crumpart

THIS BLOG HAS MOVED!!

2005-04-13T08:22:00.000+10:00

Finally, I have done it! I have put my blog on my actual site...

From now on, you can find me at http://www.crumpart.net/blog

I'm still tweaking the layout, so please bear with me for a bit...

Would you like originality with that?

2005-04-12T13:48:00.000+10:00

According to the BMI repertoire, there are 91 songs called Ooh Baby.

Edited to add: What's even more frightening, is that there are 97 songs titled Fuck You...

Santa Sander

2005-04-11T18:43:00.000+10:00

Dear Santa,

I would love a random orbital sander for Christmas, please.

Also, could you please move Christmas forward eight months? Then could we also have a regular Christmas in December? This would be greatly appreciated by all.

Much love,

Crumpet

Sighting citings

2005-04-11T10:21:00.000+10:00

OMG, I just found that someone has listed me, from an article I wrote and was published on the internet way back when, in their cited works for an essay. That's the weirdest feeling. Of course, the paper received a very high grade. :)

Subversity in a skirt

2005-04-09T17:44:00.000+10:00

After a couple of weeks where I've had little to no life apart from being constantly called into work, I've ended up with this (fake) Latin phrase embroidered on the bottom of a work skirt, thanks to Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid's Tale:

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards get you down.

One Good Thing

2005-04-03T23:38:00.000+10:00

I thought it was about time I posted a link to my favourite blog ever, One Good Thing. It's the journal of an awesome feminist mother and sex shop owner.

That is all.

It's about frickin time...

2005-03-31T22:55:00.000+10:00

OMG! OMG! OMFG! OMG!

Tori Amos is touring Australia!

Oh happy day...

It's all about the couch.

2005-03-28T22:39:00.000+10:00

So, I decided to clean the house today when I realised that we had to let somebody else inside. My sister arrived on a plane tonight, and while I seem to be willing to subject myself (and Mr Crumpet) to several layers of filth, it's not something that I can let visitors see... During the process, I discovered that I have a whole bunch of really cool (well, I think so anyway) cushions that I made a couple of years ago from old t-shirts, scrap material and other fun trims. And here they are for your viewing pleasure:

I also hung some of my Linden Postcard Show paintings on the wall behind the couch. It's now the official Nude Wall:

And considering tonight's couch theme, here's what we'll be watching from it tomorrow night -- my sister's birthday presents:

Mucho rebirth...

2005-03-26T19:28:00.000+11:00

I've had a busy time this week. Mostly due to being called by work every. single. day. though than actually accomplishing much. I thought I was "casual", not "on call", but what can you do...

I have managed to get a few bits and pieces done -- I needed to in order to stay sane...

First up, I've finally taken photos of my booty from the Joss Whedon swap on Craftster -- yay! I got a groovy Firefly bag and some very fun Firefly magnets that are now living on my fridge. :)

Next up I finished a hat that I originally made for myself. I wore it a few times before I realised it looked awful. Anyway, it had some eyelet patterning around the edges, so I threaded through some pretty ribbon and yarn, and attached a pompom to the top. I'm giving it to my niece for her birthday, so hopefully it will fit okay and she won't hate it.

I also had some fun making a little doily to sit under my African Violet in the bathroom. It used to sit on a skanky face-washer, so this is a damn sight better. It felt a little strange knitting a lace pattern just for it to be covered up, but I wanted to have some fun. The yarn is some Katia Idea Jeans that I bought in December 2003 when I was first learning to knit, and it has such a beautiful sheen. I used the spiderweb pattern stitch from SnBN coupled with some dropped YOs to make it look all purty. I also knit it in two pieces as a grafting challenge for myself. I don't really know if I did it properly, but it's staying together and that's the main thing. :)

Here it is on its lonesome:

And here it is in its new home. Note the pretty origami flutterby on the violet, and also the Jesus cyclamen (it rose from the dead too...)

Woot!

2005-03-23T20:01:00.000+11:00

Yay! My site is back up again, and someone told me I was beautiful on the tram. Apparently they weren't trying to hit on me, but thought that I deserved to know. :)

2005-03-21T10:01:00.000+11:00

Crap -- my site seems to not be working at the moment...

Got $6250 spare?

