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May 3, 2011
I spent the past year crocheting this blanket. It began with the intention of creating a blanket out of 12" squares of crocheted stitches, making the squares and then joining them together. I crocheted two to three dozen squares with a few different yarns and stitches, probably about half the blanket, before I got too bored of making squares to continue with the project that way. I put them aside and began to crochet a spiral, the spiral that turned into the center of the blanket. At first I planned to do the center this way, and then join the squares around the outside as the edge but ended up un-crocheting all the squares, as they no longer seemed to fit, and as yarn was needed to continue crocheting around and around the spiral, as I developed it into a sunburst shape and then began to work it to have square edges. I intentionally made it so that the bottom two corners were fitted to the bed.
It's certainly the largest crochet project I ever undertook. I watched 10 seasons of the show "Friends" while working on it, as well as many hours of other television and movies. The name "Creation Blanket" comes from someone who was admiring it while on 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine as they found it appeared to them as the sun, the energy and creation of life, and the earth... which is pretty much what I was imagining as I created it.
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August 2, 2009
I've had this little rocking chair since I was probably preschool or kindergarden age. There were many years it was stored in the barn loft after I got too big for it. It had a red velour cushion that never made it back from the barn so I recently sewed this cushion, complete with ties to hold it on, to match the ivory corduroy upholstery on a full size chair I have.
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May 11, 2009
I crocheted this cotton bag to hold a gift for my mom for mother's day.
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May 7, 2009
I crocheted this cotton bag for my crafty friend Amanda and filled it with a few skeins of colorful wool yarn.
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May 3, 2009
I created this to hang my earrings on using yarn found at a thrift store and a pair of wooden chopsticks which I sanded.
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March 1, 2009
I decorated this tiffen box gift with a paper cut-out flower.
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January 25, 2009
I made this little shelf from a piece of pine board, rounded the corners, stained it purple, and painted a Mehndi style design (inspired by the Yogi tea boxes) on it with bronze paint.
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February 26, 2008
I made this shoulder bag from a paisley metallic scarf and some remnants from a cotton canvas curtain. The flower shape in front is a little pocket, open at the top. A friend of a friend had an auction to fund a film they were making so I donated this purse for the cause.
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May 14, 2007
This collage represents pleasures since it's made with packaging from the three things that I enjoyed most in my life at the time I made it: nag champa incense, darjeeling tea, and djarum clove cigarettes. Made in around 1996. It's made 100% of packaging, except for the lamination sheeting covering it. Even the cardboard that it's on is repurposed.
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This collage is made 100% of packaging and paint. Even the cardboard that it's on is repurposed.
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May 6, 2007
Handmade paper using recycled shredded child data reports, scrap-booking paper, and stamp. A work project to create cards to send to people who had worked on the pilot study to create and develop the child development assessment instrument.
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February 14, 2007
I put this "bouquet" together for my Valentine using a variety of fruits, berries, and chocolate covered ginger on skewers stuck into florists clay inside a ceramic pot.
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May 3, 2005
I crocheted this blanket for the birth of my friend Yarrow's baby, Loma Jane. It's constructed from 100% organic cotton. I did most of the crochet work while watching the show Deadwood.
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March 21, 2005
I used a combination of repurposed fabric from clothing and remnants for this small wall-hanging quilt for my mother-in-law's birthday gift.
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A purse for Alicia's birthday, constructed from a skirt that my mother wore in the '60's and Alicia and I wore in the late '80's.
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Arianna Helen