By leslie | September 21, 2009
You can read about my design contributions to Terry Jarrard-Dimond’s Compositional Conversation project over here on Terry’s blog today. The photo above is the “final composition” I mailed off to Fulvia Luciano last Tuesday. Rather than pile-on some additional fabric figures, I ended up really thinking about the formal elements of the composition, and how I [...]
By leslie | September 21, 2009
I’ve finally added some gallery pages to this blog. They can be accessed via the tab above, or from the pages menu over on the left.
Thank goodness for Wordpress and Wordpress plug-ins. I was able to put together a couple of small quilt galleries and post them on a new page without much fuss. The [...]
By leslie | September 18, 2009
We recently added a new cat to our household as a companion to our favorite tabby. This full grown little girl is tiny, under six pounds. She is seen here on a dozy afternoon with a freshly harvested GIANT garden zucchini. (Photo taken by my spouse). The two cats seem to be getting along well, [...]
By leslie | September 10, 2009
A nicely packaged bundle arrived in the mail for me yesterday containing something special. This week it is my turn in the fantastic group art project, Compositional Conversation. Compositional Conversation is the brain-child of Terry Jarrard-Dimond, an award winning artist who creates moving and muscular textile constructions in her South Carolina studio. Terry blogs about [...]
Meet Bette. Bette Bernina. Otherwise known as my brand new Bernina 820 sewing machine computer. I don’t usually name inanimate objects. But this one seems to have a Bette Davis, take no prisoners sort of way about her. Plus I watch a lot of old movies on TCM while sewing.
Did I mention I’m in love? [...]
Fire on the Mountain
The Wanderer. Success through smallness.
Perseverance brings good fortune
To the wanderer.
A week ago, we were lying outside trying to get our fill of a spectacular meteor shower, when our neighbor, Bill, phoned to say someone had reported seeing a fire on our mountain. We ran around with flashlights in our fists and our [...]
Very busy of late. A period of upheaval and transition. But I know this throwing things up in the air bit often provides fodder for sustained periods of creativity later on.
In stolen moments I have been playing with scraps of hand-dyed fabrics. Some of my own cottons mixed up with bits of silk leftovers [...]
Last weekend looked like this.
One of those glorious indian summer days that always seem to be ordered up by the chamber of commerce for California in January. I snuck off to the beach and caught this golden sunset over the Monterey Bay.
Life in the real world is impeding my progress in the virtual [...]
This week’s winning Spoonflower fabric is by Rachel of MammaMade fame.
Rachel has been posting extremely detailed tutorials on designing fabric using vector art created in free software tools like Inkscape, a new SVG authoring program (shameless plug for SVG, a web technology I worked on years ago). In fact, she details her complete design process [...]
I know our new president has a whole bunch of stuff on his plate right now, but somehow I can’t help but think that the world would be just a little bit better place if President Elect Obama would take up Quincy Jones’s suggestion that he create a new cabinet position, “Secretary of Arts”.
I know I’d [...]
