tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273880502012-02-16T12:07:07.300-06:00jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-91522229666386704822011-07-04T21:29:00.003-05:002011-07-04T21:38:58.521-05:00

notice how loesje (the mondrian at far right) always gives a little extra for the camera!just uploaded the rest of my blythecon leftovers. i actually sold pretty well there, i just went crazy making stuff because i had no idea how much to bring, and to keep my nervousness at bay i just kept cranking them out.coming soon will be:pants (using an awesome pattern that james drafted ages ago)more cape

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-37292104610812035902011-06-27T11:25:00.002-05:002011-06-27T11:27:38.021-05:00

listed some of the blythecon leftovers on etsy... more later this week :)(i just realized poor loesje's unringed pullstring is showing... i really need to get her a new one!)

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-87865772788818123272011-06-22T17:00:00.004-05:002011-06-22T17:32:16.512-05:00

I seem to have accumulated a few too many names in my time on the internet.I think my first online name was eero67. That was a reference to two of my favorite furniture designers: Eeros Saarinen and Aarnio. I had a paper zine about 60s fashion and culture named eero (I'm still breaking myself of the habit of writing in all lower case all the time, ok?) and since most of the time online names

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-25279743931001269412011-06-22T16:42:00.002-05:002011-06-22T16:50:35.558-05:00

My poor neglected blog! Get ready for a barrage of posts. I've been busy since I've last updated this, and so I have lots to talk about:my textile design adventures: silkscreening at Lill Street and designing prints for Spoonflowermaking dresses for myselfgetting back into Blythe dolls and making dresses for them too!I just got back from Blythecon in Portland -- it was amazing to finally meet

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-26942147098945956562010-05-10T23:52:00.002-05:002010-05-10T23:54:34.592-05:00

hanky projectOriginally uploaded by mylaarI am trying not to neglect the blog, but when I'm busy making stuff, it's sometimes hard for me to take the time to photograph things and write about them. For now, here is the project I've been working on in my current class at Lillstreet (Printing with Thickened Dyes) -- a series of cotton handkerchiefs. Real post soon...

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-63262728161393773252010-04-06T00:46:00.002-05:002010-04-06T00:48:43.911-05:00

There was a thunderstorm, so instead of sewing tonight as planned, I spent nearly two hours picking stitches and interfacing out of these old curtains, while watching "The September Issue" and part of "Grey Gardens." I didn't want to have to stop in the middle of sewing if the power went out (which I'm gun-shy about, since the last time that happened, I was doing laundry and ended up locking my

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-48891081415419466962010-03-12T12:15:00.002-06:002010-03-12T12:17:02.460-06:00

As mentioned in the previous catch-up post, I've been doing a lot of silkscreening in the past few months. I've been taking classes at Lill Street since spring 2008, I think... because the oldest silkscreen photos in my flickr are from summer 2008, and I know I took one class before that.In the first classes I took, I did a lot of small multiple prints.Old French coins, which I printed in a ton

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-41076963983861392832010-03-08T23:46:00.007-06:002010-03-08T23:52:49.225-06:00

This photo is only conceptually related to this post's topic -- cleaning up. It's from January when I was doing a semi-annual overhaul of the doll shelves, which involves a lot of hair-washing and redressing. I perched the Kamars up there to dry, then realized they match my bathroom pretty well so I snapped a photo.I have lots of things to blog about and I'm going to try to be better about

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-37496306002672295522009-12-03T09:57:00.004-06:002010-03-08T16:36:51.144-06:00

I just added a whole bunch of photos from the past month + (Halloween, DIY Trunkshow, Art vs. Craft, and various craft fair prep stuff) to my flickr.This weekend is our last fair of the season (Renegade Holiday) and then I get to spend two weeks cleaning and reorganizing my apartment, in preparation for my mom's visit at christmas. Hopefully I'll catch up on sleep somewhere in there...

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-90284084403552073442009-09-24T13:30:00.003-05:002010-03-08T16:45:23.847-06:00

In the interest of updating... I don't have time for a proper update (it's getting to be busy season at work) but I do have a number of projects going.-1000 yo-yos is still underway, although I don't have a current count. I'm going to count again once I exhaust my current stack of cut-out circles, which will hopefully put me around 300. I also need to consider organizing some scrap swaps in order

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-54050717077814418832009-09-03T16:54:00.005-05:002010-03-08T16:46:56.909-06:00

To paraphrase myself from a couple posts ago, the hardest part about working on my portfolio for grad school is getting started. So, consider this a start. A while back I started making these fabric yo-yos, not knowing what I was going to do with them exactly, but knowing that to do anything cool with them, I would need a ton. So my first portfolio project is to make 1000* yo-yos. And then to do

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-77313323558216627252009-05-26T21:06:00.002-05:002010-03-08T16:47:30.529-06:00

I finally made some jewelry out of the faux desserts I had been working on a couple months ago. Please have a look at them on my etsy shop :D

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-44020247659784204602009-03-08T20:21:00.001-05:002010-03-08T16:50:42.743-06:00

In Japan there has been a fad for a while for "sweets jewelry" (basically jewelry and related accessories that are made to look like realistic mini desserts). The jewelry can be bought readymade, but as part of the larger trend for decoden (basically, gluing rhinestones and/or little plastic cute stuff to cellphones, fake nails, etc.) it's also a popular craft-hobby.The local lolitas do a

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-34177025419503197752009-02-27T23:37:00.001-06:002010-03-08T16:52:39.517-06:00

Clearly the hardest thing about blogging regularly is getting started. I feel like I need to make a bunch of introduction/explanation posts to give some background on my projects. But maybe I should just jump in and get started.It's also not helping that I'm having an especially busy time at work lately.I 've been carrying around some very simple dress sketches for weeks, but I keep not having

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-9204662791995940622009-02-19T17:12:00.002-06:002010-03-08T16:53:42.785-06:00

I am going to revive this, since it is apparently the opinion of some of my friends that I should have a blog. Soon I'll make the layout prettier and add links and stuff on the side, but for now I'm going to concentrate on trying to make regular posts.The image on this post is a box of fabric-covered pin badges.I have a little company with my best friend from high school, James (called qylaar)

jordanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11641101794588184846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27388050.post-1151686497551566782006-06-30T11:31:00.000-05:002009-02-19T17:11:29.272-06:00

inspirations dala horses matryoshka dolls snow white/hansel & gretel/heidi (this is always the case but lately it's been really hardcore) hippos peacocks circus animals (less the cages and more the little decorated rugs/saddle-things) flowers on animal haunches (definitely getting its own post) soft/sewn/stuffed houses and buildings psychedelic rock posters techniques to really

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this is my new space to show my sewing and art projects.

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