turning over a new leaf
At Cimarrona, we are using the opportunity this strange time has brought us to make changes to our line and our approach. For the last 14 years our goal has been to reduce, recycle and reuse whenever possible in all of the work we create, and we have used predominantly post consumer textiles as the main body of our line. Going forward, will still create using discarded, quality textiles. However…… Here in North Texas the abundance of post consumer (aka thrift store) wool sweaters has fallen. Where at one time a 60 mile wool sweater buying trip would result in […]
Playing it Safe
Twentytwenty has been a year that we can’t get to the end of soon enough. But before it closes we will have a small show- outdoors – masked and socially distant. This time of the year- in the past- I have celebrated with friends and family and enjoyed a busy Fall schedule of being at art shows with my art tribe. This has not been the year for that- but two of my art friends and I have rotated an “Art In The Yard” show, first Dallas, the Waxahachie- and it comes to Denton, TX Saturday December 5, 2020. You […]
one stitch at a time
As 2019 came to a close I reflected, as many of us do- on what I accomplished during the year. The things said and done- and the things left unsaid, undone as well. More than once this year it has occurred to me that most of what I do is done stitch by stitch. Time measured in stitches. No two stitches are done at the very same moment in time, they happen moment after fleeting moment. Sometimes quickly if I am using a machine, sometimes slowly if I am doing hand work- but it is done in the passing of […]