Welcome to the studio.

or

This is what the inside of my brain looks like.

The endless quilting.

A is for The Art World's Big Game Hunter, Ruth Kligman

A different black bar for bad-luck-charm Ruth 

(I like the first one best.)

Full frame of Ruth's panel.

I wish I realized my spelling mistake before I did all that quilting.

Hubba-Hubba for Joe Namath with A is for All American Stud

 "When You're a Jet...."

Full-frame Joe

Thank you to the lovely Emily at Live Free Photography for printing a gorgeous alphabet book of Joe and Company. 

Let's hear it for the hard to like but ever slender 

Wallis Simpson as our B is for Bird in a Gilded Cage

A big ol' thank you to the multi-talented Cheryl Sigouin for lending her machine embroidery charms to the project. 

Full-frame

 Poor poor Fatty Arbuckle as the gluttonous cautionary tale of

B is for Baccus.

Full frame 

 Have to admit the word 'Baccus' was introduced into my vocabulary by Sookie Stackhouse on HBO's 

True Blood.

 I have to admit I have a real soft spot for 

C is for Common Denominator 

Judith Campbell Exner.

 Word that got cropped out is rough.
As in 'that crew plays rough,' 

Full-frame Judy
Mental not to self -
adding the full frame shots in later was a less than ideal choice.

Wish the anonymity bar with Ring a Ding Ding was longer.

 Sorry Charlie but it's C is for Chicken Hawk for you.

Chicken Hawk Charlie with the paisley edging.

The story of Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanado 

(best last name ever.)

D is for Dead on Arrival

Still working on finishing D is for Don't Fuck with me, fellas! 

 Miss Blaze Starr as E is for Ecdyiast*

*strip-tease artist, term coined by H.L Mencken for his friend Gypsy Rose Lee.

 I think she needs embroidered star pasties.

Truman Capote's unfortunate swan-dive in Et Tu, Brute?

 The co-dependent wreck of a muse to the Quality-Lit-Set, 
Violet Trefusis, as
F is for Footnote

Sorry it's wonky and off-kilter.

Even if it's just a corner, I'm glad the silver paisley frayed edging that I searched high and low for and spent every trip in the car that I wasn't driving, fraying away at - 

finally made it into a photo.

 The morally-flexible Woody in F is for Family Values.

 The Divine Miss M as G is for Groupie.

 This may be my favorite.

First the G panel went to J. Edgar Hoover's BFF, 

Clyde Tolson with 

G is for G-Man.

There were too many 20th/21st century histories for the guys. So now we've moved on to Thomas Jefferson and 

G is for Great Men.

 Walk a wide circle ladies, Ted Hughes is 

H is for Heartbreaker.

 Yes Ted, it might be you.

This brings us to I is for...