WIP - All Beaded Up

I started this piece about a year after mom passed away in 2005, it's cigarette papers layered atop digitally printed cotton fabric and interfacing.  Machine stitched, hand stitched, beaded.

I have a lovely greyish black glass bead that I'm using to outline her shirt and arm.

Bead detail.

Interestingly enough I didn't have any grey threads in my collection, and wanted some for working on this piece so ventured over to JoAnn's and found these lovely shades of grey, in both pearl cotton and cotton floss.

This and That No. 3

Studio Clean Up

The studio clean up continues, today John came home and asked me what I was doing, moving back into my studio I stated. It seems it's going to be awhile before I'll get the studio out of the house again so I have no choice but to unpack So I've been cleaning the storage units out and am reorganizing and am thinking of packaging some things up to go off and live with others. For some reason this seems to be a necessary task every few years or so.

The mess behind Gretchen, the dress form, is cleaned up and she is now living in the Wild Hyacinths room, our very small guest bedroom. Yes I've taken to naming the rooms in my house, doesn't everyone?