How One Sees
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2012
- An interview with Margaret Fabrizio discussing her venture into the making of quilts in the Siddi manner. Since her trip to Karnataka and working with the Siddi quilters she has completed 11 pieces. She learned the technique, but can one change one's aesthetic sensibilities?
Margaret, The Indian women are doing automatic sewing or piecing. I've done it for years. Artists, musicians, and writers also do automatic work. You just put down on cloth ( in a sewer's case) whatever talks to you, and make no judgments. Then when you're "done" you celebrate the creativity and freedom that you had the pleasure to experience. When an artist looks at his/her work and says " Where in the heck did that come from?" then you know you've experienced the creative miracle. Annette Hepner
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for this explanation...there are so many times I stare at my pieces in shock, because I have no idea where this or that came from but it turns out lovely....❤❤ Peace and blessings to you!!!!
It is so encouraging to see someone still so involved with life in their later years. I am 74 and still finding new things to do. I just discovered this type of quilt making this morning. Margaret is fascinating!
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Well Margaret, I am so glad the UA-cam algorithm (isn't that light years away from Siddi quilting?) popped one of your videos in my feed. I am in love with Siddi, with your experiences ;and I want to say this is something I have been looking for but didn't know it.
I started an English Paper Pieced hexagon quilt during the pandemic, designing it as I got a bunch of hexies made, having fun. It is free flowing with bright wonderful colors and darker but vibrant colors. I am new to sewing and have not made a quilt before the hexagon one. I am hand sewing the hexagons together and enjoying that process. It is almost Zen-like. But what I really like about doing my own "design" is that I don't need to follow a pattern making sure everything is done "perfectly".
Margaret, this is going to be my next chapter with fabrics. I hope to learn as much about myself doing a Siddi-like quilt as you have. I can't wait to view more of your videos.
Be well and thank you! Warm hugs from Minnesota, Fern
I love Margaret's enthusiasm and because of her love of the Kawandi quilt technique, she has inspired me to make my own sampler, and I'm trying not to think, as she says, (ha!) but my artistic eye wants to match up the colors, create contrast and line things up nicely...but NO!!! I need a LOT more practice that's for sure..and she's right, I go into a zen type of mode, my stress is lessened and my brain is soothed from creating something that I love. Cheers and love from sunny FL 😀
make something you feel is offensive. "Oh, no! that doesnt work at all"
I dare you . . .
Love your scarf for your hat- Margaret! Great ideas!
A natural talent with this lady making a quilt!
An absolutely delightful interview, Margaret, and a lot of insight into the strange magic of the Siddi quilts. It's remarkable how our own culture is the biggest block to grasping their concepts.
Your solid colors of rectangles and withe various- all looks great! Small and largest pieces- not many of design med printed stories- it’s fun to look at these! Thank you!💕Margaret!!NEVEr ugly! Sandra Myer
I just watched this video and I absolutely get what you are saying! I had the same feelings the first time I seen the gees bend quilts. I recently came across this style quilt and became intrigued! Im wanting to make one but trying to educate myself on the process as I want be going to India or Africa😂 your videos help so much! I appreciate you sharing all you have learned. Your work is so randomly beautiful, inspiring and a blessing to us all. I absolutely adore you!! God bless you!! I just found your channel so going to catch up on all your videos. I guess you could say these quilts have "no rhyme or reason" maybe I'll call my first quilt that😆🤣🤭. 🕊
I have just rewatched this after seeing it when you first published it. I can’t believe that I have been watching you for over ten years now! I am just starting a Siddi/Fabrizio inspired piece (like you, starting small!). Thank you again for your enthusiasm, passion and continued inspiration 🌹
I have no idea who this lady is but she speaks my language!! How wonderful she is open to learn from another artist/craftswoman!! Wonderful discussion?…
They definitely think about what they are doing. That was evidenced by how the lady auditioned, selected, and/or rejected pieces of fabric to include in her final piece. We do it all the time. What the Siddi women do requires something that comes from within. It is meditative, contemplative, and soulful.
Faxxxxx
I just love these Siddi quilts and the Gees Bend ones. This is the 3rd time that I have watched these vids. I love that I can just put down a base fabric no need for batting even - an old duvet cover, sheet or pieces sewn together and sew on pieces of old clothes where ever I like. Quilt as you go. All I need do is fold over the raw edges and finger press. I have some strong white cotton yarn just need a big needle. Does anyone else have boxes and boxes of fabric that are really old clothes that you somehow acquire, not even my clothes.
OMG I could listen to this beautiful woman speak for hours. I am just starting a Siddi quilt. I find it intimidating at this time and hope I loosen up :)
Margaret, your inspiration is so IMPORTANT to me...THANK YOU FOR SHARING...for continuing to create BEAUTIFUL pieces of ART!!!
