Archive for the '* i wish i made it!' Category
Embroidered Receipt
14 July, 2008Sugar Skull Softies
15 June, 2008
Andrea Dezsö Illustration
8 May, 2008
- “Some of the most interesting works reinvigorate the tradition of the sampler, a piece of embroidery that offers a religious or moral saying.(…) The Romanian artist Andrea Dezso has embroidered 48 cotton squares with bits of Transylvanian folk wisdom passed down from her mother. One square suggests, “You can get hepatitis from a handshake,” while another claims, “Men will like me more if I pretend to be less smart.” Each warning or cautionary tale is accompanied by a small, equally humorous illustration.” ––The New York Times
Awesome embroidery by Miss Lila Mae
12 April, 2007Holy Moly! And Lila says
this is my first substantial bit of embroidery, and the first time i tried many of those stitches.
What an accomplishment! I’m insanely jealous of her creativity!
Miss Lila Mae: #13 pink.yellow.red
Yum! Mr. Monkeysuit does felt cupcakes
3 April, 2007These look delicious! In my mind, the frosting and decorations are made of marzipan. Just divine!
Back in November I made some felt cupcakes for Floyd’s cafe and a fellow blogger said she would like some for her daughter. Well four months later, and here they are ….or at least most of them. Of course, I haven’t finished them, of course not. I still have a couple of the larger ones left to finish but they are almost done now and soon the little swap we have arranged will be ready.
I love getting involved in swaps. It is neat to think of your things half way round the world (or even a few streets away) being played with by some crafty mama’s kids or even by the crafty mama herself. It kind of reminds me of keeping pen-pals in the 1970’s. Does that even exist anymore ? Perhaps the advent of the internet makes the idea of sending letters round the world to people you have never met before seem redundant. Ironically and fortunately the craft-blog world has reinvented it through swapping and I think that is so cool. I love that these will be in someone else’s little daidokoro, cocina, kuche, cuisine or cozinha and I may never meet the person who receives them but there is an invisible thread that connects us.
Clean or Dirty by Alice at futuregirl
21 March, 2007Mom sent me this link today, and I’m going to have to make this for her. Looks easy enough even for this neophyte feltie, and includes a free pattern! (I’m curious to see the search hits this blog will get because of the words in her quote below!)
futuregirl craft blog: Clean or Dirty
How could he not notice a half naked girl? Well, I guess we’ll find out. His only comment, “The boobs should have been bigger.” Now *that* made me laugh.
Wavy Seams at Pink Chalk Studio
21 March, 2007Pink Chalk Studio » Tutorial – Wavy Seams
I’ve seen this pic several times today in the blogs I read, and am inspired to try it myself:
Face 2 Face
9 March, 20073quarksdaily posted recently about this project, and it is with a full heart that I post it here. I have only a few readers, but I hope one of you will be moved as I was, and send it on to friends or post about it yourself.
The filmmakers expect to have a completed documentary by September of this year. Can’t wait!
When we met in 2005, we decided to go together in the Middle-East to figure out why Palestinians and Israelis couldn’t find a way to get along together.
We then traveled across the Israeli and Palestinian cities without speaking much. Just looking to this world with amazement.
This holly(sic) place for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This tiny area where you can see mountains, sea, deserts and lakes, love and hate, hope and despair embedded together.
After a week, we had a conclusion with the same words: these people look the same; they speak almost the same language, like twin brothers raised in different families.
A religious covered woman has her twin sister on the other side. A farmer, a taxi driver, a teacher, has his twin brother in front of him. And he his endlessly fighting with him.
It’s obvious, but they don’t see that.
We must put them face to face. They will realize.
We want that, at last, everyone laughs and thinks when he sees the portrait of the other and his own portrait.
The Face2Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides.
In a very sensitive context, we need to be clear. We are in favor of a solution for which two countries, Israel and Palestine would live peacefully within safe and internationally recognized borders.
