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Creativity, Happiness and an Interesting Life – Being in Flow
I’m having a block this week. Nothing flows. Not shoe making, or creating, or writing or making anything of any kind (including my bed). There are only jumbled thoughts in my head and I feel a bit...
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Liu Bolin or "The Art of Being Invisible"
This week is a somewhat unusual. My friends from Germany are visiting and they keep me wonderfully busy. This means 2 things. First, blogging and stitching time is sparse and I miss that. Next week,...
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Inspiring People: Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger (1899 – 1981) was a German (and later British) silhouette animator and film director. She was most well known for “Prince Achmed”, a stop motion movie completed in 1926 and the oldest...
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Stitched Words: Agnes Richter and Rosalind Wyatt
While thinking of stitched words, two remarkable examples of embroidered garments came to mind. The linen jacket above was made by Agnes Richter, a seamstress and patient in an Austrian asylum during...
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Foreclosure Quilts – Amazing Series by Kathryn Clark
Before becoming a full time artist, Kathryn Clark spent several years working as an urban planner and architect. Through this work she became aware early, that the onset of the foreclosures during the...
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“Money is the Cheapest Thing…”
“If you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do. Money is the cheapest thing. Liberty and Freedom are the most expensive.” Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue once said that “we all dress...
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Alabama Studio Sewing + Design
When Natalie Chanin’s latest book “Alabama Studio Sewing + Design” arrived at my mailbox yesterday, my heart skipped several beats (don’t worry, I’m fine now). It’s her third book about hand-sewing and...
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Mara Baldwin is in Mimi’s Attic
How to remember your dreams 100" x 75" disarticulated fitted bedsheet 2010 Mara Baldwin is an artist I met this weekend at Mimi’s Attic, my favorite local thrift store. She’s a graduate of the...
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Wear and Tear
Manon Gignoux makes clothes, soft sculptures, accessories and jewelry using pieces of fabric to create soft colored faded beauties. (Manon Gignoux’s website is under construction, but you can download...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840 – 1924) was one interesting women. Intellectually curious, she loved to travel and with her husband Jack, they visited Europe, Egypt, Turkey and the Far East to learn...
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