Patching it Together

Back from our whirlwind of a getaway! I did a little stitching while we were away but not much to show yet.

Last night after arriving home I poked at the shirt repair. It has arrived at a place that I like, the little blue flower has been attached and everything is tacked down well enough to go through the washer and dryer. I want to soften the hard cut edges a bit and make sure it will hold up to that sort of treatment.

Lar doesn't think he will wear it and that is fine, I think when it is done I may list it in the ETSY store if I don't give it as a gift to someone. It occured to me that it has a hippie vibe that might appeal to some of the people who visit the shop. I may look at doing more of that sort of thing to try to create a bridge between the products that are in there with the sort of thing I am more interested in doing. I would like to bring Shibori Designs the business more into tune with who I am as an artist... As it stands now the shop seems to belong to one artisan and the blog another. (actually that disconnection applies to most of my life... food for thought)

Post Dye

My moons seem to be melting away!

I dyed a little blue flower too.
I will be gone for a few days, not sure if I will get much done but I plan to bring a bit of stitching along for the trip. We have one "pool day" so I hope to spend some quiet time then. See ya in a few!

Folded

next the clamps...

Later the dye...

This experiment is inspired by Glennis' Moons

Mmmm... no.

As usual feeling a little done in after karate class.

Prepping for a test is stressful for me, I have a little problem with performance anxiety. Second guessing myself is second nature.

Thought I'd mess with some mending, its an old shirt of Lar's with the collar worn through, possibly from his guitar strap.

Pulled out a few fabrics.

Snip snip, pin pin.

Interesting, but no.

Accumulation

Tonight as I am straightening up the studio I noticed this relationship between these two projects that had run out of steam. They seem to need each other to continue. I am rethinking how I use this space. I need more display area and a larger work surface. There is one dead corner that is inexcessable and ends up being a dumping ground. A cheap and easy remodel may be in order. Something to consider as a fall project... I've made some notes.

I found a good way to store the strips and resorted all of my fabrics bins in a sort of strata according to "potential for use" in current projects.

Next up I will tackle the In-Box, I may need some wine for this one.

leafy tapestries

Saturday we saw the sun! After my race was run I spent a good portion of the afternoon toodling around in the garden taking pictures and pulling up the occasional oak seedling. Between the compost and all the rain things out there seem to be doubling in size this year. I foresee some digging in my future.
Everything was looking like tapestries of color to me that day. Today the rain is back. However since I don't live next to a flooding river I'm not gonna complain (I may sigh a little though).

Excitement

I'm pretty excited tonight for a number of reasons...

I just got this... I heard a good review over at Geek With Curves.

I have managed to clean out my google reader in the last week or so. Now I am left only with blogs I read. I'm trying to keep up with them, and add the occasional new one.

Geek With Curves is a new one that I like. Amy Ratcliff is more immersed in that culture (Geekdom) than I am but she seems to have a similar taste to mine and is articulate about what she likes and why she likes it.

Tomorrow is my first 5K of the year, and I think I'm ready.

The new book is being saved for our mini-vacation next weekend

I can't believe it but I'm finally going to Disney. No, its not a dream vacation but it will be fun.

Finally we have been approved to adopt 2 dogs the weekend after that.

(yes, we are that crazy)

Dillon:

and Zena:

coming soon!