Here you see 4 new poppies from the last time I posted about my art quilt; clearly, I’ve gotten my machine back! Here’s a close-up of the 4 new flowers. Reverse applique. And I completed all the zig-zag stitching on the appliques, too; but I had a few struggles with a 50 weight rayon thread [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Progress….
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged Art, Art Quilts on September 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
New Corgi!
Posted in Bearbear and Baxter, Corgis, tagged Arizona Cactus Corgi Rescue on September 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This isn’t the best photo; but sometimes it’s hard to get dogs agreeable to a camera flashing, and then the red-eye light blinking….most of the time, when I try to take a photo of my dog inside, I wind up with only his backside, which eloquently expresses his feelings about being photographed. But tonight I [...]
Stephen Colbert as Dr. Strangelove
Posted in Colbert Report, tagged Colbert Report, Dr. Strangelove, ground zero mosque on September 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Colbert’s impersonation of Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove is uncanny, and fabulously funny: it’s at the end of this very hilarious episode of The Word. I couldn’t stop laughing, Colbert has the accent down perfectly: this is 7 minutes of absolute comedic brilliance. I think the character of Dr. Strangelove was based on Edward [...]
If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Applique
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, Design, tagged art quilt design, Art Quilts, belly dance, original applique patterns on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently, I’ve been hobbled by plantar fasciitis, due to bellydance practice (working on my 3/4 shimmy). Ouch. Then, my sewing machine conked out last week. I was so depressed. But I did listen to the call of needle and thread, and pulled out the old overhead projector: I magnified a simple drawing on transparency plastic [...]
Return of the Art Quilt
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged art quilt design, Art Quilts on September 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Remember this? My art quilt project from over a year ago? Either do I. But this past weekend I spent a lot of time trying to get this thing off the ground. I started with more reverse applique, to increase the visual crop of verbena flowers: Then I drew some poppy shapes and made a [...]
