Art in a Carton

Art in a Carton
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Here are two of the cartons I put together... I've got another finished and 3 more to make.

ATC 's in the Works

ATC 's
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I've been slowly working on these. They are made of watercolor paper I had done some printing on during a journal making workshop. The second layer is made up of leftover bits of painted papers and end cuts from other mixed-media projects. I have one more layer of textile elements to add before they are finished.

Art in a Carton

Here is the contents of what I received in my Art in a Carton. This came from Germany. I tried to upload a pic of the carton, but for some reason blogger and my new mac book just are not working well together. It took me ages just to get this photo to upload. Blogging through flickr seems to work at light speed, however I can only blog one pic at a time unless I put together a mosaic. 

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Loop's Spontaneous Spinning Club

I fell in love with the gorgeous colors and textures of the spinning batts produced by Loop. It was more or less an obsession at first sight, and even though I could card up similar batts of my own, I couldn't resist joining Loop's Spontaneous Spinning Club. I guess the allure is the anticipation of not knowing what's coming next, but knowing it will be something that inspires me. Each month a new and wondrous batt arrives in my mail box- an exquisite treat that has me running for my wheel as soon as I get home. I even forgot to take a photo of the batt for the last yarn I spun cause I couldn't wait to spin it! 

Goth Rave

Goth Rave
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Scrounging up Leftovers

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Sometimes when you are driven to spin something, and all you have at hand are leftovers from other projects, you create something quite wonderful and unexpected. I love how this yarn shifts from coils, to standard ply to crazy plied. The colors and textures are continually shifting throughout the yarn.

mosaic7468144
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Silver Lining- The Yarns

Silver Lining- The Yarns
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Here are the yarns spun from my silver lining batts. You can see more details of these yarns on my flickr page.

Dyed & Printed Fabric

Dyed & Printed Fabric
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Worked on dying and printing a piece of fabric this week that I've cut into smaller sections for working into mixed-media art quilts, ATC's, Postcards, etc. This is only one section. To see more visit my flickr page.

Weaving Works in Seattle

Weaving Works in Seattle
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Check out Weaving Works next time you are in the Seattle area. They have an amazing selection of yarn and fiber. I had a very limited time when I was there and felt so overwhelmed. Make sure you have at least a couple of hours to kill, otherwise you are just torturing yourself.

Officially Homeless

Officially Homeless, originally uploaded by yarnpunk.

This is the reason I have not been blogging or feeling creative much this year. In January we moved out of our house of 10+ years and began gutting it and getting it ready for demolition. It was surreal watching my house get crushed into bits and loaded into the back of a dump truck. Good-bye house and your leaky duct-tape ceiling and mouse infested walls.... I went swimming in that bottle of Pino Grigio later that day, and am still trying to figure out if I was celebrating or numbing the fact that I'm officially homeless. New construction should begin this summer after the site is excavated and new septic installed.

On a happier note, my creative muse is back and I've got lots of new yarn to photograph and projects in the works. Still trying to work out lighting for taking pic's now that I'm no longer enjoying the benefits of full spectrum lighting down at the yarn shop. The lighting in our rental sucks. Also, after I sold the yarn shop, I bought myself a macbook and am still trying to figure out the new operating system. It's been interesting weaning myself from windows.

Glen and Mar Rock Seattle

Two words for this show: Fucking Brilliant! I managed to video the first song before I got busted by one of the bouncers, so once I figure out how to upload video from my flip camera I'll get it posted somewhere online. Snapped one pic of the show, but was worried about getting kicked out for a second offense so didn't risk any more photos than that. Got to meet them afterwards, as I was staying in the same building, and have to say they are both very warm, amicable human beings. I wish them all the best and hope they make it up to Alaska some day...

The Swell Season

Tomorrow I'm heading for Seattle to catch The Swell Season perform at The Moore Theater. Irish singer/songwriter Glen Hansard of The Frames  and pianist Marketa Irglova (who make up the band The Swell Season) starred in  the movie Once together and also wrote the soundtrack. I caught this film last time I flew to Seattle for ArtFiberFest in October. I'm a huge Frames fan, so finding this movie on the inflight digi-player en-route to Seattle was AMAZING! 

Printed Matter

These are the prints I made in a block printing class I recently participated in... I've already sold one of the fish prints in our local Whale Fest art show this week. The star fish I plan to frame vertically in a series of prints matted together in one frame. I haven't decided if I'm going to put four prints together to make one long dramatic piece, or three and leave the fourth as a single print to sell.  I have two more prints where the starfish are darker in the middle. Those I plan to mount horizontal as shown above in a single frame.