cherri house, quilter

yesterday i posted about a woman, fred shand, who created quilts with a very organic feel to them. non-traditional.

i thought it would be fun to post about the opposite. cherri house is a well known quilter who has written a variety of books, one of which is city quilts, where she takes her inspiration from the city. sometimes when you are walking in and around and through a city, you can forget to stop and admire just how amazing it can be.

cherri has managed to do that, and then put it in a quilt, go figure.

 

cherri house, city quilts.

fred shand, quilter

just the other day i was talking to a friend who quilts, and she mentioned that she is growing a little tired of her regular angular designs and expressed her desire to explore some more organic, free form shapes.  i, myself have never done any sort of quilting, but i can really appreciate all the work that goes into each one.  i know it’s no simple task… people spend months on a quilt, sometimes years.

a few days after speaking with my friend, i saw these by fred shand, an english artist that anthropologie is featuring.  definitely not your typical quilter, she uses a variety of methods from silk-screening to painting to sewing and quilting in order to make each one-of-a-kind piece.

 

fred shand.

hello, again.

it has been a very long time since my last post; for a variety of reasons, my mind has been elsewhere.

this doesn’t mean that i wasn’t saving pictures or thinking of things to post… in fact, my desktop is littered with images, and it’s driving me a little crazy.  i‘ve grouped some of them into clusters that i will try posting within the next week or so.

…and i do apologize to those of you who keep reminding me of the date of my last post… you know who you are.

 

glass beads

i recently read a post on the blog notes by naive, about how she rearranges the glass beads that she has in order to make a new necklace every so often.

what a good idea?

so I am re-arranging my glass beads to do just that.

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images from grey likes weddings and notes by naive.

in review

so, since i have been posting some of the stuff i have recently been working on…
it really got me thinking that perhaps i should post a few pictures of what i had been working on.
so here is a small glimpse of things already packed away.

a little fun on the side

as some of you know i’ve been working on some side projects of my own since i’ve been home, mostly to do with textiles.

well, i’ve also been working on some side to those side projects…  really just playing around until i’m inspired to do something else.

both turned out to be a little fanciful and playful.

1. zoo necklaces

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2. confetti shirt (front/back)

time management: part two

here are a few more.

time management: part one

i‘ve had to answer a lot of people’s questions about what i could
possibly be doing now that i’m home.
well, spending time designing textiles….
just thought i would post some of them here.

Uguisu

I will let you see the contents of my shopping cart at Uguisu before they become my oh- my- goodness- look- at- my- new- beautiful- craft- supplies.

(which also happens to be the same as i-just-spent-all-my-money-on-new-craft-supplies).

uguisu

a shed of one’s own

after you spend some time sharing a workspace with young art school kids, you dream of your own room where you can make your own mess, and don’t have to clean up theirs.  this has been my life for the past year, and such my dreaming process.  you really don’t need a huge space, a small shed would do just fine… cue my discovery of said delightful small space on tales of a junkaholic which looks good to me!  while small, it’s still just your own.