tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56172571872294684082024-03-13T07:50:34.517-07:00Creativity, Life, Inspiration, and DesignThis is the blog of Susan Lazear, Creative Director and owner of Cochenille Design Studio, a company that produces software for the textile arts, and Professor of Fashion at Mesa College in San Diego, California.
www.cochenille.comSusan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.comBlogger471125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-75969314389006934972024-01-08T20:45:00.000-08:002024-01-08T20:45:32.851-08:00<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Update on this Blog</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: arial;">January, 2023</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have not had much time to keep this blog actively growing, yet it has a lot of great content from times when I did have more time.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So, enjoy what is here.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Please check out my other blogs (which are related to my business or reading).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.cochenille.com/cochenilleblog/" target="_blank">Creative on Cochenille</a> - a blog related to creative endeavors at Cochenille Design Studio</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://creativereadsreviews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Favorite Reads</a> - I'm an avid reader and I share mostly fiction books related to Art, Design, Sewing, Craft</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://cochenilleusersofnote.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cochenille Users of Interest</a> - this is a new Blog where we share what our software users are doing with our programs.</span></p><p><br /></p>Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13906079820549124851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-5963774565069492562023-12-24T19:28:00.000-08:002024-01-08T19:41:18.454-08:00Non-Traditional Christmas Tree #19, 2023<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: arial;">A Literary Tree - 2023 - <br /># 19 in the Non-Traditional Christmas Tree</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmzjXU1VdrZsVI6NsbsM7sGrl2iLzem7cEDFHyipzx3kdC-qi276iaQ140Oh7zubu-KHchPgUI-wyw_sgq9pcZDBwxTd9QPpKm9BPbqWW-1GkVhXijQo5MM23Kgf6zJ2JBIxYIET5ubfXL2Su_W4Unuyk48Z3IX9nK_slJDzDxeB6qsOT940tvhM_2CI/s1000/16BE0E37-3CC8-4B32-8356-69120DB53AEE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgmzjXU1VdrZsVI6NsbsM7sGrl2iLzem7cEDFHyipzx3kdC-qi276iaQ140Oh7zubu-KHchPgUI-wyw_sgq9pcZDBwxTd9QPpKm9BPbqWW-1GkVhXijQo5MM23Kgf6zJ2JBIxYIET5ubfXL2Su_W4Unuyk48Z3IX9nK_slJDzDxeB6qsOT940tvhM_2CI/s320/16BE0E37-3CC8-4B32-8356-69120DB53AEE.jpg" width="256" /></span></a></div></h2><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This year, my non-traditional Christmas tree was made from old Italian books. I started this project while in Italy, and continued it in California as well.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I had seen the idea in a home decorating magazine, and thus set out to find books that could easily be used for the project. This meant that I needed to find older books that had what are called signatures. Signatures are small booklets (of sorts) that are joined together to create a bigger book.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So, I spent time looking through Used Book stores for the right kind of books and easily found some.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The first batch I brought home were beautiful books unto themselves and my friends told me I could NOT destroy these. (never mind the fact that I couldn't really read them, as they were in Italian).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Basically, the process is simple:</span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Separate the inside of the book from its cover</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Separate the signatures from the inside (which involves an X-acto knife)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Start folding... each page the same.</span></li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhFktBAr9o2VMMx4sVK9Iig7pommW0IC05DHToFt-zYK5BJ3tdzTkOrddqrQNj1DDa_oeqN_lX6CuY21QNCtQ3H2u6OV5IibmkgzXhsPoAdR_W_dJhoTURcHEBdVilJDw5eePgKUV-JC5IotTx7SEqkx4Z_F2DWT-_u6EbEoUOYh1UVkM7bvD0FkC6EvI/s1000/IMG_7969.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhFktBAr9o2VMMx4sVK9Iig7pommW0IC05DHToFt-zYK5BJ3tdzTkOrddqrQNj1DDa_oeqN_lX6CuY21QNCtQ3H2u6OV5IibmkgzXhsPoAdR_W_dJhoTURcHEBdVilJDw5eePgKUV-JC5IotTx7SEqkx4Z_F2DWT-_u6EbEoUOYh1UVkM7bvD0FkC6EvI/w240-h320/IMG_7969.jpg" title="Folding Process" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Folding Process</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuUf8rCIFaxpm_ldxb_b6idyFTdu-bV8Cy4r6bsN10VH6uvgNltAY8oIBnpoqD5oWXYy-AL7zkxCyaKPd89h4prIjdwXVQ7DP3X92L9mFG2x2WDeK0wh-0wr1eGRrZ_F9iZ_cC4-1HQ3ikBzI2L8cPNL5DKYEvqHg0X0WvDKaqCYVZ6d50-u2tIkyE6c/s1000/IMG_1532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="340" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJuUf8rCIFaxpm_ldxb_b6idyFTdu-bV8Cy4r6bsN10VH6uvgNltAY8oIBnpoqD5oWXYy-AL7zkxCyaKPd89h4prIjdwXVQ7DP3X92L9mFG2x2WDeK0wh-0wr1eGRrZ_F9iZ_cC4-1HQ3ikBzI2L8cPNL5DKYEvqHg0X0WvDKaqCYVZ6d50-u2tIkyE6c/s320/IMG_1532.jpg" width="109" /></a></div> <i> Work Station</i><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I had grand plans of creating a tree that stacked one tree above that other, but that didn't happen, so here you can see my 'forest' of trees, which I set up with a few lights.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Merry Christmas 2023</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: arial;">Non-Traditional Christmas Tree #18<br />December 2022</span></h2><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 40px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" dir="rtl" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TdUCU4IDNPu3LUKJIY1nZw12oHYKcP6W2P8OjwyAyf-JLFodg07fBZYk4itpJ3BtihdSEe4N9WdQtmnmsKA7rVsj59rqD4G8BrRghFrjiJYM8hipi2DLc8AyLtXtzY4ggEVCHmkLsPu-XiMzWejLNMCgplg13AKD2AwwYdNaPyuQ0ivGQGWBRt6McPw/s1000/IMG_8818.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="811" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7TdUCU4IDNPu3LUKJIY1nZw12oHYKcP6W2P8OjwyAyf-JLFodg07fBZYk4itpJ3BtihdSEe4N9WdQtmnmsKA7rVsj59rqD4G8BrRghFrjiJYM8hipi2DLc8AyLtXtzY4ggEVCHmkLsPu-XiMzWejLNMCgplg13AKD2AwwYdNaPyuQ0ivGQGWBRt6McPw/s320/IMG_8818.jpg" width="260" /></a><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Once again, inspiration came from a magazine photo that suggested using a tree branch as a </span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">base. This was the tree we put on the wall of my apartment . Since the walls are cement, and I'm scared to hang things at this point, we used an existing hook.