More Bad Elevators

Still can't manage a proper elevator ride in a dream. At least they're not dangerous.

Cat Sketch

A pink fellow sitting at the bottom of a long to do list.

Sky Scarf Finished!

Last weekend, I finished my sky scarf. Every night, I knit two garter stitch rows a day in the color of the sky that day. I started this scarf the day Fix left for his predeployment training and I finished it with shaking hands in the airport parking lot before I met his plane.

The process of knitting every night was a mindful and positive way to mark the time we were apart and now that it's finished, a reminder of everything I've accomplished since last June.

Now that Fix is home, we're on vacation and moving soon so posts will be few and far between until late summer. My sewing machine is on a moving truck somewhere... Godspeed, little Pfaff!

Upcoming Shows- Summer 2013

I am honored to be participating in my first juried art shows this summer!

Three Bad Elevators and Car Alarm will be in the "A+ Top of the Class" show presented by the Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County in partnership with Northwest Florida State College. The show runs from April 5 to May 31 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

You're Nothing But The Truth is heading to the 2013 North Carolina Quilt Symposium in Fayetteville on Memorial Day Weekend.

I'm hoping to be able to see both shows as part of my summer travel and moving extravaganza, but I'll have to play it by ear. It's going to be a busy couple of months...

21-Item Capsule Wardrobe

Here's my entire wardrobe for the next 3 months, 4 states, and temperatures ranging from 30 to 100 degrees. I'll be relying a lot on my versalette...

Not pictured: socks and underwear, swimsuit. The wardrobe above does cover pajamas, though. Those blue leggings... aren't really pants even if I wear them like they're pants. Because I totally do wear them like pants.

Law Cat Sketch

Thinking about a quilt for a law student who also likes cats. Ooh, what if the cat was a law student?

Fashion Plate

A non-historical dress I saw in a dream. It was part of a set of prints. This was the only one I remembered clearly enough to draw.

What struck me most was the fold over boot tops and the padded, twisted trim.

Three Bad Elevators Art Quilt

This is a triptych I made a while ago exploring three dreams featuring unusual, uncomfortable, or dangerous elevators.

 

16.5" x 40" Machine appliqued cotton, cotton batting, yarn.

The outer quilts depict free-swinging elevator capsules. On the left, a wrecking-ball style sphere takes passengers up through the open atrium of a large office building. On the right, a long cable brings a tiny swinging elevator across several city blocks before reaching the top of the Willis (nee Sears) Tower in Chicago. The middle elevator wouldn't open at the fifth floor. I really wanted to get to the fifth floor for reasons I no longer remember.