intuitive lens

Intuitive Lens with Thea Coughlin from Squam on Vimeo.

people tell me all the time that they wish they could go to Squam. and i always say that i wish everyone could go, because it is such a magical, transformative experience. well, here’s a way you can get a taste of the magic without having to [...]

design (and MAKE!) your own clothes this summer!

1. my first dress, 2. Blue skirt for length, 3. Basic shirt, 4. Florence (Flossie Teacakes) – Ruffle Top, 5. Basic Pant – Design it yourself clothes, 6. P1100121, 7. DIY Kathy dress 3, 8. Drafting a T-Shirt, Take 2, 9. Kathy Dress, 10. Untitled, 11. Peter Pan Collar and Pintucks blouse, 12. Polka dot [...]

big news

at last! the cat is out of the bag! i am so happy to be able to shout far and wide about this project, which has been in the works (and under wraps) for nearly 9 months now. you may have already peeked at creativebug when i gave you the teaser the other day, but [...]

2011 in pictures: november

november is my favorite month! it contains my birthday AND my fave holiday. november is when i went to merry old England and met mr. smith’s family for the first time, and i can’t believe i STILL haven’t told you about that and shown you the pics yet. i’m saving them for [...]

on golden pond

can a dream really keep coming true over and over and over? i guess it can, because for the fourth time i had the good fortune of attending Squam Art Workshops two weeks ago. and every time it gets better. there is just nothing like spending 5 days on a glorious lake with 150 kindred [...]

boshi shibori reveal

at the end of the life-altering shibori workshop i took in august with the phenomenal Joan Morris, many of the samples i made in class were still wet when i brought them home. if you want the cloth to retain the texture created by the shibori techniques, in addition to the color, they need to [...]

has it really been two months...

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…since i was at Squam Art Workshops in September? sheesh. life moves WAY too fast for me.

this session was a fun change since i didn’t teach; i worked as a helper and got to actually TAKE classes which was [...]

shibori workshop

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here are some photos from the very exciting, inspiring, potentially life-altering 5-day shibori dyeing workshop i took two weeks ago, with the extremely brilliant artist Joan Morris, at the Womens Studio Workshop. as usual when i love something this [...]

shibori week!

ok, just a quickie note here to tell you what i’m up to this week: i will be taking a 5-day all-day intensive workshop on shibori dyeing with master dyer Joan Morris. i was so thrilled to learn that this class-of-my-dreams is happening just a hop and skip away in neighboring [...]

follow the fiber, chapter one: the dyer

one fine sunny saturday afternoon in january, over coffee on a patio outdoors (an extremely rare thing for january in these parts), an idea was hatched between three fiber-loving friends, designers, and etsy shopkeepers: myself, jill of jill draper makes stuff (and now jill draper blogs) and cris, of into the whirled.  the seeds planted [...]

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