</span></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ingredients</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">One Tree branch, as dry as possible</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Mini balls</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Mini pine cones</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">String of lights</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IZRdeYRC70VmFMRkcjET-ZwKEcOwbff7BLrE83FXFQoQjS-Yi0bCeitg1Te7xWHCcJM6ohesSWnaL49TE1lAKO2JVwRFOJHLHRP-XBfYbWGsmcr2wTWK8lpmWBhK8YCj3iKQOmaGVgBFCTnFjE3ObXGEqqtIy5s1qYhhXhZ9zg5K9W4p0AMdcOemEpc/s1000/IMG_8815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="686" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IZRdeYRC70VmFMRkcjET-ZwKEcOwbff7BLrE83FXFQoQjS-Yi0bCeitg1Te7xWHCcJM6ohesSWnaL49TE1lAKO2JVwRFOJHLHRP-XBfYbWGsmcr2wTWK8lpmWBhK8YCj3iKQOmaGVgBFCTnFjE3ObXGEqqtIy5s1qYhhXhZ9zg5K9W4p0AMdcOemEpc/s320/IMG_8815.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Ingredients</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1dWLkv9FfK7K__2uGivmw5qRrrw9PiLiOP8cJYgvl3CCMt8QzrrT0hqMYA0BL5W37lZ5WsSdT0BSumA5Il_k5oT_lvgnawXNKY9Cf68cxGWHqPHXFqfhsEwBUNpkp17-N5oCB2zF1rO4qdr7k9djIp1fBSYHbZl7rxm2H20aJZnL8DfJyuD7rge-aG8/s1000/9DD7C27B-A81C-44B5-940A-06B5E20AF8C2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe1dWLkv9FfK7K__2uGivmw5qRrrw9PiLiOP8cJYgvl3CCMt8QzrrT0hqMYA0BL5W37lZ5WsSdT0BSumA5Il_k5oT_lvgnawXNKY9Cf68cxGWHqPHXFqfhsEwBUNpkp17-N5oCB2zF1rO4qdr7k9djIp1fBSYHbZl7rxm2H20aJZnL8DfJyuD7rge-aG8/s1000/9DD7C27B-A81C-44B5-940A-06B5E20AF8C2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-GdpfT5fH9rSGgdMYReW2xj2KCmO1Ji8y4dmRAwND5P8Mv2Q0WUsij2Hm5QjHhIyPEjA-HW9aHB-qXcfHBYoDA6jxOhKowssB75tEwg12yY-TuwcPbI7kLgQsurMOLoCpZz6xv3_M3WOxDcX7q3Ag_YyQQ1FScK4WL5bK4yzSxTgt0X4-obmaz0_DOU/s1000/IMG_8816.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-GdpfT5fH9rSGgdMYReW2xj2KCmO1Ji8y4dmRAwND5P8Mv2Q0WUsij2Hm5QjHhIyPEjA-HW9aHB-qXcfHBYoDA6jxOhKowssB75tEwg12yY-TuwcPbI7kLgQsurMOLoCpZz6xv3_M3WOxDcX7q3Ag_YyQQ1FScK4WL5bK4yzSxTgt0X4-obmaz0_DOU/s320/IMG_8816.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div></div> <i>The tree lit up at night</i><br /><br /><p><br /></p>Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13906079820549124851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-30886147641313212252021-12-24T08:00:00.000-08:002024-01-08T20:27:24.105-08:00Non-Traditional Christmas Tree #17 - 2021<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: arial;">Non-Traditional Tree #17<br />Christmas 2021</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This was the year of 'round things' for the tree. It had to be a quick and easy one this year, as I was heading to Denver to be with family, yet I couldn't not have a tree.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So, I gathered all things I could find that were round.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The list included</span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Shower Scrubbies (form the 99 cent store)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Felt ball garland (Trader Joe's)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Garland ball covers for lights (found in Vietnam years ago)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Holiday ball ornaments</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Below you can see the tree (about 3 feet high) in daylight and lit up.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO778XeGrUi3y2jmKB8nb85Jh_3lQg-SQcG3G859rputSOxahosK7KHBm6mJl5M47nznx3Yn-69ifTRLaKBA7RcHMXrqGeJC3BlCJ4cNR_N_xq7t-GpRKMLoxXVvVOSuBoTzRZ9WEHLrUL5rVDOEw47rL6WyWnxFZBW2OXfgXmsmp9iOAZDtl45nMxTD0/s1000/IMG_1217.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO778XeGrUi3y2jmKB8nb85Jh_3lQg-SQcG3G859rputSOxahosK7KHBm6mJl5M47nznx3Yn-69ifTRLaKBA7RcHMXrqGeJC3BlCJ4cNR_N_xq7t-GpRKMLoxXVvVOSuBoTzRZ9WEHLrUL5rVDOEw47rL6WyWnxFZBW2OXfgXmsmp9iOAZDtl45nMxTD0/s320/IMG_1217.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvdF9TBEs2DsWulKbtpJeTppdib1UG9swNQKMI635XtKLX7JtuS5gPLEFMAdoUwAHh68S_lQbNItAJRaviv8z3ibeccZhQhj-R-EJ_cmSlHujPwsXrJDUBOBkCemfm0NNSYoroiyYZ4UQ7tNtyPz3t9QYQU96O0FwjCqCEanapwIBPL6XgeTKW8i1wIo/s1000/IMG_1173.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvdF9TBEs2DsWulKbtpJeTppdib1UG9swNQKMI635XtKLX7JtuS5gPLEFMAdoUwAHh68S_lQbNItAJRaviv8z3ibeccZhQhj-R-EJ_cmSlHujPwsXrJDUBOBkCemfm0NNSYoroiyYZ4UQ7tNtyPz3t9QYQU96O0FwjCqCEanapwIBPL6XgeTKW8i1wIo/s320/IMG_1173.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><br /></div>Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13906079820549124851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-54411462563126775222020-12-25T12:34:00.005-08:002021-01-01T13:07:52.887-08:00Non-Traditional Christmas Tree #16: A Celebration of Yarn<p></p><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Celebrating Christmas at the End of a Pandemic Year<br /></span></h2><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Christmas Tree 2020</span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyGtHraRZznKxKk7poypuURV5CDTO8LAnENSphKkAB5v0G2DYgXzvBwB2WpyEdlmZQasbCZ_1uEvRJY5kYylA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />What a strange year this has been. I think I have spent more hours in my home since March of 2020 than in many years combined prior to that. A lot of the ‘at home’ activity revolved around creative projects, so it would make sense that my 2020 non-traditional Christmas tree this year reflect that.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Since fibers are a bit part of my life and I have ample in my possession, I decided to create this year’s tree from all things related to yarn. You can see some of the ingredients below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RYsw5gzXqyw/X--KSBoRNHI/AAAAAAAAQ04/Xn7bu-AYKAkAtfAy8PUVES9ko3ZDKO1SQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/skeinsconeball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="1000" height="137" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RYsw5gzXqyw/X--KSBoRNHI/AAAAAAAAQ04/Xn7bu-AYKAkAtfAy8PUVES9ko3ZDKO1SQCNcBGAsYHQ/w320-h137/skeinsconeball.jpg" title="Skeins, balls, and cones of yarn" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">balls, skeins and cones of yarn</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-owenwrtqDYg/X--KSGVq0gI/AAAAAAAAQ08/C4C8U8Wbexozl0uZ8J5IvJ0epbDzvvCVwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/tasselpompom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-owenwrtqDYg/X--KSGVq0gI/AAAAAAAAQ08/C4C8U8Wbexozl0uZ8J5IvJ0epbDzvvCVwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/tasselpompom.