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I think perhaps it’s my new home in Boston and the fact that it’s much colder up here than New York was but I can’t get blankets off my mind. Just last night I had to pack a few away into the trunk in my bedroom because there were simply too many blankets on my […]

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Yesterday at the  Nest fundraiser for the Kolkata girls I was introduced to Christina DesVaux who runs Textura, which sells handmade knits from Uruguay. She and I bonded, pretty much immediately, over bulk wool issues. I told her about my yurt project and how amazing it was that ideas can take off the way they […]

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Yesterday afternoon was the Phillips de Pury theme auction called, Latin America, of all contemporary Latin American inspired or rooted works. One of the artists at auction was Tanya Aguiniga, whose work I missed when I went to the press preview a few weeks ago. Tanya has a MFA in furniture design from RISD, which […]

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Next week, on Tuesday the 23rd, Nest is hosting an event for Proud Mary at the lingerie boutique, Journelle here in New York. I think this is an amazing group of women coming together – the fabulous Claire Chambers who run Journelle, Rebecca Kousky at Nest and Molly and Harper of Proud Mary, the company […]

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Based in Australia, Dinosaur Designs brings together a lot of things I’m into. The company was founded in 1985, the women who founded it were students in art school together and they make pieces that are inspired by nature and its patterns – their most recent collection was on funghi. The lines encompass jewelry, textiles […]

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I just Googled some how tos on needle felting so as to not waste any roving and I came across Stephanie Metz so I needed to pause and share before starting whatever project I may be getting involved in. Over a year ago my brother sent me one of Stephanie’s teddy bear studies as a […]

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I received my needle felting kit and roving from my mother at the end of last week and immediately left town for the weekend so I’m excited to go home and play around soon! In the meantime I’ve kept my imagination busy by exploring Ronel Jordaan’s site with all the lovely images of her felting […]

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As I get more and more into crochet and what one can do with it I find myself learning about pretty odd things – one being The Institute of Figuring, which has an amazing section on hyperbolic space and its representations in crochet and how that can be used to represent Coral Reefs – see […]

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With my affinity for all things nature-y in textiles I came upon Joel Dewberry and his fabrics. His five lines are generally organized into complimentary tones and patterns that are fun and unexpected. My favorites though are the patterns that involve elements like leaves, branches and stamen. These orchid flowers are terrific and I love […]

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Another fabulous female textile designer I learned about today is Carolina Irving who sort of reminds me of John Robshaw in her patterns but her touch is much lighter. Her Andaluz print is on 100% hemp and is hand-printed. Above is in Paprika, below is Lichen, which I also really like. It seems natural that […]