Got Wool?

My living room has turned into a wool room! Not for long though I have to clean the east bedroom and once it's cleaned I can move John's office out of the library and put my wool into the library with the rest of the left over inventory from the store - which isn't much these days. I'm hoping to sell the remaining fixtures etc., and soon. For now it's a good use of the space I just need to find room for my poor loom!

This and That No. 2

I started working on T&T altered embroidery no. 2 last night. I managed to get the gingham on backwards after getting all of the stitching to look the way I wanted to ;-(

Prairie Potholes No. 15

At this point in time it's finished, I might work a bit more on the edging and take better photos of this piece but it's definately done for now!

Studio Helpers

Vintage Needle Case

Salt Water Taffy Treasury

by Fifthquadrant

White... black... brown... beige Treasury

By InspirationPoint

Prairie Potholes

I've been working on producing 1 piece at least every other day, the goal is to create a line of progression and wrap a gallery with them, in a single line. Clear as mud??? The smaller pieces go quicker and utilize scraps better than the larger pieces do. I keep coming back to the simple dot design which I find frustrating as I'm really wanting to push the surface especially by mixing my materials, yet I keep coming back to this design - which looks rather cartoonish from my vantage point. Maybe tomorrow right???

Prairie Pothole No. 18

2008 Prairie Pothole No. 18 5 x 7 inches

Prairie Potholes No. 16 & 17

I'm not sure which orientation I like best for these. The goal is to make one every other day and to line the whole gallery with them.

Prairie Pothole No. 17

Prairie Pothole No. 17 5 x 7 inches October 2008

Prairie Potholes No. 16

2008 5x7 inches

Prairie Potholes No. 14

In Progress.

Compost Dyed fabric over digitally printed cloth. Machine stitched ~ and now to had the hand stitching. This piece is going to be a bear to stitch because it has a timtex core!

14 x 14 inches.

EPU II

Prairie Potholes No. 14 Amber Waves

Done! I'll take better photos tomorrow out of doors with better lighting! I took this while it was on my studio table, I'm so glad to be finished with this piece I fought the digital printer all day and finally had to settle for this piece but I'm satisfied and that's all that matters right???

The red lines if you look at them closely enough depict a red crow my maternal grandfather had, he was Mi'kmaq as was my maternal grandmother and my mother - which makes me half. The picture in the fore front was printed on silk organza and is a double overlay of clouds over prairie grasses and this over lays printed cotton of the same clouds, depicting time, traveling in time through story telling. My mother loved telling stories and could make a story up in an instant. I never understood how important this was to her until after her death, when I learned more about her heritage and how important story telling was in NA culture.

Shades of the Season Treasury

Pandaluv included me in this lovely Fall treasury

Stitched

Some stitching

A little hand stitching on a scrap of natural dyed felted wool fabric.

Artist at Work 2 Treasury

by Celticcatphotos

To Dye For Natural Dye Treasury

Harvest Textiles created this lovely natural dyed treasury

Tucks and Pleats

Soon to be a part of my canyon series!