Starting off with a little project that I finally finished. The Gather socks. I started these in August and finished them in October — not bad for me. I bought the yarn (and needles) from Circle of Yarns in Kalamath Falls OR on …
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Hand Recursive and Finger Hat.
Slacking on the income earning front and doing art instead. Two completed pieces: Hand recursive. I finished this one a couple of weeks ago. It was my first try in this shape. Finger Hat A 4X4 on heavy watercolor paper. Images from …
Read MoreYellow Walls
The painters are done and I have reclaimed my space. The move out and back into the studio was almost painless. Probably because I had recently reorganized all the crap and there had not been much time for cruft to accumulate. …
Read MoreFamily Photographs — It’s All Grist for the Mill
I’ve been collecting up the old photo albums and sorting the pictures. There are a number that I’d like to use in the collages. But of course I don’t want to glue up my only copy of great-grandmother’s portrait so… …
Read MoreReusable Grocery Bag
Everybody is doing it. Even here in the “bubble.” Using those ugly green reusable grocery bags. Heartwarming eco-points 8. Style points 0. I won’t even mention what they chose to fill it with for this image. Yuck! I made this one …
Read MoreTGIF — Gothic Arches
Two new/old gothic arches. I found these while I was purging the working projects piles. They aren’t much to look at being just a couple of experiments with background creation techniques. The birds and flowers was based on a piece …
Read MoreWIP — The Loop Road Project (pop-ups)
Our recent vacation gave Jim the chance to take a lot of pictures of motorcycles and riders on the proverbial “closed course.” Some of them are in fact “professional riders.” I now have tons of uncluttered photos to work with. …
Read Morelearning to work with the new serger
So it’s been a month or so since i got my serger. I made a couple of starter projects on it when i first unpacked it but I had other projects (xmas) that needed my attention and i didn’t have …
Read MoreHousekeeping
I cleaned out the top drawer in my bedside table. Among the detritus were these. Ranging form a brass koala given to me by a stranger in San Francisco my freshman year in college to a bottle shaped pin from the …
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