Moved

 You can find my new place at this link.  Come over and visit, new art and design ideas. Patterns, and classes.

Death by a Thousand Leaks

The Red Thread Studio in Suffolk is closing.  

It is with much sadness that we will not be able to keep the building and studio open any longer.  This last year has been a constant battle to get things back together after the fire.  Insurance, city codes and inspectors, contractors, unresponsive business owners, financial/economy and many others things are some of the reasons for this decision to let the building go. I guess the final straw came with the last rain, after cleaning and replacing all the first floor walls and flooring and having the roof  repaired twice, I came into the studio to find around twenty leaks and all our work being ruined.
Although we have lost the physical space, we will not loose all the great friends and mentors that we met in the last 5 years of business in the Historic Downtown of Suffolk.  We will continue our art work in other venues and hope to work with many of our creative friends around the area.  I will still be posting here on this blog and you can find the art work here at Two Red.  Please keep in touch and thank you to everyone that visited the studio and artist that worked with us along the way.
Always,
Angelia

DIY

I am posting as part of We Scout Wednesday over at Scoutie Girl.   Growing up in a Appalachian Kentucky, and being poor, made doing it yourself a necessity since I love to design and create beautiful things.  I never wanted to look like everyone else so started making my clothes from the curtains or remaking other clothing at a young age.  After the money ran out to finish our house addition, I bought paint and found other supplies to make one room into my bedroom.
Today with so many things available already made it sometimes seems like a waste of time to do things yourself.  But I feel like that is where we have lost as a society.  People who create do it because they have to, it is what they were meant to do, it is in our soul.   Many people need to work with their hands, and with so much automation it is harder to find ways to do hands on work.
Quality is also important, when you make/fix something yourself you are in control of the finished product and the quality of the time you spend doing the project.
DIY can be many things, and I hope we can come to appreciate all the things that people do to make life a little more interesting.

New floor we installed after a fire at our studio.

This is my new online place.  I hope this will help me bring everything back together.  A lot of things have changed and it is taking all my effort just to keep going, but I feel this new directions is right-it seems like I should have been doing this all along.  I have some orders for my new wholesale line and production is moving along.  Meeting so many new people and having more of a focus has brought out all the creative ideas.  I hope to find more like minded creative and adventurous soles out there in the world to discuss and share.  Hope you visit this page often for news and opportunities through my classes and boutique shop.
Angelia