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It has been a really great summer, and it's with heavy hearts, and dozen peep projects that we draw our 1001 Peeps Summer Camp to a close.
So for the final time this summer, I'm sending you to our last counselor's blog to check out a sweet action project using 1001 Peeps! Monica has made a fantastic project. It's a Scoodie. A scarf hoodie! and it will take you right in to a magical fall.
I hope that you have had a great summer, and that you have enjoyed camp. Also, a huge thanks to all of the counselors for participating and creating fantastic tutorials. Check them out!
First, I want to sit down and talk with/ hug each of you who left a comment on my last post. I think we each have a job to find out and know what we are supposed to be and do, and its just so great that we can share our sentiments on the joys and struggles of our journeys. More on that later.
I hope you are still following along with Summer Camp! Amanda of MsMcPorkchop has made a very cute Peeptastic patchwork drawstring pouch and has created a pdf tutorial for you to download! I love Amanda so much, I designed a line of Halloween fabric, for next year, as an ode to her.
Also, lets have a quilt along talk. I'm still up in the air, and all of you were equally divided about where to start... so I think that means that we will just start in the front of the book and do Diamond Mountain first. Meaning... we could potentially work through the book, and you would have made 4 OUT OF CONTROL quilts in a relatively quick period of time. Relative being relative.
Ok. We are going to start on August 8th. I will remind you before then, but I would recommend a. getting the book if you haven't already, and b. collecting the fabric. If you are waiting on the book and need the fabric requirements leave me a comment and I will zap you a pdf.
AND Another thing. Are there any shops that would be willing to kit up a few Midnight at the Oasis quilts? I have 3 requests right now, and I would love to get those connections made. I can also send you a fabric req. doc.
Are there any other book quilt requests? Because we can probably hook you up with a shop with the goods.
This week, take the path marked Awesome over to Beth of Lemon Cadet. She has a totally sweet action bag for all of you to make. And let me just tell you, you are not going to want to miss this tutorial!
Have fun today!
sincerely,
Camp Director Lizzy House.
Here is the schedule again, just in case you still need it!
I'm closing my etsy store. It has been a great support to me, financially, and in the community. It's just not my cup of tea. Etsy is an amazing platform. They have done incredible things, and I am forever grateful for the work they have done to promote a handmade lifestyle, buying handmade, and raising the profile of The Artist. All amazing things.
I like that phrase. My cup of tea. But what it comes down to is I'm working on housing all my goods in the same place, and moving on in some ways.
So everything must go. $10 for all the small prints.
and I found 3 Ardor Bird prints. Perfect for Valentines... on Monday? they are $18 each.
So if you ever loved me, or just liked my work a little bit you will help me liquidate this stuff so I can keep moving forward, like in Meet the Robinson's.
I have been thinking about a lot of things lately... a lot of it is the work I have been doing in my mind to shift back to fine art from my commercial art. I found out that there is a printmaking studio a block away from my house, and I am excited and nervous to start printing again.
It might seem odd. It might seem really odd. But I have realized that there are quite a few things that I have held onto from my past that continue to hold me back. Most of which of which involve fear. The fear of not doing enough. The fear of failure. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of being forgotten. The fear of staying... and so on. But I realize that these are self imposed. And I as continue on in my life, that these things have become walls. Shackles to a false structure.
It's really been this way since I was a little kid. All my siblings would play, and I could not allow myself to. I was never good at playing, and I find that there is very little play OR abandon in my work. I could NEVER color outside of the lines, and I have come to find that it is holding me back. I can act from a script but I am terrible at improv, knowing full well the rules.
I want to live with more abandon. I want to let go. That doesn't mean anything like losing my religion. It means to shake off these things that I weigh myself down with. I won't allow these things to make me up.
And if I do? What will I have? What kind of freedom will that give me?
My hopes are that it will loosen up my work. My work seems to follow these invisible lines that I subconsciously put on the page/ the screen/ the plate/ the fabric. Are these permanent lines? Are they inherent? I feel like everything I do has a buttoned collar, and I think if all of my weirdness were coupled with a little more abandon that I could really be on to something.
so am I just a structured person, or do I take myself too seriously? I don't know if one has anything to do with the other, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they do.
