Tag Archives: knitting

Many Little Menko

Posted on August 25, 2019 by

My evening project for the past week (alternating with knitting to give my hands a change, if not a rest) has been folding more little menko.

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I’ve Looked At Clouds

Posted on August 11, 2019 by

I have a number of cloud-related memories. Here are a couple. When I was seven or eight I discovered that rain clouds have edges. (I grew up in urban environments where one only sees a small bit of the sky … Continue reading →

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Working in Squares

Posted on May 19, 2019 by

The square is the recurring design unit for all the planned works for my solo exhibition in 2020. I made some test units this week from some of the dictionary pages I have backed and coloured.

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Road Trip (with knitting)

Posted on May 12, 2019 by

Early this week I finally put together my ‘good’ copy of the Magic Wallet.

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Making A Moon Phases Calendar

Posted on May 5, 2019 by

I returned last night (rather later than the airline predicted) from my trip to Toronto, so it will be a short post today. The trip had several highlights including seeing Impulso by the Esmerelda Enrique Spanish Dance Company. Since you … Continue reading →

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Rust Prints and Playtime

Posted on April 21, 2019 by

I finished the last of the straight-pin rust prints this week. I ironed the prints and then scanned them. The last step (for now) was to process the images in Photoshop.

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Allsorts

Posted on April 14, 2019 by

I have been playing another ‘game’ found via the Internet. Lydia Rink put out a call for people to create pages which she plans to assemble into a collaborative artists’ book. Here’s a detail of one side of my page. … Continue reading →

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Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

Posted on March 10, 2019 by

It may seem odd to start a (mostly) bookbinding blog post with an image of a vegetable peeler, but there is a reason. Peter Verheyen recently wrote a post titled Bookbinding and Adapting to Life Changes in which he describes … Continue reading →

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Happy Origami Day

Posted on November 11, 2018 by

Although Moody Blues is not made using traditional origami techniques, the modular construction was inspired by the origami of Tomoko Fuse. The piece has been coming together well, though it is taking a while. That might be because there are … Continue reading →

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Lots and Lots of Little Squares

Posted on November 4, 2018 by

Work continued all week on the wall piece. For those who missed the earlier description, the work commemorates my second decade and some of my most formative years. I am tentatively calling it Moody Blues. I began the week doing … Continue reading →

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