Earworm

Ok, so I have been humming Mozart's Mass in C Minor for over 4 days now. I'm over it. Soon going to take out an old BeeGees CD to clear the hum. Not that I don't LOVE Mozart, and especially his Mass in C Minor, I play it often when reving up the studio. But come on. I need to figure out how not to hum it. Humming it is just not a best practice. Not the answer to a meditative space. Just not. In fact, I just may do some research about this particular Mass since obviously my brain is trying to lock in the sound. What was old Wolfgang thinking as he wrote this Mass? What is it about C Minor that tempts my brain's hard drive to step and repeat?

Onward to Night Fever.

leftovers

Sometimes it's the leftovers that spur me to the next step. I saw this little scrap the other day and decided to take a quilt that I had cut up into pieces and experiment with the scraps. It was freeing not to have to get everything perfect and the texture is glorious. When my sister-in-law came over she actually dug into the scrap heap and asked me if she could take some for herself.

Don't you love the shadows here?

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no more dithering around.

©2012, Paula Kovarik, Round and Round It Goes, detail

I have been dithering around about where to enter this piece. FiberArt International? Quilt National? I'm over it. Finally named the piece after some consternation. I consulted with others, played around with metaphors and poetry, sang some nursery rhymes and gnashed my teeth. Hey diddie diddle.....time is up.

The name of the piece is Round and Round it Goes. Created on a linen tablecloth in a spiral configuration. I entered it into the Quilt National competition. Can't show the pic here yet since there are some rules about that. This detail may give you a small preview.

Crossing my fingers to be accepted into this national show. The show travels to several venues and the artists are top of the heap, cream of the crop, buzz of the hive. Love to be a part of that.