Yesterday, I was making coffee and who ran past the window? A black Squirrel. I immediately grabbed some granola and put it on the sill. Grey Squirrel quickly ran over and started eating. It is funny! At our subway stop there is a transgender person and a shoe shine man who both ‘beg’ change, theContinue reading “Thread Dyeing and other Fun. Also a Call For:”
Tag Archives: Embroidery
Thread as traveler.
David and I just got back from shanty town, oh uh, I mean, Seattle. What a great city. It feels like a town, which is nice. It is such a working town, quiet, humming right along, I loved walking the streets. We passed through neighborhoods, quaint with corner shops, over highways, alongside real traffic, through alleyContinue reading “Thread as traveler.”
That’s that.
Socks, toes, skirt? That is all I have to say about that. I have been wanting a RED sew-plies purse and this is it. There is a bit of kimono fabric under and Inspired to Quilt style poppy on organza. I found the dragon while walking here in Carroll Gardens, last November and it hasContinue reading “That’s that.”
A Project Bag in the Making.
I have been making Gather your Sew-plies purses left and right. The entire plan in making these bags is to be able to sew wherever I go, the subway, the coffee shop, the Promenade, you get the idea. As I have been doing this, I have been thinking, what about a project bag? I loveContinue reading “A Project Bag in the Making.”
The Twilight Zone
We were out and about today and we spotted this tool chest. As you might imagine, any use of the word chest is satisfactory to me, right now. Breast Pockets, Tool Chest, You get the idea. And it is so very red. This is our newest throw. Made of silk saris sew together by womenContinue reading “The Twilight Zone”
Organization Bomb
Showing you my studio space is helping to to understand what needs organization and how I would like to achieve it. Embroidery and stitch have become really important to me. I had skeins of thread tucked in several different places, hand dyed skeins were in 3 ring binders, I had a box of floss organizedContinue reading “Organization Bomb”
Fragments old, made new.
The poppy sew-plies purse got nixed. I like that piece too much to cut it down to size and at the same time, I don’t want to have one off sized purse in the lot. So I searched my stash and am making a new ‘graffiti style’, embroidered ‘Gather your Sew-plies’ purse. Perhaps I couldContinue reading “Fragments old, made new.”
Oooh. New.
Working with Victoria a few weeks back really gave me some incite into play, release, and welcoming the new and different back into my work with cloth. Victoria probably didn’t need to do anything at all. But she sat me in front of her machine, using her tools, and asked me to just do. SheContinue reading “Oooh. New.”
Small Work: Swan
I have been having some fun and experimenting. I am not ‘finishing’ the piece when I paint with dye. I am bringing the piece to an interesting place and allowing for the call and response of possibility. I originally thought this might be a Sew-plies purse in the Inspired to Quilt style, but it says, ‘No’. SmallContinue reading “Small Work: Swan”
Soft Light
I am back from teaching at The Great American Scrapbook Convention and oh my goodness gracious. Those scrapbookers? They know how to play right into my obsession for neat, orderly and functioning workspaces. Scrapbookers seem to really like efficiency. And they have some toys, inks and supplies. They use punches, gadgets, embossers, and the inks!Continue reading “Soft Light”
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