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">cord, tassels and pompoms</div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The core of the tree was set around some decorative display items that Starbucks used in their stores a few years ago. I had asked my local store if they were going to toss the displays at the end of the season, if they would toss it my way. Lucky for me, they did, and I’ve been using these yarn and glass ball displays in my home holiday décor for many years.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HihrcWewWQ8/X--Nrmgv3MI/AAAAAAAAQ1c/WdwiBRNEvjQ-VJ5u1b95dLsC3bcLD3JyACNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/starbuck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HihrcWewWQ8/X--Nrmgv3MI/AAAAAAAAQ1c/WdwiBRNEvjQ-VJ5u1b95dLsC3bcLD3JyACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/starbuck.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Decorative core, thanks to Starbucks</span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Around the tree I placed my cones of yarn around the core. Some of these were from my weaving years, and others from my current machine-knitting years. I attached tassels around the edge of the tabletop. These I made these as demo items in my Textiles class. When we began to study yarns, I showed my students how to create cord, and then how to build a tassel. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FJxtgDIuWdQ/X--OFP5dlkI/AAAAAAAAQ1k/BSJ_n5LPcf4HkzMQF1uf_8NU1B34JuVMwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/edge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="767" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FJxtgDIuWdQ/X--OFP5dlkI/AAAAAAAAQ1k/BSJ_n5LPcf4HkzMQF1uf_8NU1B34JuVMwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/edge.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">tassels placed around the edge of the table top</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Next, I draped the hanks/skeins of hand-painted yarns around the base, and then, I positioned pompoms (also a demo item for my students in Textile Design) and balls of yarn to fill in the gaps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lFGfZOwdT14/X--OFBNPRmI/AAAAAAAAQ1w/4Y-mN5JogpUGbDnxSi6fTSDF_TivCu1hgCPcBGAYYCw/s1000/mix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lFGfZOwdT14/X--OFBNPRmI/AAAAAAAAQ1w/4Y-mN5JogpUGbDnxSi6fTSDF_TivCu1hgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/mix.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">fill-in items</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The last item for the decoration was the stringing of lights. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">There you have it… a yarn holiday tree, #16 for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AeVSPMXwM0s/X--IRRDLDUI/AAAAAAAAQ0g/TFpMoB1R4iUiZvJMsCcx46OnZhRz1a8CgCPcBGAYYCw/s1000/tree_day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="638" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AeVSPMXwM0s/X--IRRDLDUI/AAAAAAAAQ0g/TFpMoB1R4iUiZvJMsCcx46OnZhRz1a8CgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/tree_day.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><br /></div><p></p>Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13906079820549124851noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-88575855138217707482020-06-11T16:10:00.002-07:002020-06-11T16:11:49.857-07:00NewDo: Machine Knit T-Shirt Top by Theresa Avila<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Machine Knit T-Shirt Challenge: Complete!</span></h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Theresa Avila</span><br /><br /><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Garment Designer user, Theres Avila from Albuquerque recently shared a project with us. Her machine knitting club decided to have a summer T-Shirt challenge. Teresa got involved and used <a href="https://www.cochenille.com/garment-designer/garment-designer-overview/" target="_blank">Garment Designer</a> to create her pattern. She knit the garment on a Brother 940 knitting machine using one strand of Yeoman Panama cotton yarn at tension 6.2. This was her first Garment Designer project. Great work Theresa!</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fPbmX2_yvuY/XuK5nXogaiI/AAAAAAAAEu0/bE0vwSq8r3g2ftk_1HOh5Kz2Jna6PIRQwCK4BGAsYHg/s1000/test.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Theresa Avila Sweater" border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="650" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fPbmX2_yvuY/XuK5nXogaiI/AAAAAAAAEu0/bE0vwSq8r3g2ftk_1HOh5Kz2Jna6PIRQwCK4BGAsYHg/w208-h320/test.jpg" width="208" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Machine-Knit T-Shirt top by Theresa Avila</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><font size="2"><br /></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><font size="2">A Little about Theresa</font></i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><font size="2">Teresa says she is a good old-fashioned homemaker. Her love for sewing and knitting started when, at age 13, her mother told her, that due to her over-flowing closet, they were not going shopping for clothes anymore. Thus began her love of sewing and anything one could do to create clothes. She developed a passion to create new things and has continued this ever since.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></p></span></div>
Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-5193500803151595912020-04-20T21:50:00.000-07:002020-04-20T21:50:31.158-07:00ToDo/NewDo: Original Textile Prints and One-Yard Fabric Designs with Garment Designer by Carrie Schneider<h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Recently, San Diego Mesa College Fashion Program was involved with a collaboration with the African Art collection at the college and Visions Art Museum in Liberty Station, San Diego. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Students designed fabrics using imagery from the online African Art archives. Approximately 20 fabrics were printed in one-yard pieces. These fabrics were placed in an exhibit at the museum called <i>African Art Transformed.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In early March, the museum hosted a fashion show of African-inspired garments from Mesa Fashion students (also part of the collaborative effort). Carrie was challenged to create a garment from a one-yard piece of fabric. And this she did, not once, but twice, with two fabrics she had designed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Here are Carrie's prints.