Monday, October 4, 2010

These Things I Do

Oh hello! And another month passes, just like that! But I promise I've been absent with good reason:

Wedding Travelogue

I made this very awesome, very last-minute, very special travelogue wedding book. The client was a member of the wedding party, and the bride and groom had not chosen a honeymoon destination. The groomsman contacted the guests and had them create a travel page talking about where they would recommend. he gathered them all up at the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding, dropped them off to me the morning of the wedding, and I bound them all into this book and dropped it off at the hotel for the bride and groom to return to after their ceremonials. Word from the client is that they loved it and found it to be the nicest gift of the day :)

Planning

I started spinning this wonderful Hello Yarn Wensleydale in the "Heirloom" colorway with plans to eventually weave it and sew a slightly tailored jacket. Expect to see this completed around....oh, 2014 or so.

Snow Drops & Snap Peas

I test-knit this amazing shawl for Kirsten of throughtheloops - this is Snow Drops and Snap Peas shawl, and it is a fast, fun, easily memorized pattern. This version is in my own handspun Polwarth from David at Southern Cross Fibres. It's DEEEEElightful. I love how the striping worked out on the lace pattern.


I've been teaching a 3-month bookbinding workshop. It's been going wonderfully, and it has given me a chance to work on this 80 80s Instruments/Tools project of paper cutouts. I've been trying to do 1 or 2 of them a day. Each cutout is 5" x 7". They're a blast to work on. Oh yeah, we've been making books in that class, too :)

Oh yeah, this other thing happened:

Ohai I Gotted Engaged!

...I got engaged! The ring was custom designed and made by the lovely Tracey Jenkins of Green Spot Studio. It's a rose-cut diamond, which is fairly uncommon and antique-y but enables it to have a flatter profile. Hooray craftpeople making rings for other craftpeople and taking hand use into consideration :)

8 comments:

  1. Congratulations! I totally that you kids were already legal :)

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  2. Beautiful shawl, beautiful books... oh and stunning ring! Congrats! As a recent newlywed I'm very excited for you.

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  3. lots of gorgeousness to admire over here -- and hooray! congratulations!

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  4. Congratulations! It's a beautiful ring.

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  5. squee squee squee!!!!!! i'm so happy that you cut out another map. oh, and got engaged. :-P

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  6. Everything in this post is breathtaking, but none more so than the ring. I am thrilled for you both!

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  7. CONGRATS on your engagement!!! So exciting!

    Also, I finally finished my SDSP shawl this past weekend and I absolutely adore it as well! Hooray for shawl twinsies :o)

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  8. Congratulations!!!!!! The ring is just beautiful.

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