the circle skirt

So I tried sewing my first piece of clothing this weekend. Just a simple circle skirt, but I was still pretty nervous since I'm not the best seamstress. As you can probably see, the hem along the bottom is a little strange (although somehow I managed to figure out the "invisible" hem by myself), but I think I can correct that with some ironing. Only I will be able to see all the flaws. All in all, making your own clothes is way more trouble than I thought. The time and money it took me to buy the fabric and then sew the whole thing together, sort of stressed me out. I find knitting a garment more natural, and at least if I mess something up I can go back and rip it out easily. Perhaps I just need to become more familiar with sewing. Anyways, after ironing it tomorrow, I think it will be ready to wear :)

Can we all just take a moment?

http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/

The Art Market

"However, if our society is going to make it so that football players are going to get paid millions of dollars to play their sport than artist’s FOR SURE should get paid millions of dollars to create art and comment on our culture and society."

I found this extremely interesting:

http://textileartscenter.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/thread-reviews-the-million-dollar-art-market/

From the Textile Art Center Blog, post from Joetta Maue

IF: Dusty

IF: Chicken

Not feeling too deep today

The painting of quilts and the destruction of brushes

I need to start taking better care of my brushes. This is just getting ridiculous.

Also, I'm not happy with the way these images look. I have to monkey around with them in photoshop a little bit today and see how I can get the white of the paper to actually be white. I was trying some white balance shit in Camera Raw this morning, but my lack of technological ability was really showing through.

Quilts and an appropriately placed folk band.

Friday night trip to the American Folk Art Museum