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	<title>Making Stuff</title>
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	<description>Jess's Visual Journal</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Unrealistic Possessiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi.  Remember me?  I still make stuff, really, but a lot more of it has been digital lately.
And, wow, I really need to upgrade this site.  But whatever.
So what moves me to write today?  Selfishness.  No, not mine, but the kind of selfishness meant to stifle others&#8217; creativity for the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Unrealistic Possessiveness", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/02/unrealistic-possessiveness" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>More Postcards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are four more postcards, since the jury of the Art Center at Fuller Lodge accepted the three below and will be selling them!  I&#8217;m very happy about this, and the possibility of also participating in their &#8220;Affordable Art Sale&#8221; for the holidays.
Another fish:

Origami fish fabric postcard, all cotton, backed with watercolor paper, with [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "More Postcards", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/09/more-postcards" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Origami Fabric Postcards</title>
		<link>http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/08/origami-fabric-postcards</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So I took a leap of faith this week, one that more established artists might laugh at but was kind of a big deal to me &#8212; I dropped off some fabric postcards to our local art gallery shop to be juried for possible sale.  They can be mailed in clear envelopes with first-class [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Origami Fabric Postcards", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/08/origami-fabric-postcards" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Flower Girl Dress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fabric]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a whirlwind of sewing and then traveling to something like nine states and visiting almost everyone in the world I could possibly be related to, I bring you the finished flower girl dress:

Silk dupioni flower girl dress, from the Pascal pattern printed in the Issue 114 - September/October 2007 of Sew Beautiful magazine, with [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Flower Girl Dress", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/08/the-flower-girl-dress" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Flower Girl Dress - Bodice Embroidery</title>
		<link>http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/05/flower-girl-dress-bodice-embroidery</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I started with a sample piece of the silk dupioni fabric, backed with Floriani Dream Weave interfacing to keep the silk from shredding, and a variety of threads, beads, and stitches (slightly out of focus, but you get the idea):

and decided that the feathered buttonhole &#8220;vine&#8221; with french knots and pearl beads was the prettiest [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Flower Girl Dress - Bodice Embroidery", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/05/flower-girl-dress-bodice-embroidery" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>A Flower Girl Dress</title>
		<link>http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/05/a-flower-girl-dress</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fabric]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At long last, after seeking fabric and notions all over the state and the internet, I have spent the last two days working in earnest on a beautiful dress for Nora to wear as she plays the role of flower girl for her uncle&#8217;s wedding in a few weeks.
I&#8217;m using the Pascal/Alice Blue Gown pattern [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Flower Girl Dress", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/05/a-flower-girl-dress" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Road Ahead — Finished!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 19:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Challenges]]></category>

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&#8220;The Road Ahead,&#8221; fused and quilted fabric collage mounted on canvas, acrylic paint
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		<title>Shape and Light</title>
		<link>http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/04/shape-and-light</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Eye Candy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are some photos I found when looking at shapes, and the use of blank space.

Splash and Dash by Michael Slezak, via Flickr, released under an Attribution-Noncommercial Creative Commons license
I love that I can&#8217;t tell water from sky, or if there&#8217;s a horizon line at all, but the orientation is still perfectly clear.

Empty Spaces by [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Shape and Light", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/04/shape-and-light" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Color</title>
		<link>http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/04/color</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking at color-scapes, as I ponder my next stole.

Shelter, by Jens Aarstein Holm, via Flickr, released under an Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Creative Commons License
The lighting in this one is particularly striking, especially on the grass.

From the Stage #47, by Dave Walker, via Flickr, released under an Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons License
I love the use [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Color", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/04/color" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the &#8220;Art Machine&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/04/thoughts-on-the-art-machine</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess</dc:creator>
		
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Friendship Quilt made for Ella Maria Deacon 1811–1894, United States, New Jersey, Mount Holly, from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
A while back on my Journal blog, before I started this one, I wrote about my consternation with the presentation of the Gee&#8217;s Bend quilts at the Museum of International Folk Art in [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Thoughts on the &#8220;Art Machine&#8221;", url: "http://jesspages.net/makingstuff/04/thoughts-on-the-art-machine" });</script>]]></description>
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