Wallhanging Route 66

It took a long time to finish this Wallhanging. I started right after I finished Viva Mexico.

I started at the beginning of March, but because of my parkinson handicap I can only work on the sewing machine when I feel real good. Also the writing on my blog gets more difficult for me. It makes me feel terrible sometimes, But hey that is what my life is. Got to live with that. So You can inmagine that I am very proud that I finnished this piece. The Route 66 or "my way" as I also like to name it means a lot to us. As my daughter lives in the US we drove many times on that road to bring us to her.

The mesurements are 110 x 140 cm It has a sleeve at the top what makes it easy to hang on a wall.

wallhanging handmade by Coby Lange

WALLHANGING VIVA MEXICO

We had a few difficult month (my hubby became real ill and needed a difficult surgery) and so I did not feel like writing. But now it is much better and so here again a new blogpost.
Despite all the difficulties I kept on going hand sewing on my large wallhanging. It has a lot of colour and the size is 2 meter wide by 2.40 long. I did not find a good place at my own gallery so I had to wait untill last month March where I had an exhibition with my friends from KC61
at a very nice place, called Terpekerkje Urmond
And here it is!!

I left it as three long pannels so it is possible to hang them apart with as much space in between as needed and ofcourse also leave it as one large piece, which I think is cool.

Stitch by stitch

Yes that is what I do stitch bij stitch working on a very large Wallhanging.  For me,this is almost like meditation. Brain on zero! Just that small movement of my hands, up and down it goes. But to listen to soft clasical music is a must too. Than I feel great. And after many many hours (untill now 140 hours) I will have a large piece from 200x240 cm!
Here is a small glance

While I am working, our gallery is open and the people who come in are very curious of what I am making.

I still do not know how to finish it: in one large piece or maybe in three narrow pieces I have many options. We will see. I'm not in a hurry. At first I thought of hanging out in the next exhibition that I have late October,  but I'm convinced that the panels are not long enough. And I do not want them hanging on the floor so people could stand on it.

What to do

Time for a blog challenge again, it seems to work so why not start this month.
Not sure if I should write in Dutch or English. I come across small responses to find out what's best. So the following is in Dutch.
I have a little pain. About a week ago, I hurt my back by doing nothing really, and working on a very large wall hanging makes it very disturbing. I want to finish it for an exhibition at the townhall of Echt-Susteren, a small village in the south of the Netherlands at the end of October.

Usually I work 3 to 5 hours a day. It is all Handmade, stitch through the stitch. My work space is a big disorder, but as long as my beloved man does not complain, it's also good for me.
Tomorrow I have to go to Valkenburg, together with KC61 an artist community we had a 3 month long exhibition there in the Museum "Land van Valkenburg" and tomorrow it is time to bring our art back home again.

Bevrijdingsfestival May 5 2016

Dieter My husband and I had a lot to do in the last few weeks. We prepared our Gallery for a new exhibition about Freedom. Together with our friends KC61 we filled the place with beautiful art. 

We were mentioned on Facebook by the organization of the festival, so we had a lot of people who came to us. We have many poems hanging on the wall too. 

Ben Ali Libi

Op een lijst van artiesten in de oorlog vermoord

staat een naam, waarvan ik nog nooit had gehoord

dus keek ik er met verwondering naar

Ben Ali Libi: goochelaar

Met een lach en een smoes en een goocheldoos

en een alibi dat ie zorgvuldig koos

scharrelde hij zijn kost bij elkaar

Ben Ali Libi de goochelaar

Toen vonden de vrienden van de weduwe Rost

dat Nederland nodig moest worden verlost

van het wereldwijd Joods-Bolsjewistisch gevaar

zij bedoelden natuurlijk die goochelaar

Wie dikwijls een duif of een bloem had verstopt

kon zichzelf niet verstoppen toen er hard werd geklopt

een overval wagen stond al klaar

voor Ben Ali Libi de goochelaar

In 't concentratiekamp heeft hij toen misschien

zijn aardigste trucs nog eens laten zien

met een lach en een smoes, een misleidend gebaar

Ben Ali Libi de goochelaar

En altijd als ik een schreeuwer zie

met een alternatief voor de democratie

denk ik: jouw paradijs, hoeveel ruimte is daat

voor Ben Ali Libi de goochelaar

Voor Ben Ali Libi de kleine schlemiel

hij rustte in vrede, God hebbe zijn ziel.

Gedicht van Willem Wilmink

The mayor of our city Roermond Ms Donders, and many more of the city council came to visit and stayed a while. Best of all, the weather was soooo nice. especially our garden received much attention.

Many artist were and Mohammad Garruth a Musicien from Syrien played the UT and the flute. He fled Syrien Alleppo and now lives in the Netherlands with his wife and two small children.

All together around 60 people came. So a lot of work, tired but very happy.

The exhibition continues until May 15th.

I have another exhibition in a town nearby in Reuver I show 4 Textile quilts until the 12th. Jun in Woongoed two thousand. Also along with KC 61. I think I need a quick getaway.

Wallhanging with beads and hand quilting

My latest textile srt. Kantha stitching

Starting a new project

Going strong
Well at least I try. On my last textile piece 6 barks which I finished end of november I put on a border and I think it looks very clean now. And it is SOLD. Whow. The woman who bought this beauty watched it grow so to say. While I was working on it she came many times and wanted to see the result and made pictures.

I am sure it will get a nice spot in her house.
Not knowing what kind of art I will make next, I made some drawings. Some of them was nature again but I wanted to try something totally different this time. Figurative abstract. Here some pictures of the last 2 weeks.

drawing

first layout

more thread painting

Last weekend we from KC61 had a exhibition together with 7 artist in Terpekerkje from Urmond. Very nice because this was a church before has a very hight seeling, beautiful light coming in through the windows. There came 190 visitors to see our work.

Vernisage

I'm very happy that I met Lei Hannen with his beautiful ceramics, he is one of my artfriends from KC61
We changed our gallery to a very beautiful place with many spotlights nice and bright.

                     The vernisage was on the 18th of october and runs until the 29th of november
The openig was great , we had a piano player and I read a poem. Many people joined so it was very successful, and I sold quite a few of his work already.

In the meantime I worked on my large textileart in the gallery and often people asked what are You doing, I hear a sewingmachine, so I could show my piece: autumn forest with 6 barks.

Recycled art lots and lots of stitches. Autumn forest with barks.