All the bilateral peace projects (Clinton/Taba, Ayalon/Nussibeh, Geneva Accords) are converging in the same direction. We can be optimistic.
We hope that this project will contribute to a better understanding between Israelis and Palestinians.
Today, “Face to face” is necessary. Within a few years, we will come back for “Hand in hand”.
self portrait by monstros wraaa
6 March, 2007
pretty pincushion by megan young
6 March, 2007Hanging Pincushion on Flickr by Megan Young:
“To fit more equipment in my tiny sewing area, I made a pincushion that hangs on the wall. I sew in my bedroom, so the pincushion was designed to resemble a pillow. The middle fabric is thrifted sheeting. I have an enormous crush on thrifted sheeting.“
roosters by marisa maia
6 March, 2007Marisa Maia makes the most whimsical stuffed roosters, plus she speaks Portuguese, the most beautiful language ever!
bunny-orange by Miss Pompon
6 March, 2007
miss pompon makes charming stuffed animals and illustrates books in lyon, france. I thought that shirt looked vaguely french.
Bleu Fille by dadaya_hat
6 March, 2007
wishfactory’s work in progress
25 February, 2007
Bwains! Bwains! by Heidi Kenney
25 February, 2007Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane gives us her current plush in progress, Bwains. I love this!
Eggs in blue bowl, by jgcf
25 February, 2007
photo of floss, at wee wonderfuls
21 February, 2007Some things just make a girl smile. This picture over at wee wonderfuls definitely does it for me:
Evrimnazli’s scarf
20 February, 2007Evrimnazli posted this beautiful scarf on flickr today:
Construction Paper Art by Jen Stark
20 February, 2007Jen Stark’s beautiful construction paper sculptures are making the rounds of blogland today, and deservedly so! Delicious!
Tricia’s yoyos at bits and bobbins
15 February, 2007
Liz Harvatine’s gift for a friend
15 February, 2007OK, I’m gonna have to become friends with Liz (aka Lady Harvatine), as she makes be-yoo-ti-ful quilts for the people she likes. This design was inspired by a quilt by Denyse Schmidt.
Lady Harvatine: Done and done.
The design takes full advantage of the two things I love most about
DSQ: #1, irregularity and the appearance of randomness in shapes and
placement and #2, the use of a neutral color as a background as opposed
to an all over design. And now that I’m on the subject I’ve thought of
another: #3, choosing a very high percentage of solid fabrics over
patterned ones. I really love the clean, modern look that you can
achieve this way. It makes the design really prominent and also makes
the few patterns that you do use really stand out. For this quilt I
used all solids except for one plaid for some of the stripes and a
flowered vintage-looking print for the backing.The design isn’t
totally random. I tried to work out how many stripes of each color I
would need and in which widths and lengths to keep it somewhat
balanced. I used the same number of each on either side and simply laid
them out randomly on the floor along with white strips of different
widths. I rearranged one or two stripes but was quite happy with my
initial “random” layouts.
Pretty pink and green crochet something-or-other
14 February, 2007
Sarah’s Pretty Pouches
11 February, 2007Sarah of hiptopiecesquares just made a bunch of the prettiest pouches you ever saw! Note to self: get a zipper foot and figure out how to use it.
She says:
It’s true! I’m back! I guess it was never my intention to leave this
just sitting her for months and months, but I know most people know how
it goes: you just get lazy. I don’t know what happened–I just seemed
to lose my blogging mojo. Then, after you stop writing, it’s hard to
get back into it. It seemed weird to just jump right back in where I
left off at. Oh well, I think it’ll do it anyway.I’ve been back up to my old doings–making pouches!
I got a huge wave of inspiration to start working on them the other
night, and I finished them all up this morning. It was nice to get a
big batch done all at once. The assembly line method works wonders.
Mango Mood, by Melody Johnson
8 February, 2007Mango Mood–Hand dyed cottons, fused, hand and machine quilted. 8.75″x19.5″
by Melody Johnson at Fibermania
It doesn’t get much more spectacular than this!
my half of the brain 