Nate Williams's work was like a wake up call to me this morning. It helped me realize that this is an actual thing in my life. Helen Dardik is another great example. There is a lot curiousity and discorvery. Maybe this feeling in their work has something to do, also, with my love for Paul Klee and a lot of Picasso. They all contain a certain sense of abandonment that I am seeking in my little life. AND KNOW! that I am not by any means saying that there work is without structure or an incredible amount of skill, it's just a very different grid than the one I operate from, and I want to know if I can cross over.
Can I acheive creative abandon in 2011? Or is this structure an actual permanent part of me?
So each week for the rest of the year, I am going to try and do a project, or a piece with as much abandon as this square can manage.
here's a funny video involving a different kind of abandon...
How is your abandon? Are you an in the lines or outside the lines kind of person? Is it permanent? or is it something you can move in and out of?
I decided that we should have a little mid season joviality by having a little contest! I love contests, but that's mainly because I love winning! and I want you to win too!
Here is the contest!
Bring out your Peep Boots, and join in the mini Peep Boot contest. This contest is a challenge to create the most fantastic, most incredible, most peepish mini Peep Boot’s in the land. All you have to do is use the template, and create whatever your heart desires. Every one gets up to four chances! So make just make one, but feel free to make a few more.
The only rules are that you:
Enter, by leaving a comment, AND join our flickr group, and upload your mini’s in all their glory. Make sure to number your entries 1-4. Mini’s can be made with any materials. Fabric, wool felt, they can be knit or crocheted, embroidered or beaded, paper, clay, or anything just so long as they are no taller than 4 inches, and resemble the template.
Last official day to Enter is Monday the 20th. Winners will be chosen from the flickr pool and by a committee of my own elves and will be announced Christmas eve.
Oh and wait! There is a prize suite!
Grand Prize includes: a Lizzy House pattern suite (Castle Treasury, Night Watch, Sovereign Picnic, Royal Sampler, and Limelight Mini Quilt) along with a free download of the actual Peep Boot Pattern. And major bragging rights
second place prize includes: Sovereign Picnic patter, and Royal Sampler, along with a free download of the actual Peep Boot Pattern. And pretty great bragging rights
third place prize includes: Limelight Bard Mini Quilt pattern and a free download of the actual Peep Boot Pattern, and of course bragging rights.
Tell your friends, and peeps. Post it on your blog! We want as many mini's as we can get... because not only is it more fun that way, but it's way cuter that way.
That's right! If you live in the SLC area you are invited over to my studio for a very special, very 11th hour studio sale. With something for every price range: from limited edition prints, to fabric bundles, you will certainly be able to find something. Also we'll have a whole range of stocking stuffers from $8-$15.
Treats will be provided! Wassail, and cookies! and let's just say, I make a mean shortbread and an out of control vegan sparkling ginger cookie. So there really is something for everyone. Come say hi!
Also, on the 16th the Peep Boots will be taken out of my little shop, so if anything from the shop is twinkling in your eye, then go for it, because they will be taken down for holiday shipping deadlines, and the studio sale! The peep boot pattern, however, will stay listed.
That's right! When you wake up bright and early on Friday morning, my little etsy shop will be over flowing with once in bluemoon items, including: champion ribbons, handmade books, a new pattern, and Never Before seen Peep Boots! Everything will be first come first serve!
Now I am off! I will have you know that I feel very much like an elf in my own factory... I just wish I had some peeps to boss around right now.
This week you will want to head on over to Monica's (the happiest Zombie I have ever met). She has made up an incredible project that is sure to delight and wonder you, as well as give way to a grand adventure. It's a dragon slayer satchel, and I can guarantee that it will come in handy for that and innumerable other things. Fact. Monica has made an incredible and very detailed tutorial, so go, download, and make this incredible all purpose adventure bag.
If you are in need of some Castle Peeps, or Summer Camp has got your stash running low, check out any of these fine retailers.
Fabritopia.com (having a 35% off sale through July 31st)
And many many more. If you are a shop, and or know of a shop that you would like added to this list just let me know. I hope you are still having fun at camp.
How is everyone? Today Campers you will want to head on over to Whipstitch Fabrics, to hang out with your new counselor Deborah who has prepared and incredible traveling village!
It's pretty much amazing, and it's all thanks to Deborah! Make sure to watch for her incredible new book, Stitch by Stitch, hitting shelves soon. Also, if you are anywhere near Atlanta, get yourself to Deborah's fantastic sewing lounge, Whipstitch!
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