A birthday present for my love, Mackenzie Craig.  He's a second in a series of stuffed animals from Donna Wilson's book, The Odd-Bod Bunch.  I took more liberties with this pattern compared to Racoon-Fox man. I changed the ears completely, to resemble a more authentic dauschaund, using a stockinette stitch and starching to control excessive curling.  The rainbow pattern was me, changing colors every two rows....a damn pain! A lot harder than the previous animal but absolutely striking. And I closed the eye to make my life easier, I quite enjoy his peaceful look in the sunshine.

New quilt completed this past weekend

This one has a great story to it: I was working in the Scrap Exchange one day and a lady brought in these beautifully hand-embroidered squares with each state represented with their bird and flower. That means there were 50 amazing squares sitting there on the table, abandoned by their original maker to her daughter-in-law who, after 10 years, finally accepted the fact that she was never going to make them into a quilt and brought them to us. I took them immediately, pained by the fact that the tedious, mind-numbing hours spent creating these might go to waste potentially forever. This quilt was made in conjunction with Julia Gartrell and myself, as a befitting addition to the silent auction at TSE's last fundraiser party. It's beautiful and I love it.

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Real life's been a little hairy. Got pictures, will post soon. Until then, enjoy Anna Dewey Greer...

DEWEY for President

No!

Amelia, modeling a most crucial goddess headdress. I loved the fact that after I put this on her head, she proceeded to wear it for the rest of the day, channeling her goddess powers all the while, of course.

This was a piece I created after my mythology teacher senior year allowed us to do whatever we wanted for our final project. The persisting imagery used to represent the goddess throughout mythology were my inspirations -- the phases of the moon, feathers (birds were often connected to females), and, snakes -- I don't know how I feel about the snake connection but I guess we aren't all sugar and spice, and everything nice...

It became quite a striking prop for Nick Mendise, a photographer buddy who also went to SCAD. It's always fun to pose, especially when you know you're gonna get a crazy cool picture of yourself in return!

My favorite pair of jean, or, as I like to call them...

...a time-lapsed fiber art installation. They keep rippin' and I keep patchin'!

Malone, making good use of all the Spoonflower fabric on the floor.

Found these on my desk Wednesday morning, needing a patch job. Seriously?? Talk about honky! What's also honky is then saying to your boss that you fixed the Skoal Hole...

A most crucial find at The Scrap Exchange

Break My Body, Hold My Bones
Circa 2009

(Francis Black from The Pixies)
Bezeled pin, peyote-stitch details, hand-embroidery on wet felting

Watch Him As He Goes

circa 2008

Some bezeled, Dave Grohl love.