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Anchorage, Alaska born Kate Carr is an amazing sculptor who is all about her materials, which oftentimes is textiles, fabric, felt and other materials I love. Felt Coils, above is cut felt sewn together onto a plywood backing. It looks to me like rings of a tree, which I’ve seen people wet felt before in […]

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I’m writing today from Chicago. We’re here for the Thanksgiving holiday with my boyfriend’s family and boy is it cold. It’s got me thinking about crochet, knitwear, felting, and anything that would warm my feet! I had sent myself an email last week of links to artists’ pages I found somewhere along the way (and […]

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Emily Dvorin is a self-defined sculptural basketmaker. She works in vessel format but uses recycled, upcycled materials that are commonly thought of as commercial products, including but not limited to wire, fabric, plastics, etc. She uses these materials to discuss overconsumption, “societal excess, and throwaway consumerism.” In using the vessel shape she ends up creating […]

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Happy November! I can’t believe how fast the last 10 days have gone by – Halloween, our friends’ wedding, NYC for work, Esplanade benefit, houseguests – now we’re at November 6th – crazy! It was nice to get an extra hour of sleep last night and I’m pretty sure I spent that hour banging around […]

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Thanks to Pinterest and it randomly making me follow strangers I learned about the work of Sonya Philip! Gotta love random algorithms. Sonya is a knitter and says of herself that her work is born in patience, which it’s so true of many of the artists I write about here – their work takes patience, […]

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After nearly a week of being under the weather, I’m feeling marginally alive again. I can almost breath through my nose! In the spirit of the laziest four days of my life being behind me I’m posting about a young woman who seems to be doing a LOT with her time, Bethany Mitchell. I’m pretty […]

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I’m hooked on Pinterest – this isn’t going to be the last time I say this but the site is awesome. I added the “Pin It” button to my toolbar and now as I’m cruising the internet I’m pinning stuff, repinning other people and liking what everyone else is up to. One pin that I […]

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I probably get 40 shopping emails a day from all sorts of sites – group buying, discount, just awesome – and I hate to say it but rarely is there a day when I have time to open any of them except for the home decorating ones. Today I really didn’t have time but I’d […]

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In looking for more continuing education opportunities for myself around Boston I came upon MassArt’s upcoming Fiber Arts class on Sculptural Knitting, which would be one way to describe my yurt project. In the course description, there was a link to artist Nathalie Miebach, I assume because her work is some kind of awesome. This […]

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Writing this blog has allowed me to meet some very cool people. Sometimes I find them and in some lucky cases, they find me. That is the case of Ingrid Stout. Think that website of hers is sparse? Perhaps it’s because Ingrid is just beginning her art career – she’s about to graduate from Gray’s School […]