Hello-

I am just home form a three day trip to the big Apple.    Nancy, Patti and had a grand time.   (yes the sculpture is made of Lego’s.)  We spent a day shopping in the Garment District.  The array of wonderful fabrics was a bit overwhelming.  I did come home with a wonderful piece from Mood and lots of samples that I am sure I will use in a rock piece at some time.  I learned that Mood runs a sewing school in the store too.  Open sewing class was just starting when I looked in.

We went to The Museum of Arts and Design yesterday.    What a great space.  It is always full of exciting stuff.     I was most taken by the Crochet Coral Reef Toxic Seas  show by Margaret and Chrustine Wertheim.   The sisters took crochet to a whole new level with this one.  Their piece on coral bleaching was made primarily out of recycled plastics. Some of  the beautiful little works made from beads were displayed on “plastic sands collected from Hawaii. There was lots of vidio tap used to create the crochet work  on some of the parts.

I found myself looking very closely  at the works and trying to see what plastic objects they used  to create the wonderful works.   The ear phones here look like some sort of strange sea growth.  I had wanted to see this work sense I had read about it in the American Craft Magazine several years ago.  It was wonderful!     I came away all excited to try some sea life of my own.

The jewelry display was  wild.  The gold leaves- about the size of ones hands- were so powerful the jewelry was almost lost.

I took about six photos of just the light on those leaves that I think will be great jumping off places for new work.

 

 

New Your City was all decked out for Christmas- even the Lego store.  There were lights and trees every where.    We had a great time and walked over 9,900 steps two of the three days.   I wore a whole in the bottom of my shoes too. ( they were older- but supportive)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report; Awakened by Black Birds  Being away for three days cut down on work time so I made little progress.  I am adding birds  in flight to this work at this point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collage based work    The work is all pinned and I have started the free motion work on it.

Wool #1 I am still building on this work, but I have stitched down all the darks that I had added last week.

Label Block  No blocks got completed this week.  I thought I could work on it on the bus coming home from NYC.   But the lights on the bus did not function.    I will finish two this week.

Keep Creating

Carol