done.

I finished it yesterday afternoon, finally! I mean really? It's just another embroidered piece...but it's designed to be worn so it needs to fit a human, needs to lie flat and hang straight. ...and it's the piece that caught the eye of the gallery owner!

The clasp is double snaps. I couldn't see putting a totally unrelated silver clasp there and don't really like the peyote toggles so I used some black snaps. Need to remember (again) that I hate white pellon and should only use black so it doesn't look like underpants are showing through the beads.

fish frames

I'm leaning toward having him break the 'frame' on 3 sides, like he's swimming in front of it. Still leaning that way after posting then editing. The lower bottom edge looks too rectangular and he's a square fish.

I really haven't been that busy...

I just seem to have had a lot to do for the (almost) month since I last posted. Activities have included extra hours at work (yay) a little more mercenary knitting (yay) and a trip to Juneau (yay again).

Folk Fest was going on while I was in town so I got to join in the chaos with the Hoskinsons. I love how involved they are in the music community there, I feel pretty lucky to get to be an honorary member with out being able to play more than a few notes. Nights of music at Centennial Hall were punctuated by the morning "Buddy Report" from Buddy Tabor. Damn that guy is funny...when he's not wandering the grave yard or mocking Rush.

I've been getting beadwork ready for the gallery opening at the beginning of May...brainstorming how to display the flat stuff with out frames. I want people to know it's fabric and beads, not a glassed in painting...texture on display. So with the heron, I'm putting in the twigs and will layer it on the blue and stiffen with pellon. Visual: is it better with the twig through his beak or just
below?

It's weird to me how the vertical line above his bill makes him feel trapped to me...or is it that he's in the swamp? Geez, I love a good annoying detail.