Entries from October 2007

October 20, 2007

P is for Pay it Forward exchange

Jude over at Spirit Cloth was inspired by Heather who was inspired by…………and so on, to send a little something handmade in the spirit of “making” , something which many of us share.
I’m going to participate but in a slightly different way………
There are so many other things to make note of here I’m not sure [...]

October 13, 2007

makiage

I’ve been wanting to add video to the blog for a while now. Here is my first attempt. This is merely a slideshow -just practicing to see how it all works. I actually have some video footage shot that I haven’t gotten around to editing yet. Should be interesting……
As for the makiage….this is a [...]

October 10, 2007

Houston Quilt Festival

I’ve been getting things ready for the show in Houston and snapped a couple of photos of some of the buttons before they got wrapped and packed up. It’s good to look at them again and I find that I still like them- I’m just done with the making of them! They are priced [...]

October 6, 2007

maki-age shibori

maki means “to wind” and age means “upward” in Japanese. To make these motifs, I stitched circles through four layers of 3mm silk gauze and pulled them up tight. Then I wound thread upward from the gathered stitching to the tip, finishing with a backwards halfhitch- kind of like you would when casting [...]

October 6, 2007

makiage challenge

I was listening to this while I stitched my makiage sample. I decided I needed to “kill tow birds with one stone” and I designed my makiage challenge piece to be my Halloween “costume” for Preview Night at the Houston Quilt Festival. I hope it turns out the way I imagined it! [...]

October 5, 2007

kantan style

Photo of Kantan (kantan means simple in Japanese) style scarf display for Houston Quilt Festival show. Preview night is Wednesday the 31st (halloween!) where you can purchase the “pick of the litter” from all the one of a kind handmade booths.

October 4, 2007

a question..

I came across this as a result of a google alert.
Which led me to this
I wondered if anyone went to this lecture who would share what you heard? I emailed and asked if the audio file was available online or through iTunes as a podcast and I’m waiting to hear.
Working, working, working. Try [...]