
Saturday, June 28, 2008

Monday, June 23, 2008
I feel much better now...
And, now, a photo of my underwear! I decided to do a little more playing around with my Procyon dyes, to see how different colors would blend. I definitely had a few surprises -- like the orange was "supposed" to be red, and that weird brown was "supposed" to be purple! At least I no longer have a bunch of bland white and beige in my undies drawer. Next time: gradations?

Sunday, June 22, 2008
what's wrong with this picture?
I need to get in gear on the summer quilt for 4 Seasons -- I had an idea or two last week but I wish I could remember what I was thinking about! (where's that gingko when I really need it?) I have an idea for the booty swap quilt that involves using a fragment of a very tedious paper-pieced pattern that I started... but Summer comes before Booty on the calendar this year!

Monday, June 16, 2008
show & tell
Today brought this beautiful finale from the Spring Fling Round Robin:
Yesterday I received this tiny treasure, which I bid on and won from the Priority: Alzheimers auction -- the quilt is only about 8" tall and has all those tiny flying geese! It was made and donated by Nancy McCain and I love it!

Friday, June 13, 2008
First up -- and I'm so embarrassed to show this -- is a super-funky piece of pottery I made in a ceramics class at adult school some years back. I got absolutely nowhere trying to "throw" pots, so I reverted to kindergarten techniques instead!

Thursday, June 12, 2008
I'm dyeing to tell you...
But first, let me show you the quilt I received from Emma for the first Miniature Booty Swap! It's very cute, with appliquéd leaves in the jewel tones I love... of course I've already signed up for the second round of the swap.
Here's a piece of fabric that was blue-almost-black with white swirls, and look at the interesting texture that showed up after the discharge process.:
This is a piece of white Kona cotton I played with, just to see how different manipulations would work -- scrunched and tied, rubber bands around different beads, and then pleated and tied. I have more fabric and colors to mess with next time I have a free day.

Monday, June 02, 2008
here's my mosaic!

and here's how to make your own:
1. First, go to Big Huge Lab's Mosaic Maker and set up a mosaic grid.
2. Then, open Flickr in a separate window, and type your answer to each of the questions below
into Flickr Search.
3. Using only the first page of results, pick one image. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into the spaces on the Mosaic Maker page
The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favorite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favorite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your flickr name?
Leave me a note if you do this, so I can check out your mosaic, too!

photo credits:
1. Mad Julie, 2. Mmmm Cheese, 3. The Berkeley Library, 4. Gizmo, 5. Blue in the face, 6. campari splash, 7. Green-Park-Banksy, 8. Fruit flan & lemon meringue, 9. Retired After Hard Work, 10. Peeli Dopehar aur Wo, 11. The neon lights, 12. A Bud Vase full of Roses from our Garden - Ya just gotta love Springtime!