Showing posts with label handmade pillows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handmade pillows. Show all posts

Monday, August 31, 2015

Good Year for Free Publicity


Selling at Five Crows Gallery, Natick, MA
Selling from The DrawingRoom
 at Anthi's,  Marion, MA
also won PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD, Post Road Art Center, Marboro, MA





Sudbury Design Week group event
mentioned in NEHome


Drawing Room's window displays six of my creations

Result after working 3 hours CubScouts /
 a recycling project, now displayed at
Peter Noyes Elementary School, Sudbury, MA 

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Free-Motion Stitching Has Me Climbing the Walls

Ovals, leaves, surfboards ... call the shapes that you want.  Applying FMS to colorful, textured, pliable, lightweight leather shapes and then exhibiting them on a wall brings a new mind-set to the uninspired term, wall-hanging.

detail of FMS (free-mtion stitching)
Leather wall-hanging, 30"x 45"
previously made earthy pillow with similar shaped motif

This large leather wall-hanging SOLD recently at Anthi's Drawing Room, Marion MA.
The earthy colors  and textures in this wall-hanging reminded me of stones in a river or creek bed.
The tricky part in this project was figuring out the path for attachment.
River Stone Flow, 40"

Monday, September 8, 2014

Student Projects / Summer 2014

Ready to take flight
Would you believe a lightbulb
is underneath it all?



A 10-year old student had a hoot repurposing an
assortment of found objects
Exploring mark-making in black-n-white on brown

A teen sketched her pillow design, cut the leather,
sewed together the 4 sides & sketched the free-motion stitching for me to add.


The technique of fusing plastic bags was introduced.
This student then took her newly-made "plastic cloth" home and used it to cover her block hooks.
 Very cool !

Purple Pig did not forget to stop and smell the roses.


This student wrote his name in bold marker lettering,
water-colored the negative space, cut apart the squares and rearranged the pieces 

Found-object fish
Art in the summer studio moved along swimmingly.