I guess 2019 will be The Year of the Hat for me. I love beading. I like hats. Don’t know why I didn’t stumble into hatbands before, but I’m here now. The Alexander Hatband was commissioned a little over a year ago by a good friend, a New Zealand-born sculptor moving away from Arizona after…
Read More Alexander Hatband: Finished!The vanity publishing industry has taken a beating the last few years, due to bad publicity (Tate Publishing!) and the ease of self publishing. But there are still plenty of suckers out there so uninformed, lazy, or paranoid enough to make easy prey for the remaining vanity publishers. What’s vanity publishing? In short, a vanity…
Read More Local Interest and Vanity PublishingI make books, many of them out of cloth. Making a needle book is something that had never occurred to me before last weekend. This is the result: a 7×4.5×1.75″ vintage-inspired fabric needle book. Needle books are a popular trend among the craft and home-sewing crowd. Here’s a good tutorial for one that did inspire…
Read More Needle BookFinished! Inspired by Tarnhelm legends, the myths of Hermes, and the Celtic (not Viking) winged helmet, this wearable art cap softly shimmers with bronze ribbon and metallic bead accents. I had a few false starts with the beadwork, and I’ll be getting a clearer picture of the front. But in general, I’m really happy with…
Read More Dieselpunk Valkyrie capI live near a fairly affluent area with generations of rich teenagers and retirees. This means that Good Stuff appears in my local thrift stores. For the past few years, I’ve been collecting interesting fabric hats, with an eye to adapting them into gonzo wearable art pieces. The second* fiber art project of 2019 involves…
Read More First look: Dieselpunk Valkyrie