Thank you all for your incredible comments on my two year blog anniversary post! Roxanne drew a name out of our giant salad bowl and the winner of the book is Veronica! And now for nest of thread III No actual nest in this one, but I think it conveys the idea of a nest…
Archives for May 2007
while she naps turns 2
This little blog of mine turns two this month. For two years I have been sewing little creatures and taking pictures of them and writing about them and it has been (and still is!) terrific fun for me. All of you who read what I write here and who look at my work and comment …
nest of thread II
I found two of these shadow box frames at a church rummage sale a few weeks ago for $1.50 and got really excited about making a shadow box with a sewn bird. Here is "nest of thread II". The frames are backless so for this one I made a small white-on-white quilt as the backdrop. …
nest of thread
I spent some time this weekend thinking about perches for birds. This little flour sack bird is in the midst of constructing a nest of thread (actually she is made from a cloth sack that contained sugar cookie mix from William-Sonoma). I have so many beautiful wooden spools with thread still on them but the…
crested bird (clothing tags)
I’ve been thinking a lot about unexpected fabric. You know, like random bits of fabric that come into our lives that we may not even think of as fabric. Flour sacks are an obvious favorite, but what else. What about the tags in clothes, the ones with the size and the brand and the washing…
ibis
I owe a big thank you to Pamela for suggesting that I might like to make an ibis. She said she thought the long beak looked like it would be fun to make with fabric, and she was right. At 18" tall this bird is one of my taller ones. As you can tell, my…
white crested bird
I did some sketching of crested birds and some more thinking about bird legs. White crested bird. Her legs are wrapped with floral tape left over from wrapping the stems of the one hundred and forty five origami flowers I made for our wedding. Hurray for floral tape! I have a big roll of it…
crow
Sketches of crows, some with open beaks. And a bird with raised wings. A crow, with an open beak and raised wings. And a little bit of fluff around the head made from some synthetic horse hair-like stuff from Stephanie (check out her beautiful crow pillow!). Speaking of Stephanies, see another Stephanie’s beautiful crow here….
raptor
Picture of a hawk from my folk art book. Sketch. Raptor (made in part from a Guinness bar towel I found at a church rummage sale last weekend). Back detail. This is the first bird with a turned head. And toenails. I was a bit waylaid in finishing this guy because I had to send…