Un chapeau noir et blanc

Just one more hat ....
Before the Open Studio...
Suggested by a Friend...
and who knew, I'd love it so....
Like a French film running in my head .... noir et blanc,
I started on a hat while sitting in a room, and occasionally using a broom
Because my red kitchen floor attracts dirt like crazy.

 Circles of white, buttons from a box...

 Simple white felt,

listening to WNYC

Two phones in case...

 Audacious, big buttons

A little scary...

 Shelf stuff...

New favorite bracelet.

Rose from my birthday.

Laurence Kazar label.

From a new, sequin blouse...

 Glace thread.

Left over from FIT.

Number 2 pencil.

Cause I'm doing Sunday crossword...

 Paper on my table. 

Protects the table.

Good for making notes.

Thimble for my finger...

Head block for blocking.

Size 23.

"Finishing the hat

How you have to finish the hat

How you watch the rest of the world

From a window

While you finish the hat"*

 "Coming from the hat

Studying the hat

Entering the world of the hat"*

 "Reaching through the world of the hat 

like a window

Back to this one and that"*

"Fishing a hat

Starting on a hat

Finishing a hat

Look I made a hat

Where there never was a hat..."*

Asterisked lyrics from

"Sunday in the Park with George"

by Stephen Sondheim