Category: Making

Some words

I’ve been working on my words for the Painted Speech class, in between plowing and shoveling! A nice contrast in activity. This is a prototype of the pages. I’m learning to be more delicate...

A weaving celebration

It’s my birthday! I’m 66 years old. Seems like a lot of years. I’m celebrating with weaving. This checkerboard piece got me weaving again last September after a break. I really wanted to try...

Inky

I’ve had a long relationship with ink. Maybe as long as thread. We were not allowed to use ballpoint pens in my Catholic grade school to learn penmanship. We had to use fountain pens...

Chicken feathers on a stick

I am playing with ink. Sumi and gouache mixture. Taking an online class with Suzanne Moore via BookPaperThread. It is refreshing to try different things than usual. Loosening up the deep freeze that the...

A little magic

Hospital waiting room nine-patch. Sam’s heart surgery is done as of about an hour ago. I had a perfect little bit of stitching magic to keep me company while waiting. I did okay, time...

Zero degrees

Screenshot from my phone. I thought it was worth recording that the time was 6:00 am and the temperature was 0° F. Yes, it’s cold. I had to go hunting for the degree symbol,...

Snowy

Our house…and a patch on a snow outing.