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9fbfb; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.3px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Carrie Schneider is a biologist who never fails to be entertained by the unique and fascinating qualities of San Diego's natural habitats. She grew up in the verdant countryside of the Hoosier state then moved to the east coast, where she earned a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now a consultant in biotechnology company. She led the Environmental Systems subcommittee for the City Wide Canyons Sewer Maintenance Task Force, whose proposed improvements to City procedures for accessing sewer infrastructure in open space parks were adopted by the City Council in 2002. She is a co-founder of San Diego Canyonlands, started the Friends of Switzer Canyon in North Park, and continues to lead volunteers to restore upland and stream-side habitat. She enjoys contributing to the Herbarium collections at the San Diego Natural History Museum as a trained parabotanist for the Plant Atlas project and was president of the San Diego chapter of the California Native Plant Society from 2002-2004.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">My goal in life is to surround myself with like-minded people. In the world of fabric the nearest group to me is a quilt guild . I joined the guild and appreciate the art form that quilting gives. Now to explain, I am not a quilt maker. I am a quilter. I quilt garments. I do try to fit in sometimes and I do take part in guild challenges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This Challenge was to do a log cabin design. Of course it was meant to be a wall hanging or quilt. My interpretation was a garment. The inspiration came from The<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Asymmetrical Layered Jacket</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from Cochenille Design Studio's<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Easy Seven Series</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>book. </span></div>
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All pieces were charted out using Garment Designer pattern making software (<a href="http://www.cochenille.com/">www.cochenille.com</a>). </div>
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Both sleeves, left front and half the back were knit using my knitting machine. All hems were knit first using stocking stitch. The fabric was an assortment of Chinese inspired quilt fabrics. I took the right front pattern piece and the upper back piece from my pattern and then cut the shape out of light weight cotton. Then the Log Cabin pattern began to take shape. On the centre back, the quilt pattern was overlapped to lay on the knitting. This was done to extend the log cabin square and to draw the eye away from the line of sewing. The V-shape was then hand sewn on top of the knitting. The seam that joins the knitting and quilting was above the armhole to making it easier to manage. </div>
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The inside of back quilting was finished by using a bias-trimmed lining to cover the stitching of the fabric. On the right front fabric side I used the same pattern shape to create the lining and slip stitched it in place. On the left side, a knit facing was made to allow the v-neck to lay flat and not curl.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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I continued to think about the art form of the Victorian Era of Crazy Quilting. On a black ultra suede strip on the fabric side a dragon was created with embroidery and beading. A zipper was used for the closure and the stitches were concealed with an embroidery stitch. On the knit side, appliquéd strips of cloth were used at the shoulder matching up with the back fabric, creating an over the shoulder flow. Brass Chinese coins were added to create whimsical detail.</div>
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To add other focal points Bead work was done in the centre of a large flower, plus a small floral brass charm was added on the back.</div>
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Once finished I realized that the back length was not the correct proportion for me. I shortened it by undoing the side seams, picking up stitches, then rehung the garment on my knitting machine finishing it with a hem and mitre corners at the side slits.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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The results of this design are, it is not a traditional quilt but it is wearable and keeps me warm and best of all it forms a part of my<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>one of a kind Signature garments<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>!</div>
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<b>A Little about Judith</b></div>
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Judith is a retired historical interpreter. She loves history and now volunteers to do textile management at different museums. She does condition reports, exhibits and cares for them. Her first and best love? Fibre of all kinds.</div>
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Judith travel to learn, to meet like-minded people and to be inspired. She went back to college at the age of 64 to learn pattern making. She continued on to study tailoring with Le Grand Chic school In Italy through Georgian College Barrie. and she graduated at 70! We were honored to have Judith study with Cochenille in both Italy and San Diego. she has also studied with Jon Moore in London, Susan Khalje in NYC, and Kathryn Brenne in North Bay (ON, Canada)</div>
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-27978304648280086822020-04-07T23:34:00.001-07:002020-04-07T23:37:12.620-07:00ToDo/NewDo: Hand-Painted Bird Houses are the Talk of Bird Town<h3 style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A few years ago, as a creative project, four of us sat down one afternoon and began to paint unfinished bird houses that I had gathered for the social activity. The group included Missy (from France) who was visiting, on loan from her parents, Teresa, a past student from Mesa College, and Don and I. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We gathered acrylic paints, and began the process of adding color and design to wood. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Missy finished hers, but the rest of us had a way to go when it was time to break down for dinner. Teresa later finished her house, but Don's and mine sat dormant for ... well, a couple of years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With the enforced stay-at-home we are now experiencing, it seemed like the perfect challenge to finish these bird houses and get it out in the yard. So, out came the paints, and in a matter of an hour or so, we were done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've run out of wall space in my house (for art), and so, the yard and garden have become my new playground.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So, after and little experimenting, all the houses now are hanging on my back fence, amid my bicycle wheel/depression glass hangings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Hey honey... check out this red house. Don't you like the porch?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"No dear, I think it is too much. I prefer the pastel model over here. It has a bit more deco style"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"But that one is beyond a starter house... I don't think we are ready for that"...</span><br />
