Fibermania

Separated At Birth?

Kristen La Flamme sent in this comparison shot after discovering identical twins on my blog!

Who knew??

I started dinkin' around with this sweater last night while watching the excrutiating auditions for American Idol. Apparently it had some effect on my knitting. I cannot seem to set the volume low enough on my TV to actually 'enjoy' the premiere show. Tonight is round two, and I will no doubt have to gird my loins to survive the experience.

This is version #1, which I started Sunday. It's hand dyed wool by me, from a reclaimed

Goodwill sweater. This is my second attempt to use this yarn. It is just a bit too Bob Marley for my tastes.

Most of yesterday was spent doing this

and this

and it's a good thing I have a well stocked mp3 player or the brain would have turned to mush. In the other room Dave was having a late Christmas.

Ebay has been very very good to him this year.

Dressed and Undressed.

And then he also got these speaker stands, so now our downstairs is a regular bachelor pad, baby. Very loud, and surround soundish. So where's the dancefloor and the mirrored ball?

The mail brought me a package too, the 'awardlette' from the Husqvarna Exhibit at Houston.

And the show catalog. A bit of a disappointment because the printing is way garish. I won't even show the picture of my quilt the way it appears in the book.

Here's my version. Matchstick Moons #3. I am still waiting for the check to arrive, since it was sold at Houston in November and was supposed to arrive before the end of the year. But they didn't say which year, now did they?

Tommy has been tempting me to come for a visit this winter, and there is a super fare sale going on at American Airlines...now I just have to diet like crazy in order to fit into ANY of the stinkin' shorts in my closet.

Look out Tommy, I'm coming!

And now for today's painting experiment

I started with messing up the pristine whiteness and divided up the space with a few lines of turpentine.

Filling in the sections and adding orange lines made me disgruntled. I had to fix this so I scribbled with a wet brush

until I finally got to this 'finished'state.

Painting #2 Oil on primed Arches paper, 11x 15" ish.

Detail

Again, this is soooo different than any of my other work and for the life of me I cannot tell you why this is suddenly possible. I am having such a wonderful time LETTING GO.

I always love the cropped pictures the best.