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Just a bad craft? Time and techonology will tell

Just a bad craft? Time and techonology will tell

by | Nov 29, 2013 | Buttons, Collage, Composition, Craft, Crafts, Creative Process, Discomforter, Fabric, Fabricating, Failure, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Project, Qr Code, Quilt, Textile, Upcycling

I’m posting this picture because if I don’t do it now I might cram this doomed project into a green garbage bag and stuff it where the sun don’t shine: in deep storage. I’ve seen through some fraught, laborious projects in my time but I may...
That’s one mother of another need met

That’s one mother of another need met

by | Jun 7, 2013 | Creative Process, Design, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Process, Production, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects, Vancouver

In case you want to know, this is a picture of what is called beaching gear  — at least in Prince Rupert, B.C.It’s the kind of passing sight that makes a city girl demand  that the car we’re in be stopped and reversed. Now. Because even though I had no...
Waiting to be inspired by hoardy pile of plastic

Waiting to be inspired by hoardy pile of plastic

by | Mar 1, 2013 | Art, Assemblage, Color, Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Culture, Fabricating, Found Objects, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Process, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects

My not-quite-resolved plastic quilty test. I’ve been left high and dry, marooned by a foul waste stream — a particular category of non-recycled stuff that ends up in Vancouver’s landfill. This category consists of many boxes of rigid-plastic toy bits that my nephews...