I have always loved the selvedge edges on fabric. All those little numbers in colored circles and words about licensing and commercial use. I habitually cut them off and save them when I use a new yard of fabric and I have a little envelope full of them. These elephants are great for showing them…
Archives for September 2006
Fresh, Beautiful and White Tooth
A friend for Fluffed for Softness This guy’s body is made from thrifted wool I’ve had forever. His ears are a Japanese fabric I got in a swap and he has some Japanese measuring tape trim on his front legs. His back legs are made from a piece of 70’s fabric that came in a…
fluffed for softness
Making this elephant was like reading a really good book that you just don’t want to end. I was sad when he was done. It is so fun for me to play with fabric and shapes and to figure out how to make a little someone come alive. He’s got lots of text all over,…
at play
The last two days I’ve just been playing around with fabric. Maybe I’ll make a mermaid…or a spherical elephant…or figure out how to make a doll foot with darts…so the craft room is a big mess with scraps of fabric and freezer paper everywhere. Anyway, here’s a little something – baby toy? gourd? Meanwhile Roxanne…
dancing bears
I’ve been thinking a bit about asymmetry in toy design. One of the things I like about the tree dolls is their asymmetrical heads. I’d like to play around with making some dolls or toys that are in motion, too. I did some bear drawings that have a bit of asymmetry and a bit of…
orange tree doll with owl
I finished this one today. Her hair is like fire, or autumn leaves after the first snow fall. She went outside today with her sister who looks like spring.
last of the beach embroideries and some good news
I was sitting on the floor feeding a sleepy Stella some banana and rice cereal yesterday afternoon when the phone rang. It was someone from the Wellesley Public Library letting me know that the art committee met yesterday and they are granting me gallery space for the month of March. I will have the two…
pictures from I’m Stuffed
I’m not going to get to see the show in person, but check out this post by Heidi for some pictures from the opening of the I’m Stuffed show in Baltimore. Do you see my fish? I just love how they hung two of them from the ceiling.
small tree doll without branches
I thought this brown fabric really suggested bark. It is a actually a large 70’s era print of animals that Mimi gave me last time she was here, but cut up on a small scale it is rather bark-like. The face on this doll is appliqued on in the Mimi way and I rather like…
first day
Today was Roxanne’s first day of nursery school. It was wonderful. The class met for one hour with the moms. She romped from activity to activity in a firefighter suit and hat – first playdough, then markers, then play kitchen, then sand table, then back to playdough. She peed in their potty and she cried…