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0San Diego, CA, USA32.715738 -117.161083831.861779000000002 -118.4519773 33.569697000000005 -115.8701903tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-5497805059796122752020-04-06T23:39:00.001-07:002020-04-06T23:39:22.685-07:00ToDo/NewDo: Ethnic, Up-cycle, and Surface Design with Anna Walden<h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anna Walden, Point Loma, California</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">First is a pair of <i>Harem Pants</i> made in plaid cotton flannel according to the instructions in the diagram. I made them smaller because my fabric was narrower but it turned out to be a good decision as they would have been too large on me.</span></div>
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Second is the <i>Sweatshirt Dress</i>, a up-cycle project. I cropped the sweatshirt, added a skirt in a Liberty knit borrowed from a dress pattern, made the collar from the leftovers, again borrowed. I drafted the sleeves in Garment Designer and appliquéd the lace using HeatBond and sewing machine. </div>
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The top below is from the Garment Designer pattern I made for the Kuba top project I made this past Fall in a Textile Design class at Mesa College in San Diego. When I made that project, I incorporated fabric that I had dyed using an Ice Dye method. When cleaning up recently,I found the extra fabric, and I sewed it up. I love this top. </div>
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13906079820549124851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-35385763448344135862020-04-03T18:30:00.002-07:002020-04-06T23:26:22.901-07:00ToDo: First Project with Garment Designer, Susan Van Campen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">Susan is a retired LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has been weaving for a couple of years now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">One of her retirement goals has been to learn to weave fabric with the goal of making clothing. Susan is the co-president of the Inland Empire Handweavers Guild.</span></div>
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-38280557626139096142020-04-02T00:00:00.001-07:002020-04-02T00:00:19.974-07:00ToDo/NewDo: DIY Face Mask by Lisbeth Wahl, Italy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Lisbeth Wahl, Italy</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Born in Denmark, She trained as a tailor and pursued her career in costuming and pattern making, most notably </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-size-adjust: auto;">the costume department of Teatro alla Scala</span> (Milan)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. She became interested in felting, and has taken her talents on to new realms. In 2016, she won the top award at the Australian Common Threads Wearable Art Showcase with her felt piece called <a href="https://www.communitynews.com.au/mandurah-coastal-times/news/common-threads-wearable-art-big-hit-at-mandurah-performing-arts-centre/" target="_blank">Set Your Light Free</a>, which combined felt with fiber optics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">I am based in South Africa, fashion designer with over 30years experience, fashion entrepreneur, teach basic sewing classes as well as a full time fashion design & fashion start-up course called become a fashion boss. Have written a few books on planning your sewing, preparing a ready to wear wardrobe, draw & sew fashion illustration sketch book and Stitching to riches book to help you get guidance on how to start your own fashion business startup<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-86443600039278768472020-03-29T23:45:00.000-07:002020-03-30T23:45:39.785-07:00NewDo: Virtual Cocktail Party, the new mode of social gathering<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Come 5 p.m., we all logged on to the meeting and proceeded to catch up with each other. Conversation revolved around new topics such as how we are all handling our new way of living, what home projects we are working on, what we had recently experimented with in our cooking.</span><br />
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-49328946519496308592020-03-26T15:45:00.000-07:002020-03-26T15:45:31.910-07:00ToDo/NewDo: Weaving as a Distraction to the World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Holly and Leo Dumont have been emailing with me to keep me updated on their progress of learning to weave.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Don’t neglect your brain health while worrying about this virus. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Internet provides all sorts of tools for challenging your mind. Holly shared one that I found particularly interesting, as it also serves to spark creativity. Amongst the many exercises they have, making lists of 100 things… looked like a lot of fun.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://litemind.com/tackle-any-issue-with-a-list-of-100/"><span style="color: blue;">https://litemind.com/tackle-any-issue-with-a-list-of-100/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Holly and Leo have decided to live in the present, and their focus is to learn how to weave. They had purchased a floor loom... and then...</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">The big loom is scary. It uses a lot of yarn. What if I make a mistake? What if I can't figure it out? All this drama. So my husband went out and bought this table-top loom. Aim small, miss small, small mistakes, small risk were all some of Leo's thoughts. And it made it less scary for me. For our anniversary we were going to take a class. But that's out, so we turned to books, on line learning and magazines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The big loom came with 6 years of old Handwoven, and Weaver's Craft magazines. So every evening I read a couple. Some of them I don't understand at all. