Last weekend I downloaded the new Inklingo file for these blocks and prepped them to take with me as my car project. I did get one done and plan to do the second one tonight. I tacked them on to piece of freezer paper so I could keep the shapes together in a sleeve.
I have had these fabrics for a while, years even, and this seems to be a good place for them. I am still in the stage of trying to figure out the colors. Part of me wants to make a controlled color study which gently drifts from one shade to the next using subtle color and light shifts. More realistically I will just have a color party as I almost always do. See? its happening already.
The weather seems to have changed from oppressive heat to bearable beautiful summer evening. I may venture out to the back yard, but I dread the bugs. My ankle is still swollen from the green fly bites I got in my last communion with nature. But who can resist a field of Queen Anne's Lace?

Octagons in a farm field

Some might say I need a life:)

the art of attachment
and illusion of independence
polarities creating gravity
or hilarity
depending on how you are wired

different sides of the same coin,
love and hate are: what you are not you cannot hate nor love.
even einstein said it and said it and said it

damn you
i tell you it is all the same
there is no division
there can be no me without you
and no heaven
but that we yearn for it
dream it into being
earth bound

kittens knitting and bloopers

Since my knitting is mainly self taught using books and the interwebs, I do alot of unknitting. Alot . I am just letting you know that . I have three things in progress-well maybe four that are in different stages of undoing. and still I need more yarn, more needles, more things to carry them around in. I am a fiber junkie but I have gotten me to the point where reading about stuff and putting it in my virtual shopping basket are enough to tide me over. I trick myself into believing I am in the act of procuring these items and them I stealthily walk away. Just flat leave my shopping cart in the middle of the virtual super store. I guess it is the opposite of shop lifting. It suffices.
I have been doing weekly Inklingo Sampler blocks and also the attendant bloopers. I have not yet decided if they will go into the actual quilt. I have made a small painting, I knit a few rows here and there. With out consecutive day off it is hard for me to accomplish work on the scale that I used to do. But it suffices. Word for the day. Suffice.
Here is a complimentary kitten picture.

outside

Music by Joni Mitchell
Flowers by MIke
Nature by God
not necessarily in that order

meet the girls

We met them in a cat rescue booth at the boardwalk craft fair. Mike brought them home from the vet today where they were waiting in a cage for someone to come along and bring them home. They have all their shots and have been spayed and certified vermin free.
They are running around like maniacs and climbing up the curtains and stuff. Bailey says that one is Pixie and I think the other one is Tink. But this may change. I may call them Speedball and Sgueegee.

I am in the road again on the way to Virginia. I have packed enough
handwork to keep me busy till Christmas 2010.
I unearthed my kit of 4.5 inch lemoyne square shapes and I will be
working with them to add to my sampler quilt. Mostly pinks which blend
into the brights well:)
Stitching on the road makes me happy.

Summer sampler salad

These are all nearly six inches. Now the tricky question is do I add the other blocks I have made and make it truly a sampler-ones that are octagonal and ones that are diamonds? I will have to pull all of them out and see how they look. In the mean time I am happy with this tossed salad.......

jen and jay

photos mostly from my iphone-the one in the center is not
fonts "you are loved" from dafont/ by kimberly geswein
brush from brushezy, by debh945
from tutorial by jessica sprague
Jay is flying off to california today for his job.
Jen will stay here in ny.
for a month or so they will be bi coastal.
bye Jason:)

twill make a lovely mitten

more spragizm

Another lesson courtesy of Jessica Sprague. I am really enjoying these bite sized forays into photo editing. These photos are from my iphone, heh heh. the quality is not great but they do the job. If I stick my chin far out enough it hides the wattle.:-))

socks of the blue moon

Some of you may remember my Socks that Rock socks that I started last year. I believe I may have made Blue Moon fans out of one or more of you. Sadly I am reporting that I am still working on the same sock.It seems that one has to knit significantly looser to allow for enough stretch to be drawn over certain ankles. And the ankles in question are not getting any thinner. It has been un knit several times and is now threatening to become a mitten. Not that I have anything against mittens.... I'm just saying....
and I cannot find the book with the charts. I know it is here somewhere. But the yarn is so beautiful. It is such a pleasure to use that I continue to knit and I am now researching thumb holes. I will not be thwarted:)

That is the update from here on sunny summery long Island where I sit, on my, um couch, with my ice pack (bike spill - well I never actually hit the ground-don't ask-nothing serious, no no really it is just a rotator cuff issue--just a small tear-and the doc said stay home, get pt, use ice, take pills get shots, six weeks of physical therapy-are you kidding me?? I don't have time for that!) and my trusty mac book. So I am off for a couple of days. Hoping to heal quickly.

lavender dreams

Lavender by the bay

We had to get the longest one they had

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear

Going whaling

textures day 6

I rather like the way this one turned out.

day 4 -2

jessica sprague's wonderful classes. Day 4

I love this picture so I am reposting. I did some effects and framed as per the tutorials combining day three and day four.
Today I have a day off and so I am doing this at my leisure and may even do some more later.

day three

I decided to do this before I leave for work:) this morning, since Jessica so kindly has the lesson in my mailbox bright and early. More brushes and frame, a filter or two. I don't really know what I am doing but I am having fun. These are two dolls I made some time ago. Prudence and Earnestine, (Gail Wilson Kits) I did this lesson in Pixelmator. One big difference I notice so far is that you don't have as many options to save-they may be there but I have not discovered them yet. There is a thirty day free trial on their website.

day two

Hard to believe it is July. June was a blur. And rainy to boot.
This is a picture of the old marina in Greenport New York. It was a cool, overcast twilight and we were amongst the few who were walking around outside. Fortunately the weather has changed for the better and the boardwalk beckons.
Tutorial by Jessica Sprague.

jessica sprague's wonderful classes

New Class with Jessica Sprague! am taking an online class with in photo shop phun. Here is my first home work picture using her png files to create the over lay frame and word art. I know I have not been posting here much and I plead exhaustion. I have been doing very little sewing or knitting-infact I think I havebeen unknitting more than I have been knitting.. that is my process. I think I would still use fiber as a meditative activity even if I never did finish anything.
But I do. I do finish things.
The dress was off the rack at Jessica McClintock.

Looks like Bailey

My mother and Bailey at about the same age.

Yarn therapy in greenport

Kaffe Fasset by Rowan. I bought enough for mittens.

I saw this

hereand I thought: I can do this, and I have some yarn I could start with and -o- I have some other yarn and o yeah ! I have some roving I could spin into yarn to add if need be and I was all of the sudden elbow deep in a new knitting project
It was a nice dream, and no I did not start. Maybe next week when the crazy work schedule slows down and there will be some time.....

Inklingo at work - lunch break

more pics

wedding pics!

DUDES!

this is like, totally random, like I am just, like, popping in to say hi. Like, my dd is like getting hitched today and there has been like, no sewing at all this last week. well, unless you count that one tiny inklingo block I like, snuck in, one night staying up wayyyy past my bedtime!! Like, I had to totally, pump the caffiene the next morning. like hook me up, man.

Fabric for fussy cutting

Don't these lovlies look nice for fussy cutting with patchwork of the
crosses- my latest inklingo addiction!

Summer in the city

The recent, persistent rain has rendered our greens greener and in contrast, our fuscias brighter. Among the spring blossoms, Toby emerges, always dressed to the nines, on her walk around the neighborhood. She walks, swaying gently, on the arm of her son Arnold. I could not resist asking for a picture, as I am wont to do from time to time, when struck with the beauty of a well appointed woman, on a lovely spring day, out for an amble to enjoy the gentle delightful breeze.