Map Quilts

I found this via: label-free this morning. Leah Evans makes these wonderful quilts based on maps and other aerial views. Absolutely amazing.

"Alluvial Fields"

"Development"

What do YOU do when Unemployed?

I make things. Here are some of them from the past week and a half:

Lupin, who is currently in my etsy shop.
One of the squares for my quilt (still soooo in progress...)

A mole, not quite done but also one of the squares for the quilt.

Some random embroidery I finished today. I think I'll make a series of them and either make them into little three-finger-puppets or turn them into iron-on patches and put them up in etsy.

Ditto.

Quilt Numero 6

This, indeed, is the sixth square of the quilt to be finished.

BEHOLD! A koala...

#5 Quiltoration

I'll Quilt You Together!

This is the third square I've finished,

and this is the fourth!
(this is my favorite one so far)

Quiltation!

So, for the last... three... whole days I've been holed up at home scratching out some drawings and then starting the embroidery on my quilt. I've got two of sigh..... sixteen panels done. One, is this octopiddle...

These are centered in the middle of what will be about an oh, ten inch, circle of either embroidery or quilting. I have this idea that I'll quilt all around up 'till the ten inch circle through the back and front. On the front will be the embroidery like this here, and on the back I'm hoping that I can get Steve to draw some warped representations of the same animals I've quilted rather innocently on the front. Heehee, it should be awesome!
And here is the wee chick I've embroidered, I've pulled back a ways so that you can see how big he is in relation to the rest of the quilt. The octopiddle is much bigger, he fills up the entire planned circle.
Peepee!

And here's my sketch of him before I started the actual embroidering.
Anywho, that's what I've been doing. I'm starting to have sewing dreams so I think it's time to pause for a day or so.

Now-Day

I am officially done with evening swim lessons and class for the rest of the summer! Today is my first day of moderate freedom (wouldn't want to get too crazy with all out relaxation, now would we?). I woke up at 7:30, ate breakfast, made a soup, cleaned the house, and went to Joanns to pick up some supplies for this:
This is the first half or so of my picnic blanket/quilt I'm making. I'm going to embroider it... eventually. I have yet to figure out how the rest of it will go (i.e. where the rest of the fabric goes... who needs a plan anyway?). I'll upload some drawings of my embroidery plans later when I get them all squared away. In any case it's going to be pretty fantastic.

I was talking about spiders weaving webs in the yard earlier and I found this big guy hanging out square in the center of the yard at eye height on a web about 1.5 feet square. Impressive, so I tried my hardest to walk around him and leave him be. I have to mow at some point, but for now he's going to enjoy his hard work one more night and probably catch some tastey things.
And I found this enormous dead beetle on the ground by the bus stop in front of our house. He was pretty cool and shimmery.