Journal of a Something or Other

Right!  Focus month of embroidery, which I was—am—very happy about.  But I hadn’t fully realised something after ‘finishing’ last month’s focus. Chase’s show is still in production and though it’s not 100% of my focus right now, it’s definitely at least 50%.

So what I’d wanted to get done this month—four pieces using techniques I’d not tried before—has ended up being halved. But I also produced things (that I still can’t share, as much as it pains me) for Chase’s show too.  But here are the official focus month of embroidery pieces.

Sequins! I have oh-so-many sequins. I never use them, because sewing on sequins well is a huge pain when working in large areas.  Not so big a problem for small areas though!

And the second piece, when in doubt: Minotaur!

Mostly, I wanted a face to work in the stitching technique I found on Opusanglicanum. The rest is sloppy split stitch and sparkly thread from the fabulous Chronographia.

Both pieces were done in a 3″ hoop (received with the sparkly thread) and I’m not sure what I’ll do with them. As per usual.

Next month I’ll go into knowing that I am still heavily involved with show production, which’ll hopefully keep that less work/guilt/less work cycle from happening.

This month I got: 20, 13, 3

1. Animatic for The Audacity Gambit
2. Sewing: clothes
3. Embroidery
4. Ink comic from last February (Richard III)
5. Nails
6. Photography: make sets, pick direction
7. Next book
8. Library
9. Garden
10. Cooking
11. Painting
12. Fashion blogging
13. The unfinished/begun monographs
14. Final Space Goth chapter
15. Chase and Brenna collabs
16. Miniatures
17. Get rid of old art
18. Printmaking
19. Papier mâché
20. Old photos

Finished:

• Ma-me’ branding
• Airbrush
• Sewing: mending & Old work archive/organise
• Secret show production

I’d been hoping embroidery would come up. I miss it, that four-hour commute window I had every day is gone, since we now live near where I work.

I have embroidered a lot of things.

I like doing it, I still think in stitching.

I like its time-consuming uselessness.  Hella zen, right?

Well, I’m not actually done with production for Chase’s show in the fall, but I’ve made huge headway.  And I took a lot of pictures.  That you’ll get to see eventually.

I like the work Chase and I make together and I like just doing production a lot. It’s been a good month, with a birthday in it and everything.