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A summary of the last 6 months:

1. I moved to Philadelphia

2. I am taking classes at Philadelphia Furniture Workshop !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I’m learning to be a woodworker which is totally awesome and raises my badass level to new extremes. I’ve already made a few furniture pieces and I’m very slowly building my hand tool collection. So far I have a Lie Nielson block plane, and in the mail a set of Pfeil chisels, marking knife and a Tite-mark marking gauge. There is SO much to know about woodworking. Hand tools, machine tools, techniques, joinery, understanding wood movement between seasons, grain direction. Ahhhhh. It’s complicated but I have the best teachers in the entire universe and I’m learning so much! Im shocked by my new woodworking vocabulary. Why just the other day I played TENON in Words With Friends and my b-fry was like “what’s a tenon?” and I was like “oh em geeeeee. uh duhhhhhhh mortise and tenon? it’s like totally the most common joint duhhhh” BAM!

The picture above is my block plane that fits into the palm of my hand. My teacher Mario punched my initials “LG” on the side. Isn’t it so cute?

On to quilting… I’ve been quilting again! Over the holidays I made two quilts 70x 70 that I gave away as gifts. I did’t take pictures, but iIll try and get some. Also- I’m working on a giant (90″ x 90″) quilt for the b-fry. Front is pieced and pinned to batting and back. I’ll take some pictures of that as well and post in a bit.

You can expect a lot more blogging consistency from me because i’ve decided to take the next 8 months off from working to build a portfolio for my next step in life…

I wish I had a good scanner. Click for a *kind of* better quality image.

for Sarah and Kevin!

Sometimes it’s good to have an a.d.d. weekend project, where you begin a project you randomly thought of while avoiding something that should be finished.

for Rachel!

for Asia!

for my parental units

my jean jacket

I started this quilt over a year ago, but most of that year was spent not working on it. Since starting back up again on January 19 I’ve logged over 200 hours. At this point, I’ve completed piecing the entire front of the quilt together. Now it only needs to be quilted and binded and then I’m done! I use the word ‘only’ lightly because I’m guessing I still have 30+ hours of work left. The quilt is made up of 6,080 one-inch squares. It measures 76″ x 80″.

I hope to update soon with the finished piece! And you’re in for a surprise… what you see is not what you will get.

click to enlarge photos

I haven’t had a serious celebrity crush since Leonardo Dicaprio- time frame Romeo & Juliet.  But lately… I have really been crushing on Paul Dano.  Aside from the fact that he is stunningly handsome and in my dream last night we hardcore made out, there’s something mysterious and interesting about him that makes me curious. Did I mention he lives in Brooklyn? I wish this didn’t sound so creepy, I really am sincere.

holy fuck he is hot.

You know that feeling you get when you want to draw? I’ve been getting that feeling, so I started a small series with my cherished 005 micron pens because there is nothing I love more than tiny things. Frames included, these little buttons measure just over 3.25″ x 1.5″.

While perusing Etsy I saw the tiny wheel looking things which were once part of a clock and thought to myself  ’hmm, I’m going to incorporate these into little drawings’. Next, I was out shopping and I saw the frame. They look like they were once part of filing cabinets. To hang, only one thin cotton thread was needed.

If you click the pictures you’ll get a better view.

Can you think of any other interesting objects that has one or two wheels (or circles) that I could draw?

So… achem, It’s been a while. So long in fact I’ve had to teach myself how to post again. My ancestors would give a big ‘oy vey’ right now. First things first! Do you remember the little watercolor I painted? Well the quilt has been finished for as long as I can remember. Here are some pics.

here is the back…

What I like most about this quilt is the weight of it. Very heavy. Thick linen. YUM