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the <i>Handwoven Magazine</i> I learned about <a href="https://handwovenmagazine.com/subscription/" target="_blank">Long Thread Media</a>. <a href="https://handwovenmagazine.com/subscription/"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For $100 you get workshops, magazines etc. (We were going to take a course with Tom Knisley, and they have an online class with him).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We got some books, recommended by Handwoven subscribers (Issue 144 & 145). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alderman, Sharon. <i>Mastering Weave Structures</i>. Interweave</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Osterkamp, Peggy. Weaving for Beginners.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After doing some reading, we decided to hit YouTube and watched the dressing of the loom for the Ashford Table Loom about 5 times. We'd put it on, run to the kitchen, try the process, wait, what? run back watch it again, and try again. The great thing is with the books and video, we were able to get through the warping and we're partially through the dressing. Two minds are better than one. Four hands are better than two. Mistakes were made. Laughter was more contagious than the virus that's on everyone's mind. For several hours, it left our minds completely.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I want to make cloth and Leo wants to make rugs. We both have an interest in recycling. Our first project is going to be piece of cloth from which we'll make project/travel bags. We will do one plain bag, and one using the technique of Zanshi. I have lots of leftover embroidery thread that we are tying together to make the warp thread.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">My goal is to make yardage and I like the following <a href="https://www.indigobird.ca/" target="_blank">Indigobird</a> pattern partially because you </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">can use it to make items to sell. Not that I'll get around to that, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">but I don't have to worry if I make the pattern a dozen times and give them to friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Below is the lining for the brown and white bag. Leo and I dyed these during the summer. These are leaves from our trees. The fabric was mordanted with alum. We rolled the leaves in copper pipes, spritzed them in vinegar (nails were soaked in the vinegar - so technically this is home made iron water) </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">and then steamed them in a vintage vegetable steamer. We left them for 24 hours before unwrapping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Now… on to the weaving</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The warp yarn is 8/2 unmercerized cotton, and the weft is a thick and thin brown cotton. This should full nicely after washing. I put on enough yarn for 2 bags plus. There's three yards on the warp. Each bag uses about 1/2 yard. So, after we get the 2 bags on this warp, I should have enough for a small mystery project at the end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We had a hoot deciding how to beat. Leave the shed open and beat? Close the shed and beat? Switch to the next shed and beat. Since this is a table loom, so one hand is occupied moving the leavers while the other beats and catches. After some bantering about and a bit of let's try all of them, we went with the close the shed and beat twice. Now, if we could just agree on the music to listen to while weaving. Leo's holding out for something with a lively beat....<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Last year I did a lot of embroidery and have lots of leftover green. Zanshi is a Japanese weaving tradition that saves all those remainder threads and reuses them. I tied the warp yarn, an 8/2 cotton to 6 strand cotton floss. I did this in ratios of 3. The first color run was 1 yard weft to 12" of floss. Then Leo said it needs more green. So I went to 18" of floss and 18" of weft. By the way, this tying of threads took more time than anything. Do NOT do this with cats present. Let's just say that part of the time was spent chasing the varmint who ran off with the nudibranch green. She's a very knotty cat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">After a plain header, Leo began the Zanshi. I know that cotton doesn't "full" but it does shrink, so it will be interesting to see what happens when you mix unmercerized with mercerized cotton. It sure is fun. When I was a kid, back when dinos roamed, we spent a lot of time in Baja California. This pattern reminds me of a hoodie that was as popular as puka shell necklaces (sans the knots), baby oil at the beach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is not a mystery why there is no header yarn between the next project. I "found" it later. Katia is taking the 5th. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Thank you Holly and Leo! It has been a pleasure to watch your process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Holly and Leo live in the Central Coast California. Both are long time farmers. Their love of fiber goes back to when the raised angora rabbits and Merino/Cotswold sheep. Holly still keeps a market garden, but Leo has turned his love of plants to waterside restoration with native plants to prevent flooding. The pair of them love plants. Holly always wants to know, if you can't eat it, can you dye with it? Can you spin with it? Can you weave with it? Leo loves dyeing but only with natural dyes. Although Leo's hand sewing is not the fastest, it didn't stop him from taking an indigo class last summer with John Marshall (highly recommend!). Holly has been sewing since Jr. HIgh School, when they taught Home Ec. but she didn't learn to embroider till taking classes at the SF School of Needlework and Design. Both Holly and Leo hope that weaving will take them into the next two decades. They recommend that if you and your kids are hanging around the house, now is the perfect time to start seeds for a summer garden. Seeds of Italy has a great selection, all of which do great in California. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you want a summer garden, start now! (See my woad in the back row!)</span></div>
