05/05/2015

TADA!!!  How 'bout a custom trivet!

i'm getting ready for the weekend at the farmers market. So I've been polyurethane eating and making art as fast as I can. I worked up the tapestry loom…

Already have the inkle loom warped with hand dyed, hand spun silk.

And of course can't forget the Firebird.

And dragon.  But I modified him a little.  Got rid of the white chest.

I think it looks more cohesive this way :-).

And then I warped up the BIG frame loom with intermesh technique.  Purple and blue. 

This is the back side.  

Front side.

They are called flowers and this will be a cuff bracelet.

Check it out!

It would be totally reversible, except for the lettering.

Back to the loom...

11/19/2015

TADA!!!

11/20/2014

I completed another tiny basket. 

Went with a little bit different shape than usual also. This one is yellow and fuschia.  It has a Live Oak Center.

Such a little cutie!

It looks like the sun is up so I think I'm going to go outside and do some woodwork wish me luck!   I still don't have quite as much consistency with the woodwork as I do with the baskets, kind of a crapshoot every time. Lol

9/16/2014

This shape always reminds me of a canoe. It is exactly 2 inches deep, a little taller than most of the ones I usually make.

I was going for pink and Brown, but this is the fourth roll of this thread that I bought that I thought was pink.  Turns out to be more like purple once it is off of the roll, fortunately lots of people like purple, and of course we all know how I love the diamond stitch.

And my favorite Cedar!

9/08/2014

I found waxed linen in this beautiful Garnet/burgundy color. 

It is absolutely beautiful with this wood on this basket.

 I was actually going for Garnet and Gold because of the Florida Seminoles team out of Tallahassee Florida. But I don't think it screams football I think it is just plain elegant.

Let me know how you feel about it.

Then I warped up my tapestry loom. I have to tell you that it is absolutely wonderful that all I need to do every time I want to change the length of my project/warp is adjust the different components to the loom.  

I decided I did not want to take my antique stool to the market anymore and the only other stool I had was much shorter to the ground. So I rearranged my boards and my threaded rod and now it's perfect for sitting at the market!!!  I don't have to worry about the weather ruining anything and it's very sturdy and very very infinitely adjustable this is so awesome if I do say so myself!

I finally figured out how to translate my favorite backstrap/warp face weaving onto a frame loom. It's just so much easier for me I love it!  Even more proud that I did it myself.  It is just the coolest feeling to say I wove it and I even wov it on a loom I built myself!

And can you believe it I went with yarn Artie had I didn't want to go to the store and I guess the purple just one out. It is pretty though.

It reminds me of Mardi Gras.

And already started a new basket today for a friend of mine is having a baby it's going to be pink and brown it's got beautiful work to check it out...

I'm never done a pink basket before, so I'm looking forward to it, it should be cute.

9/01/2014

Have you ever seen a Pineneedle bracelet before?  And who doesn't like purple?

This one is the commission piece but I think there might be more very similar to it on the way...

July 16, 2015

Scumbling, tiny circles, with blue and green ball point pen.  

I love how vibrant colors are they just pop off the paper.

Best yet with ink.  I like how well the shading went with this one.  I see form as in not just a flat circle on a piece of paper it really looks like a ball to me

Color pencil..I still suck!!!  The ball is it too too bad but the table is sitting on and the shadow arc god-awful!!!

This one is done with crosshatching and it's still not what I'm aiming for.  Did this one yesterday and just could not be happy with it, that's why I decided to try stumbling this morning.  

Trying to settle on a medium that I'm happy with, one that doesn't smudge as easy as graphite and charcoal.

This one sucks too!

Also here's a little shot of the basket I'm working on it's purple and red.

Okay now I'm going to get back to one or the other talk to you later.

July 3, 2014

I finally finished at 10 1/2 inches long!!!  And a little less than 8 inches wide.

Two different purple threads iand two different teal threads.  Three different stitches.

This one had to grow on me, I wasn't too crazy about the thread colors I picked even though I did indeed absolutely love the wood. I debated taking it apart on more than one occasion but I'm glad I persevered and I think it turned out very nice.

I struck out with a friend of mine and put my larger baskets in a consignment art shop in the downtown historic district St. Augustine, Florida. 

The shop is called the "Starving Artist" and it's on Cuna St. right next door to the White Lion restaurant, basically right across the street from the fort.

Only the large ones that don't seem to want to move when I go to the farmer's market will go into the starving artist shop that way there won't be any conflict with pricing and commissions.  

One of the reasons I have stayed away from the shops downtown is because of the commissions I did not want my prices to be radically different from one venue to the other. But this way I take the small ones with me and only put the larger ones in the shop and there won't be that problem.  St. Augustine is a small town in the end and I wouldn't want people to see me with a conflict pricing between one spot in the other.  

But without further ado here are pictures of my baskets.

Now I need to make a few more small ones to put on my table at the farmers market because I depleted my stock by placing the large ones downtown, so I'm off to the Pineneedles!!!

I hope you guys have a great Fourth of July and I will talk to you soon

Camera phone pictures.

03/26/14

I know this pic looks blue and pink, but it is really done in two different purples.  One has alot of pink tones, it is called 'Berry', the other is a bluer purple called 'grape'.  The beads are also grape color. 

They are lovely with the purple tones in the Cedar wood.  

Wish the phone camera gave truer color...most of the time it does.

Cute, cute, cute.  

Building my inventory.

Purple, purple and more purple.

Two requests for more purple.  So, this wood has purple tones, a purple thread that is more on the blue end, and another purple thread moreon the red end.  

I already love it.

After this one is finished I will do the other half of the coconut shell with the same thread colors.

Plain weave wall hanging.

September 13, 2011

Who says plain weave has to be plain...I am thinking of making it into a wall hanging with the vine you also see in the pictures.

The table my backstrap loom is hooked to came off the side of the road...thus the crappy finish on top.  But it is substantially heavy and this allows me to weave on it comfortable.  It also has one drawer in the front.

The woven web is 32 in. long.