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Wolverine Slippers
A recent issue of Ms. Marvel--a fantastic comic book--showed the title character wearing slippers with Wolverine faces on them. We had to have a pair, too! Couldn't find any ready-made! Luckily, my husband can draw, and I can sew. These are pieced from wool felt. Check out my husband's blog: LifeWithWonderWoman.wordpress.com
Tuffet
From the bucket list. I mean to say that I've wanted to make one of these for a long time now. Luckily, a great teacher, Diana Coronado, taught a tuffet class at Beverly's. She had the supplies, too. I changed the pattern a bit, going from 64 wedges to 16. It's no coincidence that it matches my yellow wall.
The Kraken
I love my 8-foot Giant Squid! In the background you can see the studio space I share with my husband, John Garcia. Those are his paintings on the wall. Check out his work on Life with Wonder Woman.wordpress.com.
Vader Dangles
I cut the Darth Vader heads off of a pair of slippers to make the coolest rear-view mirror dangles ever.
Zippered Portfolio
Great gift for a great music teacher.
Homage to Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo and Toshiro Mifune's Sumurai, or Three World Views
I sent a pic of this quilt to Stan Sakai, hoping he would want to display in his booth at a comic convention. I'm still hoping!
Car Bag
With the loop hung over the gear shifter, this bag serves as a cool and convenient catch-all in the car, for trash or coupons or cd's. It stands open, so it's ready to receive whatever you throw at it. I packed one with Clif Bars as a gift for a traveler, made another with Star Wars Storm Trooper fabric for my Darth Vader -style car
Forever, Baby, Forever
My valentine for my husband.
Money Bag
Filled with quarters, this made a great gift for a teenaged boy.
Sushi Pillow
Jiffy grip makes great rice!
Panda Roll
This is a big bolster-style pillow. It's white fleece with black minkee. Ask me about working with minkee; it's do-able, but a challenge to one's patience. Good thing I've stopped being so perfectionistic. (That's just an unfortunate shadow above the left eye. Panda's face is really flat and smooth.)
House Pillow
I made this from a pattern in Stitch magazine. It holds its shape well because of heavy interfacing. Nevertheless, it's soft and comfy. And it's fun to see a chunky house on a sofa.
Fabric Doll House
Wildly fun to make, yet a lot of work, this house sports a bed with pillow and blanket, a button teddy bear and a mirror on the wall! It's on display at Beverly's Santa Maria.
Outside of Fabric Doll House
Note the rick rack roof and button door knob!
Outer Space House
I use the same pattern for this space themed house as I did for the doll house. I downloaded the Nasa logo and printed it on fabric. That's a StarTrek communicator on the door--I bought that at Comic-Con a few years back.
Inside the NASA StarTrek House
There are four hanging planets--great use of wool-felt beads!
SockMonkey Party
...with SpockMonkey!
Bus & Houses
The bus image came from a child's embroidered tshirt. The houses are fanciful fabric combinations sewn pancake-pillow style.
TShirt Pillow
Harley Quinn, BatGirl, Poison Ivy look better on a pillow than on me.
Batman Pillow
There's something fun about a disembodied head. My husband made the line drawing for me to use piecing techniques to make this. Check out his drawings on LifeWithWonderWoman.wordpress.com
Admiral Akbar Speaks
All You Need 22" x 14"
I used the paper-cloth technique to make the letters. Paper-cloth is essentially decoupaging paper to fabric, resulting in crisp cuts that are still sewable.
Texture Study 1
26 x 20", cotton, synthetic, polymer clay, sequins. This is different for me, except for the bit of Elvis fabric.
Texture Study 2
11 x 14" Hand-dyed wool felt and cotton batting, polymer clay.
Bag for Comic-Con
I bet I'll be the only one at Comic-Con with a Doop backpack! Doop is the alien videographer who hangs out with Wolverine.
KPOW! Pillow
Here's an example of a project that started with the fabric, the Marvel superheroes crowded together ready for action. Of course they had to burst out of something. The letters are wool felt. This pillow completely works with the decor in my home.
