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Craft in America: Threads
I know where I’ll be Friday, May 11 at 9:00 pm. I’ll be in front of a television watching Craft in America: Threads. It’s the award winning documentary series exploring the history of craft in America. This one has a special place in my heart, it’s about four textile artists who use fibers and threads to [...]
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Spring and Inspiration
We have it! It is here and it is so beautiful. Spring! It’s all about new beginnings, when anything is possible and all options are open. I’ve been thinking about new work, about color, shape and patterns. It feels like I could do anything. So many ideas. I look in any direction and am inspired. [...]
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Beaded Cuffs, Finished!
A while back, when this top was in process, I posted pictures of my inspiration; women with bracelets and more bracelets worn together in a glittering mass. I lined up the beads in rows, on the cuffs and at the neckline, to look like strands. It’s a blouse with its own built in bracelets and [...]
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Connecting
One of the best things about my job? The wonderful people I meet: the collectors, the special occasion, one time only buyers and the stop by to say hi and see what I’ve been up to folks. I love getting to know each and every one. Then there are my fellow craft show artists. I’ve [...]
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Beading for a Mother of a Bride
I’m working on a pretty Mother of the Bride jacket, sewing little glass beads onto a gorgeous kimono silk. It has a traditional garden design with Japanese houses and buildings tucked in, under and between flowering trees. The beads add a sparkling, 3 dimensional edge. Beading is a long process, but welcome. I find it [...]
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No Skirts?!?
You know how predictions for the future are a fusion of what might happen layered on top of the way things are now? We see the new and guess how it will impact tomorrow. But it’s not really the future. It’s today with the new added in. In particular, you see it with fashion. The [...]
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I love Meisen!
Meisen silk trench coats. I love these silks! You remember how they make ‘meisen’, that amazing Japanese silk? First they weave the fabric, then they print the design. Then, unweave [yes, UNWEAVE] and then REWEAVE. The reweaving is always slightly off so instead of a design with sharp clean edges, they are fuzzy. Meisen kimonos [...]
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Kimono Silk Jackets
One last look, a few snap shots of jackets I sent off at the ACC Baltimore craft show. “Leaf”, sewn from two different kimono silks. I sewed on the little coral beads as though they were veins in the leaves. The natural coral looks like tiny irregular sticks. Pink and grey, I love that color [...]
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Fantastic Show! Baltimore 2012
Baltimore 2012, what a fantastic show! I had a wonderful time, visited with old friends, made some new and sent many of my jackets, coats and separates out into the world. A good thing! I shot these pictures before the show started, everything is in place and ready to go. Like the table before [...]
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Gift for Mom