I’ve been too crazy-busy with this and several other things to mention it before, but I got married on May 5. After five and a half years of living together as a committed couple, Christopher and I agreed that it was high time for all of our friends and family to meet up and have a big party!
I’ve been sitting on this, because I didn’t want to jinx it, or say something wrong, or get into a copyright conflict or something. I talked to the producer yesterday, and he said that it’s definitely going to air, and it’s OK to talk about it and publicize it, so now I can tell you.
I’m going to be on TV!
I will be featured in an episode of HGTV’s “That’s Clever,” airing some time this Fall/Winter. Some time in September, I will find out the actual episode number, date, etc., and I’ll update then.
The NEW KNITTY has my article in it! Yaay!
And, somebody posted my site to MetaFilter. So I’m getting LOTS of hits today!
We got passes for backstage last weekend, for the Willie Nelson show in Fort Worth.
Thanks to Paul for the photos!
This one is several of the dancers, Willie, and his wife.
The video:
http://www.secretcowboys.com/
I’m in there – you can see me clearly in the twirling, and I’m in the background of several of the shots. Dark olive shirt, black vest, black hat.
This is just the first installment of the prize ribbons.
These ribbons are prizes for the Dallas Handweavers and Spinners Guild show which will open on April 13 at the main downtown library. The title of the show is “Sleight of Hand,” and all the themed materials (brochure, postcards, prizes, etc.) are related to stage magic.
Best of Show is going to say “hocus pocus” and the Student Best of Show will say “shazam!”
“ta-da!” is the intermediate level of awards. The next level of award will be a magic wand, and the lower level will be small twisted cords – mainly because I don’t have the time and the energy right now to weave 20 ribbons!
I put up a page on my dye process:
I learned quite a bit with my first adventure in silk embroidery. Because somebody asked – I’ve done a couple of small stitching projects before, but I’ve never stitched with silk.
For scale, the lotus is just over 2 1/8″ top to bottom, 2 3/4″ side to side. It’s all stitched with flat silk which I reeled, threw, degummed, and dyed. The petals are satin and long and short stitches, the red center also has seed stitches. For seeds, natch! Or, actually, probably anthers, if we’re being picky. I stitched this from a very stylized logo; one lesson that I learned from this project, is to either (a) stitch from natural images, adapting them to embroidery, or (b) stitch from stitchery designs. There were a couple of things that are great for logo design, but make the stitching part tricky. The ground fabric is champagne-colored smooth doupionni silk.
I decided, with all the embroidery silk I’ve been making, I ought to try my hand at embroidery.
So this is definitely still a learning experience; I am figuring out a lot of things!
For scale, it’s just over an inch and a half tall. Red and white flat silk on smooth dupionni silk.
My favorite thing so far, is the sheen of the silk as it goes around the curvature. Un-favorite thing so far is accidentally pulling up tiny bits of the “tails” and having to chase them down and trim closer.