What a lovely interview 🙏 Your vulnerability and explanations are both as lovely as your quilts are. The growth you recognized, honoring this as a journey versus learning a technique, is inspiring. "It's not satisfaction it's surrender" 🥲👌 So beautiful. All of it.
تسلیم شدن چه واژه زیبایی ❤❤❤
Love your quilts, your honesty and your joy! I will be binge watching your videos...Thank you for making the videos for us to enjoy 😀
No matter who thinks what…Their Quilts are so BEAUTIFUL…Sincerely Carmen Balko
This video is soooo great! Watching your quilts and thinking and approach evolve over time. So helpfully and it reminded me to open my heart more when quilting. It's not all about the product...
I love your work, and I love your videos. In fact, I love you.
How I wish we could meet! I want to hear all your stories.
Thank you for all you do, and for all you have done.
....so wonderful to see all that passion in you!!!
the mark of a true artist...
I come back to this video alot. I appreciate the conversation and the respect for the work of the Siddi women, their intuition into what piece works - the whole 'construction' talk was really interesting. Thanks
Totally LOVE HOW this ART EVOLVES …LOVE THE EVOLVING OF FEELING….NO THINKING just do it…Just so BEAUTIFUL…LOVE THIS FORM OF CREATIVITY
It was so nice of that lady to make that little piece so you could see the process from start to finish.
Very interesting quilts have come out of your efforts to make a Siddi, so it's all good!
what a wonderful character she is. i like her sense of fashion - i hope i look like her in another 10 years; been a fabric addict since i was a child. more important though, is her exposure to quilts of the world and the amazing artistry of so called "peasants" - they are real innovators and artists. she is right in that her quilt, compared to theirs, doesn't have the same mystery or sensibility... i guess that is innate to each culture. But her quilts are great too! i think her 2nd one is more successful. i like how she is thinking and explains her processes. agree about how lovely old clothes are - that softness. She is doing such exciting things!
من هم عاشق خیاطی و رنگها و پارچه و نقاشی ..و بافتنی .نوشتن ...حالا با دوختن کارهای چهل تیکه تمام این هنرها در هم تلفیق میشه و من غرق لذت میشم وهنگام کار تو حالت خلسه میرم وقتی رنگها روترکیب میکنم چیزی خلق میشه باورم نمیشه که خودم انجام دادم زمان و مکان فراموشم میشه این حس رو دوست دارم
Absolutely loved this video! So inspiring. A whole new perspective. I'm looking at my fabric in a totally different way.
how did you happen to find this?
Oh, thank you. I’ve been long time follower -- how did I miss this?????
I love how this interview seems to condense the content of your related videos. Thank you, Margaret. I so admire you and all your art and all your exploits. You inspire me and enrich my spirit. 🙏🏽
Spectacular. I have found my newest passion. Thank you for sharing.
Watching this film again today….I love this video. Thank you for the tour and the questions. ❤
I am doing a piece if this sewing, and I love the process orientation. I'm sure mine is different for many reasons, but I love it.
"It's not satisfaction; it's surrender" sublime
What a delightful artist, and interview! I am totally charmed. Xxx
TOUCHES MY HEART COMPLETELY
EXTRAORDINARILY FREEING,EMPOWERING and KNOWLEDGABLE
So creative- and use various scraps or old clothes- made much colors!? Interesting! So great a Quilt orcArt for the walk
Thank you for an inspiring video just a wonderful display
thanks for watching and finding this old video
Loved the video! It is hard getting out of the box. I tend to analysis everything also. Your quilts are just beautiful! They are different than what we are use to seeing in quilt magazines & shows, etc. Hope you are planning on another video series. Cathy
And here I am again Margaret. I just can't stop watching your video. It makes me so happy, you make me so happy. Thank you. Cheers, fern in minnesota
I love ur quilts that I started to make some!!
Wonderful, Margaret! I'm hoping that one day you'll do a video of the Siddi technique.
its their spirit put in to their quilting..
Shared ... I want my artistic grandchildren to see this !
i love G's bend quilts too :) wonderful video...
Wonderful PhD of quilt
I enjoyed this video your skills as a professor mabey
Help to enhance the production. First rate Margaret as you always are.
Please tell this lady that her quilts are fabulous.
Your latest video how one sees really connected with me. It's exactly the thought processes i'm going through at the moment.Trying to surrender and be free with my colours, textures and not being judgemental on differing types of fabric whether new or old, found or bought. I seem to be exploring the idea that everything is and has it's right to be there. Almost like rescuing people and putting them together in a village and saying "you are all equal now get on with it"
Love her make up especially the lipstick.
I really love this woman! She is phenomenal! I wish I could learn from her. I could listen to her all day. I love her eccentric clothing. I’ve secretly always wanted to dress like that. She is everything I could aspire to!
Wow I love those quilts I want to learn ????? Beautiful!
