Author: Arch Copy
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Little clown
An emblem I love is the clown. So many people hate them, but not me. Love ’em. Circuses in general, really. I love the old sign writing, striped tents, sequinned costumes and darkness just beyond the lights. I had the idea, years ago, that a clown suit would make excellent loungewear. Clowngewear? Maybe not. I…
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Small finds
Forever snufflin’ about in fields and hedgerows, streams and ditches. Just some small and homely finds from this year.
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Picking up last year’s project
I went into my office to start work on an idea I had, but that wasn’t what the universe wanted for me. I’d started a 60s dress pattern a year before but abandoned it when I couldn’t finish it in a day. Pretty standard. But on this day, my eyes settled on the dress on…
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Sewing nonsense
I have bursts of brain energy that render me unable to focus on anything but a novel idea. I will lose sleep over it, visualising the steps in the process. Bibs for everything This weekend, on a stormy Sunday, my novel idea was a design for a button-on dungaree bib that could attach to any…
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High summer
This week, the mornings feel like California. The flat, dense blue sky that I saw in Pasadena, on a day early enough to watch the Rose Bowl flea market setting up. Even though the sky is hazed at the edges, everything seems so clear that it’s unreal. The day you get new glasses – that’s…
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