Into the Darkness

May 5th, potatos are sprouting with 4 inch tall leaves

May 13th pots are filled with 6-12 inch growth.

I just weeded around the potatoes, and they look great. Here's growth progress.

#garden #potatoes #vegetables

7 yellow tulips

Red tulips with yellow edges

4 8x4 foot raised beds full of earth. A cattle panel trellis between them in two places ready for climbing plants like peas and squash

Wider view of the raised beds with potatoes planted in grow bags to the right.

#spring #garden is in full swing. Hardening off plants, enjoying the tulips. Planted spring hardy crops like potatoes, onions, greens, peas, beets, carrots etc

My reaction to this was visceral and immediate. Well done art!

Same here! I just don't experience an aversion to French knots. This was my first attempt to use them and I could have gone on forever. :) Now all I want is an excuse.

One Day One day I wake too agitated to tap the screen My throat clenches as I brush my teeth They are there, behind my teeth, behind my eyes I can't keep them out, they are in my mind One day, they will all have been against this One day I cringe from the signs as I pilot My car through a jungle of land minds I must watch the road, not close my eyes Against the signs that are signs of vehemence One day they will all have been against this One day I am at my tasks, trying to complete My labor in spite of knowing that they are At their labor, crouched like gremlins in committee As they seek to pass prohibitions to abiding One day they will all have been against this all along

First #poem I have written since I was a teen. It has been bumping around in my mind for a bit and needed to get out.

#politics #LGBTQ #blacklivesmatter #BLM #femanism #poetry #resist #environment #truth

Thank you! I look forward to seeing your future work as well :)

Love all of these as the kinky wife of a trans man. I also do a lot of fiber art.

Amazing stitch!

That’s so cool.👍🌹

This is gorgeous, all those French knots! Is there padding under the stitches on the tiger?

I'd call it theoretically a duck, but it's certianly wearing convincing duck's garb now <3

Ok, I literally just figured out how to turn off tge adult content filter. These are gorgeous, I love the graphic colors and mixed textures

Animals running in a circle. Half finished embroidery. Beetle, dodo bird, cat, Alice, duck and red kangaroo are finished in color. Lemur, polar bear, mouse, quail, parrot, owl, wild dog and goose are still black and white.

Progress on "The Caucus Race", Alice in Wonderland #embroidery Trying to make each animal distinct and stand out against the sand and water that will be stitched in.

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Shrimp risotto for dinner

#food #Italian 🍜

I ADORE this. I love all the Romero films

No worries! I appreciate someone trying to help as I hate using work unatributed or without permission. Most of the old Alice illustrations are out of copyright and fair game. However, it's for my personal use and altered too...so meh

This is the last piece I finished from Tenniel

I do a lot of his illustrations and have lists with names and dates, but I just haven't found evidence of him doing this one yet. It's for sure in the same style

Original black and white rectangular image of the caucus race frome Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Various animals, bugs, birds, a dodo etc running in a circle to dry off. The circular path leads them in and out of water.

Same image with the right and left sides penciled in to extend the design into a round image.

Image is transfered to linen fabric and drawn in sharpie. Here's the plastic inner/back part of the round wooden hoop that this will be mounted in to show shape.

Image inside embroidery frame with approximately 1/8th of the black outlines of animals stitched.

The newest WIP #embroidery #art is the caucus race. I love this image but can't find the source. Just 1 person sharing on Flickr, so if you know the illustration please share. I altered it by adding enough to make it round (circular frame planned) and adding the mouse.

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Thank you!

Yes!! That is for sure the base image I need to work from <3

I'm struggling to find a version of the jaberwock that will translate well into embroidering and I may end up drawing one from the source art available. I would like to feature at least part of the poem in that one.

Thank you! I am going to be doing both the more "mainstream" characters and the obscure "from the book" scenes. I anticipate 18-20 total scenes, many of which, though not all, based on the Tenniel artwork.

Thank you! The feedback is so motivating <3

Prairie Fires is a very well written interesting biography. It has lead me down a rabbit hole of other work I am going to consume. I currently have an audible membership though I will be dropping it again soon and that was one of the free to listen selections.

I could absolutely see Anderson in that role. I am listening to a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder called "Prairie Fires" right now and just re-watched the TV series and reread those books. I have been contemplating art from that series after this!

There are a TON more from the art I want to do.

Thank you! I am having SO much fun doing these. I have to make myself stop stitching because my elbow and hands are sore. I could go all day. lol

Framed in oval wood, Alice holding a flamingo stitched freehand walking through a garden with overhanging French knot trees. The Duchess is wearing Tudor style clothing.

Same image unframed: Alice holding a flamingo stitched freehand walking through a garden with overhanging French knot trees. The Duchess is wearing Tudor style clothing.

Black and white drawing of the image pre-stitch in sharpie on linen.

4th installment in my Alice's Adventures in Wonderland series. Original art "Alice ... with the Duchess" illustration drawn by John Tenniel, (1885).

Favorite so far and my first time using several new stitches (French knots, leaf stitch, brick stitch.) 🧶🪡🧵

#embroidery #art #fiberart

I've been addicted to a simple plate of sliced tomato with salt and some simple fresh cheese.

The reality on homesteads is that what they largely did was (a) plant a large amount of cash crop and (b) plant a smaller kitchen garden.

If your cash crop came in, most of it would get sold, which would then get traded for machinery / subsistence food to make it through winter.