next Friday at 5pm. I have two textile collages about nature!
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Take your time!
next Friday at 5pm. I have two textile collages about nature!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Recycled clothing!
What does one do when you own more than 100 t shirts and most have never been worn? Recycle them. In the thrift shops they sell them for rags.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Katazome - first day
Today we cooked some rice paste and used a paper stencil to stencil the fabric. I did a piece of heavy silk, supposedly Vera Wang but who really knows. After the rice paste was applied, the fabric is stretch and hung out to dry. That is what you are seeing here. Akemi showed me photos of her home, the traditional Japanese screens and a shroud she made for her mom's burial. It brought back memories of my love affair of Japan.
Katazome with Akemi Cohn
Anyone desire a little art getaway. Pippa Drew has these wonderful workshops in the Upper Valley of NH-VT. Just a couple of hours from home for me. How lovely is this place?
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Floorcloth SALE - closing out of the old stuff
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Garbage Journals!
Ever hear about a garbarge journal! This is it! Art Studio garbage is what the journal has.
Each page is a piece of art. No real theme - Just 8 pages and 8 paper pages for journaling!
This is the front cover. Created by Beth Lipman, my daughter, in college in the early 1990's. The others are my creations - dyed fabrics, an old Needlepoint, paper cloth collages, etc. The cocoa pod is from that delicious chocolate, Burdicks' in Walpole, NH.
This is the perfect thing to create when Life gives you lemonade and any thing you do is Dark. This allowed me to feel better during a difficult time in my life. And I have used some lemons!
Hop on over to Etsy http://www.etsy.com/your/listings?show_panel=true to check it out.
Text on the Surface
Monday, May 17, 2010
Introduction to Katazome
She and her husband will travel by car/truck and a motor home stopping in various places to teach "the Art of Katazome", the art of Japanese Stencil Dyeing. Fiber Art at its best!
We are fortunate to have Karen coming to Keene, NH to do a workshop here on July 17 and 18, 2010. A two day workshop in our backyard. And Karen isn't charging us for her travel time! Therefore, the cost to us has been reduced to only $300.00 per person for the two days.
Email me if you are interested. Put your phone number in the email so I can call you.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Sunday in MA
We started the MIT press bookstore. http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/ It took us an hour to browse through all the indie press titles. That bookstore is a wonderful resource. The art selection is not the ordinary. One book, about Crochet, was crochet shown and created using math configurations. Thus, MIT's interest!
I bought Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a line for a while by Pat Francis. This fit right in with my current classwork by Susie Monday: Text on the Surface. http://www.susiemonday.com/ I am one of her test pilots and the class is motivating me to create more art.
Back to yesterday: Following the hour of browsing through all the terrific books. We lunched at Legal Sea Foods in Kendall Square. www.legalseafoods.com Umm, the Asian Vegetables with Scallops were delicious.
Two very full people decided to walk. And we did. Around MIT and across the Harvard Bridge to Boston. Along the Charles River : things were so beautiful and in bloom. Then across the crumbling Longfellow Bridge to Kendall Square. - 1 1/2 hours! It seems everyone was jogging or sailing or walking.
Rick, my brother went on to fly to Germany to work in Europe for the week. I drove home and two hours later it rained! What luck.
(This is a bridge in Back Bay Boston.)
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
HELP! Seeking advice for the UFO
Here is my dilemma. I created the body of the fair isle sweater using Knitting the Old Way by Priscilla Roberts-Gibson. I never bound off the shoulders and instead went to my LYS, which has since closed, to try to learn how to finish this sweater. She had me steek the front and put the front bands on. Before I got that done, she closed her shop. (Sounds like a bad luck story here!)
Now, the sleeves are knitted. I want to finish the sweater and I can figure out the neck band but I have all the stitches on the needle – neck and shoulders, etc.
Shall I bind off doing a three needle bind off for the shoulders now or knit some more? And shape the shoulders? Or shall I count off the neckline stitches and create it, after which I can do the bind off for the shoulders.
Any suggestions are welcome!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Gallery Artist Opening
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Glass gallery opening
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Hiking Mt. Wantastisquet
Last week I took a break from doing my ebay sales to take a hike mup Mt. Wantastisquet. Not far up the trail, I found this A frame house. Is it for people or deer?