Listless

Welcome to Weekword!

I’m feeling the lack of a deadline quite severely. I keep wandering around the house, starting projects and not finishing them, or researching pointless things on the Internet.

I even made a cushion for Batman’s birthday present from my mum.

It matches the cushions that I made (with his help) for his other birthday present.

Go have a look at everyone who has created something for Weekword, our lovely participants are:

Leenie, Alexandra, Anairam, Cissi, Lotte, Joanne, Aimee and Linda!

For next week, I choose Leenie to select the word, as she was the first person to contact me this week!

WeekWord

Ok, here we go…

This week’s word is

Listless

If you want to participate, you need to create a something (drawing, photo, interpretive dance) and post it on Friday. If you leave a comment to let me know you’re participating, I’ll link to you!

Have fun!

 

PS. I’m dead excited because I sold the drawing I did for Lesson, yay!

Lesson

Sorry about this, I realise I’m a little late!

The subject of Alexandra Hedberg’s Weekword was lesson. I drew this right after I’d read about it, but then forgot to photograph it.

You will remember from previous posts that I can’t draw, so please don’t judge this on its artistic merits (although I’m fairly pleased with the Japanese landscape-esque feeling), it’s more of a meditation on paper.

The basic premise is that the only way to know if you can do something is to jump off a cliff and see what happens…something I seem to be doing a lot of at the moment. (Results are still pending)

Lady Sings the Blues

I’m very excited, I’m in my first ever Etsy Treasury!

It’s called Art…Some Blues and I love the rest of the images that skoshisbits chose.

 

Etsy Treasury Art...Some Blues by skoshisbits

 

 

Bunnies!

Well, not quite…

I’ve been faffing, a lot. But in my travels, I’ve discovered a site called Art Rabbit.

Essentially it’s social networking for art exhibitions, workshops, talks and just about anything else you can think of. You create a profile, pick your favourite venues, browse upcoming events and see what other people are interested in. You can print out a list of all current exhibitions with a map and make a day of it, or you can see what people with similar tastes are interested in. They’ll even email you three days before an exhibition closes so you don’t miss out!

You can tell they’re an arty outfit, they have about 16 different logo options to link to their site… in different colours and background options.

I’ve added a link to my list of favourites to the right, let me know if you’re going to something cool!

Hand Idle, revealed-ish

Here’s a bit of an unveiling to cheer your Monday up (or maybe to cheer my Monday up).

The Beige Extravaganza has a proper title and frames… and will now be known as Hand Idle.

I’ve been trying to get a fair whack of the pieces finished so that I could add them to my application.

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Of course now that I’ve seen them framed, I want to change everything…

This is my favourite one, which is a little unexpected, it was one of my least favourites while I was making it.

Just goes to show, there’s no accounting for taste!

Lost in a Sea of Words

I’m a little fed up with writing at the moment. I’m trying to finish an application for an artist in residence position and I’ve hit the frustrating talking-about-myself part.

So I’m faffing a lot, which is why I’ve made this lovely Wordle. Click on the rather small image (can’t seem to get it to be any larger, sorry) to see it in a sensible size.

It provides such amusing juxtapositions as:

• Knutsford fruit
• Sweden tipped creative fingers cutting clockwise
• smug idea stuff
• Knitty miscommunication jam, and
• yarn blogs missed gratification

 

 

 

Oh, and if you’re in Manchester this weekend, come see the lovely people of the Manchester Yarn Collective and me (teaching you how to sit up straight while knitting so you can make more and hurt less). Even if you don’t knit, the workshops are free, and will do you lots of good if you sit at a computer all day. There are two workshops at 4.00 pm and 4.30 pm, see you there!

From the Jaws of Defeat

I’m teaching a Pilates workshop for crafters this weekend at the Manchester Yarn Day (details here) and I thought it would be a good idea to get a top printed up and look all professional.

Unfortunately, it didn’t quite turn out how I had expected. Due to some miscommunication and less-than-spectacular customer service, I ended up with two tops that looked fabulous on the front…

…and less fabulous on the back. I did the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth, and then went to whinge about it to a friend. Now I am careful to have friends who are nothing short of genius, and I was not failed this time.

‘Why don’t you disguise the mistake?’ she said, ‘You could put trim on it..’

‘I can do better than trim,’ I thought, ‘I have sequins!’

So I may just be the world’s most unnecessarily glamorous Pilates teacher…

I was feeling pretty smug, until I did this…

Oh well..one step at a time…

Sherry for Breakfast

I’m making Christmas cake tonight, but as usual I forgot to get the fruit soaking overnight…

So I found myself in the unusual position of licking sherry off my fingers at the breakfast table.

…the way the day is going, I probably should have gone ahead and poured myself a glass.

New and Exciting Things

I’m a little behind on my list of things to do, so just a quick post today. Part of the reason I’m so behind is that the list of blogs I read seems to be expanding rapidly. I’m not complaining, I’m just saying it takes a little time to absorb all the fabulousness.

So here’s a little guide to my updated links (they’re over there on the right.. they may have been accidentally removed for a little while…but they’re back now and everything is as it should be):

In alphabetical order:

Alexandra Hedberg

An artist in Sweden who gives very sensible advice about how to sell your art, and also does amazing drawings like this one.

 

Alexandra Hedberg: Cheetah

 

Born Knitty

The lovely (and incorrectly named) rubbishknitter has adventures in wool…and sewing…and jam. She lets me thieve from her allotment and helps drink our endless homebrew, what’s not to like?

Hand Embroidery Network

Promoting hand embroidery and other creative endeavours, a subject of which I heartily approve (plus, they featured a photo of mine)! Plus they do a Stitch a Day with nice clear photographs and beautiful examples.

 

Hand Embroidery Stitch a Day: Double Chain Stitch

Yarn Harlot

 

She knits, she teaches, she writes, she’s Canadian. Very funny and terrifying prolific…

So there you have an update. Anyone good I’ve missed? I always need some new blogs to read (it could be worse, my mother reads something like 15 newspapers online).