my work at space gallery

my work is hanging in a show at space gallery in portland maine. tonight was the opening. the piece i had hanging was embroidered text messages. i forgot to go to the opening:( the show will be up for another week or two or three.

important philosophy...

embroidered text messages

in keeping with my love of keeping diaries, i have decided to stitch text messages i receive. i can't keep all of them in my phone and they are such a great snapshot of my life and the lives of those i love. another life-long project, that i will probably never finish, but will have a great time working on!

mrs. daisy sallow's crocheted diary

while spending lots of time in airports and on planes recently, i had plenty of time to stitch. i have added some entries to my
stitched diary.

i like remembering how white lipstick was so vital to my daily existence. and how, even when i was 14, i loved to spend my money on fabric (material, as we called it).

the taylor porkroll can be seen here. it used to be one of my favorite foods. now that i am a vegetarian, i still think about taylor porkroll from time to time...like thinking of an old boyfriend.

this is what our german shephard puppy looked like. also funny that we named him 'snow!' he really did eat our couch.

why is this entry called 'mrs. daisy sallow's crocheted diary?' why not? do you know who daisy sallow is? many thanks to edward gorey for introducing me to mrs. sallow...a muse!

embroidered diary

back to working on my diary...life story in embroidery. i love to get good sleep!

this is stitched on raw silk or sometimes called silk suiting or silk noile - hard to find, but great to stitch on! the thread is cotton dmc floss...what else is there?

embroidered story

more pages in the embroidered storybook. i can let the secret out now that this was part of a xmas present for my hubby. we had a rough year and this is our love story. as you can see, i didn't finish it in time for xmas, but it was done enough to give it to him. and now i will spend the rest of the year completing it. love to all.

more embroidered story

embroidered story

i have been wanting to make an embroidered story book. this is the beginning of it. stay tuned for the ongoing story.

embroidered diary

as an incoming student, at the maine college of art, each new student was asked to make a six inch quilt square which will be put together as a whole quilt to be silent-auctioned off for a school benefit. i made two squares, similar to my embroidered diary. i made two squares and overlapped them. one has my date of birth and the other has the year 2007. each student's block is supposed to indicate 'where the student is from.' this was how i interpreted where i am from. since i will be in school with students who were born in the late '80's, i like the idea of putting my date of birth as part of showing where i am from.

here are the beginning diary pages. scroll down to see others i posted a week or two ago. eventually this will be a book.
























i have a yellow beetle named 'lukyduk' (my vanity tags). she is my favorite car so far.

embroidered diary pages

more pages from the embroidered diary...

love to everyone today!

i am stitching my life story. here are some of the pages, so far. i used cotton embroidery thread on silk noile.