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Hello! Annalisa and I have been sewing away. I have more updates and photos to post...but no time right now.

However, I do want to put up the link to the leonardo gallery blog, which has all the information for the show.

It is at 6 pm Friday February 29 (Leap Day) at the South Town Mall in Sandy.

See you there!

wow, last night Annalisa and I went to meet our models.
They are beautiful - and young (I forgot i was 15, too when I wanted to be a model!)

Here is Aiko:


Alejandra (she is definitely wearing the doily skirt and a cute felted hat)

Rachael:

Hailee:

Marikh will wear something green and flowing, don't you think?

Here is something:

And then we at Lebanese food at Mazza's :)

three or four

Annalisa and I have narrowed our big ideas down to three or four.
doily skirt and some kind of top.
denim bones dress.
recycled knitwear with nesting pocket.
and linen skirts with batiked branches (see earlier post for picture)

this is the nesting pocket thing. It is made by layering necklines from t-shirts.

More later!

ideas

this is what we have so far:



this is what i want everything to look like:

I'm also thinking about:

hand felting wool onto silk for a shirt.

finishing my pieced antique doily skirt idea.

making a skirt covered in pintucks.

using the necklines from t-shirts to make a nest-pocket.

Annalisa had the good idea to use seams from old jeans. I think it would be cool as a sculpted "bustier." Every show needs a bustier, right? wrong! but I don't know what else i want to be sculpted...

recycled design

Hello, my friend Annalisa and I have entered as a team in a recycled clothing design competition! Yes, can you believe? It is true true. There is a fashion show next friday, on Leap Day, to show everyone's creations. We started last night at 11pm, and have a lot of good ideas already. I'm going to update this blog daily with our progress, check back.

Here you can see us drafting, cracking walnuts, and drinking homemade kefir!

my dream world

I'm serious about the websites i posted a few posts ago. They are so cool.

There is a great video here at http://samorost2.net/plantage/ and two smart games called samorost1 and samorost2. They are smart because they creatively use plants, animals, and fungi :) in the design. I love it!

I play them all the time. And I haven't even beat samorost2. yet.

life update

Hello!
Here is a life update for those of you (family members) who read my blog to find out what i'm really doing with my life.

*I really am turning in letters, resumes, and applications left and right!
On the left for a summer field research opportunity on the Minnesota plaines working with Echinacea populations, pollination, and ecology. And on the right, for my dream job at Fungi Perfecti growing mushrooms! You might say I really am taking charge of my future.

*I really am eating my veg.
*I really am going to graduate this June.
*I really am checking out VW vans. Home sweet home!
*I really am cleaning out the clutter and trash in my life/home.

I hope I stay on track...

amanita design

A friend showed me this great site by amanita design. First, great name. Second, great animations. Here is my favorite video, "plantage"

http://samorost2.net/plantage/

(they also have funny interactive games, so give those a look at http://www.amanitadesign.com/)

women

I have been in bed most of the day reading a beautiful, true book. My sister gave it to her closest female friends and relatives for Christmas. And I know why; Terry Tempest Williams' book "refuge" is about women. The Great Salt Lake, our Earth, the environment, wildlife, birds, government, $$, authority, Mormonism, spirituality, family, Utah, nuclear testing, lies, cancer, and death are all told through the experience of a woman and thus of all women. I recognized her life and felt love, grief, isolation, and rage along with her. My connection to everyone, to everything, and to myself has benefitted from this life affirming, true story. I highly recommend this book.

sewing

Happy New Year! It is 2008. I graduate this year, and it is a presidential election year. I have been sewing the last few days to get some sellable wares stocked up before my new school semester starts. My cousin gave me some old fabric/curtains/quilts to take apart. Some of them are pretty crazy, i think you will agree. Take, for instance, this psychadelic hawaiian quilt with a panda bear (?) at the center. Very intense. Unfortunately i didn't remember to take a picture of it before i had started to cut it up. However, I did have forethought enough to make sure to cut out the bag I am keeping for myself in such a way as to keep the naked ladies patch in a good spot.