collinsstudio: I just finished one of my 'Bits' pieces. Decided ...

collinsstudio: I just finished one of my 'Bits' pieces.  Decided ...: I just finished one of my 'Bits' pieces.  Decided to make it into jewelry using some of my beads and collectibles.  Thought you migh...

I just finished one of my 'Bits' pieces.  Decided to make it into jewelry using some of my beads and collectibles.  Thought you might like to see what came up.  Don't know for sure if it's finished, but I think so - perhaps a little tweaking, we'll see.

Now for a few close-ups

Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015

I've been stewing all week since getting back from an incredible time in Taos with Diane Ericson and Holly Badgley. As usual, I don't have any large, finished masterpieces from my time there, but my brain has been going round and round, so thought I'd share a few pieces that have been happening.

These two little pieces are what I'll call Bits.  An odd piece of linen, then painted, then I went around and picked up bits and pieces off of the floor.  With twenty women working on fabric stuff, there were a treasure of 'bits' on the floor.  The wrapped piece is a twig from the cottonwood trees around the Mabel Dodge Luhan property where we were staying and working, and the fabric piece an odd piece of linen I had from a vest I had cut out that day.  I felt these bits from all these women of my tribe would form a memory piece from this time and place, and might be incorporated into the vest I was working on.

So, here are two more I have made since coming home.  I'll do more hand stitching on these, and they may also become a pocket, or decoration of some sort on a future garment.

There is some construction work going on at my studio so these are the perfect little things to stitch while chaos is surrounding me for a few days.  It will be great when it's finished though.  New heat/air units - much better than the old, wornout swamp cooler.

These are so much fun to make that I think I will make more.  Just for the fun of it.