Thanks again for visiting the site and feel free to explore.
I checked my notes and the insect design for the quilt i the previous post. The quilt should be properly named Cicada Kachina. I made the change to the original blog post today. I apologize if this caused any problems.
Thanks again for visiting the site and feel free to explore. So I feel I hit pay dirt or in other words a success. Still I'm chomping at the bit for mistakes and wavy gravy lines. Still a handful of replies before I started quilting this was that they loved the fact the lines were not straight. It gave more character, depth and movement to the overall view. I appreciated the comments very much. Now like any artist there are things I want to go back and redo. Still, for all of the sake of traditional approaches and appeal, I'm starting to deny myself the freedoms of being unconventional and quirky. Those are my mainstays, though not always by choice. Cicada Kachina is the first quilt I pieced and explored Native American design as pattern fodder. The quilting is utility quilting (Mom calls it primitive quilting. That sounds better in my ears.) and is done completely by hand. I finished the quilting yesterday and the binding today, which was also done by hand. My hand and arm definitely need a break. This one is not for sale and I hope never to be parted from it for too long. Call it my Linus. I took out my frustrations about experimenting on this one. It'll definitely be a reference work for future endeavors Breakthroughs do happen in your sleep. I normally make beads and just started making footed tags with Arizona tea cans. The metal thickness is just right and you do not cut yourself too deeply if something happens. It just took a little while to get used to the metal shavings from odd angles. Still I trust my handy pair of airplane shears and I'll keep truckin'. But, I digress. It too three years to find an ornament to make for the Reindeer Craft show that would not insult my intelligence and still meet my insistence on quality and fascination. Yeah, it takes me a while because I shy away from improving/complicating the craft sites and I want something that speaks of me. Still they told me, make it affordable and don't lose your dignity in the process. Now the tea cans had been sitting, this one anyway for about 3 months. I try to build a tidy collection before I start in. It dawned on me one session to make ornaments. However I had no design or concept. Then it hit me last night at midnight practically: how do I integrate embossed metal with a wind catching concept. I briefly though about the movie "Tornado" and how the scientist cut up hundreds of Pepsi can and shaped them into wind catchers to fly in the funnel to catch data. Well, below is the test piece form hammering away at one a.m. this morning. I'm happy and they will be a little smaller. Joy is in its affordability and beauty.
Crying, crying and crying on the inside. Three weeks and packaging. It sat for about eight months after being prepared and now this: fungus. In the midst of organizing I check the digs I'd be using for the next few months. The acorns for sure would be fine. I pull away a stack of tools and supplies and lo and behold, a white blossom. And not just one. Several. I assume the acorns did not dry enough while on the boards. I was freaking out thing another wall hanging was in danger and the air circulated well. Still I'll pull it all back fro the wall and investigate. Worst case scenario it will have to be thrown away and a might bit of a clean up is in order. Positive peace scenario I'll be packing it up in an air tight container. Finding a treatise on working with raw seeds is in order. I wrote I'd be moving to less process posts and more core. This ain't one of those posts. Proud as a morning dove at dawn. After fabricating 100 pine wrappings with different materials, finishing the mandorlas nay spindle was an achievement. The intricacies are persistent and, like with the acorns, I'm learning the limits of nature with what I build. Somedays the artist life is sweet. Enjoy. |
N.A. JonesVisual Artist; Independent Researcher; Librarian; Cook; Amateur Astronomer; Gardener - the hard way, Writer; Explorer Archives
November 2015
Categories
All
|