May 15
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
Feed your inner artist. “They” always tell you that. Go look at stuff that is interesting and makes you happy, or is along the lines of what you do, or wish you did. So I did, and found this postcard waiting for me after pages of irritation and feeling insufficient. Roughly pieced background, cut silk leaf, heavily embroidered. I think I’ve got something interesting, but I wish I could make the edges fluffier.
Maybe I’ll stick the hamster to it. She’s fluffy enough for any three postcards.
No, no, I wouldn’t really do that.
But I might shear the hamster and felt the fluff into something interesting. And microscopic.
Lee Thomson 
gorgeous. sometimes on raw edge stuff, i clip all around the edge, a very tiny clipped border and then i scratch at it to lift the fibers up. it gets fluffy sometimes. its a gamble and depends on the structure of the fabric. haven’t tried it with silk.
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what if you pinked it and then scratched it to rough it up?thank you for the b;day post card, It is one of my favorites. Love you too.
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You know- I’ve eyed my hampster many times wondering how he could help my art. Shearing and spinning hampster fur would be a real challenge. I tried with the bunny’s fur- I made a tiny piece of string and irritated the bunny no end. 🙂
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