Monday, November 30, 2009

Hand VS Machine

For three years now my work has been on display and for sale at the Fourth and Clay holiday open studio. Looking back on the previous years my bags have come a long way. The concept has stayed the same; cosmetic bags and wristlets fully lined with oil cloth, hand made and embroidered with painstaking love. What has changed is minimal, but it's the small things that make all the difference. This year I've dove head first into the "hand made", and have started to hand embroider my images onto the bags as opposed to "hand" machine embroidery. The result of the hand embroidery is much more pleasing to me. The image has more texture, and I'm able to use bolder colors that pop off the background fabric. Come by the Forth and Clay studio and check them out. I hope you like the new look as much as I do!

I still have a few machine embroidered bags left over from last year that are for sale at a discounted rate on my Etsy site.

Holiday Open Studios

The Holidays are here, and I've been busy embroidering, pinning, and sewing my new line of bags! Fourth and Clay gallery and studio space is having it's yearly holiday open studio featuring Ceramic works by Rae Dunn, Christa Assad, and Josie Jurczenia, along with hand made jewelry by Circadian Studios, Paper and silk-screened goodies by Linea Carta, and my new line of S-S-Stitch bags!

The studio will be open every weekend from now until Christmas (December 20th) from 11am-5pm. So stop by and get inspired by all the beautiful hand made gifts!

Fourth and Clay
2370 4th st @ Channing way
Berkeley, CA

And we must not forget my favorite part, THE PARTY! Come celebrate craftiness and the holidays Thursday December 10th 7-11pm..