Summer Love

There’s a lot going on at the moment, between summer cleaning, locating my loom under a pile of mother-donated fabric, and a million projects that are blooming in my mind. Not a lot to update with currently, so I leave you for now with some of my favorite shots from the annual Pungo Strawberry Festival.

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Reflecting on Professional Development in Art

Experience in Professional Development
I believe that part of self-educating yourself involves taking advantage of every opportunity that comes your way. You never know what kind of asset an experience is going to be to your search for knowledge and wisdom–or for your resume. There can be many benefits to one opportunity that may not be [...]

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Can Someone Just Pay Me To Weave Beautiful Cloth? (Please)

Otherwise titled: “What am I supposed to do with a degree in fiber arts, and do I really need to keep going to an expensive, though prestigious, art school in order to pursue my dreams? Thanks biased American culture, thanks.”
Ok guys, I don’t know what to do. I am not a designer. More specifically, I’m [...]

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Weaving: Finished Product, No Sewing

This is a small change purse I wove for my grandmother’s birthday. The really neat thing about it? There was no sewing involved. The entire purse was woven in doublecloth: for the main body of the piece, the cloth was woven with two seams, one on the right and one on the left, creating a [...]

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A Loom Without an Apron

- Is a naked loom. Which is why I spent my evening hand crafting two simple yet sturdy aprons for my front and back beams. Having aprons cuts down on thread waste- something my boys didn’t know about when they built me my loom. I measured each apron (measure twice, cut once!), hemmed the sides [...]

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On Mother’s Day-

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Hello, Summer!

Finished with sophomore year, and now that I’m home, it’s time to start thinking about my summer projects before I go back off to Baltimore to work at MICA’s summer pre-college program for high school students.  My plans include perusing my 1919 copy of Dress Making Made Easy for a little garment design, getting some [...]

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The Secret Lives of Puppets

This video is my latest stop motion- a companion piece to the physical object of my Puppets and Prosthetics final project. The assignment was “The Secret Lives of Puppets,” and my goal was to have the cloth move while still on the loom as a sort of past life to the eventual fate of the [...]

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Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival

I just got back from The Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival and- wow. I went last year as a newly born fiber artist and had a great time, but it was so interesting to go back as a weaver with an agenda. It was utterly overhwleming, but less so when I reminded myself that I [...]

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