Yellow Stitches

mail art: book and cd for a friend in maryland

2008-02-14T14:44:00.000-08:00

pages of a book.

cd sleeve.

everything stitched and together!

David and the Giant

2008-01-16T13:15:00.000-08:00

This is a CD cover for my friend David Davidson in Berkeley.
Haven't we all wanted to fall in love with a giant?
click to enlarge.

Set list:
1. I like Giants - Kimya Dawson
2. Equus - Blonde Redhead
3. The Sleepless - the Shaky Hands
4. I want you Back - the Jackson Five
5. Suedehead - the Smiths
6. Boy with a Coin - Iron and Wine
7. Derek - Animal Collective
8. These Old Shoes - Deer Tick
9. Thunder Road - Paul Baribeau (Bruce Springsteen cover)
10. Let's get Together - the Youngbloods
11. Rich Girl - Hall & Oats
12. Carry me Ohio - Sun Kil Moon
13. Absolutely Cuckoo - the Magnetic Fields
14. Twisting in the Wind - They Might be Giants
15. So Tired - Accordion Jazz
16. Powerboat - 2% Majesty
17. Ooh La La - the Faces
18. Wake up to the World - Herman Dune
19. Pay with Fire - the Rolling Stones
20. Sadie - Joanna Newsom
21. After the Curtain - Beirut
22. Wouldn't it be Nice - the Beach Boys

2007-12-08T12:54:00.001-08:00

one of two finger puppets.
a birthday present.
both with sequin suckered tentacles.

slightly older felt projects

2007-12-03T18:46:00.000-08:00

LoveBirds. Sold as a pair.

a-symmetrical camera case. closed with a button in the back.

halloween 2007

2007-12-02T19:01:00.000-08:00

this was my halloween costume.
I won $500 for it in a contest.

New Drawings to Sell

2007-11-30T07:30:00.000-08:00

Hello! I have not posted in a while. Here are some new drawings I did recently, mostly during Thanksgiving.
The scanner is horrible here, sorry. Click anything to enlarge it.
I will be selling them and others at the Dirt Cheap Art Fair at the Stained Bar in Brooklyn this Sunday, along with some new animals. See you there!

Also, I have business cards!

maybe I'll actually stay on top of this

2007-09-25T21:28:00.000-07:00

I didn't have homework for tomorrow and I don't know what to do with myself. Oh Industrial Design, what have you done to me?!
Anyway, I finished this postcard that I started for my friend, here's a pretty bad picture.
I also wanted to make a camera case for a while so I made a very a-symmetrical case out of felt and buttons.

ok, blogger wont let me upload pictures now, so I'll do it later.

sewing makes me tired

2007-09-23T13:22:00.000-07:00

I made a sweatshirt today. Actually I started it last sunday, finished it today.
Sleeveless, the hood is fur and red-fabric lined, extremely warm around the neck.
There is some detail hand-stitching on the sides of the hood.
I want to do more to it, maybe felt details. It will be a work in progress.

drawings

2007-09-10T11:52:00.000-07:00

Mail art for a friend, the lyrics are from the Tegan and Sara song, "Nineteen"

I felt you in my legs before I even met you
And when I layed beside you for the first time
I told you
I feel you in my heart, and I don't even know you

pages from my summer sketchbook.

I've been busy, but here's a taste.

2007-07-21T14:28:00.000-07:00

I designed my sister's 4th tattoo. Pheonix! I don't really like this style of tattoo, but she likes it, I think it's beautiful none the less. The idea crossed my mind to be a tattoo artist more than once, it would be very fun.

Finally a Post!

2007-07-16T16:22:00.000-07:00

This is a box I made for my friend Zara for her 19th birthday two years ago. It remains one of my favorite creations. It's made out of wood, the technique is done on a band saw and involves lots of gluing and sanding. Very fun to do. Anyway, I really like the colors. The owl is unfortunately not my design, this was during my love affair with boygirlparty (www.boygirlparty.com) who I still adore. Also, I had some pins from boygirlparty that I got from craftland along with some other goodies tucked in the drawers when I gave it to Zara. A gift for a true friend. I want to make more, they just take a while to make.

halloweenies

2007-06-28T18:44:00.000-07:00

ooh la la! These are some of my costumes I made for the past few years. I get a lot of inspiration from my connection with Big Nazo Puppets www.bignazo.com and I learn a lot from them. I won a couple high school contests with them, got some free ice cream.

This is Grandfather Wolf. I made him in my junior year of high school. He is a goofy old thing, graying on the edges. He is made of foam, nylon, latex, acrylic, fur and ping pong balls. I love him, he is the grandfather we all wished we had.

In my senior year I made a play off my zodiac (leo) with Leonine. I think of the headdress itself as something for a lion tamer to wear. It's made out of foam, acrylic, nylon, latex, fur and wood shavings. I paired it with face paint for an abstract lion, rather inspired by circus entertainers. The rest of the outfit was black pants and shirt with fur and detail-stitched pleather details on the forearms, calves and of course a tail. I liked the abstract minimalism of animals. I want to make more animals like this, a troupe.

This year (college freshman) I didn't have much time (this is art school) but I threw together what I lovingly call my underwater glove love monster. He's made of foam and latex and acrylic with puff paint details and lots and lots of rubber gloves I had left over from another project. He doesn't speak, just floats listfully and looks for tentacally hugs. I made the tentacles the same way as the head, then glues them to a cut off blue sweatshirt. I wore a black bodysuit under that with more gloves pinned to the bottoms so they swished around a lot when I walked. It was ridiculously hot in this costume, but a small boy fell in love with me and wanted to hold my tentacle all night.

The Very First Yellow Stitches

2007-06-26T16:52:00.000-07:00

These were the first critters that started the yellow stitches line. I made them over spring break 2007. The bird at the top was given to a friend for her birthday and the dog on the bottom (with no yellow stitches!) was given to my sister for her birthday. The small dino is still with me, I am very fond of him. I made several more over this break, I'll put those pictures up soon and I'm still making animals with felt and yellow embroidery thread. Each one is special and new, small and tender.