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NPR did a recent article on Cameron Carpenter, a young and talented pipe organist, who has the ability to play a broad range of musical styles on this instrument. You wouldn't think a pipe organ could be versatile enough to include soft jazz, but Cameron makes it so. He has a flambouyant style and is a young master of expanding the traditional range of a pipe organ. For people who don't know anything about the pipe organ, it has multiple keyboards for the hands to play and another keyboard of pedals that the feet play. By clicking on this post's title, you'll be taken to the NPR link where you can view Cameron's performance of a classical piece (Chopin's "Revolutionary Etude") in which he uses his feet to play the notes that would normally be played by the left hand. You'll also see why I've referred to him as Liberace at the Organ.

Note:  Unfortunately, this video is no longer available for viewing.

There was an article in Quilting Arts Magazine this year titled 'Against the Grain' (authored by Wiebe). The author's process begins by printing her digitally-altered photographs on to tissue paper. Then she applies them to a fabric backing (muslin) with gloss medium. This is the first step of creating several layers, so that the end product is very textured (and it may not even resemble the original tissue paper photos used). I started the process and am free-wheeling it a bit. But I started out with prints on tissue paper and then added a host of other things (transparencies, prints on paper, netting, silk leaves, painted fabrics, lace, etc.). I've started to free-motion stitch the piece (which is the next part of the process described in the article). Due to the variation in thicknesses, it isn't easy. The maroon areas (created by painting maroon dye over red metallic netting) look to me like leaves...or maybe wannabes. It does have a sort of Fall sense to it so ...