I've been really busy over the past two weeks. My mind and hands have gone in several different directions! First, I finished The Caution Tape Dress and went to Columbia for the Columbia Design League's "trashion fashion" show. Then, I bought a "new toy"! I am the proud owner of a scroll saw. Soon enough, I'll blog about it ... but that's for another day! Then, I signed up for Jane Dunnewold's Poetic Cloth, an on-line workshop that is supposed to be teaching me how best to use my Gelli plate with fabric instead of paper. Yet all along, I've also been hand stitching every evening. Over the next few days, I'll be posting the results of four Found Object Mandalas that were finished and just framed. First up is Mandala CCLXXVI, Mini Foosball.
I've had the tea strainer for at least a year. It's been auditioned for potential inclusion several times in the past. Finally, it worked! The pea coat buttons have been collected very gradually. The souvenir spoons were a find from the Pickens County flea market. I don't think they were ever really "finished". The vendor had a dozen or more but none of them included the typical, little picture of a particular location. They were all blank!