Stitching Details

More stitching coming later this afternoon, had to take a break from sewing.  In the mean time I'm thinking about  the direction of this particular piece, of rivers, cottonwood trees, marshes, and the difficulties early settlers faced in settling this wild wet often boggy land called Iowa.

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A detail of the stitching, so far. I have a lot more stitching, layering, and then more stitching to do to t his piece before it's done.  If the fabric looks familiar it's because it's is the same fabric that is on the cover of my Rust and Clay Dyeing Book.

Where's the Money Article???

I'm still working on the money article, but since I have issues with money and admit it who doesn't, it's taking way longer than I thought possible!

WIP 080512

Making thread selections.

Aurifils cotton and rayon thread.

Aurifil wool thread.

One Work Many Views

A FB friend asked me if I was viewing a WIP from multiple directions, as from the one direction it looked like an old ship.  Yes, and I almost always photograph them in different directions especially when I'm experimenting with different layers as I tend to forget what I did previously.

Money, Money, Money

I was going to talk about money this week and forgot to do so, will gather my notes and try to get that done this weekend!

Until then leave me a comment if you feel guilty about selling your artwork.  Guilt from the stand point that you feel you don't have a right to ask for amounts above the materials costs.

WIP - What the Corn Knew

Many more layers will be applied this week.
Acrylic on Raised Panel Board

Of Money and Sin

I"m working on a blog post for this weeks topic

and it's all about money!

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WIP - What the Corn Knew

Acrylic on raised panel.  Since I cannot show what I'm working on at the moment, for my Quilt National submission I'll show you what I painted this afternoon.  This layer is currently drying, the next layer will be a glaze layer, and once that dries I'll be layering on more paint. 

WIP - Untitled Corn

Still in progress.

4x? inches

Painted Timtex, Natural Dyed Silk Fibers, Cutch and Madder Dyed Cotton Muslin.  Machine Stitched.

2012

Queen Anne's Forest No. 1

Queen Anne's Forest No. 1 is now available in my store, will be updating the store this week with other yummies as well!

My Office Assistant

Thomas in his summer coat, can't wait for winter to come so that he will be all fuzzy and adorable again.

Queen Anne's Forest No. 1 - Finished

I'll work on getting a better image tomorrow.

Detail shot.
Available in My Shop

More Studio Organization

John moved my thread boxes into my studio this evening and I spent the better part of the evening organizing the contents.  Tomorrow I will be moving the rest of my studio supplies in while the temps are still bearable in the house, and right now it's downright pleasant!!!

Boxes of beads.

WIP - Queen Anne's Forest

Queen Anne's Forest (lace) No. 1
4x6 inches
Painted Timtex, Machine Embroidery

I will be adding indigo dyed silk organza to this piece later this evening.

Queen Anne's Birds

Queen Anne's Birds.
8.5x11 inches.
Digitally Printed Cotton Fabric, Painted Timtex, Machine Embroidered/Stitched.
Finished matted and framed to 11x14 inches behind plexi for shipping!

I will be listing it in my store tomorrow after I've matted and framed the piece.

Umbrels

I have more umbrels on my other blog, where I accidently posted my creativity process posts!  I am working on digitizing some fabric for these pieces and for a much larger piece I will be creating for an upcoming call for entries.

Studio Assistant

My studio assistant, Angel.

WIP- Hoodoos

A new piece for my canyonlands series.

Madder lac on silk fabric, wool batting, cotton backing, machine stitched. 
Approximately 12'x14"

Corn No. 51 - On it's Way

Corn. No. 51
Matted and Framed. Finished to 11x14x2 inches.

WIP - Untitled Corn

Experimenting with different thread colors and thicknesses.
4x6ish inches. Natural dyed cotton fabric.

New Work Coming Soon!

Digitally printed silk organza overlaying a piece of logwood purple dyed silk organza, the small red strip of fabric on top is madder lac dyed silk organza net.

Sample

Silk crepe de chine with screen and mono printed with natural dye extracts.

WIP - Untitled

Work In Progress from sometime around 2002. 
Natural Dyed Silk and Cotton Fabrics.  Natural Dyed Silk Cocoons.  Indigo Dyed Cotton Fabric. Machine and Hand Stitched.

WIP - Big Blue Stem

Here it is hanging vertically, I started this piece many moons ago, as in like sometime around 1999 many moons ago! 

This piece has always bothered me, there's a thread over on the Quilt Art list about cutting up a piece.  Well I've been tempted to cut the dark side of this quilt off for some 12 years now!  Now that I have Adobe CS 6 I've started experimenting with this piece

Here it is without the marks, I'm thinking some additional stitching and or embellishment is needed to make this piece really sing.

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Experimenting with some digitally printed silk and cotton overlays over natural dyed fabrics.

Corn No. 40

Corn No. 40 all spiffed up and ready for a new home! 
Matted and Framed 8x8x2 inches.

WIP's - Corn Series

Corn No. 53

Corn No. 53 - Madder Root dyed cotton fabric, cochineal dyed silk organza net. Machine stitched.

Corn No. 35

Before additional stitching was added to the surface.

After, I'm liking this piece a lot with the additional stitching, not sure if ti's finished or not though.

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Organizing

Still working on getting my desktop organized, but with the help of my neighbor, I was able to get some of the computer issues resolved, one of them was replacing the network card and adding more RAM to the machine, the best part was  the addition of the second workstation moniter.  The new addition is already making video editing much nicer, ditto on writing in InDesign.

WIP - Corn No. 52

Corn No. 52 (Eclipse) - Getting closer to done!

WIP - Corn No. 52

Corn No. 52 (Eclipse) - Almost there, just a bit more to do!

WIP - Corn No.'s 51 and 52

Corn No. 51 (That was then.)

Corn No. 52 (Eclipse) ~ It has been awhile since I've worked in the horizontal plane. Right now I'm taking a break from the sewing machine so I my eyes can relax a bit.