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Sunday, June 28, 2015

Introducing Agnes Herczeg

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Needlelace & wood wall sculpture by Agnes Herczeg Thanks to the Textile Arts group on Facebook, I have discovered Agnes Herczeg wh...
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Friday, June 26, 2015

Off to Virginia...

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...that is, my quilts are off to Virginia, due next week at the location of the Sacred Threads Exhibit . It's easily been 10 years s...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Father's Day

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The Mahanke brood - June 1959 One of the major but worthy diversions keeping me out of the studio lately has been a concentrated effort...
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Friday, June 19, 2015

Proof of Progress

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I finished the last bit on the 5 padfolios from the covers printed out so long ago. After applying closures (sometimes velcro, sometimes ...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Good Karma

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The gods must be smiling down on me this week. To my great relief, the two quilts I'll be sending off next week to the Sacred Threads...
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Monday, June 15, 2015

Experimenting with Closures

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Attaching button to back of padfolio I've just about wrapped things up with the five padfolios. Four of them are in the process of ...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

More Things To Play With

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As if I didn't already have enough untouched non-textile related art supplies lying around, this is what arrived this week. I blame i...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Details, Details

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Picking out lining and pocket pairings for padfolios Bloggable progress has been slow to come due to several worthy diversions. And tho...
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Saturday, June 06, 2015

Sharing Your Vision

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I don't know about you, but it takes me quite a bit of time to craft an artist statement specific to a particular piece of artwork. I...
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Monday, June 01, 2015

Ah - So This Is The Problem...

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From Tom Koch's obituary : “People would say I must have had such a great life doing this,” Mr. Koch once recalled, “people who w...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Sunday Musings

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I've been sitting on this link for quite awhile, trying to decide what I think about it. Perhaps it caught my eye because it came sho...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

They're here!

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And they're perfect...
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Friday, May 22, 2015

More ways to kill time...

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While waiting for my beads, I also have been doing a little sketching in that "comforts" sketchbook. Sandwiches seem to be on m...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Voices from the Closet...Again

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While waiting for the beads to arrive (got notice they are one their way!), I've decided to finish up some padfolios. I have 5 covers...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Intriguing Finds

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Sample of "Padre" trade beads on order I'm in a holding pattern. While looking to see how far I might have to drive to fi...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Another Diversion

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I want to tell you how exhilarating it was to get so many comments on my resurrecting of Masks , that so many of you have been following lo...
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Thursday, May 07, 2015

Showing Your Work

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Initial pencil sketch to show just in case I messed up... I started a new sketchbook recently, one I bought last year when I ordered up...
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Sunday, May 03, 2015

Resurrecting "Masks"

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Kuba "Bwoom" Helmet Mask "Ok, what's next," I pondered, as I started cleaning up a bit from my Tyvek bead excur...
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Friday, May 01, 2015

Sow's Ear Into Silk Purse?

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I had some time yesterday to work with my Tyvek beads from yesterday's post , hoping that the addition of thread and beads would spif...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Playing with Tyvek

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The monthly art group meeting was coming up. I'd been expending paint brushes, etc. on a piece of Tyvek instead of my usual scrap of...
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