This Christmas season I am making functional art to sell at Art-is-in Market at 12 Oaks Mall. This is my first time at crafting anything functional. I’ve usually run screaming from the idea of making an object that had to do something other than look cool. For whatever reason, I have found it intimidating. So I chucked my fears to the wind and took a chance. I’ve also been really learning how to use my sewing machine. It hasn’t been pretty. There’s been a few fiber fatalities, but I am learning and the machine is still working.

First up is the fabric flip journals. There are many more than what is shown here. They aren’t hard to make just rather step intensive with lots of pieces. Most of it is hand-dyed fabric with Thermofax screen printing. The others (not shown) are made from commercial fabrics, in an effort to clean out the stash.

Second up are the coasters. Lots of coasters in many different fabrics. These ones are made from repurposed khaki pants. Add in a little creative stitching, screen printing and there you have them. I’m also working on some from the hand-dyed fabric and commercial fabric (again, using the stash).

I still need to purchase some display items before I can get them to the mall. But they should be arriving there within a week.

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