Research and Stories
This is a place where I can share some of my research pertaining to early settlement and family histories intertwined with the story of Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. I’ve been researching and writing for many years and want to make some of my work more widely available.
This blog was originally designed to share my artwork and creative activities during the years when I was exhibiting widely. My art has now taken second place to refining and publishing some of my research, but I have left the art posts available for perusal.
Whatever your interest might be, enjoy, and provide feedback if you can.
Diane
Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on October 14, 2010 in Featured Flag, Wearables | 0 comments
In September I walked into the Fabric Addict in Lethbridge (the day after our arrival) and there sat a new shipment of smocking pleaters waiting to be unpacked. Now I have been thinking about exploring this media for a while. It’s one of the few things I have never tackled, mainly because my Mother smocked dresses for two generations of girls in the family and I didn’t want to tread on her space. She passed away last spring and I’ve been thinking it was time to pick up the gauntlet and learn this craft. Especially now...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on October 4, 2010 in Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts, Wearables | 3 comments
On September 23 I drove to Calgary to check out the results on two entries in the quilting and fiber art competition at the Calgary Creative Stitches and Crafting Alive Show and was ecstatic to find that I received a first on my Wearable Art entry – Memories of Arizona and a second on one of my memory quilts – The Fabric of my life. Memory Quilt – The Fabric of my Life That’s the second ‘blue’ ribbon this memory quilt has received. This particular...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on October 3, 2010 in Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts | 0 comments
A Collage of the Painted Fabric – (Later Incorporated as a layer in ‘paper cloth’) Just did the heat set and thought I would publish the results. The Fabric Before Painting I’m going to challenge myself to use each of the pieces someway over the next few days. I’m doing a series of small and ‘quicks’ so it may work out okay. Thought I would throw in a shot of this morning’s sunrise.
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on October 3, 2010 in Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts | 2 comments
I do have a lot of activities on the go – I just haven’t blogged about them. There is a smocked dress, a pair of socks, samples of free motion quilting based on Leah Day’s work, a challenge piece posted to Dale Anne Potter’s facebook fan page ….. All this and now I have my days to myself so there will be lots more. Let’s hope the weather continues to be fair! The combines will run!!!! A little personal update to explain that last comment. My husband, a born farmer from the east, found himself a job...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on August 28, 2010 in Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts | 1 comment
Check out the link to Quiltersmuse.com for a posting re one of my quilts with ‘words’ or writing on it (August 28th posting). I have been catching up on past postings on the quiltart digest and noticed a call for ideas about how people use words on their work and thought of this piece ‘2008 Revisited: Retirement Angst’. It hasn’t been posted anywhere yet and this is just a teaser shot as I would like to exhibit it somewhere before I post the full piece. In this piece I used both free motion stitching...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on August 26, 2010 in Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts, This And that! | 7 comments
As a follow-up to all the postings on Dale Ann Potter’s FB page about her dream of traveling by RV and teaching as she goes, I decided not to delay any longer with this posting. It’s been planned for a while but I thought I should wait until everything was tidy! This may be a bit of a ramble and I’ll try to group info but here goes! My Mobile Studio We have been traveling full-time in our motor home since January 2009 and one of the conditions was that I would not have to stop working on my artwork, including fibre art. ...
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