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024/365, 19 November 2009
Spent the afternoon sewing, working on some gift exchange items for the Christmas season. Hand sewing with black felt and invisible thread? Not recommended. You have two options: stabbing yourself often or going absolutely blind. Or both. It's okay, no one can see blood on black, right? (Just kidding! ...I chose blindness instead.)
Pin&Thread Typography made by our A2 Applied Art and Design Students who are currently developing experimental typography for their Good Luck Card Project
Tweeks and twists on tradition and use, straddling the fine line of "craft" and "art", "Threaded" features a variety of unconventional objects and spaces made from fabric, yarn and thread. Detail of "Wish You Were Here" by Timothy Abel.
The cutting table is the standard Sullivan's. I really like that I can have half of it open, or all of it. On the wall is a vintage Singer magazine ad.
The entire Connecting Threads order, in one mosaic. Just a half yard of each of these, which were all clearance fabrics.
My mother-in-law has been saving fabric scraps and threads from all her sewing projects since the 70s. Some of these threads are much older than that that she got at an auction. They are all in such awesome condition. Wonder if any antiquers out there are looking for threads....
A thread-waisted wasp, Ammophila sp., sipping nectar from snakeroot flowers in our back yard. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, September 28, 2022.
A female thread-waisted wasp, Ammophila procera, drinking nectar from a White Sweet Clover flower raceme. Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 2, 2019.