Friday, February 12, 2010

Our turn

The forecast is for 87 flakes. In two years not much has changed regarding winter in Georgia. Except for the cold, it's still just like this except today I have to schlep off to the office for more tales of woe. I'll pack extra scraps and hope for a slow evening. By now, after this weather week, do you think folks will get some sense and STAY THE HELL HOME for a minute?

For this moment, I'm having fun with Blogger's PAGES feature. Up there under the banner. Have to figure a way to insert images instead of type.  Thanks to several web friends for pointing it out. How are you taking advantage? Mine are under construction.

Once you log into Blogger, go to Posting tab...one of the tabs is
Edit Pages..do it right there.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

WIP2



These are the parts I'm liking which means 3/4s of this piece is undergoing heavy revision. It's still not working as a whole so I won't bother with an overall look until one actually emerges.







Geez, you would think I was working on the Sistine Chapel and not a 10" square of scraps.


And speaking of spectacular and inspirational, take a look at this
 and this

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

hearty

It seems in all other hands this shape is sweet and tender. I have never been able to render it to my satisfaction.
This one may get some words if I can stop being snarky for just a minute.

M.Valle over at Instant Poetry is having a deleterious effect on my writing. She says out loud what I have on my mind all day at work.

"I love it when people say stupid things out loud and it's on tape"

Monday, February 08, 2010

kitchen chemistry

I find myself running out of spots, or holes, depending on your point of view, so it's time for a little kitchen table chemistry. Still too cold for any order work but it's amazing what a little Soft Scrub and a spray bottle of water will do.

Finding things are you?
Me too.

The navy blue piece at the top is a commercial print.
The large,crazed piece was a table mopper - a piece
of fabric that I use and reuse through one or more
dye sessions, cleaning up as I go. These pieces often
turn out amazing.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

as yet unbaptized continues

I wish I could have spent more time with this one today (but I spent most of the day picking computer cooties out of my main machine and am now trying to resuscitate my son's laptop.Guess I know where the trouble started).. It's coming to life stitch by stitch  but I think I'm starting to stop.

Those little dark green rectangles had to go and that patch of blue just demanded to participate. Keep reminding me that french knots, as design elements, should be left to the end, like beading - and don't remind me that I have about 15 pounds of beads in a tub somewhere in the studio.

Folks are starting to settle in for the Stupor Bowl - I may watch the commercials, then again, why suffer through a game I don't care for to watch commercials for products I won't buy. Jim just told me that the Who will be performing at half-time. I wonder if all of the hordes of CSI(insert city) fans know where their favorites shows theme music came from. Hoping for a medley....

(PS - Hurray for the underdog Saints, the Who and the Coke commercial with the Sleepwalker. )