From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Work-In-Progress (26.nov.07)

27 November 2007

Still working on the flowers gothic arch. It now has birds on it. I have a picture of my great grandmother that I think will go in the center.

I have a new gothic arch started. The background is torn papers coated with a wash of gel medium to get it all stuck down. I [...]

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Toad Gardens

27 November 2007

The quote is Marianne Moore. I don’t know why it seemed necessary to put words about toads on top of the opening page of an old edition of Pride and Prejudices. But it was.

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Stenciling the Laundry Room

13 November 2007

I did this last month. (in one day)

I made about 20 test runs on white butcher paper to find just the right color combination. And settled on this:

And here’s all the stuff it took to get the paint onto the wall.

The stencil is from Trimbelle River Studios. The room doesn’t have much in the way [...]

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Work-In-Progress (13.nov.07)

13 November 2007

I’m trying to be better about keeping notes as I go along. (Click the thumbnails forf ull size images.)
2 Gothic Arches pieces that are on my table at the moment.

Poetry-Toads. The background is made up of pattern tissue and a facsimile of the first page of an old edition of Pride and Prejudice. I colored [...]

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Hand Recursive and Finger Hat.

13 November 2007

Slacking on the income earning front and doing art instead.
Two completed pieces:

Hand recursive.
I finished this one a couple of weeks ago. It was my first try in this shape.

Finger Hat
A 4X4 on heavy watercolor paper. Images from needlework magazines, buttons from heaven only knows where and a bit of type from my vast collection of [...]

Tagged as: 4X4, collage

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Gather Socks

6 November 2007

Starting off with a little project that I finally finished.
The Gather socks. I started these in August and finished them in October – not bad for me.

I bought the yarn (and needles) from Circle of Yarns in Kalamath Falls OR on the way to Eagle Lake, CA for the16th Annual Pacific Northwest Dryside Gather. Great [...]

Tagged as: knitting, socks

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