cleaning up the floor in my studio and had to do something with this stuff, instead of throwing it away. doesn't she look cute?

more work from my opus class. i cut an image in cardboard and then block-printed it onto some green painted vellum. then i did a rubbing with a wet tea bag on tear-away stabilizer over coins. stitched them together with embroidery thread and voila!

a quilt from the 80's. i made this for my son jesse. this quilt has gone with him to college, to living in san francisco and now living in brooklyn (click on the link for 'bike the big apple'). the quilt was back for some repairs, which included a new backing - check out the bicycle fabric. i am proud to say that my hand-stitched french binding held up beautifully for 25 years.

self explanatory...WTf is not one of the seven deadly sins, but it could be.

i expanded on my goodbye man and here are six of them. they are made from the materials i used in a mark making assignment. the bodies are from the cardboard pieces i made to collagraph prints or the prints themselves. the faces are from cardboard carved out for block printing, which i later filled in with yarn stitching. each one has a moving arm - thanks to the wonders of pipe cleaners - with a hand that is embroidered with some version of 'goodbye.' when each one is suspended from the ceiling, the hands are in constant motion, always saying 'goodbye.'

Here is a piece I did yesterday for my work with the Opus School of Textile Arts. I like it. My tutor commented that putting it on the sketchbook page took away from the work. Next time I will mount it on something more interesting.

This is my friend, GREEDY. S/He is one of a series of sock creatures that I am making featuring the seven deadly sins and some made up sins, too.

Oh, and WELCOME to my blog.

here i am. this is how i have gotten most everywhere in my life. so it is... it's keeping me in stitches. look for more cheery posts of hand-embroidery and less talking. xo