Apr 26
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
Not the last postcard of April, but the last one dollar bill I can stand for any time in the forseeable future. This was working at the limit of what the machine could stitch together - 12 layers of fabric that I embroidered and then cut down into. I like the frilly/fluffy edges, sort of like chenille. I experimented with lino block carving tools, but the fabric sandwich wasn't stiff enough to be carved that way. Instead I had to use an exacto and a tiny pair of scissors. I think I may have killed my newest pair of tiny scissors. But I had fun.
In other news, the daffodils popped yesterday. Spring was on the Massachusetts/Connecticut border on Sunday (about 35 miles south of us here) as delineated by the flowering of the forsythia. The line swept over us on Tuesday, all the neighborhood forsythia bloomed, and on Wed the daffodils went from green lumps to this:
Today Alice and Aerin proved (once again) that you get the kids you deserve. Both of them can make a Nakamura Lock paper airplane from memory. This flys farther than any paper airplane we ever made as kids to torture eachother or substitute teachers with. They couldn't get them to go far enough in the house, so they went outside to launch them. Onto the porch roof.
Spring rules!
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