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While conveniently hiding from the rain at Selfridges in London I came upon their little shop within a shop of wonderful Dutch design items mostly to wear or for the home. I saw a really beautiful lantern and picked it up – that’s where I learned about Pols Potten.  The lantern was the one below […]

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Textile Arts Center has a fabulous blog full of wonderful fiber artists so many in fact it’s just hard to keep up sometimes with everything cool that they share. I don’t even try but sometimes I just want to post on the same artists over here because they’re great! Such was the case when I […]

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In Chicago last weekend we went into the City one day and walked up and down Michigan Ave. In our true nesting mood we stopped into Anthropologie to look at their homegoods. As a lover of delicate porcelain and knitting my attention was grabbed by the below items. I immediately fell in love but since […]

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A new contributor to my little blog here is my friend Kathryn who is not only my upstairs neighbor in Boston but also an interior designer in training. Today she sent me an image of some gorgeous crocheted baskets at Design Within Reach, called the Neo Baskets. Upon reading the online description I learned that […]

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My brother’s friend Neil told me that he was going to Mass MoCA yesterday basically just to rub it in. He sent me the link to the show he was going to see, Material World: Sculpture to Environment, which looked amazing and was right up my alley. Many of the artists in the show I […]

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As a result of this blog and the work I’m doing over at the Yurt Alert, sometimes people reach out to me! These people are often other wonderful fiber arts experimenting in the medium somehow. This happened just last week when I got an invitation from Jennifer Raish, who has a show up, right now, […]

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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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Just down the block from me in New York is the School of Visual Arts — there are constantly art students out on the street working, talking and putting together shows in their various buildings. One former student there recently caught my eye with her work in buttons, Ran Hwang, who I came across on […]