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Garters Are Back
If you’ve been following me on Instagram you know that this is garter no. 1725 and the first garter I’ve made since October 2014. I suppose I thought I was done forever, but forever is a long time, and the giant box of ribbons that has lived under my bed for over the last decade has been calling my name. I don’t want to return to what I was doing between 2008 – 2014 that led me to burn out on ribbonwork. This will be a try and see. I will mostly be stocking my (very happy) stockists some of whom have been with me since my first garters in 1998.…
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Some Garters
On a beautiful fall day, Bettie Newell of Little Paper Cities took some lovely photos of my handmade silk garters. I have had this strange habit of numbering each and every garter I have ever made. In a little notebook there are 60+ handwritten pages with 1650+ garters written down; their colours, the date sold, and whom it sold to. I am not sure
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Tell Me Your Favourite Colour Garter Giveaway
Garter #1630 is the number that I am on today as I write this post. Don’t ask me how many flowers or dresses I’ve made; I couldn’t tell you. For some reason I started writing down each garter I made, and being a bit obsessive compulsive, I couldn’t stop. If you have followed my progress, you will know these garters; I made my first one in February 1999 for a Valentine’s Day show, and they have never stopped selling. I recently opened my ribbon box to create a custom set for one of my long-term shops in San Francisco, and noticed that a ribbon order is long overdue. As I…