2005-03-18T22:01:00.000+11:00

For lots of pretty, pretty art?

I now have art for sale in my shop again. Woot!

Purses, accessories and homewares will be coming as soon... I've been coding like a mad bastard, all so you can help pay for our $1000 car fixing bill (OUCH!)

OMG... I updated my site!

2005-03-16T23:44:00.000+11:00

Yes, the rumours are true. I actually, finally have updated my site.

I've added some more paintings and drawings to CrumpArt in the art section, including my four entries to the 2005 Linden Postcard Show, now that the real life show is about to end. I'll be adding some new pages to my shopping section tomorrow, so stay tuned and keep your wallets at the ready...

Speaking of wallets and shopping and people buying paintings, I received my cheque today from my old high school, for the sale of my Theodora painting. Woot! Mucho goodness. I actually sold my biggest, most expensive painting (well, I Hart Wayne is more expensive, but technically it's an embroidery, not a painting), and it now has a very fitting home. I didn't want to sell that one to just anyone, and it's somewhere that it can be appreciated by many.

Anyway, that's it for now. Damn work and getting up early...

Hurry Up... Autumn?

2005-03-14T23:17:00.000+11:00

So, despite losing one of my double-pointed needles down the side of a tram seat today and not being able to buy another set due to the public holiday, I got my Hurry Up Spring armwarmers finished! Woot!

Behold.

I decided that the purple thumb gusset was a bit too stark, so I frogged it and did greeny/orangey gussets instead. I'm much happier with them now. :)

A message for Mr Crumpet

2005-03-09T17:40:00.000+11:00

Step 1: Plug the phone back in.

Step 2: Call me.

Spiderweb Capelet #2

2005-03-08T23:57:00.000+11:00

Apparently Gorte asked what I was knitting, so I thought I'd take a picture. Hi Gorte! :)

So here's my second Spiderweb Capelet from Stitch 'n' Bitch Nation. I love this pattern, so much so that I actually don't need to look at the pattern while knitting anymore. This one is the same JJs mohair yarn as the last one I knit, but it's in the Lavender colourway instead of my beloved Fireball. This one is a gift for someone, and I'm knitting it on 12mm needles instead of 10mm. I'm also going to knit one for my niece on the 10mm needles, but less wide, as she's only eight and therefore tiny.

I actually started this on the tram this afternoon, but was so excited to see someone else knitting on public transport (on tiny bamboo DPNs with tiny, very pretty yarn, so I think she was possibly knitting socks... in a 2x2 rib... yes, I'm a knitting nerd... I also spent a lot of time geeking out over the few knitted garments in House of Flying Daggers before my tram trip, but back to the story...) that I cast 92 stitches, then knit a row onto the wrong needles, and had to frog the whole thing when I realised. And even after just one row, mohair is a bitch to frog...

Don't read this post if you're Urbankitty!

2005-03-07T13:12:00.000+11:00

There's a lot I want to blog about today, but I might do another post later with all that, and just make this one picture heavy...

I'll start with some of my favourite birthday presents from last week!

Turtles! Knee socks! Turtles on knee socks! Dinosaur coat knitting patterns for puppies! Woot!

In other knitting news, I've finished my first Hurry Up Spring armwarmer from SnBN. I think I'll frog the purple on the thumb gusset and make it green though, but I'll decide for sure when I've finished the second armwarmer.

I loved the Noro Kureyon yarn from the armwarmers so much that I did some freeform knitting with it, inspired by my new copy of Unexpected Knitting by Debbie New. This book is so awesome and inspiring. I totally recommend it to everyone.

My little freeform piece somehow happened to turn out to my exact cupsize and shape... I toyed with making it into a dress, but I think I'll aim towards a piece of mermaid art instead.

And now for something I didn't make myself, but received in a Glitter swap for reusable grocery shopping bags:

Hopefully the bag I made will arrive at it's destination soon. I hope it hasn't gone missing mid-post... I have a picture of it somewhere, but I'm not sure where that is at the minute.

