I make what you tell me to

Love quilt.

This was fun. I haven't quilted yet, only practiced piecing things together. I loved the process of sewing on top of a paper pattern and tearing it off later. I did find myself totally confused from time to time as using a paper pattern requires you think in OPPOSITES and flipping over and stuff. Instead of stitching around the letters, I embroidered flowers. I'm trying to become an amazing embroideress. 

Here's the tutorial. It was super clear, easy to use and fun. It did NOT explain how to bind off, something I had never done before. SO....

I guessed. 

And frankly I think it looks like poop.

BUT I think my friend Kelly won't mind. 

Don't tell her, but the quilt makes an amazing kitty blanket. 

SUH-REAL!

Making art from your subconscious! Getting all SURREAL up in here...

The Surrealists believed that the ORDINARY world could be EXTRAORDINARY. How great is that? Your pillow, your glass of wine, your boyfriend/girlfriend...all have the potential to be extraordinary when combined with something totally unexpected. BUT we spend so much time in a world of SHOULD, thinking about what things SHOULD look like. How can we think of what things COULD look like?

Try...

Automatic Drawing 

Take a pencil and literally scribble (slowly) on a page. 

Or splash paint.

Or make ink blots.

And look for familiar images. Did you make a boat? A bird? What do the weird doodles in your image add up to?

Joan Miro used this technique to develop his fun, bright images filled with bizarre and fun creatures. 

Exquisite Corpse Drawing 

Make a small drawing. Cut 1/2 inch of one side off and give it to a friend. Have your friend make a drawing that starts from this piece. Keep going until you have a whole fun image. 

Verbal Inspiration

Take 5 books. Choose a page number and a sentence number. Write out the sentence from each of these books in a string. Get all inspired. 

Just some ways to make anything NOT ordinary. 

Knitting Bag - Keeping it Organized

Very fancy. Keeping those tiny needles in check. Used this tutorial and the ugliest fabric I had in my stash. I like using ugly thing, I have a hypothesis that when you put two ugly fabrics together, they look better.

I have a serious question..

Do you blow your nose one nostril at a time, or both at the same time? Is there a correct way?

darwin drawing traced

This is a png which would make is AWESOME to use over a background.