22 Feb 2011
Octopus Bead (August 2010)
This was for a commission to create a bead with three octopi holding tentacles.
They’re so tentacularly cute, I just can’t stand it!
19 Oct 2010
Octopus Bead (August 2010)
This was for a commission to create a bead with three octopi holding tentacles.
They’re so tentacularly cute, I just can’t stand it!
19 May 2010
Card Catalog Card Blinds
I’d been threatening to make these for years, and the new apartment was just the push I needed to make it happen. These are from a now defunct card catalog from Columbia University, as delivered to me a few years back by my friend Virgil, who carried them to Brooklyn in two huge bags full of a multitude of charmingly gift-wrapped bundles of cards.
18 May 2010
Sewn cowls
These two cowls are made by sewing yarn instead of knitting or crocheting it. I really love the way it preserves all the texture of the yarn, and the way I can hook strands over my ears directly to keep them warm!
The top one is made of my handspun yarn, and the bottom was my prototype with storebought yarn.
Instructions: I wound the yarn into a good cowl circumference, then basically spread out point of it between layers of tissue paper. Pinned it down, sewed a long line perpendicular to the yarn. One more on the other side. Tore off the tissue paper. Done!
17 May 2010
Me & Cat
Cat asked me to spin a me-and-her yarn for her, and this was my attempt. If you know us, it’s pretty easy to see where I was going with this. Her long, gorgeous, silky black hair mixed with my wild and erratic curls, icy beads to accent thread-plied in, and wrapped with red thread to bind us together as in her latest novel, Palimpsest.
64ish yards of superwash merino, unknown curly locks, commercial thread and tiny beads.