little bit of tropics

Posted on May 1, 2012 by mimik

We took our annual trip to Logee’s last Sunday. It always feels like a mini-vacation.

I love dots

Posted on April 30, 2012 by mimik

and I’m loving working with my new toiles. This one is fantastic-

I’m going to be putting these last 4 fellows into my Etsy shop soon- hopefully tomorrow afternoon. I’m still working on the men though- there will be some more new ones soon.

another man

Posted on April 27, 2012 by mimik

Here is how he looked as I was working on his face. And now he is finished-

I gave him more prominent ears-

His “belt buckle” is an antique shell button.

So Handsome!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by mimik

whoa!

If you believe that I have control over how these faces turn out, you’d be wrong. I use a water-erasable marker to mark out where the features go and draw in a rough sketch. If I had any real control, all the faces would be the same. But, as you might notice, they don’t because I don’t. I start stitching and whoever it turns out that they are, appears!

And I think this one is particularly appealing!

I spent some time in the garden over the weekend. I worked on the compost pile- which is great news because it means my back is MUCH better- Hurray! My favorite gardening toy is my compost thermometer (I’ve probably mentioned that before) and you can see here that my pile was close to 130 degrees F this morning. That’s my idea of excitement!

red beard

Posted on April 23, 2012 by mimik

The first of this batch.

This toile is beautiful- clear imagery, nice fabric, great scale. Good thing I like it because the remnant I bought is 3 yards! That is a lot of tattoos.

April fish

Posted on April 22, 2012 by mimik

Fish 1

and fish 2

2 fish for April.

pug redux

Posted on April 19, 2012 by mimik

this is where we started-

And this is where we are now!

In between, I tried a giant bow, and I tried some embroidery to highlight the mouth. It looks like some scribbling.

I moved the bow to the side-

How about a flower?

Maybe with some leaves?

That was definitely too much ruffles for one pug. How about a simpler flower-

Nope, back to bows-

Finally I decided that one small bow was just right. Also I restitched the mouth, over the black, with a warm gray so you can see the facial features (not in this photo but notice in photo #2). Much better- now I am satisfied.

And here she is, enjoying a beautiful day!

Arf!!

Posted on April 18, 2012 by mimik

a 2 color dog-

In my head, this dog looks like a classic childrens’ book illustration of a dog from my childhood.

So many possibilities with dogs, so much variation!

not quite a corgi

Posted on April 17, 2012 by mimik

I was trying for a corgi but he is not stocky enough- especially the head. I think he is so cute though that I will just assume he is a corgi/??? mix breed.

I love his corgi non-tail.

Thanks so much for all your input on the dogs. I’m still working on the pug. I decided that Liz’s comment about the dachshund’s “arms” was correct (they were too long) and so I’ve shortened them here-