The Show is Up!

Here is the awesome vinyl lettering on the wall of the gallery for the show! We installed yesterday, and it looks great. Come check it out!!!

Decon Recon Show Delay

If anyone has checked our blog or seen our signs and postcards for the show, they will know our gallery show was supposed to be up today; this is not the case. We did not realize until yesterday morning that the VCU Student Commons is closed for Memorial Day Weekend!! Therefore, we would not have even been able to get in to install yesterday. We will now be installing Wednesday morning, so if you would like to see the show this week, it should be up Thursday, and you should totally check out the Opening Reception on Friday, May 30th from 5-7pm. There will be food and live music!! Bring your friends and come see what we have been working on this semester. In case you didn't realize - it is totally free!!

Photoshoot!

Here is a taste of the photos that will be on display at the show. We had a photoshoot with photographer Audra Wrisley last weekend, May 10th, and it was awesome! There were so many great shots to choose from. You can check out Audra's stuff at http://www.audrawrisley.com (it's on our links as well)

Finito!

I finished binding the Deconstruction-Reconstruction Guest Book! It really was pretty simple to do. I followed the directions from the BUST article I posted, but then I pasted the "cover" into a hard cover I made and covered with guess what?! MUSLIN!! I embroidered Deconstruction-Reconstruction on the cover and added some decorative stitching where I pieced the muslin together.
This would be a great sketch book or gift for someone. Utilizing the grocery bags, muslin, and matt board (scraps I had laying around for the hard cover - you could use any cardboard - recycle) this book cost me nothing to make. Oh, and I did use dental floss to bind it (the BUST article suggests that)

Book Binding!

I am currently working on making a guest book for our upcoming show. I am using deconstructed paper grocery bags torn to make the pages. The finished dimensions should be 7"x8". I am going to make a hard cover that will be covered with muslin embroidered with "Deconstruction-Reconstruction" on the front.
Click the bottom pic to check out the article from BUST magazine from the Winter 2003 issue that makes binding a book pretty easy to understand (I made a book this way after getting the issue in 2003 when I was a senior in high school - so it's not that hard! I used it to record my "rhymes" and made one for my best friend as well)
The other images are of my materials (grocery bags) and the signatures I will use to make the pages. Each of my signatures is made of 3 sheets "cradled one inside the other."
I will post the finished product as soon as I finish stitching!!

Happy Book Binding!

Masses of Muslin

As we are nearing the end of the bulk of our research project, and as the semester comes to a close, I have been trying to get an accurate estimate of how much muslin we have collected. It got a little crazy during the semester, and we started collecting the muslin every two weeks as opposed to every week. I have just now gotten to actually weighing the scraps, and I am trying to put two and two together as far as when the scraps are from and all that. Anyway, from what I have calculated thus far, I think we should have around 100 POUNDS OF MUSLIN. I am also working on calculating an estimate for yardage for comparison. 1 yard of fabric is not that heavy though, so I am a little scared to see how many yards this works out to be.