after a bit of a blogging hiatus due to an internet breakdown here at the house and an immune system breakdown that left me in bed on my birthday (boo), i am back with updates of my recent domestic attempts.
i've been experimenting with handmade cards incorporating fabric and thread notions. the first is a cutout of kalo (taro) the staple food and genealogical ancestor of the hawaiian people - which, incidentally they are trying to genetically engineer and patent right now. check it out here.
the second is an embroidery design i made for nia, marty's niece who i bonded with in oklahoma this summer. she wrote me a letter on her birthday, so i reciprocated the favor with a card on mine.
on the subject of birthdays, sele and i celebrated our joint birthday yesterday. she was able to get me out of the sick bed long enough to enjoy hot toddies and bacon-wrapped figs, which she boiled in a red wine, raspberry, black pepper reduction - fantastic.
the dragonfly quilt is coming along. i was finally able to break through my design-block with the help of a pattern found in unraveling the history of quilts and slavery, which i originally checked out of the library in hopes of learning more about the use of quilt patterns to deliver coded messages during the underground railroad, but the book did not, in fact, address that.
the next steps will be to create some borders around what's there and collaborate with marty on adding payton's initials into the empty 8th square around the circle.
2 comments:
hey kasha - glad to see your current projects, everything looks beautiful and delicious. i hope someone starts paying you for this blog soon so you can keep doing as many projects as you are now! i love reading about them. your stepping out with this blog helped give me the guts to start my own after years of almost doing it and then chickening out! www.flexibletension.wordpress.com
Yo,that's some ill cuts with a friggin' box cutter?! Wonder what you can do with my xacto, yerd?
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