Woman's Head

Publish Post
Today's train sketch. This is based of of Jeremy Englmon's "Head of a Woman". What? You expect half naked women on NJT? Only in summer.

Parrot Costume Update

Behold! Felt Feathers.
Boy very excitedly (and VERY slowly) sewed the hood on by himself, so yeahhhhhhh! I really love how excited he is about it, "That's so cool Mom." If only I could make him stop stealing my thimbles. LOL

Parrot Costume

Boy-boy had no school today, so we stayed home doing laundry and crafting (in that order, so there :-p). He wants me to make him a parrot costume, so we made a small one for GI Joe as a sample. We are still arguing about if it needs feathers, this one is strictly felt.

Promise# 1

We have an ear! Yeahhhh! Poor Dragon wasn't a happy camper without his ear, he's feeling much better now.

Wasp Purse

So here's what I did last night from 10-1: You can see the pocket has a rough edge still to be finished, and I want to embroider something on it. It even has a magnet closure! Woohoo! However, tonight I plan to spend taking it all apart. LOL. On the list of things to fix: the lining is inside out, I have no idea how that happened. And I want to make the top sections a little shorter. It was fun though and I learned how to make my machine sew through leather - that's an old belt for handles. Oddly enough I broke 2 needles last night (for some reason both around 12:30...) but not while i was sewing the belts, just too many layers of canvas and interfacing combined with me not paying enough attention.

Fairy

By request of Sarah, a fairy. This one looks better bigger, so click on it to open it up!

Ballerina

Quick sketch, feel like I'm regressing.

Tennis

As promised, today's sketch. Do you know how hard it is to draw on the bus in NJ? The highways with their MANY turns make you feel like you are on the space ship ride at the fair, the one that pins you to the wall with centrifugal force.

Blog?

After spending far too much time reading other blogs, I have decided that this is supposed to be more than just posting pictures. Putting the pictures up has already helping me in several ways. I am feeling less self conscious about sharing things I've made with others (why the heck not? I already posted it on the internet!) and I have a feeling of accountability to making and finishing things on a regular basis. I seriously can not remember the last time I had so many projects going that I finished to any degree.

The new year is a great time to make goals so here goes:

• I want to see myself posting on a daily basis, or close to it. Even if it is only a doodle.
  
• I want to make designated time to craft (stolen train moments and 2 AM are great, but its not really predictable or consistent-well the commute is consistent but I can't do big things on the train).
• I want to make a designated craft area--somewhere other than the end of the dining room table, I'm getting tired of "shoving" all the crafting supplies off when we need it.
• I want to make things well enough to offer tutorials! Yes I know it's vague but I think it says a lot about where I'm aiming here. Not only do I want to enjoy myself but darn it I want to get GOOD too.
  

I am planning this year to try making as many different things as I can (within budget constraints anyways). I want to try making stuffies, quilts, clothing, drawings, paintings, the combination of any of the above and anything else that strikes my fancy. My real goal for this year is just to DO, to learn and enjoy.

In the works right now:

• A new art kit or whatever you want to call it. I need something more comfortable to hold my pencils, erasers, etc etc etc in and I'm not finding it, so I'm making one.
  
• I just got approval from DH to buy the fabric I want to make a "wasp bag."
• I owe several someones drawings: an alligator (or several) and fairies.
  
• I'm supposed to FIX Darth Vader and a dragon.
• There is a fishy quilt that is sitting 1/3 done in the bottom of my sewing box.

Wish me luck!

Moby Update

I think I'm going to put him aside for now. Pretty happy with him.

Moby

Quick sketch, from a picture of Moby between 2 train stops. Not finished at all, the scanner didn't even want to pick up most of the lighter pencil lines. I'll try to finish him and repost.

Dragonfly

Quick sketch done from photo, not art but not too bad.

Blankets

I made these back in February as a gift (gave the gift, but just found the pics :-p). They are Microsoft clip art pics that I hand stitched onto the blankets. The only machine part is the scallop edge on the boat blanket, in hindsight I regret doing that. The boat was done first and basically in an afternoon. The frog took what felt like a million years of evolution, his feet were by far the hardest part. I wish I had done the boat as appliqué, maybe next time.

Pies

Because food is art too and I love my new ramekins so much I just have to show them off. Chicken pie anyone?

Cowgirl

I really am trying to wean myself off of doing "copies" like this. They are fun, instantly gratifying and I'm being told are a very easy crutch. The original is from Kia Acedera with Imaginism Studios. Yes, If you look up the original, I know I screwed up the face. I think I will keep doing that until I can stop being afraid of them, I think.