This week's Texture Tuesday (no new post this Friday) is about my studio as I'm busy preparing for my Holiday Open Studio & Sample Sale and YOU are invited! I'd love to see you, celebrate the holidays together, and show you where I create my artwork.
Texture and color are everywhere in my tiny South Austin studio. So much that I need to do a bit of culling. It seems you CAN have too much of a good thing. Especially when you're a collector, or in more primal terms, as some south Austin stitchers like to say, a "fabric junkie".
I confess. I have A LOT of stuff!!! (But I am not a hoarder, so don't judge) :-)
There's nothing like a simple or elegant vignette that inspires me. Color and texture always draw me in. But also a combination of art, design, and definitely a little sparkle, will do the trick too.
"RESPONSIVE TEXTILES was founded on the idea that clothes are our second skin, and they should be as unique and human as we are." -- Kristine Rodriguez
A few weeks ago during New York Fashion Week (NYFW) I had the opportunity to write a story for a top kitchen and bath luxury brand BLANCO, and pair their IKONIC sinks and faucets with fashion hot off the runway of NYFW. I had heard of, but didn't know too much about, the up-and-coming fashion brand RESPONSIVE TEXTILES. I fell in love with the Bennu Skirt which I featured in my lead off image below. (If you missed that sponsored post, no worries, you can read it right HERE.)
[caption id="attachment_11145" align="alignnone" width="584"] BLANCO IKON apron sink and ARTONA faucet paired with the fashion of RESPONSIVE TEXTILES.[/caption]Happy #TextureTuesday! Today you get two chances to guess what this little squirrel sculpture, and other animals, are made of. The above adorable squirrel looks like it's crafted from looped yarn to me, don't you think? Not. Keep trying to guess with my clues. Have you got it yet?
With New York Fashion Week upon us, it's exciting to see what the hottest trends will be for 2017. When it's high fashion time on the runway, we can usually predict in the home furnishing industry that this year's runway styles will make its way into home decor by the following year.