I started working on the collage fabric I’m making for my new quilt project about the January 8 shootings; above are ripped up photocopies of photographs I took of the memorials to the victims. In between bouts of paper ripping I made a batch of bread with the stand-mixer I recently found on Craigslist for [...]
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Bread Baking and Paper Shredding
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Baking on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Screen Printing Revisited
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, Screen Printing, Screen Printing Fabric, tagged Freezer Paper Stencils for Screen Printing Fabric, Tucson January 8th Shooting Art, Tucson Screen Printing Fabric on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, back to an art quilt project. I have this idea of a piece about the January 8th Shooting in Tucson. I made print paste mix yesterday to get ready for screen printing, as it’s best for the mix to sit 24 hours before use; it’s just sodium alginate, water and some urea. I’ve read [...]
Socked In
Posted in Art Projects, tagged Tucson Knitting on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it happened. I started knitting and spent ALL OF JANUARY on the above sock, which still isn’t finished and it’s February. I’ll finish the foot this week; I’d like to post a photo of it completely done in 48 hours. While I enjoy knitting, I miss making art. It’s been a while. Hopefully not [...]
Short Row Swatch
Posted in Art Projects, tagged short row shaping, Tucson Knitting on January 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I really do not want this to turn into a knitting blog. I could just see it happening, though; because, once you start knitting it’s impossible to stop…and the only time you stop is to do something else knitting-related. If you have a slightly nervous or anxious temperament, knitting is a guaranteed downer activity for [...]
Pincushion Deadline Met!
Posted in Art Projects, tagged Handmade Pincushions on December 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Here’s my very humble, finished pincushion, all ready for tomorrow’s pincushion exchange: I put a magnet on the back for added utility; here it is stuck to my sewing lamp:
Pincushion Update
Posted in Art Projects, tagged handmade pincushion on December 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The pincushion is coming along. Here’s the base, a large vitamin bottle cap with blue felt stitched around the sides with dyed silk yarn: The base, in theory, will sit on some flower petal shapes: Here are the shapes, the one the top is finished, the other three need to be sewn and have the [...]
Pincushion
Posted in Art Projects on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, this is really the beginning of a pincushion. It’s for my art quilt group’s Christmas pincushion exchange. The plastic white bottle cap will be the base for a pincushion flower. As if cutting the felt wasn’t hard enough, gluing it on took for-ev-er. This is what is really hard about being an artist. If [...]
Tubac Center for the Arts Member’s Juried Exhibit
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, tagged Tubac Center for the Arts on November 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I joined the Tubac Center for the Arts earlier this year, and I entered an art quilt in their annual Member’s Juried Exhibit, which is showing now through January 2, 2012. I went to the opening last night, and there were so many lovely paintings and photos on display. The show was put up very [...]
Up and Running…
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What a long week. Have got my Juki up and running; it has an automatic thread trimmer component that makes a big clunking noise when it cuts, and since it’s automatic at times it shocked me the first time I’d heard it, I’d broken the machine. Have done some test runs, hope to run the [...]
New Thermofax Fabric
Posted in Art Projects, Art Quiltmaking Design, Art Quilts, Screen Printing, Screen Printing Fabric, tagged Catalina Mountains Fabric, Saguaro Fabric, Tucson Thermofax Fabric on October 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Below is a not-very-good photo of my first thermofax screen; the smaller, bottom screen is the first screen, and the one above it has the same image but is larger–and, more importantly–has a blank space on the very left before the design starts, and this space is necessary so you have somewhere to put a [...]
