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Spotted my slipcovers in the current issue of
"Where Women Create". I'm a secret source! Shhhhhh. It's a secret. Winter looks for dining chairs can be achieved! A pre washed 100% Indian woven cotton was used in this example. The body of the fabric gives shape to the wooden back of this chair without complicating the design. Covers are held in place by tying to the back splat. Patterning from the horizontal stripe was applied vertically to band around the seat bottom. The welting was straight cut from a stripe to imply a contrast dot pattern. I am a copy cat.
Like many of you, I follow other people: Design Divas, Style Bloggers, Spiritual Counselors, Financial Consultants, Life Coaches, and most importantly my Friends and Family that I love and respect and so wish I could be more like. It seems there is this thing I've noticed them doing for a few years called "picking a word". Just one word. Just one year. One word a year to focus on. They say it over and over like a mantra, directing all their actions and energy, pummeling them into their year of destiny. So I thought I should try it, this word picking thing. I wracked my brain trying to come up with that one word that I would drink with my morning coffee like a karma tonic. I knew this word should be something really special if I had to stick with it a whole year. Something admirable like "appreciate" or "gratitude" or "meditate". But the one word that rolls around and around in my head is "Baroque". So I shared this word with my goals buddy Ronica and she laughed and asked, so Baroque like "If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it?". Honestly I didn't have an answer because I don't even know what Baroque means. Generally it is thought to be a style of architecture, music, & arts throughout Europe during the periods of the 17th and 18th centuries, although historians don't even really agree on the exact dates and defining elements. Searching through Webster's, Britannica, Wikipedia, and the likes, words such as the following surface: drama, tension, exuberance, grandeur, ornate, extravagant, bizarre, nature, emotional, and most of all motion. Mentions of the Palace of Versailles & the works of Bernini in Italy, music of Vivaldi, Bach, & Handel, and artists Caravaggio & Rubens, all abound. This list excites me, and I'd like to experience and explore these things each and every day of 2016. I'd like to get in motion and get emotional! "So if it ain't Baroque, DO fix it!" Single ladies with broad exposed shoulders and lots of curves wanting to strut their stuff. If you got it, and want to flaunt it, I can make a muslin for you. Contact me for a fashion fitting for your furniture.
In the dash.
Between slipcovers. Life happens between the slipcover dashes. At this time of giving thanks, I pause to remember a few of those moments from 2015. Sometimes I am still creating: Making dinner napkins for a client's celebration of girlfriends. Stitching burlap panels display for a photographer's business launch. Designing 10 gallon drum coffee socks for a local organic coffee roaster. Assembling a high schooler's needle art art project into pillows. Finishing heirloom needlepoint pillows. Rescuing a client's wardrobe malfunction. Piecing a memories quilt for a NYC designer. Other times I am trying new things: Driving a Penske to High Point with a truckload of furniture. Scoping market with a home fashions comrade. Traveling to Italy for a fabric Reconnaissance. Touring with an Antiques Diva. Volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in Avery County, NC. Replacing my walking foot machine with a new monster Juki. Painting the kitchen cabinets white. The best of times I am with friends and family: Moving my daughter back to Raleigh. Weekending in Oriental to catch a glimpse of my sailing son. Celebrating birthdays with Fishy Business. Vintaging with Mama. Driving my mom & mother-in-law to cataract surgery. Chilling on Ocracoke Island with my muse. Attending a beach wedding of my daughter's childhood friend. Tailgating with the Wolfpack and my sisters. Square Dancing with friends from church. 2015 was a great year for the slipcover dash. I am grateful to God for all the between time. Yes life happens between the slipcover dashes. I love making slipcovers - but am most passionate about the dashes - and now I've got to dash - company's coming! Happy Thanksgiving! Who doesn't love vintaging? Scenes from a recent trip to downtown Belhaven with Mama. Market 32 was our destination. Mama found some great metal chairs for her deck and I scored a reproduction child's Chippendale chair!
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