Cinema Club Halloween Watchlist!
We've put together a great list of spooky movies and animation from 1929 to 2020! Please join us all month long as we watch some Halloween favorites! CINEMA CLUB HALLOWEEN WATCHLIST
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Cinema Club Sunday Roundup
New vlog post up: Cinema Club Sunday Roundup, talking about V: The Final Battle, Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior), Return to the 36th Chamber, Babe & Babe: Pig in the City
The Phantom Tollbooth, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Unforgiven, & V:...
New vlog post up on You Tube, it's the Cinema Club Sunday Roundup!
Birthday Update Vlog Post
Today is my birthday, so I did a vlog post talking about the last year and my hopes for the future:
Time Lapse Shibori Binding
Someone asked for a timelapse video of my shibori binding process, so here it is. This is almost an hour of work compressed into 28 seconds. I'm binding half a yard of fabric into the Ori Nui design that I use for making my teeth masks. First I do a line of running stitches along a fold in the fabric, and after I've done seven of those lines, I pull all the threads tight, which gathers and pleats the fabric up along the stitched lines. After that, I gather the loose sections of fabric between the stitched lines and wrap around the outside with more thread. This produces the patterning on the fabric in the left panel below. Dye day is coming up just as soon as I can complete 5 more of these panels!
Constriction & Expansion
I've been doing Adriene's HOME 30 day series this month. Every session is great, and I learn something new every time (either a pose, or a transition, or maybe something about myself). Today's theme is "return" - and this one was hard on me. Not physically, but hard on my spirit. Adriene gives little prompts throughout the video, to focus on the idea of "return" and what we might be trying to return to. Every time she gave the prompt, my mind would focus on the wish to return to what life was like before Sean had the stroke. Of course it's impossible to go back, to return to that life, and the wish itself feels foolish. So if not that, what can I seek to return to? I was talking to Sean yesterday about how it feels like my life is slowly contracting. Before the stroke, it felt open, expansive, full of possibility. Being knocked into the Stroke Dimension made my world so much smaller, as I bounced between hospital, rehab, home, doctors' offices, ...
Introduction
I hate introductions, but they always feel necessary, so here ya go. If you don't know me already, hello. My name is Katie. I'm an artist (mostly textile arts and photography but I dabble in other media as well), a small business owner (www.goblinko.com), a wife (to my business partner, Sean), a mother & teacher (I homeschool my three kids between 10-14 years old), and now a runner as well (did Couch to 5K under Covid lockdown and kept on running). I love movies and do a weekly Cinema Club roundup/review video on my YouTube channel. My husband had a severe stroke two years ago, so I live in a place called the Stroke Dimension (it's like regular life, but not), and my life feels limited in a lot of ways because of it, but I'm also a positive person always looking towards the future. In starting my new blog, I struggled a bit with what to call it, but ultimately settled on Running Stitch. Stitching and running are my two favorite things to do, and there is a hand se...