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:”
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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.”
Move those labels.
Eucalyptus dyed silk satin over linen, replaced label. Soon to become a strap for a Gather your Sew-plies purse, hippie style. I am moving labels around within my wearable art pieces. Very excited by the idea. My medias are mixing, it can be quite confusing. My orderly nature rebels, but the stuff I am making?Continue reading “Move those labels.”
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.”
Welcoming myself back!
Welcome to my new blog, it feels spiffy here! It has been one heck of a month. I moved my website to a new server, worked with Holly Knott to create the new structure and look, and here I am. My old blogging platform took a hit in the move, but it was so oldContinue reading “Welcoming myself back!”
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