puppets

This is what RISD students do for spring break - Lex's puppet animation tests.

sign your name across my heart

This Saturday (4.25), Jane and I are having a book signing at Elm Street Books, in New Canaan. Be there. Aloha.


12 - 3 pm
35 Elm Street
New Canaan, CT

I'm dressed all in blue

and I'm remembering you




mmmmmm....Rhett Miller @ (le) Poisson Rouge, 4/16/09

[photos by Patti Foerster]

I thought I heard somebody calling

...in the dark, I thought I heard somebody call.

Saturday night | Josh Ritter @ the Wellmont Theatre, Montclair NJ








Sunday night | Josh Ritter @ the Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown NY (yeah, I went 2 nights in a row, because that's the kinda gal I am)










[yes, there was a dog on stage]









I won't be your last dance just your last goodnight
Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied

playing

I spent yesterday morning at Sew Inspired in Simsbury, CT, teaching Materials at Play - Artist Trading Cards with Angelina Fibers, painted fusible web and Shiva Paintstiks. Here's what it looked like...









thanks for playing!

playtime

C&T Publishing made a video trailer for Art Quilts at Play - click me.

charmed

I had an article in the January/February issue of Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine about making and swapping charms. A couple people have posted the charms they've made on their blogs, so I'm passing them along.

Blue Moon River (Susan Brubaker Knapp)

Barnyard Chatter (March 9th entry)

Fabrications (Cindy Green)



AND, there's also an official CPS "charm & be charmed" swap:

charm & be charmed swap

Be a part of our Cloth Paper Scissors® charm swap! Inspired by Elin Waterston’s article in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue, we thought it would be fun to host a charm swap ourselves.

charm swap rules

Create up to five original charms. Use some of Elin’s techniques or some of your own. Keeping in mind that the charms will later be a part of a piece of jewelry, please keep them to 1 1/2" in diameter or smaller. Once you get going, you’re going to want to make a lot.
Your charm must be free of any text or images that are protected by copyright, unless you have the expressed written permission from the person or institution that holds the copyright and you provide that written permission with your submission.
Attach a jump ring to each charm.
Fasten a card to each charm’s jump ring with your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. Please type or print clearly. (This is for our internal use only.)
Include a SASE with your charm(s) and an entry fee of $5 (U.S. and Canada) and $10 (all other international). All funds must be in U.S. dollars and made payable to Interweave. Swap participants, including international residents, may charge their entry fee to their credit card. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express. Please include the necessary information, including the expiration date and CVV code.
Your charm(s) must be in our offices by April 13th and we will “swap” them by June 1st.


We will be featuring some of your charms in an upcoming issue of Cloth Paper Scissors and/or on our website. All participants will be sent the same number of charms “in swap” that they sent to us.

for more information click here.

3.25.89

abandon in personal touch

Another funny [translated] review.


How to use C&T Publishing Art Quilt Workbook:

Product Description Exercises & Techniques

Part quiltmaking workbook, factor commercial vanguard, Art Quilt Workbook show how to lift quilting bounded by a dynamic alien direction through art--then import the quilts at craft fair and other venue. Lessons and homework coach the brass tack of moral logo next to unproblematic step-by-step exercises, next inflame the reader to abandon in personal touch with cloth collage, strand fine art, radical piecing, and photo descriptions. A in excess guide to exhibit and selling quilts reveal how to bring mutually art and craft exhibit and how to souk handmade quilts. Develop the inmost optical artist (and the inner business tycoon) with Art Quilt Workbook!

157120377X Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques.
About the Author Handicrafts Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques

Jane Davila, an artist and printmaker, teach art quilting. An art quilting professor, she live in South Salem, New York.

Elin Waterstons quilts be full of be exhibit in tons gallery and museums. She lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Patchwork & applique Art Quilt Workbook:.
EXCELLENT Exercises & Techniques.

Excellent effort all for the knowing or rookie art quilter. many contrary technique detailed. above all recommended. Quiltmaking Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques.

[BTW, I don't live in Ridgefield and Jane doesn't live in South Salem. Other way around. Although my quilts are full of be exhibit in tons gallery and museums. That part is true.]

the trouble with being in love...

is it's so hard to get out of.

Further proof of my groupiness - I can sing along with Rhett Miller's Question...wait for it...in French.

[SRM]






[squiggle]


[squiggle that made a birdie shape]


[when my flash accidentally flashed, but the bouncer didn't reprimand me]


[photos by Patti Foerster]



peut-être ce soir
je la poserai toi

mfc [squared]

I'm a groupie. I'm okay with it. I went to see the Cardinals twice this weekend - once in New Haven (CT) and once in Montclair (NJ).



I never get good pictures at Cardinal gigs (I'm usually too far away and the stage is always darkish and no photography allowed - shhhhhh, don't tell) so I just have blurry, wait, artistic shots of the band and my squiggly lights thing that I like to do.

[Ryan, Brad, Space Wolf + Neal - Jon is out of frame]


[squiggle]


[squiggle]


[everybody]


[Neal singing]


[Neal singing again. He's the only member of the band who knows my name, so I pay attention to him.]


[squiggle]


[squiggle]


So turn the radio on
So turn the radio up
So turn the radio up loud and get down
Let your body move
Let your body sway
Listen to the music play
It's magick

I'm going to go to bed now, and hope the ringing in my ears doesn't keep me awake. And I really really really hope this wasn't my last Cardinals gig. Please Ryan. Please.

update: there are some excellent photos here.