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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Designing outside of the box

Two questions...

Ellen asked if we might want to share at our reveal what our thought process was in designing or "coming to" our individual pieces. I think this is a great idea! By all means lets DO share, confident that in sharing, we may spark other’s creativity through the conceptual process.

Rene' brought up a great question the other day, "Does our piece have to stay within the boundaries of 15 X 15"?

Initially, I piped in with YES! But in retrospect, I believe that IF we limit even tiny elements to stay in those boundaries it might inhibit the creative process. By all means then, allow yourself to think and design "outside the box.” Be aware however, that others “boxes” will need to be displayed by yours and please, try not to crowd their display space as well. Items in a collection with irregular edges actually may add visual interest to our group displays, but limit it please. Is that as clear as mud?? Hoping to encourage creativity, not impede it!!

Here’s a great link with creative terminology that we might find useful during this process, Textile Dictionary: http://www.fabriclink.com/dictionaries/textile.cfm

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