peep

peep
Originally uploaded by relentlesstoil.

Last year I did a big series of nursery prints about animals and the sounds they make. They were very much geared toward the tiniest of audience members: high contrast, very simple, and unique enough but not very stylized. Today I am thinking of how blissful it would be to design a whole nursery around this new animal-sound-related image, but I think it's maybe too visually sophisticated -- my little girl (age 2) didn't recognize this as a bird when I first showed it to her, and I like her art to be accessible to her.
Still, it's so cuuuuute and springtimey! What do your little ones think?

Bunny

Bunny
Originally uploaded by relentlesstoil.

We've got bunnies on the brain. My daughter was pretty wound up when we put her to bed, and among the songs she sang to herself was this:
Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies, bunnies everywhere
Bunnies in the kitchen, bunnies on the stairs
She conked out pretty soon after that.
I'm gonna take the day off Friday and we're gonna make paper bunnies that look a lot like this. Well, that is my plan, anyway. She may have a different plan. :)

Show in Progress

Show in Progress
Originally uploaded by relentlesstoil.

Here's my part of The Curiosity Shoppe show. Some of the quilts were done using the "dryer sheet applique" method (which I feel must be spread like Gospel to every quilter on earth -- I really enjoy it and it's the least cumbersome and least kloodgey applique method I've tried and, really, I've tried them all), and others were done by printing onto fabric and then quilting the contours.

My First Show!

The final candidates
Originally uploaded by relentlesstoil.

I've been so excited (and so not blogging much) lately because, in addition to my usual load of toil I recently added all the preparation for my first SHOW. It's at the Curiosity Shoppe, 4th and South in Philadelphia, until the end of May; we opened Friday night (a very joyous occasion for me). I also made sure to sleep pretty well this past weekend to make up for all the midnight oil!