In other swap news, I'm also taking part in the Joss Whedon swap over at Craftster. I haven't received a package yet, but it's on the way, as is the one I sent. I bound my first book ever to make Simon's Diary from Firefly (more of an inspired piece than a replica...) and also did a drawing of Giles from Buffy. Hopefully they'll be well received. :)

I attempted the coptic stitch for binding. Having never seen it done and only following instructions from the internet, I don't know how well I succeeded, but the book seemed to stay together well enough, which is the main thing... plus I got to use my drill to make the holes in the cover. Yay! The image/writing on the cover was done with a linocut print, and the end pages are made from old Astor Theatre posters, of which I'm sure Joss would approve. :) The quotes are from Jayne's character as he pretended to read Simon's diary.

More later...

Oh No! Craftster is down!

2005-03-02T10:12:00.000+11:00

It was supposed to be easy... log on to Craftster, get my swappers address from my Private Messages, go to the post office, then send my package for the Joss Whedon swap.

But no.

First it turned out that the ADSL isn't working, because Telstra has told the old company to cut us off or whatever, but hasn't told the new company to start us up yet. Or something like that.

So I thought, "okay, that's fine, I'll just dial in". No big deal. EXCEPT THE CRAFTSTER BOARDS ARE NOT WORKING!!! I can't get my PMs, so I can't get the address of the person I'm sending to, so I can't send it, and I can't let the swap organiser know why... ARGH!

"Admittedly tha poo' is only 20 metres long..."

2005-02-21T23:43:00.000+11:00

Maybe it's just because I'm exhaused (and in pain from the communal Wadeye period day...), but damn this is cracking me up... :)

Koranger Gizoogled
Random Milk Gizoogled
Me Gizoogled

Beauty.

2005-02-21T22:43:00.000+11:00

Today I woke up at some horrendous hour like 4:30am, and couldn't get back to sleep. So I tossed and turned in bed for two hours before heading off for my Monday morning swim. As such, I was grumpy before I even walked out the door, which was exacerbated by greeting a mean looking dog hanging around our front gate (I love dogs, but am wary of all but seven or so in this place, because the camp dogs are scungy and get mean pack-mentality, and sadly, many of the whitefella dogs are trained to be frightening...) and an extremely insistent and annoying fly that dive-bombed my head from the moment I stepped outside. So I walked along feeling all sorry for myself, then as I rounded the corner I was hit with the most beautiful sunrise I've ever seen. I know, sunrises and sunsets are "just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round", but damn, what a fucking illusion.

For ten minutes I walked along in awe, trying to glimpse as much through the treetops as I could. You couldn't actually see the sun, but a bank big fluffy clouds on the horizon topped with astounding golden outlines, and ray lines from the sun reaching out into the space above them.

I don't know if a sunrise can get you high, but I swam 30 laps after that.

Admittedly the pool is only 20 metres long, but that's still 20 more laps than the 10 I was struggling for when I started swimming two weeks ago...

Speaking of seeing amazing things, yesterday we spotted a frill neck lizard on the road as we were driving for a swim at Airforce Crossing. It saw us and ran up a tree, and we stopped to have a look. Frill neck lizards are so cool. Actually, I think most lizards are cool, but frill necks especially.

In other news, I finished my cardiganised boobholder! Woot! Well, I need to block it and add a button, but I can't do either of those things until I'm back in Melbourne this weekend. Here it is, with a close-up of the yarn for good measure.

I also finished the front of my Vest Dressed Girl number and have started on the back, so hopefully I'll have another FO picture to show soon!

Deja vu Deja vu!

2005-02-15T21:04:00.000+11:00

OMG, my last post, obviously aptly titled Deja vu published twice. That's just bizarre. So bizarre I'm leaving it there.

Deja vu.

2005-02-15T20:33:00.001+11:00

Oh no! Korangar has picked up his blogging game and has been posting far more often than me... it can't be! It's just not fair that I have a crappy internet connection up here (at home at least, and not much time to get online with the decent connection at school), endlessly frustrating me with its excessive slowness.

I don't have any photos to post yet either. I had a spat with my Vest Dressed Girl creation from the last post, and we decided not to communicate for a while. In the meantime, I started a striped Boobholder, then decided to use up some more of my yarn by cardigan-ising it. I'm almost done and it's very exciting. Hopefully it will look as awesome and smashing as I'm imagining it. I'm using yarn that I bought for $1 a ball a while back (yes, I bought far more than I needed...) to make Mr Crumpet (aka Korangar, aka Squozen, aka Toshiro) the Hot Head hat from Stitch 'n' Bitch, along with some fuzzy purple mohair/sparkle concoction. So, purple, forest green, navy, maroon, black and brown. Tasty.

