daily sketch, a curious blending

July 27, 2014

an unexpected convergence of my art and my experience growing up Catholic

the pattern in repeat on 2 yards of 42" fabric

daily sketch, manipulating a photo

July 13, 2014

daily sketch of a photo of branches turned into a lacey pattern

stripe, plaid and abstract

July 8, 2014

daily sketch. coordinating stripe. coordinating plaid

plaid

July 5, 2014

daily sketch. starting to look towards Spring 2016. an original painting, acrylic on canvas textured paper; photographed then manipulated and indexed in Photoshop; then exported to Illustrator and further manipulated.

daily sketch

July 3, 2014

daily sketch. working on Fall 2015 patterns. top image: new print in development using filtered, indexed Photoshop files placed into Illustrator, traced and expanded then recolored and placed using the pattern tool. middle image: original painting, acrylic (thinned and used as a dye) on unprimed canvas. bottom image: painting reduced and abstracted in Photoshop using filters (these are the marks I recolored and manipulated with the pattern tool in Illustrator.)

daily sketch

July 2, 2014

daily sketch

July 1, 2014

transforming a painting into a tie-dye print

June 30, 2014

daily sketch. original acrylic painting on paper was adjusted with Photoshop filters and indexed to 4 colors. This was then further simplified and indexed down to two colors.

Every morning as I sit down at my work table I pull up an @oblique_se. Today's seems to particularly align with my mood.

Mending while camping, using hand-dyed indigo thread available on my website

New stock added. Oversold natural indigo dyed mending thread is back in stock. This cotton covered poly thread is stronger than pure cotton and takes the indigo dye beautifully, with little specks of undyed poly peeking through for an almost sparkly effect. It's strong enough for mending jeans but thin enough for most stitching and embroidery projects. The natural indigo will fade harmoniously as you launder your jeans. If thread sales are an indication, the dog days of the pandemic are inspiring people to dig into those baskets of damaged clothes with lots of first timers giving mending a try. It's put up in short skeins so its an affordable starter thread. The indigo dye started as seeds in my dye garden. I use this thread in Arashi Shibori processes and carefully unwind it as I pull off the dyed textiles. Nothing goes to waste! I can put up longer skeins if needed, pm me

Finished a pile. Now to assemble

Individual photos of the January 2021 Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches. I've written about the processes on my blog. Link to my website is on my bio #tastembroidery #takeastitchtuesday #pintangletast #handembroidered #stitchersofinstagram #linkedchainstitch #flystitch #italianborderstitch #blanketstitch #reverseblanketbarstitch #stemstitch #portuguesestemstitch

New thread colorway added to my shop. #handdyedthreads #bluethread #mendingthread #handstitching #varigatedthread #dyedthreads #dyedbyhand #denimfriendly #mendingjeans

More thread into a vat. Blending colors for stitching on collage. #handdyedthreads #stitchedcollage #dyersofinstagram #dyedthreads #dyeart #dyework #blue #multicoloredthread

There was a run on indigo dyed thread on my website over the holidays and I'm almost out. Today I'm trying out fiber reactive dyes on a few skeins to see how that works. Takes a lot less water than indigo processing which is an ongoing concern in SoCal.