Day 221

Days 219 & 220

Well everyone, can you believe it? It's a new pair of shoes. An actual, wearable pair of shoes. My new spring boots! The colour is a bit wild maybe that's just what I need for spring. I've included some pictures of stages along the way. The beginning stages are missing because I didn't think to start documenting the process until about halfway through.





Yesterday I spent the day doing research at the Japanese Canadian National Museum in Burnaby. I will be showing work in their 10 year anniversary exhibition in September and was looking for inspiration in their collection of photographs, documents and artifacts of Japanese Canadian history. The most exciting thing for me to look at was this personalized pattern book dating from 1942 - 45! But there were so many other really interesting things in the way of textiles, clothing and personal accoutrements.

Day 218

Day 217

A few months ago my friend Claudia gave me a felt hood so that I could make a hat. You shape it by steaming it to either stretch or shrink it. In the end I finally came up with this fairly simple design with detachable 'visor'. It has two snaps at the back and I saved some of the felt so that I could potentially snap other shapes to it too. The grey feather is stitched to the visor part. Check out Claudia's website to see her designs at claudiaschulz.com

Days 215 (Snap Shop) & 216

Here are some photos from yesterday's Snap Shop: modular accessory workshop. It was really fun. Everyone was very focused and made strange and interesting things. A big thank you to Holly Ward for arranging this to happen inside her Geodesic Dome!

Day 214

Day 213