Sentences with phrase «hand sewing work»

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Anna Maria: I think the best part of my job is getting the chance to be artistically inspired in my own hand work or sewing and then having the opportunity to pass along that thrill to others who are interested in my process.

Emily loves giving other mom's advice and ideas to help make motherhood just a little easier, and in her spare time she loves working with her hands: sewing, scrapbooking and making all sorts of fun things for her boys and crafts to decorate her home with.

Those essays explain why you should innovate on your own (and not piggyback on others» ideas and work), and why selling anything hand - sewn isn't always as simple as it appears at first glance.

Digitally hand - printed and hand - sewn, Pins by Lydra is a series of designer leggings that aim to showcase artists and musicians work in a unique and fun way.

We are putting them in training, we are teaching them how to be dressmakers, hairdressers, how to be able to do work with their hands, we are giving them sewing machines and other equipment and then we are bringing them back to come and settle so that they can work for themselves,» President Mahama stated.

I sewed this dress last summer and spent an extreme amount of time on it, even hand picking the zipper in place, and meticulously sewing the lace waistband in place, because the seersucker was a bit of a pain to work with.

I don't trust my sewing skills (or my hand - me - down machine) to work with leather but I absolutely love the bow.

I employed a lot more than half an hour:»D but it's probably because I prefered sewing by hand, considering how badly my sewing machine works I used a heavier black fabric and added a waistband.

The seamstresses who work for him sewing the gown by hand (not a single sewing machine is present in his house) must work through the night to make sure the dress is ready in time.

On the other hand (sorry — this is going to be a bit long), as a long time comic fan I have to respectfully disagree with what ultmately you settle upon for the definition of graphic novels: «A graphic novel is a complete work of fiction in the comics form which, if printed, is long enough to be bound as a trade volume, so with a glued or sewn spine.»

This is an opportunity for the store to be the binding and driving force in a neighborhood, and the roots sewn by extending a hand to work cooperatively with neighbors can lead to benefits down the line.

Together with the works on paper is a hand - sewn soft sculpture of two intertwined snakes - a male and a female - decadently dressed, offering a wry statement on the privileged social systems media imagery exploits.

One of the most powerful sculptures in the exhibition is a small textile work by Louise Bourgeois: a sickly salmon - pink hand sewn crudely, its gnarled fingers outstretched, sits on a worm - eaten piece of wood.

Sabrina Gschwandtner's second solo exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery continues her exploration into intricate quilting motifs, expanding on her already complex imagery with the addition of deaccessioned celluloid film strips of female hands hard at work — sewing, threading, knitting and crocheting their way into our human consciousness.

Takadiwa exhibits a hand - sewn work of reclaimed computer keys from trashed computers into a strange topography of non-information.

Appropriation is far too narrow a boundary, however, for this conceptual artist who creates his unique works with either hand beaded or machine sewn embroidery and pours hot molten glass in sculptural puddles which when assembled become whirlpools of spiraling dots, words or phrases, and magical forests of mushrooms.

By utilizing hand sewn textiles alongside the tar the work speaks to issues of class, labor, gender and race.

His work has involved the act of physically entwining his face and chest with fishing gut (in Bind / Ontbind2, Venice, 2003), licking sand off anthills (in Licked Colony, SA, 2011), painting his face with gold leaf, honey, flour and oil while defacing a gallery wall (in Figurehead, Rotterdam, 2010), and having sump oil and milk poured into his outstretched hands containing Buddha statuettes sewn into his skin (in Thank You, Bodh Gaya in India, 2011).

In a recent series of hand - sewn fabric works that debuted at the Untitled art fair in Miami in December, felt silhouettes inspired by photographs of police violence during the 2012 national agrarian strike in Colombia mingle with images of the Cathara women, similarly brought to their knees.

She taught herself how to sew in 2010 and went on to start Pixiecraft in 2013 which specialises in the art of hand embroidery, selling her work and running workshops.

Published as an oversized booklet with hand - sewn binding, this catalogue extends the experience of the works on view through poetic, artistic, and scholarly perspectives.

Linda Hutchins, Left Hand Swish, 2011 India ink on watercolor paper 11 x 17 inches April 4 - 27, 2011 The exhibit, Through Line, includes new drawings as well as sewn organza sculptures and typewritten works.

work primarily in knitting, using a mixture of traditional and cutting - edge techniques such as precision machine knitting, hand sewing and high - tech embroidery — often to restore or refigure discarded objects and natural materials.

She moved, specifically, from classicist drawings of hands to textile works — a self - defined style of «drawing with a sewing machine» in which she sometimes used materials bequeathed by her mother, and explored the Greek myth of Medea, the mother who killed her children after her husband betrayed her — to, later, collage works, or «drawing with scissors».

They are hewn and put together skillfully from found objects while the tapestry like hand - sewn work turned out a quilt of rapid - fire imagination.

In her work, these moments of connection are recalled and grounded by coded and recoded hand - sewn industrial felt creations.

Titled «Please, Mr. President» the six by eight foot hand - sewn quilt is comprised of a central figure, the artist, surrounded by the twelve children she worked with during her residency.

Unlike the formal and material signifiers of gender that she introduced into her work during the women's movement period (i.e., hand dyeing, sewing, patchwork, domestic scale), the ostensible markers of Jewish cultural identity are harder to identify in the arena of painting.

Working these sewing machines requires a lot of endurance, attention to detail and hand - eye coordination.

My dream space would have flat space, drawers, cupboards & basket space for sewing machine, ironing board, cutting table, etc., paper crafting with all my tools & paper close at hand, computer work space and photo booth for little shoots, a wall near each station for inspiration boards, lots of windows and a little spot to sit, breathe, read & drink a cup o» tea.