Today I wear all black. Today is gloomy and dark and excessive water drops from the sky. Tomorrow I march for everyone that won’t or can’t. I’m pleased to see so many of my friends will be there with me, whether here in San Diego or in other cities or just in their heads.
The start of a new drawing for the next quilt. I have to think about keeping it small…although my deadlines have changed all of a sudden. I was drawing because I couldn’t get any further on the current project…
I started ironing the hair and head…
Got it all done…
Then the heads above…
In a cloud…
Then I realized I’d miscalculated how much fabric I would need for the background. This fucker is huge. So I need to go shopping after school. Which sucks because I wanted to be done last night…oh well. It’s only 20 hours of ironing so far.
I stitched more on here…the pink flowers and (hard to see…bad lighting) the anchor stitches on the herringbone.
Petting dogs makes them and you happy. Notice how he sticks his bone between the couch cushions to hold it? He’s a pretty smart puppy.
Even Kitten ventured out to see what I was doing out of the studio.
I drew after that. Needed to start the next drawing, at least some version of it. And that’s how I was feeling.
Opening today at the Erie Museum of Art is Earth Stories…this is my piece Wise Choice…
This piece is about the choices Planned Parenthood provides to women around the world, mostly through the science of birth control, giving women control of their futures. There was some controversy about my picking this group in the beginning, but I would not change my mind and eventually got the support I needed to do a quilt about this group. The show opens today and continues through June 11.
On a lighter note, because I’m gonna need some of that today, here’s some of the science supplies that arrived the other day. It’s a good thing our principal doesn’t read the labels of what we’ve got in the lab…we’ll be opening a new craft beer brewery to support our science classroom costs sometime soon.
Or not.
In other news, I have two pussy hats…one from a friend (which I’m going to give away today or tomorrow to someone who needs one) and one by my mom (which I’m wearing).
Yes. I considered wearing it to school. But my principal wants to avoid WWIII. So I’m ready. Peace out.
*Psychedelic Furs, Love My Way
Kathy Nida 