Moving-

So i've moved! Sorry, blogspot, you can cruise me and my latest crafting sessions at

nickiLgreen.wordpress.com

freeform crochet bear mittens

size variable, cotton and wool yarn, 2012


made while traveling around western europe, that thumb and that ribbing were quite stress-inducing, but i think I get it now. In a jetlag haze, I began freeform purple-toed butcher string socks and lining a new jacket, and I start a ceramic sculpture class today! here's to 2012!

map of New Haven

by Starla, 8.5" x 7", 2011

love fortunes

7" x 4.5", fortunes on paper, 2011

Bear's sewing kit

4 x 2 x 2.5", cardboard, carpet thread, wood button, seam ripper, plastic thimble, felt pin cushion, upholstery needle, (on "Duff: Story of a Bear" 1961), 2011

map of Portland

by Sarah K, Spring 2010

tapestry sampler

size, wool tapestry on linen warp, 2011

Finally got to photographing this, it's from the tapestry class I took this past spring. Pretty inspiring, thinking of turning the headboard from the bed frame I just got into a monster rug loom, new frame from the complete overhaul of my bedroom space, hence the perfectly timed discovery of my most recent post of a selection from stoner by john williams by my visiting lover. I have an oppositionally tiny loom that I just warped, too. It's prob 5 or 6in by 5 or 6in, "Jiffy Loom" from the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse. Excited to play around with that.

Also, this article about my friend Adrienne Skye Roberts is pretty amazing and inspiring, as is most all of her work.

stoner by john williams

p. 100 "As William had feared, the house soon proved to be an almost destructive financial burden. Though he allocated his salary with some care, the end of the month found him always without funds, and each month he reduced the steadily dwindling reserve made by his summer teacher. The first year they owned the house he missed two payments to edit's father, and he received a frosty and principled letter of advice upon sound financial planning.

Nevertheless he began to feel a joy in property and to know a comfort that he had not anticipated. His study was on the first floor off the living room, with a high north window; in the daytime the room was softly illuminated, and the wood paneling glowed with a richness of age. He found in the cellar a quantity of boards which, beneath the ravages of dirt and mold, matched the paneling of the room. He refinished these boards and constructed bookcases, so that he might be surrounded by his books; at a used furniture store he found some dilapidated chairs, a couch, and an ancient desk for which he paid a few dollars and which he spent many weeks repairing.

As he worked on the room, and as it began slowly to take a shape, he relieved that for many yers, unknown to himself, he had an image locked somewhere within him like a shamed secret, and image that was ostensibly of a place but which was actually of himself. So it was himself that he was attempting to define as he worked on his study. As he sanded the old boards for his books , and saw the surface roughnesses disappear, the gray weather flake away to essential wood and finally to a rich purity of grain and texture - as he repaired his furniture and arranged it in the room, it was himself that he was slowly shaping, it was himself that he was putting into a kind of order, it was himself that he was making possible."

rug

photo by francesca capone, photo of my old friend sophie. that rug is amazing.

by Anthony Privitera

pastel sky/sea scapes

these would make gorgeous tapestries. from here.

sea creature

this appeared in front of my house the other day.

pink tent.

photo by Sophie Stone

QIY: Queer It Yourself - Tools for Survival

(some highlights from the show, June 2011 as part of QCC's National Queer Arts Festival, exhibition at SomArts Cultural Center, SF.)

Diana Martin Lapena, My Free Personal Catalog: Tools of Survivors, 2011, Photo transparency and ribbon, prints 5.5" x 8.5"

Tammy Rae Carland, Pirate Platform (from the series Outpost), 2005, 40" x 50"

Gregory Nazareth Der Ananian, Spornography (Max 04.23.11, 2011/Paul 04.25.11, 2011/Christian 04.28.11, 2011/Ernie 05.08.11, 2011/Darren 05.24.11, 2011), cumrag: 12" x 19.5", display: 10.1" x 7.1"

My lovely friend Sarah and myself

(photos curtosy SomArts Cultural Center, their Flickr)

Bear Hat

size variable, crocheted wool, 2011

(for this very special bear.)

Auntie Rex

4" x 7", pencil on paper, 2011

Drawing I did a while back for Ali Liebegott's upcoming zine Faggot Dinosaur, after the image Aunt Georgie in The Freaks of Mayfair. It's ridiculously late and will most likely not make it in. Boo.

fist cake

roughly 24" x 13", vanilla with buttercream, 2011

half-vegan fist cake for Chris's birthday. Cake baked by Aiden, photo by Chris.
(note: cake received creamy white frosting/ejaculate right before I left, unfortunately not documented)

forever oatmeal

QIY opened yesterday, I wore my mountain finest, this is my more formal introduction of my new/old hiking boots that just feel so right. There was a lot of contemplation of cultivating body aesthetics and physical aesthetic curation, and I hope to do some more writing on this. Worried about motivation to begin working again, but today on my (8:30am) lunch (hah) break, I found some inspiring fibers:
tiny knits
what to do with old gloves
all from here.

this is not mine,

but it feels like home.

FTW

Zine submission is 8.5" x 11", mixed media, 2011
Cunt is variable size, wool felt, acrylic fleece, acrylic yarn, nylon hosiery, elastic, 2009

Piece I did for Fucking Trans Women #1 (to be titled Fully Functional (?)), dunno when it should be coming out, but I really dig it (the zine and the piece). That photo is of a plush, strap-on vag I made while I was in school, it's totally fully functional!