I’m doing some finishing up and some getting started today. I’m finishing John’s Buffy Tracks Bison Down scarf and having a terrible time working the kitchener stitch to graft the two pieces together. It’s just really hard to see with this yarn. I’m hoping I’ll have the patience to finish it today. Then on to my Just Plum Retro Rib socks that have been waiting in my knitting bag for weeks. I made a mistake somewhere and have to go back and tink a few rows. What fun!
Today I start a new class at Joggles with Susan Sorrell. She’s the one who taught the Doodling Designs class I took in November and December. The new class is on Monoprinting fabrics. First assignment is to do some sunprinting. I need to get some of the special paints before I start, though, and don’t know if I can find them in Taos or will have to mail order. This is going to be a really fun class, I can tell.
Also need to wait for sun — we got several inches of snow yesterday and overnight.
My daughter, Larissa, is so afraid of bugs that she’s fascinated by them. Today she sent me a website about a guy who paints with bugs. It’s actually pretty interesting and you can see his website here.
Sharon at In a Minute Ago comes up with the most fascinating things. On her Mind Tracks blog today she’s showing some optical illusions that are supposed to be a stress test. Setting aside the skepticism about that, she got me thinking about two of my favorite artists in that vein: 20th century French artist Victory Vasarely (also here), and contemporary Israeli artist Yaacov Agam. I am fortunate enough to have a signed and numbered print by Agam that I just love. I never tire of looking at it. I spent a few minutes surfing and looking at both of these artists’ images. Great inspiration.
I also clicked into Sew, Mama, Sew and discovered she’s having a month long focus on quiltmaking, including a block sew-along. As if I NEEDED another project, I’m contemplating doing this one to use some of my new hand-dyed fabrics and maybe some of the ones I do in the monoprinting class. The February 1 post of this blog links to some tutorials on some interesting ways to do nine-patch blocks. I’m especially intrigued with the disappearing nine-patch.
What was that I was saying about “just enough time”?
