Sentiment

Last stitches are sentimental.

Pretty edges

Trimmed edges

Nearly finished with what has become my longest-running project, by far.

More & Better type

1st proof of More & Better print, type layer. Color & image to come.

Choices

Testing

Multi-layered

Whether or not this foreshadowing image idea will pan out is yet to be seen.

Front in progress

Yellow studio lighting reveals toes.

Reinforcements pt.2

Coming together

Reinforcements

Making sure my embroidery stitches will be securely locked in place.

Right in progress

Left in progress

Spent some time last week with a white wall and all my curtains open to catch the morning light for a photography session with some of the pieces I've worked on in the last year and a half or so. Went ahead and did some progress documentation while I was at it. This is "Left."

Pages

I've been working on a small tome in my school's letterpress lab, taking advantage of my access to a working press and a room full of type while I can.
These are my first completed pages- 1/7th of the total printing complete and ready for binding, as soon as the rest is done. I expect that'll happen in the next 6-8 weeks.

Rear

Under the lights of my studio's flickering chandelier.

Layering

Wreath #2

101 inches

Here it is, 101 inches of 30" wide cotton plaid.


It's 101" instead of my intended 112" because at around 1am, my bobbin winder decided that it didn't want to move. Apparently turning is the last thing it ever wants to do again, which is highly unfortunate, as turning is its main purpose. Since winding bobbins by hand is a rather dreary task, I reevaluated the requirements of my intentions and decided that 101" was just fine.

Things I watched while working on this yardage: Dollhouse, Spongebob Squarepants, Rocko's Modern Life, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and My Name is Earl.

Next up, a bit of patterning for the dress I will make out of it.

1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2.

I've been a bit distracted from the studio lately, with grad school coming up soon. (I begin in only a few weeks!) As such, I've given myself a break from ideas that require a whole lot of my brain, and focused on ones that involve mostly rhythm and counting.


This is the plaid I mentioned a few weeks back, finally on the loom. I think 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, and repeat while watching cartoons. It's a good time.
I've been toying with different pattern ideas for a dress I would like to make with this cloth when it comes off the loom. Something with simple construction- a couple darts in a bodice with straps, a subtly gathered skirt, a couple patch pockets. I'm going to be careful with my patterning, because when the dress is done, I would like to have enough remnant for a self portrait of me in the dress made of the cloth on the cloth. That sort of echoing will make me smile.

In other news!

• I am looking into various types of power saws. I have decided on a way to present my work that I think I will be most pleased by, that will be clean and portable. The one hang up is my current inability to slice through plywood as easily as I can tear cloth. So, for the first time in my life, a power tool seems to be a necessity. Looking into it!
• Images of shears are still filling my walls. The more I use them, the more they seem to become a part of me. I will get back to this another day.
• Any moment now, Inside 12 opens. While I do wish I could be there, I am excited for everyone who is, and hoping it all goes well.

1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2.

Keeping Count

In the last few weeks, I have embroidered 21 pairs of shears.

Tonight, I begin working on a tri-shear hybrid.

When that is done, I have 9 more planned.

Shears, shears, shears. There is so much I want to work on, but first I have to get these shears out of my mind for a while. So, shears, shears, shears.