It’s coming up! The annual American Craft Council Show in Baltimore. I have 4 weeks to start, make and finish new work for the show.

In various stages, some of what I have so far:

A pieced jacket, close to completion. Just a few more tweaks and adjustments, plus collar, back and sleeves, sew it up and it will be finished.

A strip with appliquéd squares for the bottom edge of a trench coat. This picture was taken after I’d pinned the squares in place and was just starting to baste them down. Next step, sew around each.

The one below is more hope and expectation than anything recognizable.

It will be a pieced trench coat, ahem,… a little loose right now. You need to squint, maybe close your eyes, to envision where I think I’m heading.

Stay tuned!

I thought it was a trench coat, but this beautiful lady saw different.

With a tweak here and there and the addition of a belt, we can see what it was all along.

It’s a dress.

What good idea!

Below, a snap shot, taken when I thought it was a trench coat. Although now, looking at it with fresh eyes, it does look more like a dress doesn’t it?

Sewn from two beautiful kimono silks. A black, white and red fan design paired with a black with red dots.

My customers! They are so clever! I learn from them every day.

What a way to welcome the 2020s!

Beautiful Nina and handsome Clif at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Years Eve Gala. Wow!

Nina’s wearing ‘Beaded Burgundy.’ A jacket and skirt I made from a gorgeous layered silk organza. The jacket is embellished with appliqué, piecing and many, many, many beads.

Perfectly paired with a beautiful pin and earrings from Nina’s collection.

Sparkle, glitter and glow, these two know how to ring in our next decade!