Miscellany

Random stuff of interest:

* Your sew vein: a girl after my own obsessive compulsive grammar geek heart.

* The Oracle of Starbucks: found my way here, thanks to GHD.

* Old Navy is finally opening up in Santa Barbara this weekend:

* Chocolate Maya. How is it I only found out about this place a couple of weeks ago? Well, I guess thinking about it, it opened up about a month after Sofia came home from the hospital. New Mom + New Baby = huh?

*FELT CLUB this Sunday!! Really looking forward to checking out the mini Maker Faire, never having been to the real thing and all. (Rendez-vous in San Francisco next spring, Wendy and Geoff?) Maybe I’ll check out the felt flower class… You know, to rationalize acquiring all of that felting equipment last time. Don’t know if I’ll get there early enough for the swag bag, considering last summer’s event had folks lined up WAY early.

* I want this for my office. You know, being a fan of early/mid 20th century propaganda posters, crowns, and all things cool. If you’ve not yet checked out ReForm School, RUN, don’t walk! AND, one of my favorite artists is featured this month: the super-nice and super-talented Amy Ruppel!

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Plurple

Here he is…  my first needle felting project: Plurple!

Before snapping the photo, I could’ve fluffed up the whites of his eyes to even out the circularness, and he’s a little rough around the edges, but, hey, he’s a monster.

 

Basically, I pulled apart skeins of wool, layered pieces of the same color together on top of a foam block, and then processed the layers with a felting needle, lifting it up and down in a sewing machine-like fashion.

Once I had the purple body, I then made the whites of the eyes via the layering process, then placed them on top of the body, using the felting needle in the same up-and-down motion to fuse them together.  Same thing with all of the other elements.

I used a finer felting needle to create the slightly rolled edge around the body and to give dimension to the eyes.

The heart is especially three dimensional.

Three and a half hours later, Plurple was born.

And I only poked my finger once.

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