The Consistent Variable Project Workbook page 26 NON BUSY BEES by risa
Quilting and other such complex, fulfilling, crafty tasks are not just for those folks who exude the ability to multi-task, as the haiku on this page tells us. Non-busy bees can easily take up quilting too, and accumulate speed over time until they acheive “busy” status. But before you can hit that height, you just need to make a lot of things and keep getting better.
The teacher I worked for at Concordia last year used to talk about doing a gallery exhibit with the walls covered in different people’s rejection letters- from arts granting agencies, publishers, schools, etc.The CVP is similar, with the world of different experiences of the same thing that it creates, but it celebrates all the layers and facets and subjective ways of success and failure. About 80% of kits given out come back in, and those that do are differently successful. For the Indyish launch we’re going to do a 24hour CVP, where brave young and old creative folk will tackle the process of invention with constrained materials in a much shorter time then the two CVP’s attempted before. (ooh ahh.)
Maybe there will be more failure, or maybe there will be more madcap hilarity in the successes. Who knows. More news on that soon, meanwhile, revel in the lightweight and breezy quilted bag, from CVP Trial 1.
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