Doll

I said I would post a link, but I forgot- sorry!  My sweet bird applique is here at Artstream.  Half the selling price goes to Breast Cancer Research.  There are lots of other small and not too expensive pieces of art- check them out.

This is a show I hope to get to this weekend-

My Boston Handmade buddies!

I went to the thrift store this morning, looking for white wool to do some more dye testing… except that the dyes haven’t showed up yet- arg, I want them now! ah… ahem…  and there wasn’t much white wool, but I hit the jackpot on some wonderful cashmere and angora mix.   It was a lucky day-  you just never know.

So much more sensible then a fairy godmother!

She is a garden fairy, but no gauze-like raiment for her- she is wearing a very warm and sensible woolen coat.

I was thinking of these as fantasy tropical birds- not  actually peacocks.

Her wings are knitted wool lace and her fairy slippers- wool with angora puff.

When I was in the fabric store recently, I found this little hook in with the drapery hardware. It is just the ticket for hanging up the wool dolls. I think it might damage cotton though. I bought 10 of them to test out- ten cents each.

Actually, this photo is from Saturday-

She is finished now. I am doing the last step- cleaning off any marks from the water-soluble pen. Now she has to dry before I photograph her, so you’ll see all tomorrow.

And here is the next one, waiting for me-

They are Fairy Grandmothers.

Projects creep out of my studio when it is really cold in the attic.

You might have noticed that I added some new categories last month. One of them is “my art history“. I figured that it would give me a place to show how little has changed over the years!

When the studio building where I worked burned down in 1999, it took me a while to realize that one of the biggest loses would be my sketchbooks- years of them. I have been thinking about the recurring themes in my artwork. If I post examples of the artwork with those themes, it is a way of remembering what was in those sketchbooks. And as I try to make some kind of order in my studio these days, I keep finding examples.

I figured this needed to be posted today, since I finished up another tiki yesterday.

1972, I think. Carved out of a scrap end of a 2 x 4. In an early 70’s definition of feminism, my 2 friends and I signed up to take wood shop in my senior year in High School. We were the groundbreakers- the first girls through the door. This was a little project I did then.
Combine embroidery, a Spirograph, a 14 year old and some really ugly color combinations-

It is 3″ x 3″. I did this the same year as my sampler. I have no memory of how I transfered the image onto the fabric, but I see on the back that I wasn’t happy with my first try.

and some other stuff- Last Saturday, I broke down and got myself a subscription to Embroidery. I was so excited when I got an envelope in the mail today- 2 magazines- yippee! And another thing- I am having problems with my comments and email. I am not getting emails when someone comments so I have to go check things out regularly and when I email back, it might look a little odd. It all has to do with over-zealous spam filters or something… arg!