davit inept centaur

Art can't deny craft, but refuses to acknowledge it. In the end they are still brothers.  Christian Barr

Yesssss!  I wished my ArtyBra!  I'm keeping it a few days more to show people then taking it over to the Lighthouse Art Center where they exhibit it, then auction it off at the end of the month.  I ordered the requires 'satin covered padded hangers' from Amazon because there is no such animal around here and they have them in 'assorted earth colors' which actually is a rainbow of FLESH colors! (Before the PC edit reached them)  Now the next hurdle is that I am expected to model this and no way in hell is that happening.  Maybe 20 years ago but even then I didn't have the nerve...or confidence.  The name is TWO CUPS OF CHERRIES

Do you think it needs more rubies?

I got the Golden Apples quilt layered and pinned yesterday, but I have no clue what to do next.  I have to do some form of quilting on it but my machine is so unreliable I don't want to start.  It's pretty thick from all the collaging I did so handwork is out, and that leaves me with just doing some decorative embroidery stitches, hen tracks, across the surface enough to hold it together.  None of the above make me excited to begin like I should be!  Maybe first I will get my machine back to the shop and try some tears.  How can a woman like me be MACHINE-LESS?  I'd rather be without a car.

I can't ignore the Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh any longer.  Pedestrians walk across the Andy Warhol bridge on Monday, Aug. 12, 2013 in downtown Pittsburgh. More that 1,800 knitters have covered the bridge in 3,000 feet (ed. this must be a typo) of colorful yarn. Volunteers worked all weekend to attach 580 blanket-sized, hand- knitted panels to the pedestrian walkways. Organizers say it is the nation's largest yarn bomb.  It's only there until the beginning of September when it will be dismantled, cleaned and refigured for homeless and shelter blankets, so if you're in the area, it's well worth the stop.

Forget that remark above about rather being without a car-  I need both.  

I'll give up my stove.

Rosie James  describes her pieces as stitched paintings, and the subjects of her paintings tend to be visitors of places – museums, train stations, supermarkets…Rosie has a terrific eye for detail and her technical skill in recreating human behaviour in stitched form is remarkable, catching snapshots of people on the move, and minding their own business.  If you visit no other site today, go check out Rosie!  (This was from mr x stitch, one of my fav needlecraft blogs)

In our Jesus-Appears category, pretty much neglected lately because nobody is sending me links any more, how's this?

a walnut, as found

A living breathing real critter, Chewie!

I think it's a match.

And that's about enough for today, except for this-  

A COSTUMED SQUIRREL ON A LEASH~

(if I were this kid's mom I would have yanked her right out of there)