Showing posts with label ironing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ironing. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

miscellaneous, part deux

Today's activity: I ironed and sorted and ironed and sorted and in between, threw stuff randomly at the wall if it looked worthwhile to me. I was hoping to be inspired, but no dice. A surfeit of fabric - and this is the tip of the iceberg. Enough! I have filled a trash bag with hopeless bits and trimmings and filled a plastic box with nearly hopeless-but need to overdye or do something drastic. Will I bother or will this be the next crop of garbage? Time will tell. In the meantime, as I am sitting here looking at the wall, stuff is falling off.

I received the catalog today for Transformations 2007: Reverberations, the exhibit that Sandra Sider juried for SAQA. What a beautiful catalog - and a beautiful exhibit, if I do say so myself. Twenty-four pieces were juried into the show, which will start in Birmingham, England and travel. Schedule is on my website. The full color catalog is only $15 and will be for sale on the SAQA website once the show has opened. The CD is $8 and is for sale on the website now. I have found that I prefer printed catalogs to CDs and I am becoming a show catalog junkie. As IF I have another inch of shelf space.

Kitchen guy #3 was here today with a plan that looks like a better starting place than the other plans I've gotten. I am too tired to play around with it, but will do so over the weekend. I am waiting for this to be fun. But while I wait I will escape with Alexander McCall Smith's latest delightful Isabel Dalhousie novel and a cup of tea.

miscellaneous

Yesterday I attacked my two home studio spaces - the downstairs print studio is unrecognizably neat,except for the dye spots on the carpet - (don't ask). And the upstairs space (which I refer to as "my room") is getting there.

The profusion of color on the left is a fraction of the pile of strips I spent all evening ironing. These treasures are strips Helene Davis gave to me a couple of years ago - and if I am going to use them, they need to be nice and smooth, don't they? Today I am going to iron my own scraps - or at least start the process. It is humid, which makes it a perfect day for ironing. Tune in later.