Discriminating Weirdos

A Really Nice Blog Post

This is just to say...

TNEmily gave me the honor of featuring my Black Sun piece on her blog (On Awesome Avenue) today under the heading Great Idea Thursday.  I just wanted to write a quick entry to point you in the direction of both her blog, and her really nice article about me and the piece.  Take a few minutes to check it out!  (ADAM)

Man, I Feel Important

After Em spent all weekend working with a soft box, lighting, and various settings on the digital camera, I think she finally worked out how to take some good pictures of her hats.  Once she finished yesterday afternoon, I asked her to give me the quick and dirty lessons I'd need to snap some more decent shots of my larger embroidery pieces.

I really wanted to get a picture of a piece I did about a year ago but had never photographed.  It's a stylized face done in black on a dark background.  My favorite part about the thing, though, is the way I decided to frame it.  I was tired of seeing the same old presentations for finished embroidery, so I decided to try something new by framing it with old records.

I carefully cut out the middle of one record, mounted the face on another, and sandwiched them together.  Then I drilled some holes around the edges and sewed the records to each other.

I certainly wouldn't do this with every piece, but for this one, I thought it fit nicely.  It's got a kind of weird, black sun feel to it, and I was pretty pleased.

Anyway, I posted a picture of it in some Flickr groups I belong to, and this morning I got a wonderful surprise.  My friend Beefranck sent me a note saying that my piece was featured in the Craft blog.  Craft was a great magazine which I was saddened to see go the way of the dodo, but they have tried to keep the torch burning a bit with Flickr groups and their own blog.  Needless to say, I was really excited to be noticed by them, and honored that they featured one of my pieces.

Thanks to them, and thanks to Beefranck for pointing it out to me!  (ADAM)