The Tired Tie Dye Skirt/ Dress

I think I got this at Old Navy? In the beach coverup area?
Or maybe it was Ross.
One of those, in downtown Santa Monica.
All I remember is, it was super cheap. [Which is why fast fashion can be so hard to resist].

Skirt or Dress?

Yes, I'm cavorting on the back patio almost naked. 

I tried, and failed, to find an old selfie wearing this as a skirt. Not found with the tag "tie dye" here, maybe I never posted it. Then I scoured my Tumblr Archive as far back as 2015. Nada. Gave up. (I use Tumbr to quickly access my old Instagram posts. Though my annembray share link has been broken for months. I need to link manually. Boring, sigh).

Currently, it had been taking an extended stay on Mending Mountain - the elastic smocking on the waistband had died. It will now become a dress. After I tunnel new elastic through the top of the waistband. As you can see, I already installed some straps.

Last year, it took and unexpected turn as art!
This transpired through the conjunction of

• taking some photos of the tie dye stripes for possible use at the day job
• uploading an app called Momento (only iPhone?) that builds videos from stills
• an online art collaboration with Angela Izzo

The first video:

See what happened next here!

Included with Shelbee and Nancy's Good Buy/ Goodbye July feature "Tie Dye"
Linking with
Shelbee's On the Edge
Rena's Fine-Whatever

Furloughed! Am I using my time wisely?

Yep, it finally happened.
Over the the past few months, my paid hours at the day job have been steadily dwindling
2/10 - no more than 19.5 hours/week (was 32 hours/week prior)
6/21 zero

sigh

So what have I been doing instead?

Scrappy Squares!

test models

"Wendy" the first official piece for the 50|50 Exhibition

This is an ongoing project that officially started 6/28/21.
Each artist juried into the show will be creating one new piece of art on 6x6" panels for 50 days.

I'm rug knot weaving textile scraps onto the panels.
Here's what the back looks like:

The exhibition will be at Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA, 9/10 - 10/10/21

All the art will be uploaded on my Art website on a daily basis. Click here to see them all!

The Big Blanket Mend

I decided to join two old twin "horse blankets" that are both full of moth holes into one.
As always happens with things I repair on the coffee table, Mr Lou thinks it makes a great bed.

note how he plants himself exactly where I'm sewing

Fluevog Shoe Art

I have sketched Fluevog shoes going on four years now.

Uploading the art to Redbubble and Spoonflower helps garner some income.
Happy to report that all of the 2021 sketches and repeats are available on both sites.

Now working my way through 2019's sketches.

There's more, but I think that's enough news for now.

Linking up with

Shelbee's Spread the Kindness

Fierce Con 2019 Fashion Sketches on my new Portfolio Website

I created this post as an experiment to see what would happen!
The images come from a cloud-based art archive service that I recently signed up for.
It works! And wow! You can click on an image to see it bigger! Woohoo!

Additional observations: It's a "live" collection - as I add images to the Archive Collection, they show up here.
The java script made my blog layout strange (just for this post). Click on Home to regain normalcy!

Linking up with
Shelbee's On the Edge of the Week
Rena's Fine-Whatever Link-up