No ArtSoMoFo today, i have looked around at some of my digitial images on my computer as i wind down from an evening doing Library Committee work at the Meetinghouse. This image asked to be posted — a series of three shots taken of GreyBrother when we lived in Philadelphia, digitized in 2002.
GreyBrother in Leaves
October 4th, 2007CallForWorks: Jump Photos
October 3rd, 2007
A friend is asking for photos of people (or animals) jumping to celebrate her 30th birthday. See the guidelines at http://www.jumpforlove.com/process.html#The_Rules_Of_The_Celebration. Deadline is 1 Dec.
ArtSoMoFo-02
October 3rd, 2007
This is my Oct 2nd effort. My Oct 3rd effort is possibly something that “doesn’t count” but is what i could do for the evening, a Paw Prints Flickr set.
Another collection of images that might be useful would be a collage of “still in progress” images!
World Wide SketchCrawl #16
October 2nd, 2007Out of the blue, i received a confirmation email for the SketchCrawl newsletter. I’m sure i’d registered in 2004, so i confirmed. I note that World Wide SketchCrawl #16 is coming up on Sunday 4 November, and i nominated Mountain View as a destination. I had a lovely time with RuTemple and Tamara at the Union Cemetery in Redwood City some years ago; maybe we can get together again.
And for those of you who don’t sketch but photograph or write — maybe you’d want to join in a local sketch crawl and make your own sketches.
ArtSoMoFo Day 1: Hands
October 1st, 2007
This painting probably doesn’t count as an
And all over my hands.
Mail art from Cascadia Artpost
September 30th, 2007A postcard from Cascadia Artpost was included in the bundle of mail i picked up yesterday. The postcard is an image in blue golds and purples of North Dakota titled “Stormy Season” with a day of issue postmark on a beautiful storm cloud artistamp and a complementary panther USPS stamp. A quotation of Tennyson is in the clouds of another stormy landscape image on the reverse.
Thanks for the postal joy!
No DVD November
September 28th, 2007So, to promote making things instead of watching things, Christine and i will have a no DVD November, an echo of our no TV November some years ago. When that November was over, we didn’t miss the TV at all. Netflix and streaming video have taken TV’s place in a very satisfactory way. But, still, the temptation to just huddle around the video hearth in the onset of winter is very strong. Since we have an actual hearth, we plan to have a nice fire in the fireplace and work on our fiber arts and *listen* to things. We might check out Butlerian Jihad an audio novel we started but have not finished. (I plot. One of us could check it out and the other could put it on hold. We might finish someday that way.) Or we might let Christine come up with audio programming from the extensive audio library….
Crochet and other altered dresses: babydoll or empire bodice research
September 27th, 2007This was going to be a longer post, but i ended up posting it as a query to a Crochet Me forum.
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Crochet and the altered dress: step 1
September 27th, 2007I came home last night and promptly began cutting up a dress that doesn’t fit me anymore. Equal parts shrinkage and weight gain, i suspect, compounded by the original bad cut of the dress. When i actually examined the dress, i determined it wasn’t quite as shapeless in its fashioning as i recalled: there were princess seam darts and a teensy weensy dart under the arm pit. I will add a real dart. The fact that that will leave more gappage in the front is fine. My plan is to crochet some gores in the front and sides to give more ease and some flair. I haven’t decided whether i will shorten the dress. If i really wanted to make the dress fit, i’d have to adjust for my rather wide but very sloping shoulders. However, this is a practice dress compounded by the fact i’ve no idea where i would wear it. The laundry in the complex?
I did cut away the modest neckline to make an exaggerated sweetheart neckline. I did a button hole stitch around my raw edges and have half completed a single crochet base chain around the entire neckline. I imagine creating a bit of a lace infill so the neckline is a little more modest while retaining the flirty curves. That lace infill will transition to a tighter crochet stitch and continue down the front of the dress as a gently widening panel, replacing the button front.
Once i open the side seams to make the bust-line darts, i’ll create similar panels down the side. I think this essentially adding gores to the skirt part of the dress. And i think i’ll move the buttons to the side. I’ve a dress with a side zipper and i love that fit. I probably even have a long zipper in my sewing stash, but reusing the buttons and crocheting the button holes appeals to me.
So, this project should take me a small eternity, and who knows, maybe by the time i finish one of my nephews (currently aged 3, 1, and 9 months) will have a sweetheart who will like to wear it. And then there’s the small problem that i don’t know how to do any of this. Whee!
Meanwhile, i’ve posted a call for pattern help for altering some other dresses.
Glue-to Books Instruction
September 23rd, 2007Jenn Hollowell has written up her instructions on how to make