Craft Your Heart Out 4!

Craft night is going strong. I hosted my 4th one yesterday. I shared delicata squash, cider, cinnamon sugar apples, and pumpkin cookies with everyone while we crafted and conversed. It was wonderful! 

Thiel, Kim, Annie, Naomi and Hope!

Hope made a chicken!

Kim made hand puppets!

Sarah and Desmond made art with tape, markers and chickens!

I finally made a chicken card for the first time in 6 weeks after being to busy with the show at Delicious. 

-Cocorosie

Fall is here and summer was lovely!

Chicken Card 61 through 64

-Lady Gaga

-Rhye

-Lana Del Rey

Chicken Card 29, 30, 31

-Dana Falconberry

I made even more chickens yesterday but I will save them for another day!

Fragility and Strength

Fragility and Strength, 18 x 22 inches, fabric, thread, copper tubing, 2013.

I usually make many different pieces of the same thing then decide how to connect them.  Here is an example of the many ways I thought to sew the circles.

Potluck Sunday!  I made a garlic scape pesto on broccoli and squash from the garden.

Interactive Art Piece

I have been invited by curator, Anni Holm, to create an interactive piece for her show Earth to Table at the West Chicago City Museum.  I have had a lot of interest lately in making artwork that viewers can be involved in.  This was the first idea I have come up with.

The statement and question would be placed on the wall, "Each fruit and vegetable has a season when they grow in the Midwest and when they taste their best.  What vegetables and fruits do you like to eat during each season?"

There are 4 plates for each season and surrounding each plate are plushie vegetables and fruits grown during that season.  They are velcroed to the wall and attached to the wall with jute so that the viewer can't put a tomato on the winter plate.  There is also velcro on the plate.  

I want to create a piece that is educational, fun, and touchable.  Children really like my work and I'd like to pay more attention to that in the future.