I wish I did have a particular photo to post. It would be along the lines of this one, taken when I was living here in 2003:

Substitute a baby joey named Lucky in my hands, instead of the baby crocodile, and you'll be there. So. Cute. Our neighbours rescued him from his dead mother's pouch, and have been raising him. I desperately, desperately, desperately need to take a photo before I head back home.

On the theme of repeated events, I had another one last night when a creepy crawly entered my room. While I was barefoot and about to go to bed. Except it wasn't nasty, nasty cockroaches this time. It was a giant humungous black spider that I think crawled out of the air-conditioning unit when I turned it on. Exactly what you want to discover before going to sleep...

Deja vu.

2005-02-15T20:33:00.000+11:00

Where's Crumpy?

2005-02-06T11:01:00.000+11:00

I've had some people ask where I am lately, so I found this map. I'm living in a place called Wadeye (or Port Keats), the little red star on that map, until the 26th of February. Here's a closer map of the area. Wadeye (pronounced Wad-air) is part of Aboriginal land in the Daly River Region. The town itself is inland, but it's a fairly short drive to the coastline. You need special permission from the Aboriginal people of Wadeye to come here, and I'm working at the school helping my sister (a teacher) with her year 12 class. It's the first time they have ever done year 12 here, which is pretty exciting. I help out with computers and art, and am also helping develop a website for the class as they'll be running an art business as part of their coursework this year.

Anyway, as I'm pretty far away from everything, and Wadeye is a town with a general store, a medical clinic, a school, a police station, a tiny airport (you have to fly here in the wet season as the road to Darwin gets cut off by flooding) and not much else, I bought along lots of yarn to keep me occupied. This week I've started on a cabled vest from one of my mum's '70's patterns. Because, of course, I want to Be a Vest Dressed Girl. :p

Here's the progress so far:

And because we've been doing printmaking in class, I've also been working on a lino print:

We don't have a printing press, so I've been busy trying to come up with the best way to print this. I haven't quite succeeded yet, but I'm getting there. Hopefully I'll have some better copies of the print in a week or so.

In other art news, I didn't win anything in the Linden Postcard show, but as they had something like 2900 entries (according to my mother), that's not really surprising. Apparently I Hart Wayne is hanging in a really good spot though, and I'm looking forward to seeing the show when I get home. Hopefully my works will also have some little red 'sold' dots by then as well!

A quick update...

2005-02-03T14:11:00.000+11:00

The phones have been down here the last few days, so I haven't been able to post much. Anyway, this is just a quick update to say that Jenny Hart has posted I Hart Wayne in the news on the Sublime Stitching site! Woot!

Also, the Linden Postcard show opens this Saturday February 5, so if you're in Melbourne, make sure you go along for a look. :)

16800 bps...

2005-01-30T20:51:00.000+11:00

So, my first blog post from the Land where the internet is Abominably Slow and the Mosquitoes/Sandflies Abominably Fast. I believe I have around 25 bites so far, at least, which is always fun.

Anyway, it's wet season, but hasn't rained in once in the four days I've been here, so we've had two trips out to the beaches. Here are a few photos I took on the second trip.

I've also managed to make a tiny dent into the stash of yarn I bought with me. Two of these scarves are made from the remainder of Fireball, and the middle one was a UFO from a while back. I'm trying to build up my stores for markets and the like, so this is a good start. :)

R.I.P. Zoe

2005-01-26T20:09:00.000+11:00

After arriving in Darwin and sleeping for most of the afternoon yesterday, I got a call from my parents. They'd taken our dog, Zoe, to the vet earlier and had her put down. She was old, she was sick, and it was well past time. I'm still sad though.

I wish I had a picture of her with me to post, but I don't.

Anyone available should go to my house in Melbourne and hug my other two dogs for me, because I can't for another four weeks. :(

Exhaustion

2005-01-24T22:15:00.000+11:00

Today was the big day. I finally handed in my four entries for the Linden Postcard Show. Of course, my final entry didn't get completed until 3pm, at which point I had to stretch it over a canvas frame then secure hanging devices on the back of each piece. So at 4pm, I headed out the door and to the tram stop.

