Jan 30
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

On account of Red Kate I corrected the title for today’s post. I was really just guessing on the german for blue horse, but she put me right. All Hail the Mistress of Languages (deep bow).

A blue horse from Franz Marc, for which I (finally) figured out how to use transfer crayons to transfer a tracing to the back to embroider heavily. I used felt for the background, so it really sinks into the surface. I didn’t fuse the felt to the postcard, it is only stitched together, so the edges walked a little, and the corners are rougher than I like, but when I irond the felt first, I lost all that loft and it looked too flat. So next time maybe glue the edges and bind it later.

Long day today too – emptied Little A’s room completely, shifted the bed, and tried to put back <1/2 her stuff. Three garbage bags of treasures, projects and papers, gone gone gone. I photographed some of the best, like her version of a Mars Rover from kindergarden, with googly eyes and coffee stirrers for antenna and giant pompoms for airbags. She really heard a lot about it, and thought hard about the parts she put into hers! And some writing from kindergarden and first grade. They kept journally things with illustrations. She clearly had help with some writing, but she always has a great picture to go with it. Anyhow – tons of stuff into the cellar, and a goodly amount gone, and the astonishment of floor space. It looks pretty good for the moment.