bits and bobbins

i’ve been thinking a lot lately about personal visual obsessions.

sometimes, when one opens their eyes to certain things (like colors, shapes, motifs, and the like), suddenly it seems as if the object of our obsession is everywhere.

one of my obsessions is the juxtaposition of orange and green.

sometimes i feel like i am a little insane, being so obsessed with color! i often wonder if i seem freakish with my obsessions and experimentalism in this realm, dashing colors together with what must seem like abandon!

i keep falling in love with how colors look next to one another. i love to play.

often, i’ll just be sitting there, flipping through a magazine, watching tv, walking down the street, or making art (in the form of my sewing, knitting, whatever) and suddenly, i start to fixate and meditate/daydream about/on certain colors and combinations and i think about ways to experiment and test my color ideas.

lately, i’ve been thinking a lot about grey and orange, too! i love the idea of such a contrast: the blindingly bright against the neutral, and the disparity in the values.

at the moment, i’m also rather entranced by textures, or shapes, or patterns, such as:

-large bleach spots on denim
-felted wool
-the simplicity of smooth worsted wool knitted in stockinette, so all fashioning marks are seen (in knitwear), or really, in any stitch pattern.
-walnut or teak wood (that warm, medium tone of wood), but really any wood
-the glossiness of glass or sheen of some ceramic glazes
-the exotic, luxurious, varied feel and look of snakeskin
-the nubbly, flat look of needlepoint wool on needlepoint pillows
-the crinkly stiffness of linen
-circles
-patchwork anything. anything in a tiled format, or anything pieced together from somewhat disparate parts.

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what colors or textures are you obsessed with?

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i looked like an elf on sunday. just being crazy and mixing up what’s left in my closet after the big post-cross-country purge of ‘06. also, making kissy faces at my black cat, girl.

-rust colored hand-knit alpaca cowl: knit by me
-chartreuse linen shift dress with giant chrysanthemum print: marimekko
-green 70s square-neck vintage tee: thrifted in florida.
-black leggings worn like tights: newport news (from when leggings were hard to find several years back)
-black ankle boots, folded down: thrifted last week @ thrift town, SF.
-red-orange plastic bangle: thrift town, SF.
-green plastic bangle: beacon’s closet, williamsburg, brooklyn.
-red-orange enamel earrings: thrifted in florida.
-green lucite cocktail ring: alexis bittar

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the apartment is starting to come together:

will likely replace these ikea chairs with the eames plywood lounge chairs i’ve mentioned before around these parts, most likely in walnut.
when we can afford them, of course. no huge hurry.

for now, i’m happy with the IKEA lounge chairs we have…

the table is a new acquisition. it’s a mid-century piece, which was
hand-tiled by an artist, perhaps a potter?

new jonathan adler pillows! made in custom colors i chose. i heart them.

i am also considering making my own needlepoint pillows, to join these on the couch, in shades of red, orange, and green, of course.

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still need a rug (perhaps a tan or off-white flokati, as mentioned), a small side table, and a nice lamp for said side table in the living room. i’m really loving this lamp from crate and barrel:

or, as i kind of like the idea of adding a little white into the decor, in small doses…
this cute giraffe lamp from jonathan adler is mighty cute:
http://www.jonathanadler.com/shop/product.php?cat=385&productid=16768

or any from him, really…he’s amazing!

orange!
it’s a beautiful, sunny day here in san francisco off to pick up some pillows we had made for our pad at jonathan adler.
and maybe drink a couple pints.

-turquoise polyester chiffon blouse that i actually wore in the first ever W_R shot: thrifted in florida.
-red-orange 70s tunic sweater with bright fuchsia buttons: thrifted in florida
-denim mini-skirt with birds on it: ivana helsinki
-orange leggings worn like tights: american apparel
-brown vintage joan and david couture boots: thrifted @ goodwill on e. 23rd street, manhattan.
-orange oversized wooden bead necklace: UO ages and ages ago.
-red-orange enamel earrings: thrifted in florida