I hope you aren’t completely tired of these lumberjacks yet. I have 3 more that I need to finish. You know, need.
More George Washington tattoos- this time young George and his horse.
Lumberjack #6 Burly and Blond
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Lumberjack 5- back to classic
If you go to google and look at images of lumberjacks, they are almost all red plaid shirt, dark color jeans, beard, axe. This look is pretty standard and so much fun with his tattoos!
He has curly hair and beard made from black wool chenille fabric. His tattoos are George Washington in toile.
Belt and buckle above, boots below.
I am working on getting all my current finished pieces into my etsy shop.
not a lumberjack
I thought he was going to be a lumberjack. I cut him out and sewed him up thinking he’d be a lumberjack. But, I sat back and took a good look at him and decided he just wasn’t. I posted this pic in various places and asked people who he was. I got loads of great answers and in the best of all possible worlds, I would have made ALL the things people suggested- a poet, a psych professor, a fisherman, a barista, a bounty hunter, a boxer, hipster, and musician.
Well, you know I do love making felt musical instruments.
So he is a hipster musician and who knows what else. I made him a banjo and a ukulele.
And a messenger bag with 2 books and 2 pencils. So we can add artist, writer, and/or composer.
He has a red cashmere scarf. Here he is with all his stuff.
What a guy! I love when a doll I am working on rebels and I have to go in an entirely new direction!
Lumberjack 4
I like his hair so much that I didn’t want to cover it up- so no hat for him.
Lumberjack 3- with tattoos
Remember this fine fellow? I wanted to try a slimmer version. Well actually maybe 5 or so was how many I cut out and sewed up before I was all done. I’ll get to them all eventually.
The thing is, I had a pile of dyed toile scraps that were not enough for a tattooed man or woman but just right for the smaller amount this design needs. And I’d saved them because I liked them enough that I couldn’t just throw them away. Perfect!
I had fun with this beard too. It is made of an alpaca sweater bit- they get shaggy-edged when I wash them.
Cashmere hat, felt axe, Pendleton wool shirt, high lace-up boots, suspenders.
The toile I used had scenes from Robinson Crusoe on it- he has a very odd furry man on his chest. The rest of that fabric got used on this guy.
Lumberjack 2- woodsy colors
He is all earth tones and the colors of the forest.
I made his beard out of 2 layers of sweater ribbing and I’m pretty excited about that.
Here he is without his (faux fur) hat. And you can see his 2-man saw which is made of 2mm felt. It has a wire in the crosspiece so it will hold its shape.
And on the wall-
Let’s finish up some lumberjacks!
I’ve got a big pile (more than 12) and some are very close to being finished so it’s time!
He has a cashmere hat and a felt axe across his back.
The shoe laces in case you are interested.
He was all done except for the hat and the axe. Of course I needed to decide if he was carrying an axe or maybe something else. And the hat- so many kinds of hats. This is what keeps me from finishing things.
a terrible week in Boston
Oh man, what a week. After teaching last week-end, I had plans to get things finished up this week. That hasn’t happened.
We are having Spring and here is the proof- my always blooming on Patriots’ Day daffodils.
Once the news of the bombing in Boston was everywhere, I found it almost impossible to pry myself away from the computer. Finally by Tuesday evening I was able to settle down enough to spend some time in the studio. But all week has been about obsessively checking Twitter and all the news streams. Today has been very strange. The town where I live is not “locked down”, but most of the surrounding towns are. The streets, the sidewalks and the sky are all eerily quiet unless a really loud helicopter flies overhead. Public transportation is cancelled so no bus noise on Mass Ave. And so so much crazy news and no real news at all. I tore myself away from the computer at midday and went out to the garden and turned the compost pile- phew! It was a relief to be out in the sun and doing something physical.
So, here is the studio today.
You know I got about 90% done on 3 lumberjacks (last post) and then I got distracted by the idea of making more of this model of lumberjack. I’d cut out and dyed fabric for 3 more “Big Men” tattooed lumberjacks last fall, but never cut out the rest of their necessary pieces. I did that. And sewed them up and stuffed them. And then thought I’d like to make the thinner guy as a tattooed lumberjack. I’ve got 5 mostly cut out now, 2 sewed, 1 stuffed. And one more thing- I want to cut out some big men lumberjacks, no tattoos. Yes, I have been distracted.
Piles and piles of wool, stuffing, pattern pieces, misc. other fabric piled up over every surface. The studio is not exactly in the state that would lead my brain to calm relaxation. Oh well, that really isn’t my way.
In other news, I am going to be off for a little vacation, leaving mid next week and gone for a week. I’ll be deactivating most of my Etsy shop on Tuesday but thankfully I can still sell my patterns because Etsy has just rolled out instant downloads for pdf patterns- Hurray! If I get any of the fellows finished, I’ll post them before I leave. Otherwise it might be quiet around here for a while.
Fingers crossed that everything will be feeling back to normal soon.
2 fish
The fins of the top fish are purple but they are dark and so hard to see the right color.
Scrappy
2 scrappy fish- fox fish really, since all the orange bits of wool are left over from fox making.
I love these two fish but I need to work on my technique a bit more. I ended up with some gaps that needed to be hand-sew closed. As a result, they won’t be going into my shop.