A Lesson

If ever you think there is a chance that you will want to recreate an element of something you make- heck, even if you don't think you will, just on the off chance that you will change your mind- save your notes. Save your original measurements. Write them down in your sketch book, not on disposable pattern scraps. Or if you do write them on scraps, transfer them over. Preserve these things.

Learn from my mistakes. Careful documentation is how you can avoid such activities as digging through your studio trash (full of identical paper scraps, tea labels, and tape bits) at 4am for those tiny notes you're sure you must have written somewhere, or looking up forgotten lessons of how to discern a diameter from a circumference to figure out what on earth your original preshrunk measurements were. For the love of 4am inspiration- write down that original diameter.


In other news- look! I have a show coming up!


Soon my work will be better traveled that I am! I wish I could go see the show myself, but since hopping over to South Korea for a few days is rather implausible right now, I'm taking satisfaction in knowing that friends will be there, with their own work, able to see the whole show for me. I'm sure it'll all be marvelous. I'm also fairly certain that my next show (when it comes about) will be much easier to get to, so I'll just be patient and keep making work.

Yarn Yardage

At this precise moment, I have one thousand, eight hundred and seventy two yards of cotton yarn dying in a tea bath.
One thousand, eight hundred, and seventy two yards. 1,872.
It's a bit incredible that that is only half of what I expect to use in this project.
When I am done I shall have over 3 yards of 30" wide plaid cloth. Of course, that's quite a few steps away, but still.
When you break it into actual yards like that, I am always astounded by how much I use for just one piece of cloth. It doesn't seem like nearly that much in person, at any stage of the process.