Hello T3 readers. It’s Hannah writing to you today. How is everyone?! It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post for the Thimble. I’m home for winter vacation and am thoroughly enjoying my time here at the shop. Stop in and say hello! Yes, yes indeed …
Melissa Arnold and Embellishment Machines.
We are thrilled to have Melissa Arnold returning to The Tin Thimble Classroom to teach “The Embellishment Machine Unplugged” in February. Here in the shop I must admit we’ve all been a bit skeptical of embellishment or felting machines – go …
Dragon Pants!
I recently learned that How to Train Your Dragon is currently my 5-year-old nephew’s favorite movie so I just couldn’t resist making him these pajama bottoms for Christmas:Made from the above vintage pattern. It was SO much better than any of the…
Felted Fashion Show 2012
We are thrilled to be hosting our first Felted Fashion Show! Mom, Lisa, Carin and a number of our students will be struttin’ their felted garments down the catwalk. The fashion show will be part of High Hand Gallery’s Awards Night for the A…
Rack-O-Patterns
I am absolutely THRILLED to now be carrying the FULL line of Colette Patterns! Their patterns continue to impress me with measurement accuracy, shape, fit and they’re cute (with a vintage flair) to boot! In my Ginger Skirt at the Handmade S…
Batik
Haripriya Raghavan was in the classroom two weeks ago and she taught a wonderful little Batik class. This was the first time Batiking (I think I may be making that word up) for both the students and The Tin Thimble and I’m just in love with what …
Artstock 2012
The High Hand Gallery has put on another wonderful Artstock this year and I am THRILLED to see all of the felted artwork in the show!Wet Felted Eggplant by Sharon MansfieldI wish I had a piece in the show so I had a chance of winning one of these …
Fabulous
Mom and I recently helped out Sunrise Community Church down if Fair Oaks with their most recent “Reminisce” event. This time around we all jumped into the 1950’s. It was a lovely event with a great old car out front, classic (ORIGINAL!!) Ju…
Way back in May
we happened to host our Second Annual Felt Fest and what fun we had! The first Felt Fest we hosted was in March of 2011 and it was just way too cold in the sheds to do it during that time of year again so this year we put it in May and the weathe…
Whoooeeeeee.
am I beeeehhhiiiinnnnndddd on updates, or what?? I mentioned that mom and Lisa were both putting pieces in the Focus on Fiber show at The Sacramento Fine Arts Center but I never shared the news! These are the pieces that they entered:And I …