Take Me To Your Feeder

The aliens have mutated.



Look! Paintstiks! *heh*





And for thrills, I stacked 'em all up:


I may have been affected by the new episodes of Red Dwarf, even though no one has bothered to mention when or how they will be available in the U.S.

I'm still calling them "in-progress"--whiskers are definitely needed, and I'm still thinking about potential embellishments. But the stab-stitching is very soothing right now.

Aliens on backgrounds...

I've given up on making any sort of FFAC collage. Just not my thing--even in picking an image to work around, my good photographs are a whole composition and don't really lend themselves to being one element, photocopies of antique postcards look too flat, and most everything else that intrigues me has a copyright.

So then I was looking at my stack of aliens, and I noticed my stack of backgrounds, and I flipped them around for awhile.


The tacky metal word is too tacky. The background probably needs more stitching. Could also rotate the orientation 90 degrees. I wish there was more "stars" swirling above the alien...I could take the background apart try again, if I have more of the glitter fabric. I know I don't have any more dyed batting...


Same background, different alien. Same thoughts. Obviously, there can be only one here...


I'm not really sure about teal with navy blue, but I love the contrast between the orange the blue.


Same reservations about the teal, and about having horizontal stitch lines on both parts.

Obviously, a collage would need more than one element and a background. Stars, or stripes of color...

So, I could make a couple of pieces that finish to 8" x 10", but then I look around at other artists' submission, and the aliens seem...slapdash. Maybe childish.

I could use some honest comments, if you're inclined. :)

The beat goes on and I'm so...something

Grey aliens.

These two are another upside-down Jinny Beyer print from 1997-ish:




An icky faux-country calico print, again upside-down:


I may never get to the "embellishment" chapter of the playbook.

I'm kinda impressed at how good the "icky" fabrics I don't like and thought I would never use actually look in a project, even one with only two fabrics.

Alien Apotheosis

I don't think they can get any better than this:



Here's another green E.B.E.

Alien invasion continues

This is the same teal fabric as the earlier E.B.E., with unprinted side (I refuse to call it the "wrong" side for this piece) on top:


And while I had the fabric paint out for the eyes, I tried a freezer paper stencil:


Not sure how he ended up wonky-shaped. I like the color and the hand of the paint, but he looks a little flat compared to the appliqued guys.

More aliens

They need embellishment.

E.B.E. 2, on a background of overdyed calico, about 3" x 4":


A teal E.B.E., same size:

I want to say he's a Jinny Beyer print from at 10-12 years ago, a print pattern I do not like but somehow acquired in three different colors. I didn't know if black eyes would show up, so I painted them silver via a freezer-paper stencil.

Have also begun machine-stitching around the aliens en masse.

They're heeeeeee-eeeeer.

My working title is "Radish's Cry for Help." *snicker*


...and they're kinda dark:


But they're already fused in place, and dark fits the mood I was trying to create.

And a close-up:


"He who takes leader cloth is leader. He who takes green is green and follows green leader. He who takes purple is purple and follows purple leader."

E.B.E. 1

This guy was the wrong shade of green for his buddies, but he seems just fine solo. The metallic perle cotton was a pain to work with but I like the look.

I wonder how many of these things I'm going to end up with...

Madness takes its toll

All that fabric I have been dyeing and overdyeing "Avocado" since 1999? Apparently there was a reason.



Why yes, I have been watching the X-Files. In German. I understand about 15% of it...