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A Peek in My Window

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Well, sort of! This is my fiber sketch for today. It is from a piece of fabric that was printed and discharged with a plastic grid.

Here is a photo of the next step in my graffiti piece. You will have to wait to see what happens next!!

It was a gorgeous day. I  went to the dentist and got my brand new front tooth It looks great. So happy to have that done. This afternoon, I was off to the Farmer’s Market. I took my knives and sewing scissors to be sharpened. They told me I could bring my rotary cutter blades in and have them sharpened for $2. I think I will give it a try.

Tonight, after dinner, we took Scooter for a walk. I took my camera and took some photos on the Reed Campus. I really love this big old Western Maple. It looks like a tree of life.

And the lines and colors of this tree were just gorgeous.

Don’t forget to check in at the Twelve by Twelve blog tomorrow for the reveal of our latest color play challenge — purple/yellow. I need to get mine ready to go. I am having a CT Scan of my sinuses at 7 am tomorrow.

Mark Making

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

I had one of those days. I was doing household stuff this morning and then spent an ungodly amount of time waiting to see the ENT Dr this afternoon. So, finally, tonight, I made it down to the studio and did some mark making on fabric, my version of graffiti.

I first tried doing some monoprints, but was not getting the results that I wanted. I ended up using one of my veterinarian syringes to get the lines that I was looking for. I have an idea percolating that requires some marks on organza, which is on the right.  I uses a washed dupioni  creamy silk as the undercloth which is on the right. I cut a piece for today’s fiber sketch.

Back to the ENT appointment, once I finally got in, he did some poking and prodding and scoping and decided that I need a CT Scan. I was not doing well today as I had an allergy flareup, but it was good that he could see that it is a problem for me. Mr C  has been slacking, and so I did some cleaning over the week-end and got into the dust. He told me that I should wear a good dust mask, even when someone else is doing the dusting and vacuuming. Ha!

Tomorrow morning, I go for the fitting of my new front tooth crown. I hope it fits and looks good so that I can be done with visits to the dentist.

Only one more day until we reveal our latest Twelve by  Twelve pieces with the complements of purple and yellow. I really love what I did and can’t wait to show it.