new boats and castle press

December 1, 2009
by annwood

fishingboats

The fleet here  is growing rapidly. I’m working on all sorts of new boats and ships and the little lateen rigged sailboats inspired by van gogh’s fishing boats are for you to make, I’m going to share the pattern and instructions next week. It takes me forever to work out the “how to” stuff but I think it’s pretty much there and I just need to test it on a couple people and photograph the steps. They are simple and relatively quick, I think you’re going to have fun making them.

Cardboard castle news:

Cardbaord Castle #2 is in the current issue of Elle Decor  – Japanese edition.  I get excited about any celebration of cardboard castle making and the entire magazine is lovely  so I’m pleased and flattered to be included.

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paper

October 26, 2009
by annwood

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I’m working on lots of new paper mache  and thinking about little  bits of paper I’ve found and  saved.

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I’m also working on a small gray owl.  My plan was to make him entirely gray but he won’t have it.

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iago

October 16, 2009
by annwood

iago

Motiveless malignity.

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And something else: Over the summer I took Susan Sato’s “One Patch Scrap Quilt”  class at Fiber Notion here in Park Slope. The class was great, I had zero experience with traditional quilting techniques and I learned a ton, stuff that I use in my other hand sewing too. The class  is being offered again beginning November 4th. You can contact Kat at Fiber Notion for more info.

quilt(indigo one patch cushion cover – in progress)

boro owl and birds -wip

October 13, 2009
by annwood

update 10/15:

beakI’ve abandoned the plan to put new things in the shop this week, instead it will be the beginning of next week. I was photographing things yesterday and this morning and  saw lots of stuff I felt iffy about or didn’t like.  I was particularly disappointed in the indigo owl,  among other things his beak was completely wrong so I’m re -working it now and already like it much, much better.

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I’ll post a couple more progress photos here later today.

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indigo owl – in progress

October 8, 2009
by annwood

Thanks for giving Chillingworth such a warm reception! I’m working on a new indigo  owl now for next week’s shop update. The Japanese scraps are courtesey of Stephen Szczepanek. This owl is of particularly robust figure.

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Some other work in progress:

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And a couple things for the new “small things”  section of the shop. A set of tiny  office supplies in matchboxes and a pensive little cherub. I got the cherub an the Park slope Flea market  – it washed up on Plum Beach in Brooklyn.

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froth, foam and the daily bird

October 5, 2009
by annwood

underskirt

This truly glorious antique underskirt is destroyed in the skirt sense, it’s so fragile I’m surprised I was able to hang it for the photo,  but it  will make a  wonderful  foamy, boiling sea for a paper mache ship.

Bird news: the daily bird is back  for one week.   I’ll post one little bird for sale in the shop Monday through Friday,  the time will vary. I’ll post a link here in the side bar each day when it’s ready and also on twitter.

*little clarification – I’ll post a link here in the sidebar but will not be emailing subscribers for each daily bird *

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This is Monday’s bird matilde in a pine tree in Prospect Park.