A couple of months ago I listed several exhibitions I want to enter this year, with the works I’d enter to each. A couple would be great for the new works I’d be making, anyway. By entering Interpretations 25 yesterday, I have now accomplished one of my 2025 goals.

Also this week I completed my entry and submitted it for the second glass+textile salon for latin American artists working in glass, textile and other media really, to submit small works (max 20cm sq.) These works need to combine something of both glass and textile material and technique. Entries are open until 10/2/25, as the closing was recently extended a few days beyond the original date. Whether It gets selected or not, I’ll post the image here after the announcement of selected artists.

This time of year I usually make the 12″ sq. piece to submit later in the year to the annual SAQA Benefit Auction, as it is often a test piece/sample for a larger work. I might make it up using one of the ideas I have in mind for Art Quilt Australia 25 One of the categories in this biennial is for quilts substantially comprised of wool, as per the entry conditions.

My 2023 entry, “Moth Buffet”, didn’t make the cut 🙁 but for my 2025 entry I still have plenty of the factory wool samples that unravelled into 6 strands perfect for hand stitching, and this morning it struck me how that beautifully that wool tones with the wonderful peweter metallic finish polyester fabric I was compelled to buy a few months ago, purely on account of it being a glitter fabric I’d never seen before 🙂

I’m about to test a bit of the wool thread in diluted acrylic metallic gold paint to see if that adds anything of value, and on some lovely pure wool fabric I have, I’ve tried a bit of dilute gold paint which has given an encouraging result to think about…

Oh, and have I ever mentioned how much I love a bit of glitter?