The devil is in the detail

Week 1 - Design 1

I am surprised at my self in regards to this challenge.  I have quickly come to an overall plan for the theme and even decided on the type of fabric I will use.

The theme:              Buddhist Temple Decoration Design

The Inspiration:       The Nepalese Peace Pagoda in the

                               Southbank Parkland's in Brisbane.

I choose this theme because I have seen this temple so many times but never 'really' seen it.  It was built for the World Expo in 1988 and at the end of the exhibition it was to be sold to a city in Japan.  However, it had entered into the hearts of Brisbane people 90,000 of whom signed a petition to keep it here.  A public appeal was launched to buy it and keep it in the parklands.   So here it sits on the edge of the Brisbane river, in a rain-forest far from the Himalayan mountains where the carvers of the Kathmandu valley created it.  It is a place for reflection, meditation and gratitude.

Because of the short time line, and the pressure of my full time job, I have drawn my design by hand.  I will put it into Illustrator once I get past Christmas.  I wanted to keep that wood look to the block so have auditioned it in Batiks.  I had these in my stash.  Sure hope I can find something like them when I go to the patchwork shop.

 

The Challenge

So it begins.  It is easy to say we will have a challenge but not so easy to do.   I'm glad she wrote it all down because I couldn't remember all the rules.  This is what she said:

             "We will present each other with a 'detail' or 'texture' design

              every week for a year.      "The Devil is in the detail"

               I will do mine on the plane tomorrow....I wonder if we

               should decide on a size  considering it it a weekly project?

              Well we'll trial a 6" block and sometimes we'll have to do

              12" blocks to balance.   Will we covert each others blocks?,

              there might have to be flexible rules for this

              challenge. We might make them up as we go along.

             BUT..... there will need to be consistency

              BUT, we're laughing about it already...!!!

            Sunday will be the day, the day we reveal...

             Carolyn has just said we have to have right up till midnight.!!!!

             We'll both set up a separate blog, that links to this one....!!!"

Now, she said nothing about having to sew those blocks.  I can do the design each week and get the blocks done later.  And she did say flexible rules.  (I bet she goes and makes a super duper background for her new blog and gets really carried away with the whole thing.  Of course, I would do non of those things!)

Now here is a detail on the Nepal Peace Temple in the South Bank Parklands.  This temple was donated to Brisbane after Expo 88 and has become a much loved landmark.

Each of the small building on either side have decorations on the roof.  If you look closely you can see that one building has male faces, that are gold and the other female faces that are silver. I wonder if the represent the sun and the moon?   I really like the details of these faces.

 

Now I have to workout how to link this to Pam's blog.