe I've even said it in fiber art workshops I've taught recently. I love that fortune, it can apply to so many situations in life. The rewards we want are to be found by going outside of our own self-imposed limit lines. At the Southern California Handweavers meeting on Feb 13, I mentioned that I used to be a pattern maker in the fashion industry here. One of my first classes in school was Fashion Sketching with a wonderful teacher named Louis LaSalvia. He had a mantra of sorts that he repeated several times in every class session. At Los Angeles Trade Tech, where I went to Fashion school, our classes met four hours a day, five days a week for 10 weeks; so Mr. LaSalvia said this a lot: “You can’t design in a vacuume!”

This was my first semester of the two-year program in 1983, 27 years ago (eek!) and not only have I never forgotten it, but I repeated it back to my own students when I was a fashion teacher (at Otis College), and to my fellow students when I was an art student. I believe I’ve even said it in fiber art workshops I’ve taught recently.

I love that fortune, it can apply to so many situations in life. The rewards we want are to be found by going outside of our own self-imposed limit lines.

]]> By: Sherri http://weaversew.com/wordblog/2010/03/02/fortune-cookie-says/comment-page-1/#comment-2209 Sherri Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:08:07 +0000 http://weaversew.com/wordblog/?p=2386#comment-2209 This inspiration thing is something I've been thinking about for a while now. I was feeling like I was in a dry hole until I visited an museum exhibit. That opened the gates to a big flood of ideas, and receptive to sparks from many different directions. And, I love the fortune taco. Gotta get one of those! This inspiration thing is something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. I was feeling like I was in a dry hole until I visited an museum exhibit. That opened the gates to a big flood of ideas, and receptive to sparks from many different directions. And, I love the fortune taco. Gotta get one of those!

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