I Won't Wear It Mama

I've been pondering whether it's possible to have a fabric addiction. One of my recent binges has been hanging in my four year old's closet for a week or so. She won't even try it on. The whole thing is a blur (read: addiction symptom) but I know for sure I didn't use a pattern. I started with the idea of turning two legs of a block printed salwar from an outgrown salwar kameez (women's Punjabi suit) into puffy sleeves that could have come right out of "Oklahoma!". I threw together a torso that involved red polka dots. I pleated some of the trim. I made a bow tie at the sternum. I now have something that is a piece of art...for the wall. Body art for the wall, wall art for the body? To come full circle I'll have to look into making a wallpaper dress. Maybe she'll wear that.

All Around the Kitchen

Pete Seeger's much-censored antiwar classic "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" isn't my (musically) favorite Seeger song. But here we are in the aftermath of Scott Brown's election to the Senate and the Supreme Court's affirmation of corporate personhood.

Cock a Doodle Doo.
Off to cook a pudding for the eight-year-old.

originally posted on Bloglines 1/22/10.