I am in Love!

Well, maybe just in awe. I am not actually going to leave my honey-bear for Betty, but damn!

Having teethed on E.A.Poe I am in love with Raven and Mr. Bones warms my heart for obvious reasons and maybe young Elvis does look more than a little like Rob Lowe, but I am not about to try to make a fabric E.A.Presley unless I am tippled and I am painting by numbers on flocked faux-velvet!

I have always been in awe of multi-dimensional aritsts like stone carvers, potters, physicists, people who can paint people who look like people and not victims of a vicious steamroller attack* - you know artists.




*victims of a vicious steamroller attack is an expression used by Lisa Boyer somewhere in her collection 'That Dorky Homemade Look' to describe her barely-two dimensional quilts. Personally, I am still in the victim-of-a-steamroller stage of quilting and do not know if I will make it to the point of expressing depth and visual field in my work before my attention span leads me down the primrose path of glassworking or paper collage or ceramics, or some other tedious form of expression that can organize the colours spewed forth by my brain.

mmmmmmmm, brains

The frontside of my backside:

A few days ago I posted my backside - well the backside of a fairly unconventional wall quilt I had just finished.

Today, I'm posting the front side:

Part of me wants to keep it, part of me wants to give it away for halloween, and the very small (reasonable) part of me that wants to sell it on the Etsy and infuse some ducats into the economy of chez tarabu.

(Un)fortunately I haven't taken low-res enough photos for it to fit into Etsy's frightfully small server window, so I guess I'm just stuck with it for a while longer. sigh *that was sarcasm, by the way*

Finally!

Finished MrsB's bag, that is. I started a week ago, but then the good weather came (which involved laying in the rest of the onion bed, moving the chicken coop, pruning and fertilizing trees, etc.

The size came out a little larger than expected, although I am more than pleased with the result:




The body measures 12" wide, 16" high and 2" deep. The flap closes with a pair of magnets.

The interior is the ridiculously mod 'los novios' print - I adore sugar skulls (not just because they're sweet!) and this fabric tickles my heart. The inside does not feature my usual pen pocket, and I know a slash pocket for a library card would have been appropriate, but every time I tried to lay a pocket over the interior, I just cried at the idea of laying thread lines over that perfect fabric!

The strap is adjustable, up to 6', since Mrs. B is so very, very tall. (Although at 5'4" I think Queen Elizabeth II is tall, but that's probably just because she always wears pumps!)

I am so tickled with the way it turned out, I am going to have to make one for me (come July when I get a break in craft fair season.)

Pirate Clutch

This is what I made today:



I am also putting out a plea for more of this fabric! I need two yards to make a big ol' library bag for MrsB and I cannot find any any where! Help!

Pirate Purse

A few weeks ago a tummy bug left me in the irresolute position of leaving the television on for nine hours and having the futon occupied for the entire time as well. What does one put on television for nine straight hours? Why, the Disney Company's Pirates of the Carribean trilogy, of course!

I, of course, have a variety of skully fabric, and a book with the lovely title 'The Importance of Being Ernestine' - together they were demanding to come together in a Pirate Purse. Because really, if my name were Ernestine I would probably run away from home, looting and pillaging and taking out my angst on the unsuspecting people of Kingston Bay.

Having said that, I am just tickled with the way this turned out!

The back reads "Damn to the depths whatever muttonhead thought up 'parley'" and "That would be the French"

The inside includes my usual slash pocket, deep pocket, and privacy flap.

Unfortunately, there is a little bit of damage to the cover, so unless you are willing to pay for that, you will just have to wait for me to find another title with silver foil on the spine to make one for sale. (and if you do want to buy the first tarabu pirate purse, even with a little damage, just let me know!)

There is a Gold Dust bag and a spirograph bag in the works, as well, stay tuned!