I took a few more photos before I left though:

Here is I Hart Wayne in her frame:

Someone from Craftster also asked to see some close-up shots of the stitching, so here they are:

And as if that wasn't enough pictures in one post, here's another -- the piece I completed today, called (No) Threads It's a stencil and embroidery on linen. Be warned, it's also a very nude man, hence the buffer space...

And that is all. I fly to Darwin at 7:10am tomorrow morning, so to compound my current state of exhaustion, I have to get up at some ungodly hour to get to the airport on time. And I still have to make two bags before I go, and finish packing. Oh joy. Wish me luck.

The moment of truth...

2005-01-21T18:06:00.000+11:00

Here she is. Done. I feel like I've just given birth.

Anybody in Melbourne, Australia, will be able to see her in the flesh, along with three other works by me, at the Linden Postcard Show 2005 from 5 February until 19 March. I won't actually be at the opening, as next week I fly to the Northern Territory for four weeks of work. I'll be sending Mr Crumpet though, and I'll be back in time to see the show before it finishes.

For those not in the know, this is a portrait of Jenny Hart, of Sublime Stitching and Wayne Coyne, of the Flaming Lips. As such, I've titled it I Hart Wayne. :)

Race for the prize...

2005-01-19T13:28:00.000+11:00

I have no willpower

2005-01-17T18:02:00.000+11:00

Yes, that's the Spiderweb Capelet (from SnBN) that I wasn't supposed to even start before I finished The Embroidery. I couldn't help myself, plus it was good to knit a row every now and then while having a mental and physical break.

But I haven't been neglecting my (other) baby, as you can see. I'm pretty sure she'll be done in the next few days.

Procrastination is your friend

2005-01-16T02:06:00.000+11:00

I found these on my hard drive tonight while avoiding The Embroidery. I usually only use Photoshop and Illustrator for developmental work, but I think I did them a while back for some art competition. I like them a lot. Mmmm, nebula and star bursts...

I am The Shit

2005-01-14T11:10:00.000+11:00

Woo Hoo! My first try at a cappuccino from the espresso machine (an adorable little Nemox Junior) I bought Mr Crumpet for Christmas!

Mmmm... delicious crema...

Mmmm... delicious, unfocussed fluff...

In other news, I was very, very naughty. I broke my rule not to touch any other art or craft until The Embroidery was finished, by swatching up Fireball. Bad, bad Crumpet. She did swatch up at the perfect gauge for the Spiderweb Capelet though. Good, good Fireball.

And here is the latest progress on The Embroidery:

Went to LYS for SEX

2005-01-12T17:12:00.000+11:00

Her name is Fireball and she is so, so beautiful.

She will be my Spiderweb Capelet.

Jam with Wayne.

2005-01-11T23:06:00.000+11:00

Tasty delicious.

Getting shirty.

Tasty

2005-01-10T13:25:00.000+11:00

Here's a little intermission from The Embroidery. Delicious, delicious, tasty plum jam that is cooking on my stove right now...

Updates

2005-01-06T14:31:00.000+11:00

A quickie post before I head off to work -- the latest on the embroidery. I quickly added some semi-eyes so Wayne doesn't look so freaky anymore... :)

Progress

2005-01-04T16:38:00.000+11:00

Here's a fairly shoddy photo showing the latest progress on The Embroidery...

Flaming Knits. :)

2005-01-03T22:34:00.000+11:00

So, some of you may have already seen me sneakily post this on some crafty message boards, but I can finally post it here as it was a Christmas gift that has now been given.

It's Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips (yes, I'm slightly obsessed -- knitting and embroidering Wayne simultaneously... but just slightly), and I knit him by altering the Knit Your Own Rock Star pattern from Stitch'n'Bitch Nation. It was possibly my most favourite knitting project ever. Every so often I'd just stop and giggle. :)

Straight flat roads = good

2005-01-01T23:23:00.000+11:00

I managed to get a bit of embroidery done in the car on our way to NYE/NYD celebrations. I now have achey muscles from attempting odd flexibility challenges while under the influence. It was fun. :)

Counting down...

