Ancestry.com is using artificial intelligence (AI) to help Black Americans trace their family trees. The genealogy company has released a new collection of searchable newspaper articles containing information about formerly enslaved people in the U.S. The collection includes tens of thousands of newspaper records from the 1800s.
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I have been making fused fabric quilts for what seems like a zillion years, and have taught my techniques all over the place, and wonder how many fusing converts have resulted. I am looking for a group of players who want to focus on fusing and would like to do something with me online, where I could demo/teach/play without having to pack a bag and go to the airport. Anyone interested? It's FREE. You'll need to have a supply of hand dyed fabrics, plenty of Wonder-Under and an iron and scissors. Email me and we'll get going. Here's a sample of what might happen. Bon Bon #1 Hand dyed and commericial cotton, fused, machine quilted 26.5 x 40" $1200 made in January of 2008. Bon bon is one of the series of quilts that was made from parts without a design in mind in the beginning. I gathered lots of warm analogous colors, colors next to each other on the color wheel, and then began just by cutting and fusing strips. I was not thinking of size, just making strip fused fabrics. Some strips are narrow, others medium and some wider. I added a few prints, just because. This section shows that the wider strips were added in a long skinny strip to the narrower stripped fabric. What makes this interesting, since it is so simple, is the color as it changes value and hue. And of course that nothing is really straight. This is a section from Bon Bon #3 and the strips are alternated horizontal panels with vertical panels. Notice the very thin strips in pink or red that are included to punch up the color. I repeated those several times deliberately. When lots of stripped parts were constructed I began to arrange them to try out the layout. This is the fun part. In this picture there are none of the log cabin blocks, but they had to come into the design because it needed less busy areas. This layout was rejected in favor of a more horizontal composition. Here is a block from another quilt that shows how strips can be the center of a log cabin. Simple but effective. None of this is difficult, but the FABRIC IS DOING ALL THE WORK. When you have lots and lots of variety of color in lots and lots of values of each of them, plus tints and shades and textures, the results are rich. And everything is fused, so that means even leftover skinny pieces from other quilts are usable in this kind of work. That whole package, the dyeing, the stripping, the fusing, the simplicity is what I have been teaching all these years. Most of it is still here in the archives of my former blog, http://fibermania.blogspot.com/. I found all these pictures back in January's posts from 2008. Dyeing lessons are in the Lazy Dyer site. The sidebar has lots more fusing information. I am sending it all to you. No secrets.
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The new Daffodil Dies have tons of little dies that you put together like a puzzle to form gorgeous daffodil blooms (and buds). Once you get the hang of it, they are so much fun to work with. I now have a table covered with daffodil pieces in at least 4 different colors. Mix and ... Read More about Daffodils Dies
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Acrylic on linen - Unframed Clay Johnson is an American abstract painter whose reductivist compositions explore the relationships between color, form, and texture. He lives and works in Laramie, Wyoming. The technique Johnson employs is extremely rigorous, involving, as he says, “pushing paint around with palette knives and drywall tools rather than brushes.” The scraping and sanding creates a variety of different textures and leads to the emergence of unexpected forms. Johnson has said he does not believe in inspiration. Instead, he believes in evolution. He is motivated by process. Rather than being planned ahead of time, the work emerges through a series of critical responses to previous decisions. He begins each painting by taping off one or more horizon lines. His initial color choice then guides the composition forward. Certain elements—a color, a line, a texture—are destroyed, while other elements incite unimagined discoveries. His intuition is guided by visceral reactions to the physical qualities of paint, the quest for pictorial balance, and the emergence of abstract relationships. The most important part of this process is editing. As Johnson says, “that narrative—the story of the painting’s own making—becomes the central subject. It’s this process of trial and error— the flawed execution of a perfect concept—that can make a few lines and rectangles so compelling.”
