Stripey Strips and Postcards

It's actually been a pretty productive week, but my camera is rather continuously on the fritz, so not that many pictures. "New camera" is definatly high on my list of things-to-buy when I have a little money socked away--maybe after I get paid for summer institute.


So, that fat old stack of 500 has finally (two months late!) come into my possession. They're still a little pixelated and weird. But I had to pay for them anyway, so if anyone wants me to mail them one, drop me a line at regae@uarts.edu

The lovely stack of colors next to it was the result of me purchasing a cotton bedsheet at the thrift store and using up the little bits of dyes I have left. I'll probably use them for quilting sometime soon.


The colors all came out a little greyed out, but I don't really mind, at least it makes them all work together pretty well.


In other business, I have a weaving in the works. I'm attempting to do a rag-rug style weaving with wool strips, and hopefully as a double-weave pickup (we'll see if that's possible!) No pictures, but I also dyed and wound my warp this week, and have begun getting it on the loom.

The Ugly Quilt is Finished

The delay in posting is due to my determination to finish this quilt before I updated. The more I worked on it, the uglier and uglier it started looking. I blame it on the fact that I am paralyzed by printed fabric. But the hand-quilting looks lovely, I almost like the quilt better on the all-white side.



The handquilting took way longer than I thought. Major props to all you that make king-sized quilts this way. But it's worth it, I just can't get into machine quilting, plus my machine would not handle it.


I'm rather more fond of my new floor/butt pillow. I do the vast majority of my work on the floor, now that I don't have a studio. And the floor is hard, thus a butt pillow became essential. Done with the fabric my friend Astrid dyed and gifted to me, in a drunkard's path pattern.

Little Bits

Just some small progresses.



Started making a bunch of these little pencil cases, they're quick and easy and let me play with color as well as chip away at the pile of quilting cotton I have. I may put them up for sale at a later date.



The cathedral window skirt continues to grow, slowly.



I also started handquilting my bargello quilt, which was basted together last summer, then unceremoniously shoved under my bed for a year. It's taking quite a while, I'm not the world's fastest hand-quilter, and I don't have a whole class helping me out like with the fundraiser quilt.


Close up of my wavy stitching.

Back to the States

After a dizzying two weeks in South Korea, I'm back in Philly, back to work, and slowly trying to get back in my own work. I think I'm feeling the post-school let down at the moment, so it's a bit difficult at the moment.

I won't turn this into a vacation slideshow, but just some of the more inspiring images from my trip.







And some travel-ready cases for my sketchbook and pencils I made just before my trip:


The red one is a roman shade pattern, a little crooked, but I don't mind so much. The pencil case is just a quick little stripey design.


While I love the pastel tones of the pencil case, it got dirty really fast.


I also brought along my cathedral window project on my trip, it's growing.

This, like the two coat, is going to be one of those long-term projects.