Angels appreciated
Judith_Butt
My browsing through your group is explained under Husband's Lament
My attention has been caught by all you angel enthusiasts (as well as a theme
of 'they' don't appreciate ...) One of my enthusiasms is renaissance and
baroque music (I play viola da gamba). I regularly play with a keyboard
player who has reconstructed a lovely old pipe organ he rescued from a
church which had to be demolished in North Wales (Frescobaldi sonatas are fun)
He introduced me to the certain fact that organs do not function properly
unless decorated with angels. He carved some angels which now look over the
workings of his instrument.
So; every room with an electronic keyboard positively needs to be looked
after by your angels, preferably singing or playing trumpets, but if they're
cross-stitching then at least they are promoting harmony.
My wife is a member of a textile artists' group. Two of the group produced
a most wonderful wall hanging whose border consisted of about a hundred
exquisitely worked angels' faces. The expressions haunted me when I saw it;
the hanging is on display at Urchfont Manor near Salisbury (UK, sorry) where
they meet for their fabric-fests. I asked the designer, Linda Rakshit, to
make me a drawing of one. I have scanned it onto a picture file and use it
as the picture which comes up whenever I turn on Windows. Well actually I
have twenty or so alternative pictures which come up at random whenever I
start Windows - many of them are colour scannings of embroidery pieces.
Occasionally this angel with her (definitely 'her') haunting expression
comes up when I switch the machine on.
As this definitely has the same effect on the computer as angels around organ
pipes do I recommend the practice to everyone :)
Geoff (who is holding the (e)fort while Judith is at Glasgow "Creative
Stitching" exhibition)
PS If anyone would like a copy of the picture file to bring beatification to
their computers I'll negotiate Linda's permission to send you one. Contact
me on ge...@butt.demon.co.uk.
PPS *:) Thinks : I have this angel picture, I have this inkjet printer which
people say will print onto fabric - hmmm, what do you think, Martha Beth?
in the account of: ---------------------------------------------------------
Judith Butt Textile artist, exhibitor, teacher
at Fantasy Fabrics Exotic fabrics/threads/silk/ribbons/beads/etc
Greenmantle, Plough Lane, e-mail-order worldwide : Fax: *-44-1244-335296
Christleton, Chester, UK. CH3 7BA email catalogue: jud...@butt.demon.co.uk
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Martha Beth Lewis
writes:
Hi, Geoff! If I was excited by your "HUSBAND'S LAMET" post, I am beyond
joyful with this one! Oooo ooo! A viol player! I wish you were
nearby! We could squeak around on them together! (I have a bass and a
a pardessus which I play most badly.) Or you could play well, and I'd
accompany you on harpsichord!
>So; every room with an electronic keyboard positively needs to be
looked>after by your angels, preferably singing or playing trumpets, but
if they're>cross-stitching then at least they are promoting harmony.
I like this idea very much! I'll have to stitch an angel for nearby
mine.
>a most wonderful wall hanging whose border consisted of about a hundred
>exquisitely worked angels' faces. ...post it....
Oh, yes, can you do this? I think binary files would have to
go someplace other than r.c.t.n, tho. Kathy Dyer can help
us out, I'm sure. I'll ask her.
>As this definitely has the same effect on the computer as angels around
organ>pipes do I recommend the practice to everyone :)
>PS If anyone would like a copy of the picture file to bring
beatification to>their computers I'll negotiate Linda's permission to
send you one.
I am definitely interested. (I trained originally as an
organist....my recital program covers always have St. Cecilia
on them.)
>PPS *:) Thinks : I have this angel picture, I have this inkjet printer
which
> people say will print onto fabric - hmmm, what do you think,
Martha Beth?
Whatever it is, it sounds WONDERFUL! Please tell us more!!
Martha Beth, drowning in drooooooool