2004-12-31T13:28:00.000+11:00

Yesterday I suddenly realised that I have about 20 days total to finish The Embroidery. Eek! It needs to be in at Linden on January 24, and it needs to be framed before then. Can I do it? Who knows. Here's what I've accomplished in the last two days anyway. I know Wayne looks a little frightening in his eye-sockety-ness, but you get that. :)

I <3 Stitch'n'Bitch Nation

2004-12-30T15:29:00.000+11:00

Here's is my Basic Cable -- I made it for my dad for Christmas. Except he doesn't have it yet...

I used a different yarn than the pattern calls for (I got it for free from my mother... I think she bought it in 1983 to make a jumper that never got finished for my little brother!) I also added an extra six rows of ribbing at the bottom so I could have a folded-up brim, and added an extra round of the cable pattern before starting the decreases to make the hat longer.

Cassie's Skirt

2004-12-29T09:56:00.000+11:00

Here's Cassie's skirt finished. Due to crazy people coming out in their masses to shop at post Christmas sales, I haven't had a chance to finish or photograph anything else yet.

The whole thing:

The patch:

A close-up of the embroidery:

Today is my last day at work for the week, so hopefully I'll have some more stuff up soon...

Crapping hell.

2004-12-23T18:47:00.000+11:00

Okay, now I can't even post to Glitter. This day sucks. Every time I try and post (or try to send a private message to Tsia about how I can't post), I get weird error messages So no Glitter love and/or commiseration for me. :(

More words.

2004-12-23T17:50:00.000+11:00

So anyway, I called VCA today to find out if I'd been made an offer for entry to the BFA in Printmaking, because I hadn't received any mail from them at all, and was told during my interview that I'd definitely hear something before Christmas.

And they told me that I hadn't been made an offer, but they don't send out those letters for another few weeks.

Hell, I was expecting maybe a B letter (meaning the possibility of a second round offer), but not complete. fucking. rejection.

And this was the only course I applied for. Actually, it was the only course that I could afford to apply for. I would have liked to apply for Drawing or Painting at VCA as well, but at $50 a pop, the applications didn't come cheap... and applying to any other university would have meant paying a VTAC fee, so I just applied for the one I most wanted.

Now I don't know what to do, and I don't understand how this happened, and my head's all sore from the crying. :( :( :(

I only have three words.

2004-12-23T16:22:00.000+11:00

Fuck you VCA.

Giftastic

2004-12-13T09:17:00.000+11:00

I love Picture Sunday on Glitter -- it forces me to take photos and update my blog!

My Super Secret Special Surprise is finished, but I still can't post it here yet, as it's a Christmas gift for someone who occasionally reads here... I have been busy with some other stuff that is postable though, so yay!

First up, here's the progress I've made on The Embroidery. Not much, I know, but that patch of green in the top left corner did take a while. I did it in some downtime during our trip to Phillip Island Nature Park to see the adorable penguins. I also made a knitted scrunchy-washer type thing to give to Bec and Justin, who were kind enough to let us stay at their house, but didn't get a photo of it. It was a sort of lacy purple cotton tube with green i-cords at either end -- the idea is to put soap inside then tighten the ends to trap the soap. I made it up as I went along, so hopefully it works as I imagined.

Speaking of lacy knits, here's the scarf I was working on the other week. I haven't touched it for a while, but will finish it fairly soon. I love making these scarves -- they're so easy and beautiful, and get many, many comments. It's based on this pattern from Knitty.

And a close-up...

And the main reason I haven't done much on The Embroidery? You guessed it, Christmas gifts. For my two nieces, I'm making skirts, and for my two nephews, I'm making shorts. They'll all have embroidery patches on them, and I'm using patterns from Jenny Hart's Stitch-it-kit. I ordered it online a while back, but was so excited to see it in a book shop in Melbourne yesterday! The shop I saw it at was Reader's Feast, so go, buy it now! Anyway, Mikayla is getting the Kitty, Cassie wants the Hula Girl, Lachie will get an Anchor, and Sam is getting shorts that say "Mine", in reference to his favourite line from Finding Nemo. Here's what's done so far:

I know something you don't know

2004-12-07T01:31:00.000+11:00

I've been very busy this week, but haven't added a single stitch to The Embroidery. I did go to the Linden Gallery, pay my fee and hand in my entry form, but that's about as far as I got there.

