cyrus's quilt!

the quilt has an undersea theme with a big octopus and lots of fishes. it was my first attempt at freestyle quilting with my sewing machine. cyrus seemed to like it!

i have not been very good about blogging lately - i actually have a backlog of potential blog entries. the desire to actually post them seems to have left me. i'll try to be better. here are a couple of cool things i've found online lately:

jimbo's front porch - this fella makes really lovely crochet hooks to earn money to renovate his old family property. nice hooks.


i also like these:
by hisano takei



by john murphy


by jenny almen gennerfeldt

my new favorite blog!

check out resurrection fern - she makes sweaters for snails for pete's sake! it's fabulous. plus, her mushroom pictures are excellent. i wonder where she's located. i have mushroom envy.

look what felt can do

i had not previously thought that needle felting would be fun for me, but these pieces by stephanie metz are making me want to run out to the craft store and get to felting. teddy bear skulls! fetal creatures!

sooo cute! and the baby's not bad either

sweet little cyrus seems to be enjoying the cuttlefish i made. the pattern was designed by jessica polka at wunderkammer.

new cross stitch pattern - cliffy!

my first homemade cross stitch pattern. this is cliffy, from a couple of years ago. i'll more pictures as i progress. it's been kind of slow going; i currently only have one small area in color #3 finished (you can see what i've done so far - it's marked off on my "pattern").

testing the cross stitch waters

after a 15 year hiatus, i've started cross stitching again. here are some tests to determine the best fabric size...

wunderkammer

i just stumbled across this wonderful blog: wunderkammer is a reconsideration of a "cabinet of curiosities:" crocheted specimens from early natural history collections and embroidered fictive science textbook illustrations

unglazed ceramic objects

these mesh perfectly with my obsession with sea creatures. see more here.

seseli gummiferum

i recently finished a quilt for a friend's baby based on Karl Blossfeldt's "Natural Art Forms". it was a relatively quick project, only about 6 or 8 days total, since there was no applique. i think it turned out really nice, though.
(seseli gummiferum is the scientific name for moon carrot, whatever that is... anyway, it's the darling plant that the quilt is based on).

amazing felt + crochet necklaces

i was checking out modish, a favorite blog of mine, and came across these cool necklaces by kjoo.

some recent book purchases

catherine and tim's wedding quilt

when i went to montana last weekend, i was finally able to document catherine and tim's wedding quilt... one of my first quilts when i started it up again.

pond quilt is finished

cool swedish fabric

check out mairo for cool fabrics from sweden. they're not that easy to find for sale in the u.s., but they do have them here.