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Did you know that “Red” and “Yellow” are the most intense colors? To be a successful and pleasing piece, any quilt composition should use Red and Yellow in a judicious manner, that is sparingly. Red has come to symbolize passion, and the very force of life (blood). It can represent anger. I will never forget an all-Red quilt I once saw in a show, made by a woman who killed herself upon its completion, as she had promised.

Red is a “power” color, according to those who advise women how to dress. Yellow is associated with frailty and weakness, and of course, the sun. In any composition, yellow should be placed high so that it will not look weighted down by darker colors above it.

Redwork is a type of embroidery that became popular in Victorian times. What is meant by Victorian times? The name is derived from Queen Victoria who ascended the throne at the age of 18, and two years later married Prince Albert, her cousin. Royalty could not marry commoners. Victoria ruled the United Kingdom for the next 60 years, and was a widow for 40 of those years, dressing in Black.

Many Victorian Crazy Quilts feature many pieces of Black silk. Redwork or “etching on linen” (the term used at the time) was a direct response to the excessive stitch ornamentation of Crazy Quilts which preceded the more simplistic outline stitch fad. Redwork looks nice because it has a white or muslin-color background that balances the thin lines of outline stitch embroidery.

Whether one prefers highly-ornamented embroidery, filled-work such as Crewel Embroidery (see the example on the front page of my website), or the more simplistic, line drawing look of Redwork, there is some kind of needlework that is bound to please us all.

I have found great joy in collecting pieces of Redwork and other embroideries and intadalafil an embroiderer, quilter, painter, crocheter, knitter, stenciler, cross-stitcher, and needlepointer. I have enjoyed all of the other creative pursuits in which I have engaged. Creativity is a wonderful thing and I hope to be creative until the day I “shuffle off the mortal coil” and become an un-living entity.

Moreover, I have enjoyed the many intellectual pursuits that I have followed. Some of my work will continue beyond my lifetime in the tangible form of things I have made, in my written and published words, my musical recordings, and in the memories of my students and friends. Tonight, I am happy, and if I never awake to see another day, I rest easy in knowing that I did my best, in spite of a few stumbling blocks placed by others in the paths that I have followed.

G’ night,

Pat Cummings
– where there is a new article: “Redwork Embroidery – Perennially Appealing”

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