This is just a test to see if the network lets me post.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 02:08

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Brain work-out

So, how is live at the academia? A lot of reading, that's for sure. I begun to read already after Christmas, even though I hadn't paid my fees yet nor classes started. As I read the first book, one that I've known about for a number of years, I thought, "Wow, why haven't I read this book already?", very impressed with the content. After a little more reading I thought, "Geeh, do I really want to know all this?", starting to feel the heat and preassure of advanced studies.

I´m still reading this book, finding that particular one the dull one of the two for this subject. But I've also come to the conclusion that reading the part from the dull one before the more pleasant one gives me a better understanding of the interesting one. What do the English say, "That which doesn´t kill you makes you stronger"? So, if I'm not killed by boredom I will get wiser?

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 23:21

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Clerical errors?

Reading about church history is much like reading an action novel. As I am entering studies for the second semester of the first year I am registered for the second half of western church history. I've been reading the first half so as not to be completely out of it when class starts.

I know bits and pieces of church history, but not much. Now I read it in some sort of continuity. It feels like being lured with a bait as I read on to find out how a situation came to be and how it developed. Some of the events make me chuckle, like a synod Efesus in year 431 where monks of opposing parties showed up in full armour and made such a scene that both groups were arrested. It really makes me smile when I imagine modern clergy in full vestments being put in jail overnight for having a fistfight at the yearly synod. Would anyone bail them out?

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 01:09

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Change of course

Yours truly is now an enrolled student of theology at the University of Iceland. I paid my fees today and class starts in two weeks. I've obtained all the books for the semester and started reading last week.

It felt good to walk the University's grounds.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 23:48

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Bragging!

My "Myths and Legends" piece got an award! First time I get an award for quilting.

Then there are my Journal Quilts in the third group photo from the top. A close up of one of them is just below it. Those little darlings will be away from home for a year. I hope they get to see the world at other exhibitions.

It's long overdue that some of my work gets properly displayed at my website. I don't know what's keeping me as I tried my hand at html programming this summer.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 01:03

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Myths and Legends

The Fiberart Connection of Southern California is now exhibiting on-line its 2nd annual competition, Myths and Legends: Past, Present and Future.

I have a quilt in there. Guess which one. The names of the artists will not be revealed yet as the work is still being juried.

No, I have not moved to southern California. In my dreams! An appealing thought, though.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 18:29

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"Treasure in eartly vessels"

Red Septemer is a design experiment for a project I am planning. It looks good and very promising. It is for a liturgical vestment - a stole and chasuble.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 10:09

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"One out of nine"

The August page refused to come out and play. I experimented with wrinkling the fabric, then ironed interfacing on the back so it would stay that way before sewing the pieces together. I was a bit curious to see how quilting would turn out on all this fabric. Found out that less is more. The title derives from this page being the only one I don't like. It lacks design. Out of nine journal pages, only one coming short, is a good average. The idea presented is liquid lava and old lava, orange and grey.

Added 10th October:
I did another quilt for August, the only one I redid. It gets to keep the title, "One out of nine". Just face it, the other one was awful! It now is a bargello background in orange with grey tongues protruding from one side.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 09:30

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"Blue moon"

July Journal page is a play with complementary colours, yellow and blue. I tried paper piecing for the blue curved strip and frankly, this method is not appealing to me. But when in need I take to desperate measures.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 09:28

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"Give Charity a chance"

The green June page is inspired by the wife of Lot. She is never mentioned by name but I am convinced that her name is Charity. I think she was a charitable woman, full of mercy, and looked back on the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra with concern for all the people she had ministered to but had no means of rescue. Her name in Icelandic is Líkn.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 09:22

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