recent ❤s

Moondog --- Alexander Girard's wooden dolls --- reproduction fabrics --- Dickens --- Louise Bourgeois' ‘Ode a L’Oubli’--- wool blankets --- homemade black bean burgers

an experiment in making a braided rug basket (it's a little wonky shape-wise... but incredibly sturdy) & some little wooden dudes

also:
99 Seinfeld references
Where the Wild Things Are
NPR Beware!

Many, many projects happening here... I'll have some glimpses up soon!
Until then, a piece from the vault!
This is my first stitched editorial illustration.

for Dose Magazine

Erzgebirge!

Currently obsessing over these amazing little wooden German guys. Some of them come apart so you can burn incense in their bellies- only to have it puff out of their mouths!
Almost went bidding after the mothergoose pull toy.

can't stop, won't stop

I've been on such a crafting kick! Three quick pillows. I've been wanting to do something good with the red and blue 'barnicle' fabric for ages! I wish I could find more of it...
Expect to see more semi-useless round pillows in the near future!

A couple of drawings from last year.
How did I not know how awesome Ram is?

Here's Evah's awesome (and very compliant) cat, Jala, wearing a scarf I made! (Evah had only asked for a scarf for herself, but there was some extra yarn...)

also: lemon pine nut shortbread

Craftnight II is tonight! Woo! If we ever take a decent picture maybe I'll post more about it!

inspiration

I think I may need an Atari Video/Music to assist me in creating woven patterns. (Besides I've always wanted one having seen it in action on Devo music videos back in middleschool.)




Primarily Swedish and Navajo weavings. apart from the printed fabric and the commercial ikat at the bottom.
(in bad blogger form, I can't remember where I found these images)

jigsaw jr.

My god, I can't believe this is real!
I want it so bad my future phantom fingers are aching!

Shary Boyle

Italo Calvino inspired?
I had seen Shary Boyle's work in Kramers Ergot some years ago, and it's stuck with me since. As luck would have it, I happened across it again. Only now, rather than finding more beautifully mottled watercolors, I found porcelain! What a fun body of work!
(click here to see for yourselves)
also here's her new monograph