Summer 2017 - Carl moved to San Francisco.  A close friend of his got a job as Senior Editor at Wired magazine.  He thought is was a great time to see the other coast and to get a new hairdo.  

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Carl lives in Brooklyn and takes the A train to the new World Trade Center for work everyday. Often, the A train has impromptu performers that dance and sing for pocket change. He gets his coffee from a small shop on Chambers Street, walks by the 9/11 memorial and remembers.  

 

Three nights a week he gets to the gym, plays billiards on Wednesday nights and typically eats dinner between 8-8:30. Weekends are usually dinner with friends, trips to Prospect Park and the occasional weekend away from the city.

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Although Carl is quite urban, he shares many interests with his cousin who lives in New England. 

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I strive to be a perfect sewer.  I have learned to sew test pieces, work out fabrics, test thread and stitching methods. Most projects have one or two mistakes - it's just part of sewing and you learn to accept them if you can't fix them. 

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Never, and I mean never, have I ever had so many mistakes as I encountered with Carl.  The more perfect I tried to sew, the worse it became.  From simple mistakes a beginner sewer would make to the complicated ones, almost every step in the process of creating Carl gave me hassles and had to be re-done multiple times. 

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My new mantra "Mistakes Create Design Opportunities".

 

Materials: Nutria Fur, Sheepskin, Dupioni Silk, Crepe De Chine Silk, Cotton, Polyester Batting.  Silk, Cotton, Polyester, Rayon threads in weights from 40 to 100. 

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Techniques: Free Motion Quilting, Raw Edge Applique, Fabric Tucked Border.  

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Competitions:

     MQX New England, Manchester, NH 2017

          Finalist

     Vermont Quilt Festival, Essex Junction, VT, 2017