A Joke

By , March 17, 2009 1:58 pm

I don’t really have time for blogging at the moment. It’s Spring and there is lots to do off the computer. I will do be back soon, maybe a matter of days, only God knows. But in the meantime our in-house master of jokes shared a good one last night.

What kind of art should you eat?

Fiber art.

It seemed fitting.

Listen to Phreabox v1.4!

By , March 7, 2009 8:10 pm

TuneCore now has a pretty neat little player app. Listen to my instrumental release from last year and if you like any of the tunes you can buy them via the player’s link to iTunes (they’re also on Amazon MP3, and just about everywhere else, too).

How to Season Your Hand-Dyed Fabric

By , March 5, 2009 3:21 pm

Last summer I had lots of fun in the backyard dying fabric. After a few days I couldn’t let good dye go to waste so I mashed together whatever I could find quickly in my stash and dumped dye on all of it. You see, many times in my creative moments of mayhem, I have an attitude of ‘what the heck, let’s see what happens.’ So after the stuff set for a day or more I rinsed it and it became an absolute tangled wet blob that I had no desire to deal with. I was rather annoyed with it to be honest. So I just ignored it, and left it out in the garage for a season, or two, or three. Was it covered up or anything? Nope. I was really annoyed with it. I gave it occasional dirty looks over the months but that was about it, until today.

The two year old and I journeyed out into the backyard this morning and I decided I would take a look at the bucket of forgotten tangles. It was really dry, big surprise, and came apart with little effort. Now I have lovely hand-dyed cheese cloth, burlap, cord and, um, I guess you could call it a mass of random threads which could be fun felting.

Seasoned Fabric

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