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Outside the box: Topographical Map

23 Mar

(This will make more sense if you saw my previous post.)

  • Upholstery foam foundation
  • Foam foundation and details covered with fabric

Unlike most agricultural land in Indiana, which is flat and tillable for corn and soybeans, this special place is primarily woodland with a mile long creek. The “bottom” has three grassy fields (outlined with dark green). Everything else is woodland with various hardwoods that are 40-60′ tall. In other words, it is difficult to get perspective from any location.

I referred to the satellite map provided by the county government website and made MANY measurements of elevation plus distance. The elevation represented by the blocks covered by green and brown fabric is 850 feet (above sea level) and the highest of the rugged terrain. The blocks covered by brown fabric represents the rugged transition from peaks to valley. The creek bed is 760 feet (above sea level) on the west end, dropping to 740 feet with over a mile length.

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Outside the box: Maps

3 Mar
This charming dish is a MAP of a coastal village with a harbor, community buildings, people and ships coming and going.

CHALLENGE: Translate or Map features of a woodland farm to media to share with toddlers…FABRIC. Since my subject is long and narrow, fabric will hold up better than paper products.

I made measurements from the satellite map of the county’s website to do my best with proportions. ENCORE:

MAP wall hanging 2.0
Aerial view of frontage with driveways and barns
intreperted with “faux” needlepoint rendition.

Then…taking it to the next level…study the elevations to create a topographical map!

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“Escape to the Chateau”

24 Feb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_to_the_Chateau

We highly recommend the television series Escape to the Chateau. Seven seasons are available for viewing.

Adventure, Laughter, Determination, New Beginning, Enterprise, Family, Restoration, Imagination, Repurpose, Architecture, Modernization, Style, Elegant Dining, Garden, Home Grown, Vegetables, Flowers, Style with Flare, Children, Grandparents, Glamping, Moat, Fish, French, Shopping Markets, Weddings, Food Service, Entertaining, Work In Progress, Utilities, Strategy, Research, Entertaining, Creativity

Needle point: my Work In Progress (circa 1984)

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Days for Girls International

11 Feb

https://www.daysforgirls.org

2021 is my eighth year sewing for DfGI. I cannot think of another person or group I would rather sew for. Choosing the colors and patterns (within cultural guidelines) I work with keeps my interest.

Eight flannel pads per kit. I usually support 30 kits with each lot I sew. This photo shows 30 stacks of 8 tri-fold flannel pads.
Two shields with pockets and wings for each kit. Snaps on wings added during kit assembly by the local team. (Polyurethane laminate puts protection in the shield.) These 60 shields pair with the 240 pads above to support 30 kits for this months delivery.

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Baltimore Album reimagined

4 Feb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_album_quilts

By definition, “Baltimore Album” is a style of quilt originated in the 1840s most often appliqué on white blocks. For this project I stacked fabric “blocks” and bound one edge with ribbon (alternative to paper book). The “story” will be from Derek and Zoe’s imagination as bold images are revealed turning “pages”.

Backstory: Some years ago I discovered https://www.spoonflower.com/en/how-it-works in a magazine in a doctor’s office waiting room. Spoonflower.com will print your images on fabric…even bolts of fabric…even offer them for sale to the public! I did upload 10 photos and got proofs in return. The lilac and spruce images on cotton (above, right sides) are two of the ten. Voila! My samples are incorporated in children’s “books”.

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Book Review: Secret Empires

31 Jan

I saw multiple interviews with Peter Schweizer over the last few years especially timed around new book releases. Reading a Schweizer book completes one New Year’s Resolution. The content is detailed with MANY footnotes. Excellent questions are posed. The content is absolutely relevant to matters that influence “these days and times” at home and abroad. From my point of view, this public knowledge is integral to the “Great Awakening”.

Other books by Peter Schweizer: Extortion 2013, Clinton Cash 2016 and the latest Profiles in Corruption 2021

Recently, I realized that Dan Brown’s works of fiction The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, Lost Symbol and others also influenced the “Great Awakening”.

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Happy New Year 2021!

1 Jan

I worked on these collages New Year’s Eve 1999 to welcome the new millennium, a year with three zeros 😉

What was I thinking? Paradox is upside down.
Completion. Notes to myself regarding work, family, relationships.
Love. Books, my dog Alex, God boxes, factory life.
Healing hands. Body work, chiropractic, massage, Rolfing, craniosacral.
Vision. The eyes have it.
Morning glory. Dawn of the new millennium.

Happy New Year 2021! That’s all folks!

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rock, paper, scissors

15 Oct

Or wood, steel

The tree won.
The tree won with “chain link” jewelry years after the chain was laid over a limb.

Blued-eyed Buddy Boy

3 Aug

Found 21 days after the hay barn fire!

Blue-eyed Buddy Boy

Buddy Boy is well on his way to recovery.


Site of former 1970s era hay barn at Nina Bay Farm.  Check out more images:  Click on Nina Bay Farm page or https://elfcroft.me/nina-bay/

 

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Indy Star: Hares exit car biz after 170 years

1 Feb

From Indy Star

Hares exit car biz after 170 years

http://indy.st/2jQygwo

A car dealership changing hands isn’t typically considered a historic milestone, but this is different.Hare Chevrolet’s sale last week to Duluth, Ga.-based Asbury Automotive Group marks the end of a freakishly long run in the transportation business by the Hare family of Noblesville. Transportation is the right term because Hare Chevrolet predates the automobile by more than six decades. The company began as W. Hare and Son Inc., a maker and seller of horse-drawn carriages.That was in 1847. Among the things that did not exist: the Federal Reserve banking system, Theodore Roosevelt, women’s suffrage, football and the state of Wisconsin.

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