After figuring how to wind the bobbin through the dippity doo dah and the spool through the thizzle-nizzle, and subsequently playing around with the preprogrammed stitches that came with my new domestic death-machine, I got this: “Trapezoid Monsters,” by karenology, 2006. Mixed media: thread and discount cotton scrap. So maybe I’m not quite at the [...]
I have not yet gotten a chance to use my new sewing machine, because I have had approximately 8,793 things to do since the last post. Hopefully now that everyone in the apartment has left to visit home (I’ve had enough of Wichita family for awhile myself ;)), I’ll have a bit more free time [...]
My talented and generous big sis recently stayed with me, helping field crazy family and graduation mayhem. She offered me a choice of graduation presents: either I could take a paid trip to NYC, or a sewing machine. Guess which one I chose? My roommates think I’m crazy, as I’m sure most of you reading [...]
Despite having walked through the Campanile before, and thereby flouting the campus curse (legend has it that if you walk through before your graduation day, you’ll never graduate), I managed to successfully walk through it again yesterday. Just barely, mind you; I had to run panting up the hill while the half-hour bell tolled, indicating [...]
