24 February, 2010

Works in Progress Wednesday

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Work of a different sort this week.  This is the summer camp schedule for the Textile Center.  I stayed home from work sick one day last week and this is what I did while I watched the Olympics. 39 sticky notes.  Color coded for age level, letter codes in the corner for how many hours, whether or not it uses sewing machines or dye lab space, notes about who is on vacation, what teacher does what class and weeks that some classrooms are already booked.  It is an intensely complicated project.

23 February, 2010

True Love Dragon Style

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This very well might be my favorite thing I have ever found on etsy.  I am so completely and totally in love.  The artist is Virginia from StickManJewelry. (Her shop is on vacation if you click over there right now, but she’ll be back soon.  Browse the sold items.) My dragon is tiny (1/2 inch) and perfect.  I have loved dragons for just about forever, so it took very little deliberation (about 13 seconds) before I bought this one.

21 February, 2010

Good Intentions

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When I am working on something new, I always have good intentions to do a real work in progress post and take pictures every 1/2 hour to show you the project.  Then I get caught up in working, bury the camera someplace and forget to take any more pictures.  That’s the case with this one too, but I did remember to take a photo of the fabric before I cut it up.  This is what the fabric looked like for “Intersect” below, before I cut it up in to 1 1/4 inch squares.  That piece is about a fat quarter (18×22 inches).

17 February, 2010

Works in Progress Wednesday

2010-02-17T11:58:40-06:00Dyes, Embroidery, Sewing & Design|4 Comments

As of tomorrow, I will have 3 art quilts on exhibit simultaneously at three different galleries.  How cool is that??

This is “Chicken Little”.  He is currently on display as part of “A Common Thread”, annual Textile Center members’ exhibition.  8″x9″, cotton fabrics with some handdyed by me, hand embroidered, hand stitched, machine quilted.  I made it originally for the MN State Fair’s “Quilt-On-A-Stick” but then I spaced out the deadline and didn’t get it turned in on time.  So I saved it so it could be in this show.

This is “Intersect”, which is on display starting tomorrow at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for “A Foot in the Door”.  11 1/2 inches square.  My handdyed cotton, machine pieced, hand embroidered.

My quilt for the Project Patchwork Ikea Challenge

And this one, “Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?” is traveling with the Original Sewing & Quilt Expo and is currently in Tampa, FL.

17 February, 2010

Pants!

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Before I show off my art, I have to show you some Olympic Art:

The Norwegian Curling team has the best uniforms ever. Love it boys!

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