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-4259908166231836322020-03-26T13:51:00.002-07:002020-03-26T13:51:38.441-07:00ToDo/NewDo: Machine Knitting the Landscape Around You by Judith Pipher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Judith Pipher, Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">My loves are Georgian Bay which is on the Great Lakes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;">The yarn colours are blends of <a href="https://www.koigu.com/" target="_blank">Koigu</a> yarn from Chatsworth Ontario. The plan was drawn on to my basic sweater pattern that was put on to paper, then coloured. It was then knit on my 940 brother. The back is stripes of the colour on the right side. The pictorial was done in intarsia, the trees are hand<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">embroidered. it</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was to have a front zip. That proved to be too heavy so I sewed it closed then made an I cord to match to hide the join.</span><br />
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Judith is a retired historical interpreter. She loves history and now volunteers to do textile management at different museums. She does condition reports, exhibits and cares for them. Her first and best love? Fibre of all kinds.</div>
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Judith travel to learn, to meet like-minded people and to be inspired. She went back to college at the age of 64 to learn pattern making. She continued on to study tailoring with Le Grand Chic school In Italy through Georgian College Barrie. and she graduated at 70! We were honored to have Judith study with Cochenille in both Italy and San Diego. she has also studied with Jon Moore in London, Susan Khalje in NYC, and Kathryn Brenne in North Bay (ON, Canada)</div>
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-39290853606917592492020-03-25T16:46:00.002-07:002020-03-25T16:46:28.142-07:00ToDo/NewDo: Patricia Martin's Custom Dress Form<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I have been in the studio without distraction this week so I worked on a personal project. It benefits no one but me. A dress form that is me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The body was inspired by the my.blueprint video by Judy Jackson. The pattern I used was Simplicity 8258.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is interesting the body image we have in our heads and what it is when we see it removed from the self. This was a project I have felt the need to do for some time. It will help me with some designing I have planned for the handwoven fabrics I create and to check my Garment Designer patterns ease. </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-90817433804755264942020-03-25T11:01:00.000-07:002020-03-25T11:01:49.912-07:00ToDo/NewDo: Gillian Lamb (UK) Finished Bead Projects<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The grey necklace uses cubic right angle weave and seed beads of different sizes, decorated with faux pearls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All the small pink brooch needed to finish it was a pin on the back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I feel so good to have completed both projects after so many years.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The lovely beaded bumble bee below was a test of my dexterity after two hand operations last year. It is mainly made from delica cylinder beads, size 15/0 seed beads and peyote stitch.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gillian lives in Surrey, England and is officially retired, but she says there is always something to work on, be it a craft, the garden, or in the kitchen cooking.</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">She started hand knitting at her grandmothers knee, knitted her wedding dress and got drawn into machine knitting and ultimately published a few patterns in magazines.</span></div>
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<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">3 cups bread flour</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened at room temperature</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">1/4 cup powdered milk</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">5 teaspoons sugar</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">1 ounce fresh yeast (or 2 1/4-ounce packets dry yeast)</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">1 3/4 teaspoons salt</span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened at room temperature</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">2 tablespoons honey</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">2 tablespoons light corn syrup</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">1 teaspoon cinnamon</span></i></li>
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<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">2 teaspoons cinnamon</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted</span></i></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">In a mixer fitted with a dough hook, combine all the ingredients for the dough. Mix at low speed for 2 minutes, then increase the speed to medium and mix for another 6 minutes. To test if the dough is ready, stretch a small piece of dough between your hands into a thin sheet and hold it up to the light. If you see a web-like pattern, the dough is developed; the webs are the strands of gluten. If you do not see them, mix the dough at medium speed 2 minutes more, then test again. Transfer the dough to a bowl, cover with a damp cloth, and refrigerate at least 2 hours or over night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">Butter 10 cups of a large muffin tin. Spoon 2 tablespoons of the honey schmear into the bottom of each cup. In a small bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a 10-by-10-inch square about 1/4- inch thick. Brush with the melted butter and sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar. Using your hands, firmly roll up the dough like a jellyroll. Transfer to a sheet pan and refrigerate 30 minutes. Using a sharp knife or a taut length of dental floss, cut the dough into 10 slices, each about 1 inch thick. Place one slice (on its cut side) in each muffin cup. Cover with a damp cloth, and let rise in a warm place until they reach the rim of the pan, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. (Or, cover and let rise in the refrigerator overnight.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;"><br /><b>After doing this once here is what next time will look </b><br />Begin early afternoon. Make dough and refrigerate 2+ hours.<br />Make the honey schmear and the Bun Finish. Follow through until you place the 1” thick slices in the muffin tin.<br /><br />Then refrigerate overnight so you can bake in the morning and have hot fresh buns with your tea or coffee.<br />Do not bother with the icing in the very last step!<br />Make sure you place a cookie sheet or mat under the muffins. The overflow got all over the bottom of my oven.