Trellis, 12" x 12"
This small quilt has 2 Guatemalan fabrics, wool felt, and wool beads. I had been wanting to do something with these delightful wool beads, and I finally had the idea to cut them in half and use them in a quilt. The smaller blue and yellow bits are pom poms cut from ball fringe.
Transit of Venus, 12" x 12"
A small quilt for me, a giant spectacle in the sky. Those are 1/4" strips of yellows and oranges making up the disc of the sun. Venus is a teeny tiny button.
Small Quilt, 12" x 12"
The background fabric is from Mexico, as is the aluminum hand. The green and gold binding is from Africa.
How I Feel About Coffee
This 8" x 10" quilt was my response to Quilting Arts Magazine's challenge, "Coffee or Tea?" Failed the challenge, but I love my high-energy quilt.
Elvis Purse and Prince Basket
more album art
Elvis Album Shoulder Bag
A real album, split, laminated, joined with 2" sides and bottom, laced with satin and fully lined. I use this as my every-day purse; it gets lots of comments and compliments!
Grateful Dead Album Bag
A fun way for a vintage album to see the light of day: the album was split and laminated, joined to 2" sides and bottom with pink bias tape. The straps are yellow vinyl and denim belting. It's lined and pocketed inside with a beautiful colorful floral worthy of the Dead era.
Lucha Libre Art Quilt
Entitled, "Wrestling with Self-Doubt," this is a Lucha Libre mask in bas relief. It's mounted on black and white fabric with stretcher bars, about 24" square. I'm having a hard time getting the picture to be a good size; suffice to say this quilt packs a visual punch. The mask is stuffed from behind, and the appliqued blue triangles are about 3/16" thick. The pink background is heavily quilted with circles, which effectively raises the letters in "Lucha Libre." It was juried into the Cutting Edge Fiber Art show at the San Luis Obispo Art Center. Woo hoo! $250.00
Lucha Libre Drawstring Bag
I cut apart a Lucha Libre mask and stitched it to this very dark blue fabric. The fabric has lighter blue stripes that kind of fade out partway up, as though they were dip-dyed. The bag is a basic 8" cylinder, about 12 inches high, cinched at the top with a black and pink draw cord. The lining is a nice mottled purple cotton with a zippered pocket. I've attached three chrome purse feet underneath. $48.00
Big Elvis
Jailhouse Rock Elvis struts his stuff on printed cotton, trimmed with silver-dotted embroidered ribbon, on a deep pink, 15" square, background. "I want to stick around awhile and get my kicks" is spelled out in black metal brads that are extra-secured with E6000 glue, and "Let's Rock!" is spelled out with embroidered letters, securely stitched down. The back is an awesome same size square of black and white gingham oilcloth, trimmed with black rick-rack. A 10" yellow zipper, centered about 2 inches down from the upper edge, allows access to the lined interior, which has a large patch pocket. The 37" long shoulder strap allows the bag to hang about 18" from your shoulder. It's comfy to wear, across the chest like a messenger bag, or just from one shoulder. But it's flat! This is such an unusual design ( I found something like it in a Japanese bag-making book). And it's roomy. This is the bag to use when you want to be noticed.
Vroom Vroom Shoulder Bag
Currently available at Kali's Kastle in Orcutt, California, www.kaliskastle.com. It's a purse! There is a sock-monkey driver and a black 39" long strap. A yellow zipper follows the roof, about 11". The main body of the bag is yellow back-pack nylon, with shiny and matte black pleather features. The wheels are silver colored buttons. Inside, there is a lining of delightful spring green, with two pockets, one zippered, one faced. The bag measures about 9" high and about 16" long. I've used a version of this bag while shopping, and it was so fun to distract my son from the candy display with a hearty, "Vroom, vroom!"
Ladybug Tote
Giant ladybugs, big tote
Lucy Bag
Possible Sack
Wristlet
Little Black (and silver) Bag
Tres Sugar Skulls
A 4x6" fabric collage post card
Big Hunk O' Elvis
Pink vinyl purse, plain on other side
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