{"id":11855,"date":"2026-04-18T19:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/?p=11855"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:19:48","slug":"a-fox-opera-and-library-curtains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/a-fox-opera-and-library-curtains\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fox Opera and Library Curtains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This afternoon I’ve just come back from a local university production of The Cunning Little Vixen. Last year the Denver Art Museum had a fantastic exhibit about Maurice Sendak (Where The Wild Things Are) that included illustrations and artwork from his entire prolific career. One of his books was The Cunning Little Vixen, and we enjoyed seeing the original illustrations and opera costumes as part of the DAM exhibit.

Vixen is a three-act Czech-language opera by Leo\u00c5\u00a1 Jan\u00c3\u00a1?ek completed in 1923 to a libretto the composer adapted from a serialized novella by Rudolf T?snohl\u00c3\u00addek. Using Moravian folk music, and translated into English, the costumes for the cricket, frog, grasshopper, mosquito, chickens and fox family were cleverly created from ruffled, pleated, gathered, embellished fabrics. We laughed out loud at the whimsy of the unexpected costume choices. I am sure there was a bit of Sendak in those costumes. I decided I need to donate some fabric to the CU theater department!

It was just a reminder that there is no limit to what we can do with our fabrics. I hope that you can find museum exhibits, theater costumes, and other experiences of textile creativity to fire up those creative juices. Because the Sendak exhibit traveled around the country for several years, I expect there will be other productions of Vixen circulating.

My favorite new fabric this week is the tumble of vintage books on 108″ quilt backing<\/a><\/strong>. I just might have to make curtains for my library from this new print!

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Luana and Paul

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Apr 26 – May 1 – Alegre Retreat, Gateway CO
May 16 – New England Quilt Museum, Soul Stories Artist Reception
May 18-26 – Montpellier, France
June 4-5 – Featured Speaker – World Environment Day – Houston
July 28 – Aug 2 – Festival of Quilts – Birmingham UK
Nov 12-15 – Intl Quilt Festival – Houston



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