a studio journal
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Tomorrow is Fiber Frenzy, a fund-raising event at the Textile Center of Minnesota, 10am-3pm. Buy handmade textiles and help the non-profit Textile Center.
I have donated two items from my inventory – a Coneflower pillow and minnow runner.
minnow runner
Coneflower pillow
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I sold two tea cozies this past weekend to a woman from Moscow! It makes me smile to think that one will warm her mother-in-law’s teapot in Moscow, another her mother’s teapot somewhere in France! She bought them from my “old” Etsy shop, which features screen-printed items for the home. The design began as a paper cutting. I call it my Haiku House finch Tea Cozy. The haiku reads:
Curious house finch
Tastes the ripe crabapple –
Daylight grows short.
Tea Cozies, screen-printed on 100% cotton velveteen with fiber-reactive dyes
I’m working on a new online shop that will feature my katazome work. If all goes smoothly, I plan to launch it sometime in November.
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Sunrise up my road
Two smallish pieces are in the works, one of which I will submit to the annual BirdxBird benefit and silent auction here in Minneapolis. (This event is the hippest art event I have ever participated in!) My posts this week trace the progress of this work. Thankfully I’m closer to completing these pieces than the posts indicate. I get more focused as a deadline approaches. Yea for deadlines!
I dyed some linen/cotton blend with freeze dried indigo crystals. The indigo isn’t as deep a value as I desired. I used a bucket inside a dishpan, replacing the water in the dishpan frequently to keep the temperature up. Stitched resist creates the line design. I Pulled the threads on one piece, which made air pockets. These need to be squished out before slipping the wet fabric into the vat. I’m a beginner with indigo.
the one with pulled up threads
one with flat stitching
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I am a textile artist from St. Paul, Minnesota. I make decorative and functional objects, hand-painted in the Japanese tradition of katazome, or stencil-dyeing, using natural dyes on linen, cotton and silk. My work celebrates daily meetings with the wild birds, plants, and lake breezes of my local urban surroundings. Welcome to my blog, where I share notes, images and inspiration.
