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I was in Toronto for the textile show at the Gladstone Hotel and got the chance to see some wonderful work. The pieces are still on display this weekend, so if you're in the area go check it out.

Miriam Grenville: Make your own Money Kits. This cute 'money tree' was on display.

Amanda McCavour

Beautiful display of these hanging delicate pieces, great colour with the lighting and the shadows on the wall were amazing.

 Shuyu Lu "Dream a Little Dream-the monkey and the Moon"
 Screen printing, hand dyed silk organza and cotton thread, hand embroidered.
Such intense amount of embroidery on these tiny pieces. I love the layering of the silk with the prints, gives it great dimention and 3D effects.

Bird Love

Wow so its been ages since I've wander these woods of mine. Oh how I've missed them. I've been quite busy since school started in septemeber, just a few weeks ago I had my first critique....crazy yes because it took us two months to have our first project ready. I will soon post photographs of some of my most recent work . Mean while I decided to catch up on some of new art and found these amazing illustration by Luca Mantovanelli  

Yeah I want an exotic bird doing erotic things to me. The the shape of the bird with the face of the man just look amazing together.

New Place, Old Memories...into the elmwoods

So I have finally left Ovation.....the building I used to live in by Square One Mall. I have move to a new place with old memories. We found an apartment in the building I lived in when I first came to Canada 8 years ago. I lived in the 2 floor now I like in the 18 floor...crazy but the view is wonderful. The building I live in now is on Elm....eerie huh? naw Im not that cool its Elm Drive not Elm Street but anything could happen...

The name of my building I live in now its called Elmwoods which I thought was so appropiate considering everything I name has woods or something related to it haha Im very happy in my new place even if its only for a year since I do plan to move when Im done school. 

Even my room is a bit bigger and the bathroom is also bigger and I have an extra closet to my stuff woo! I guess what they say is true....change didnt kill the cat..curiosity did haha wow Im lame.

Luna de todas las noches Ilumíname esta noche

....Luna lunita lunera Luna llena luna perla.
 Dime si ella es la reina y la dueña de todo mi amor....

This is my Bella Luna, shes my cousins baby but Im just going to say shes my niece because Ill probably love her that much! She so cute I can believe it.

I've been designing baby toys for an online store opening in september called LaVie Orange

Its all organic and handmade baby products and so Ive been busy dyeing fabric and sewing.

Here are some pieces from colors I have made so far...

This is one of the first prototypes I made with some scrap samples also naturally dyed.

This was made with the fabrics shown above.

I still have to work on the proportions a bit and find stuffing thats less lumpy.

So far its been fun :)

TAG!

I have been super busy with a million and one things including packing because I move in like 2 weeks...yikes lots to do. However, I have been trying to craft as many little things that are quick and easy. I now have a few things for my shop and so I decided that I needed tags. 

I know this may seem lazy...and it is considering I have printed some tags before like this one:

I found a printable paper/fabric that is amazing!

I dont even have to iron or anything, I just print directly on the fabric and thats it!

I got it at waltmart for 15$ comes with 6 sheets and I can use my printer at home. No bad eh?

So this is how mine turned out:

It is a bit tricky to print on...my first one moved and so its not straight but Im going to cut them anyways.

Im quite pleased with them :D

Soon I will post pictures of them attached to pretty little things!

Weaved Wonder

I was lurking around etsy and I found these beautiful pieces by Caldidesign 

I just love them. Such a simple weaving technique yet they look so beautiful.

I would totally wear the purple dress to a fancy event ;)

I need a jelly roll or a honey bun!!!

Yes jelly rolls and honey buns sound amazingly delicious, however I am refering to the different bundles of precut fabric sold for quilting.
As a textile student I want to learn everything that remotely involves fabric, sadly not every skill is mastered and you get something like this.....

I dont hate it or anything Im actually warming up to it. This is my first attempt at making a quilt. Its a blanket I made for my niece. I found this tinkerbell fabric that I thought was super cute and since every girl needs purple in their life I choose a purple color theme.

Quilting is HARD! specially if you dont have perfect little cut fabric pieces which do exist in cute little bundles called fat quarters, jelly rolls, and honey buns. Im sure there are others and in different sizes and shapes. I just bought fabric I liked and cut it myself. I mean I cant cut straight if my life depended on it, I dont know what I was thinking but oh well I learnt from this experience.

The back is this organic fleece I found online fairly cheap and very soft!!!

ohh thats right this is my second blanket, I made one for my baby cousin last year but it was just printed fabric with a blanket binding around it.

So I still suck at sewing a binding piece, its tricky! it moves even though I pinned it and its just irritating to do. Any sewing pros have tips on how to do a semi perfect job on the binding?? or a nice alternative for a finished edge? Any tips for begginer quilting...although after this I dont know if I want to do much quilting :(

Thanks!

Happy quilting...well if you like quilting that is :/