Margaret, I think one of the possibilities of completing the mystery would be (if you were physically and mentally able) to go back to the village and show the quilts you've made to the women who make the Siddi quilts ... I think the experience would be phenomenal. I'm not sure what your situation is now with regard to your knee surgery, but if you could possibly do it, you should try and make the trip with quilts in hand!
You are wonderful!!
Thank you🙏🏽🌹🙏🏽
I am so interested in sewing from patches. I feel great potential in myself, but in my country my works are not needed and they are not appreciated. But I try not to lose heart and come up with new things, learn new things. It is a pity that I live in the wrong place, and the years go by
What country are you in?
Леночка, не расстраивайтесь. Да, согласна с Вами, что подобные одеялки сложно продать, Но я на Вашем канале зависаю. Творим дальше!!!.
I love Boxer Shorts #1 ... in accordance with the mystery, I shall always refer to it as "Hopping John"!
Amazing!
that moment . . . taking the stitches . . . nothing else exists
I recently came across your quilts. maybe it is because my kids decided it was time for Mr to have a computer. I love the style of quilting, and I must say that I always make mine in the same way. do you think it has something to do with my African genes. I live in Guyana South America
You trying to understand the quilts of the “Sidi” (sp) is akin to me trying to understand what goes on in your mind, heart and soul when you are playing Bach. I will NEVER understand it. I can only relish and enjoy its magical effect ON me.
And to try to reproduce it exactly is futile and somewhat destructive I think.
LOVED this video.
XOXOXOXO
Vera
To try to “understand” art or a particular artistic expression is to attempt to intellectualize it. One can never successfully intellectualize an artistic expression of feeling. Intellect and emotion are oil and water.
(con't)
🥰thank you for sharing
LOVE the one at 18:46 WOW!
That one is beautiful too
i just happened upon your channel, and i now feel at home. I've always felt a little odd in how i make my choices when i make things.it is difficult to understand if your brought up in traditional society, we arent as free thinkers as some communities. i can understand your questioning what you see and how you see it. but with this art form, i think it seems to be a matter of color and movement for their pieces. and planning is not a part of it, freeform from the heart.
I've been thinking of doing that
Wonderful. TFS. 🥰
Awesome.
Interesting!!
I love your outfit Ms.F...very gypsy mystic...you are much more mysterious than you think...I ask the same questions when I see yoor work all of it the collages, videos all of it !
How/why...what makes you tick...=)
I’m curious … what is the pink thing in Margaret’s hand when she is sewing on her Kawandi? In the video of the Siddi women, one had something also in the hand. The best comment was when Margaret was watching, the neighbor comes by from next door and tosses some different cloth to use in the quilt. Love going down the Rabbit Hole in finding a beautiful art form in hand stitching. Thank you Margaret.
it is a fabric stuffed cushion, used to push the large needle and heavy thread through the many folds of fabric. Often pliers are needed to pull it all the way through
Your amazing going to India!
wonderful
Very interesting .
#7 really pops!
By the way i love all of those quilts. There is something about working with used fabric i agree x x x
@Rob Jackson Thanks for sharing.
PS. You started seeing with your heart...like the woman told you she did...you answer all your own questions...=)
this lady is a hoot, i would love to meet her.
Love this. So, do you start the quilt from the sides and end in the middle ?
yes
Do you use an embroidery needle?
Great outfit, beautiful It must be said. You could sew on air plane goggles on the head scarf the squares look like them.
Also, what is the base fabric? Muslin?
Please please please Margaret can you show us a step by step technique. i still don't understand how it's done x x x
Margaret, Can you show us what the back of a Siddi quilt looks like?
Also are any of the siddi quilts up for sale? x x x
Old clothes have a memory…
No Bernina, I'm afraid . . .
Margaret have you ever added beads to any of your Kawandis????
once in a while. and buttons, sequins, crocheted eggplants . . .
thank you. I recently finished an applique quilt that i quilted 4000 beads onto the quilt. I think everything needs a little bling. One more question, what is the triangle tassel on the corners called???? thank you
@@atree3
phula. without them a kawandi is considered naked by the Siddi. May I see a pic of your beaded piece?@@Paula19482
@@atree3 I sent you a friend request on FB I believe I can send you a photo there.
من هر کار هنری انجاممیدم بافتنی یا چهل تیکه باورمنمیشه خودمانجامدادمهمیشه میگم کی اینکارو انجامداده و اگر کسی بگه تکرارش کن ..نمیتونم ازم بر نمیاد ..وکلٱ کپی کردن بلد نیستم فقط خلق میکنم ..در حد خودم اما کارهای دست دوزی بی نظیر هستن روحکسی که انجام داده دراون هنر دمیده شده
I don't think that it matters about fabric choice or sensibilities. Just use up that fabric! Far too much goes to charity shops and ends up being sent to Africa and has ruined their manufacturing businesses as they do not need to make clothes as they are sent all our cast offs! I hate how wasteful we have all become.
Hard to watch because of the heavy breathing of the person behind the camera