Saturday, September 5, 2009

In the frontal lobe


Thinking about elephants again , I got out the gloves (this time) and dyed some gorgeous Doctors flannel to just the right shade of pachyderm grey.

I worked some more on a toy-ish kind of robot. Each different colour fabric represents a different version of the same part so this is a conglomeration of attempts 1,2,3,4,and 5 !!!


I put the book and the fabric in the same spot, and given my dislike of sensible(actual clothes type) sewing that in itself is a pretty good start!

and just so you know, if I were a girl turtle I would so fall in love with this guy.
His name is Ernst and he has that slightly heavy-hearted, wistful little man-turtle thing going on ....and (I'm just saying) its working for me...

in a girl-turtle kind of way of course

32 comments:

  1. ernst reads the existential poets doesn't he?

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  2. Sounds like a very productive day... but I think it is well and trully time for bed, given that you're imagining your a girl-turtle and looking sideways at Ernst!

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  3. Oh Jodie - Ernst is beautiful and if I were a girl-turtle I would so fight you for him!! Love your work.

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  4. does Ernst write poetry in a earnest sort of way?

    ohh so you are going to make a skirt? to actually wear or is the book just a sort of paper or rather fabric weight?

    I have some t-shirts to cut up for t-shirt yarn and possibly a t-shirt throw...BABBLE babble babble

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  5. If you were the only girl turtle in the world... and Ernst was the only boy turtle...!

    I reckon he's into Tennyson and Christina Rossetti myself... does the skirty book mean you are going to make a girly turtly for Ernst?

    Magda girl turtle perhaps?

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  6. I love how you say what is on your mind and don't hold anything back... You're not holding anything back are you? Because that would be a little scary....

    Oh, and I think the turtle is very handsome and poetic and thoughtful looking too.

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  7. Ernst is fabulous - he looks very wistful.

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  8. I just went clothes shopping. UGH! Came home with one top. I'd rather wear skirts but those are even hard to find to fit me and I don't sew clothing! Double ugh!! Well isn't Ernest looks like he's comtemplating the world. I had a stuffed turtle growing up...oh the names we give our critters. I had Tipsy Topsy Turtle. Perhaps a drunk turtle when I was 7?

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  9. You ARE going to make Ernst a girl-turtle-friend aren't you? Because, um, I'm not quite sure how to put this really, but er, you might be just a bit too tall and scary for Ernst to return you feelings..........

    Just saying.

    Locket x

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  10. Who wouldn't want to give Ernst a big hug!! Hope he finds a friend...

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  11. Ernst is beautiful, he has my heart!

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  12. Does Ernst have a jacket with elbow patches tucked away in his wardrobe? I think that would be his attire of choice.

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  13. oh ernest...be still my beating heart
    How gorgeous is he...
    Loving the flannel so glad you wore gloves this time...

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  14. You've been a busy girl today - LOVE your work! - I've been in the garden!

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  15. Awww, Ernst is too sweet. He's looking out the window waiting for his woman turtle to come home. {Swoon}

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  16. ernst is cute, but he has the unfair advantadge of being a turtle - it is well known that turtles are the cutest of all the cute beings in this world.

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  17. Your posts make me giggle .... every time!!

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  18. Ernst is very cute turtles can live to be 200 so a little waiting for a friend is OK. I'm putting on my dying glove today and having a play.

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  19. Just when I think you've created the very cutest creatures (like the hedgehogs) you come up with something even cuter. I LOVE Ernst and I have some green wool I bought at a garage sale. With black squares on it. How perfect is that?? Would you like to trade a bit of green wool for a turtle tutorial??

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  20. love reading your posts, I love the way your mind works, and how you always seem to have a million things happening at the same time. too cool for school

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  21. that turtle is just too darn cute!

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  22. So you remembered the gloves for the dyeing, well done Jodie. I think Ernst is just admiring the weather outside the window, looking at how gray it is today. He seems to have a lot of admirers already and I am sure you have something in the works for him to have a friend, it doesnt have to be a turtle does it. He could be like Franklin and have a friendly snail for a pal!

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  23. Ernst is adorable, I'm sure there will be a lot if girls standing in line....

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  24. As Ernst gazes wistfully out the window into the middle distance how could he not have a bevy of girl-turtles swooning at his feet/flippers?

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  25. Oooh what a sweet little man-turtle he is! He looks like he's waving.

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  26. Oh! Ernst! I love him. Urgh, how are you always sooooo good? Jealous :)

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  27. Ernst is AWESOME!! I love turtles and would love to be his lady turtle!!

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  28. Ernst looks like he's having deep, deep thoughts. I bet he doesn't know himself how cute he really is!

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  29. That is a VERY soulful stare on Mister Ernst, no wonder he hooked you in.

    Also, I like the look of that skirt book. I hope you make something ace with it, even if it is sensible sewing.

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  30. my son has an obsession with turtles and I think I may have caught it because your little guy just melts my heart!

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  31. Ernst is gorgeous! He sure pulls at your heartstrings looking so forlorn like that. I just want to give him big hug..in a girl-turtle kind of way of course!

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Hellloooooo !!!!