lots of little bits of paper

I’ve been working very hard. Weekends, evenings, etc. My interns, Vivian and Mia, have been fabulous. And still it feels as if there is a mountain of work to do. Fun work, I’m not digging ditches, but work none-the-less. Which is why I’m behind in my blog.

Mainly I’ve been working on the patterns for the Bellevue Arts Museum piece. What I thought would take a week to 10 days took three full weeks. I was so, so sick of little snips of white paper. They are still everywhere. I’m finally finished now and ready to move on to the next step which will taking the paper patterns apart and cutting them out in peltex. Vivian and I started looking at fabric last week and I confirmed that I don’t have enough dyed fabric for the pieces. Luckily I have a bunch of fabrics that I can overdye rather than starting over.

the finished patterns--finally!

But first, I needed to work on the new work for Foster/White for September. I picked fabrics, cut them out, glued them up, and machine stitched them since I last posted here. All that’s left now is to hand-stitch them together and glue them up to the boards.

selecting and cutting out fabrics

trimming the edges

all ready for stitching

finished with machine stitching

I’m off to our annual trip to Seabeck for family camp tomorrow and plan on doing the stitching while I’m there. On my vacation. Along with coordinating crafts for the camp. And doing some fun low-water-immersion and shibori. And discharge. With the camp.

Should be fun!