<br /><br />After you take the finished muffins out there will be residual Honey Schmear left in each tin. I scooped more schmear on top of each muffins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Mimi is a retired Physical Therapist in manual orthopedics who specialized in the spine. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her primary creative endeavor is Photography and she enjoys taking classes at the Penland School of Arts and Crafts. She is also practices yoga regularly. She and her husband love to travel and hike and are very adept at tracking down farmer's markets wherever they go. Of course, Mimi loves to bake and always has flour and yeast on hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Jayden’s remote learning started today, as Spring Break vacation has ended. Her parents are busy sorting through all the emails from her teacher, librarian, music teacher, etc. It will be a challenge to keep up on. Fortunately, Jayden's mom was a primary school a teacher (now at home with her two children), and she provides a wonderful structure to Jayden's day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: x-small;">Jayden loves the pigeon books so she read “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” and then she and her mom constructed a snack out of items they had at home to go along with the story.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Jayden picked most of the ingredients with a little help from mom with the blue food coloring for the pigeon. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">She used brioche toast, hummus, a cracker, gelt, Fruit Loops, a chocolate chip eye and goldfish pieces nose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Go Jayden! And go parents for encouraging the creativity and making the best of our enforced at-home time!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">Jayden is an active just-turned-six year old. Her favorite color is pink, although her second choice of colors tends to shift around. She loves to dance, play soccer, sing, and she can beat her Nonna when they play concentration card games. She is very good at reading, and had many books memorized at a young edge, so the reader couldn't skip sections without a reprimand. Now, she has learned to read herself and does this for her little brother who she reads to every morning. One of her passions is anything to do with cooking and food preparation. She has a variety of food-related toys and seems destined to be someone of note in the world of cuisine.</span><br />
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-44708454134742294702020-03-22T20:10:00.007-07:002020-03-22T20:10:55.080-07:00NewDo: Making Your Own Hand Sanitizer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-3651560257101185162020-03-21T15:21:00.000-07:002020-03-21T21:26:28.909-07:00ToDo Challenge: Art with a Toddler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">It is never too early to encourage our little ones to be creative. They are so free in their mind, and everything they do is amazing. If only, as adults, we could adopt their mindset and not worry about how good our work is. Fiona is fearless. She likes to try everything.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Here you see Fiona painting in her back yard. She is trying out the new easel that her Nonna sent to her for her birthday. She likes to dress the part (notice the artist smock),</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><br />Nonna loves watching her creativity and adding some of her own to it, by taking one of Fiona's early art pieces (with a little help from Mom) and turned it into a fabric using Photoshop and Spoonflower (digital printing) in the process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">During this 'at home' world we now live in, Fiona's dad created this Zen area in their yard. A lot of brush was removed, and now the area is being used for yoga (for Mom, Dad, and Fiona), reflection, and quiet time. At present this space is now deep in snow, when three days ago, it was a lovely afternoon. Welcome to Denver spring weather.</span></span><br />
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-54151462284583042892020-03-21T05:02:00.000-07:002020-03-21T12:35:34.886-07:00ToDo/NewDo Project: Up-cycled Phone Bag Purse from a Retired Sweater<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-15463142266558133532020-03-20T16:19:00.000-07:002020-03-20T17:05:07.814-07:00ToDo/NewDo Project: Lisbeth Wahl, Up-cycled top<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Lisbeth Wahl, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peschiera del Garda, Italy</span></span><br />
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Susan Lazearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886681100557512849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5617257187229468408.post-22154076468609600192020-03-20T15:38:00.000-07:002020-03-20T15:38:22.496-07:00NewDo Project: Crochet Top by Kathleen Heafey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by Kathleen Heafey, Berkeley, California</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I recently met Kathleen at Stitches West in Santa Clara. She purchased Garment Designer and immediately went home and had a garment going within a day. I love that! </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathleen shares this crochet top with us as her "NewDo".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I did the garment as a semi-fitted top, sleeveless, round neck with some adjustments to the sloper in the shoulder area to accommodate my narrow shoulders. I also slightly adjusted the shape of the neck. This was my first attempt with Garment Designer and I love using the program! So much flexibility and the shaping instructions for crocheting were very accurate based on my stitch count.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I crocheted the seed stitch for the body and added the bobbles. I did the neck, arm and bottom edging separately in a V stitch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I have a small business in Berkeley, California called Woven Grey. I design and make a line of cotton storage baskets and am carried in shops throughout the country. I started crocheting a few years ago and have been trying to design original patterns with the intent to eventually publish my designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathleen Heafey<br /><a href="mailto:hello@wovengrey.com"><span style="color: blue;">hello@wovengrey.com</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.wovengrey.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.wovengrey.com</span></a><br />510-735-1413 (cell)</span><span style="font-family: cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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