Record-breaking (snow) in Burlington!

I love records of all sorts. Breaking records is a little like making mixtapes: take previously recorded information and make a new experience! That's just what we've been up to in Burlington. Today is the second snow day in a row for the teachers and schoolkids; the snow stopped last night but the city's still scrambling to plow the sidewalks and you can't have the little guys walking to school in the road (especially after watching yahoos pull donuts all over your neighborhood at night!)

Here's what we've been up to at our snowfort:

Hope you're enjoying the great indoors as well!

1 minute slideshow: "Mothertrucker's Favorite Machines"

Here's the first installment of an audio-visual project I began years ago and envisioned as a book, with a companion record, like we 30-somethings had when we were kids. I still hope to press and print the project someday. Meanwhile, I realized that the blog is a perfect format for sharing my work in progress. Enjoy, and please, comment!

burlington craft busking

Anarchist Craft Circle brings you a rag knitting demonstration!

We used t-shirts cut into strips.

Watch Burlington streets and parks this summer and fall for more demonstrations!

claiming trees for public art

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november projects

I've been keeping busy cranking out caps at the Flying Hen Studio this month. This project is a limited edition of 20 caps in corduroy and recycled denim, some with felt barn swallow applique. I have all 20 orders in and just finished #s 16 and 17 last week.


When this run is over I will have a few caps for sale at The Bobbin on N. Winooski Avenue in Burlington. I'm feeling the cold breath of November and sketching designs for some winter wear. When I'm not working in the studio, at my hospice job, or taking care of my twins, sometimes I get together with friends and...


... make something!

Looking to participate in an unusual group project? Anarchist Craft Cicle will meet again on Friday Nov. 23 from 4 to 6 pm at the aforementioned Bobbin. We are working on a (secret) group project. Catch a glimpse below, and come help out this friday!


(what is it? can't say!)

knitting dragons...

Gallery open 12 to 6 tommorrow

The Flying Hen Stairway Gallery will be open from 12 to 6 pm tommorrow, Saturday July 28 for the Ramble. Please stop by if you're in the hood. Above is the building's facade; gallery door is located off the driveway.

This photo is a note from my desk. The chevron stripes are a sleeve hem from a sweater nearly finished. Sewing the components together may have to wait until I finished reading a certain giant book just released last weekend (shhh! say nothing!). Corrugated cardboard barn swallows are left over from preparing a stencil for the community graffiti project at Kriya Studio. If the babies' teeth allow, I just might get to paint it, insha'allah!

paper mobile finished

The paper mobile project is finished! One is in the mail to Boston and the other is hanging over the kitchen crib, to help out when watching Mothertrucker cook isn't quite interesting enough...

The mobiles inspired me to share some other images of lovely things hanging in the studio, including this amalgamation:
and this piece of fabric which I knit from strips of torn cotton shirts.
A final photo for today's post:

This is my main work surface looking,as it often does, cluttered with projects in various stages of completion and chaos.

bag bag

There has been renewed interest in one of my favorite projects completed last year: Bag Bag. I knit this from thin strips of plastic cut from select bags from the utility closet collection. The handles were purchased. Here's Bag Bag on the move:

Here are some details of the fabric.




In other news, dub legend Lee Scratch Perry came to Burlington this past weekend. He put on a damn good show for a septuagenarian. We also enjoyed the performance of Brooklyn-based Dub Is a Weapon. It was one of those blissful events that makes us so grateful for the lake, the mountains, and abundant art and music that make Burlington a damn fine place to live and raise children.

If you're in Burlington this month, visit Viva Espresso on North Winooski to see some lovely photographs of rusted metal and weathered wood by Tres Crady.