First yarn bomb for Taos

I made my first yarn bomb for Taos! This is made from donated yarn.

This is on a vega in front of Weaving Southwest.

Here’s what the back looks like:

To insure we don’t harm property we’re not using any nails or staples. Instead we’re using ties and making sure the tag is snug around the object. I put ties every few inches and it worked well.

A close up of the ties:

Teresa, from Weaving Southwest, and I have started a new blog called Yarn Blog Taos to chronicle the Great Taos Yarn Bombing of 2012.

ABQ visit

The Ram is on tour! Village Wools in Albuquerque agreed to host him for awhile.

Village Wools

Here’s me and Abbey posing with him:

How exciting to have the Ram there! If you’re in ABQ and want to see him in person please stop by and let me know what you think.

Later on Abbey and I posed with our monster bags.

My ABQ visit was short but we had a good time hanging out.

My Sadness Jumped

My Sadness Jumped is a fiber art piece about grief and transformation. The dimensions are 32 1/2″ H x 26″ W x 3/4″ D.

My Sadness Jumped

The piece is needle felted and embroidered. A significant portion of the yarn is my handspun. The bridge is knit and sewn down.

My Sadness Jumped

A woman is standing alone on the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge at night. She is crying and her head is in her arms. Clear beads embroidered underneath her represent this.

My Sadness Jumped

Her tears fall off the bridge and transform into goddesses. Each goddess has a clear bead on the top of her head.

My Sadness Jumped

This art deals with my depression surrounding Thebes’ diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease. Over the winter we both feared he would die. In the months since he has healed considerably and while still sick he is doing much better.

One of lessons I learned from this experience is that out of grief and sadness comes hope and rebirth.

The frame was made by my friend Jim who also made The Portal frame.

My Sadness Jumped

My Twi signature on the front.

My Sadness Jumped

Here’s me with my piece at this year’s Taos Open.

My Sadness Jumped

El Carnero De Colores

El Carnero De Colores (ie Colorful Ram) is a collaborative piece by artists Floyd Archuleta, Twilight Kallisti and Abigail Z.

El Carnero De Colores

Floyd built the lifesize sculpture out of recycled wire, rebar, fence posts and a real ram skull. Abbey knit and crocheted most of the squares. I made additional squares, the face, hooves, tail and assembled the fiber pieces over the wire base.

El Carnero De Colores

Abbey said she wanted the ram to look like a cross between Day of the Dead decorations and a New Mexican cemetery. I think we captured the look.

El Carnero De Colores

Pictures of the wire sculpture can be seen here. Progress pics can be seen here and here.

El Carnero De Colores

The face, tail and hooves are a “normal” ram color. The normal colors turn brighter up the legs and then bursts into the technicolor fleece.

El Carnero De Colores

Abbey said we should get some sort of ribbon for our efforts so she knit the ram a bouquet of roses as a prize.

El Carnero De Colores

The ram’s colorful fleece is blooming with bright flowers.

El Carnero De Colores

El Carnero De Colores is currently on display and for sale at Weaving Southwest.

El Carnero De Colores

Here’s a picture of him in transit. It was a little tricky but we managed to fit him into the car.

El Carnero De Colores

The dimensions are 41 1/2″ H x 23″ W x 56″ L

Bridge progress

The deadline for the Taos Open is two weeks from today. I’ve been hustling on my Bridge piece. The bridge is complete. There is a woman on the bridge with her head on her arms.

My Sadness Jumped

She is grieving. I will be adding beads as her tears shortly.

Last night I did more embroidery on the river.

My Sadness Jumped

Much like Prana, Granola helps me felt.

My Sadness Jumped

Arte de Descartes reception

The Arte de Descartes opening reception was so much fun! Outside the gallery was this sculpture by Michael Neu:

Recycled Art Show

It’s called Latilla Arch. Holes were drilled into each piece of wood. A long piece of bent rebar hold them all together.

This colorful sculpture by Ren Geertsen is called Maniacal and is made out of plastic lids and straws.

Recycled Art Show

This is Pablo Flores and his artwork Green Cyberbug is over his shoulder.

Recycled Art Show

I love that green ladybug!

I also met Leroy Fresquez and chatted about collecting art supplies.

Recycled Art Show

His piece is called Recycled Assembly.

And who do we have here? Me baby!

Recycled Art Show

I’m so excited that I got into the show.

These little metal people are so cute.

Recycled Art Show

The artist is Joel Morse Lage and they are called Juice Jitterbug.

My friend Michael got into the show.

Recycled Art Show

Her piece is called Orange Betty. It’s made out of straw bale ties. Very cool!

Terrie Mangat’s piece Saint Michael Scrap Bag was in the show.

Recycled Art Show

She was in this year’s Beyond The Fringe as well.

The Glam Trash Fashion Show went on during the show. I’ve participated twice before and it’s so much fun. Here’s two of my favorite outfits.

Recycled Art Show

Recycled Art Show

Maybe I’ll make something for next year. I feel so inspired.

Arte de Descartes XI

Arte de Descartes XI

My sculpture Just One More Row is going to be in this year’s Arte de Descartes XI, also known as the Recycled Art Show!

Arte de Descartes XI
August 27 – September 11
Opening reception is Saturday August 27 4-8pm
Stables Gallery
(133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM)

The Glam Trash Fashion Show starts at 6pm. I didn’t make anything for that this year but I have in the past. It’s such a fun show. The Taos News wrote about this year’s show in the Tempo section-story here.

I’m super excited that Pearl gets to be in another art show!

Felt flower hat

When I brought in my Poppy Purse to Weaving Southwest they commented that people kept trying to wear my them. Could I make a hat? I said yes and went home to figure it out.

Felt flower hat

I made the petals small to lighten the weight of the hat. The smaller the petals the more the hat could hold. I used I-cord for ties. The I-cord trim made the hat a bit snug on my head. I’m sizing it as an adult small/children’s large.

Felt flower hat

Lion’s Brand felts so lovely.

Felt flower hat

I have a flower on my head!

Felt flower hat

I’m thrilled with how this turned out and plan to make more. I combined several patterns into a new pattern to make this hat. A bit more tweaking and I think I’ll have an easy pattern to work with.

Felt flower hat

The majority of this hat was knit during our Durango trip. Car knitting feels so productive:

Felt flower hat

Here’s Granola helping me put up laundry.

Granola on laundry pile

This hat is currently for sale at Weaving Southwest. Want a felt flower hat? Email me at twilly23 @gmail .com

Pattern: mash up of several patterns
Source: N/A
Yarn: Lamb’s Pride Worsted Wool, 4 skeins, some partial
Needles: 6.0 mm
Size: custom
Modifications: N/A
Started: July 2011
Finished: August 2011