Because I've been working on a special secret surprise.

Well, that, and I watched the entire third series of Farscape on DVD this week...

I haven't been slack this week, really.

2004-11-30T16:20:00.000+11:00

A week ago today I had my interview for the 2005 admissions to the Fine Art course at VCA. It was rather frightening and I don't really know how I went, as the panel of interviewers try their damndest (is that a word?) to give no indication of their feelings whatsoever. I'll find out in a couple of weeks. Since then, I've been winding down and doing a bit more work.

Here's the latest on The Embroidery, which I really should have progressed further on...

I also finished knitting my Very First Jumper (jumper = sweater for those of you who are confused). It's a top down raglan knit entirely in the round, therefore being completely seamless! Woot! I measured up a jumper I had, measured up my guage, did all the maths and started knitting away. The yarn is Four Seasons 'Zebra', which I bought on sale for $0.99 a ball. I think I only used about eight balls, so I got an ace jumper for cheap! Yay!

I've also been knitting a scarf on the tram... but forgot to take a photo of it. So, later. But now, here's a nudie painting warning...!

Okay, here are the two paintings I've been working on for the Linden postcard show:

That's it for now -- I have to head to my life drawing class, but I promise to post more this coming week than I did in the one just gone...

A productive day.

2004-11-20T15:45:00.000+11:00

Here's the latest update on my embroidery. Every time I think I've done a lot of it I step back a little and look at all the white space still surrounding the tiny mass of colour.

Speaking of colour masses, here's what I've done so far with those blank canvasses from earlier (the second pic is a detail shot, but unfortunately now that the liquid-y blueness has dried, it's not looking quite so impressive. I need to work on that...):

And finally, my first felt! Woot! I also felted an old jumper today, but it needs another going over before it's fully felted.

Three days off! Woot!

2004-11-18T17:01:00.000+11:00

Yay! I have three days in a row off work! That means I can get some of my own work done. I have my university admission interview on Tuesday morning, and I have a lot to get done before my folio is ready (work on my website, a couple of paintings, organise life drawings in my big folder thingy, visit galleries to catch up on the latest in the art world, do as much as I can on the embroidery...)

Speaking of the embroidery, here is the latest progress report:

And just for fun, here is one of the pictures from my exhibition earlier this year. I'm on the left and my sister is on the right.

Look! Eyes!

2004-11-16T18:24:00.000+11:00

Just incase you were wondering, this is (going to be) a portrait of Jenny Hart from Sublime Stitching and Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips.

Purple is your friend

2004-11-14T17:53:00.000+11:00

Of boobholders and embroidery

2004-11-12T20:40:00.000+11:00

I figured since I have a blog now, I may as well post something in it. So here are a few things I've been working on lately...

Some Christmas gift facecloths for my grandma, knitted in Heirloom cotton yarn using a pattern from the Dishcloth Boutique.

The boobholder I made to wear to work. It turned out a little big, but I remedied this by threading a ribbon through the eyelot holes I made all around the bottom, and lacing it up tight instead of using a button. So far I've had fantastic comments every time I've worn it, and the ribbon has been what people like the most, which is kind of amusing. :) I nearly ruined this top completely when watching the Australian election. I was getting rather angry and made a big stuff-up that I didn't know how to fix, but thankfully Kym's mum did know. Thanks for that. :)

I plan to enter some artworks into the Linden Gallery Postcard competition this year. I stretched these canvases yesterday. My dropsheet was the pattern I drew up for a jumper I'm knitting -- the body is done and I'm about a third of the way through the sleeves, so it should be done soon. Yay! Anyway, I don't know what I'm going to paint on the canvasses yet. Perhaps something inspired by the life drawing classes I've been taking.

I do know I want to enter this though.

Hopefully the person/people in the original photo won't mind. I wanted to get a start on it before I asked them, just incase it turned out crap, but I'm liking it so far. :)

Anyway, that's it for now, as I really should go to bed.

Hmmmm...

2004-11-10T21:27:00.000+11:00

I have a blog.

And all so I could post comments on other people's blogs...