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Violet Bats
10 March 2012
by Mala Mare in Totes
Bats hibernate during the winter. In caves. The spring is coming and they are waking up. To honor that, I greet them with a school bag.
I made the bag from linen artist’s canvas, one of my favorite fabrics. I made bats applique using violet linen fabric. Contours of wines that are waking up like [...]
Snowy Bag
4 February 2012
A tote with flowers, but a snowy tote. Snowy because it is made of warm fabric, because its colours look like winter and snow, and snowy because just as I was finishing it, it started snowing for the first time this winter.
Why did I make a white bag? Because white fabric bag sounds quite [...]
About Owls
26 January 2012
by Mala Mare in Totes
Owls live in my neighborhood. Sometimes I hear them, sometimes I catch a glimpse of them silently flying in the dusk. Most probably they are Tawny Owls, Strix aluco, but I yet have to see them properly. I’m reading about owls and here are several things I have learned so far about my neighbors, [...]
Winter Bag
15 December 2011
For a long time, the winter to me was… ah, hibernation mainly. Apart from occasional beautiful snow, I had an impression that everything was grey and grey for a long time and not really interesting. I think that simply, I did not observe well. Because, when I walk in the nature and look around… [...]
Second Life
12 November 2011
I’ve added a new category to this blog, second life. Second life are handbags made from fabric that used to be something else in the previous life, like a jacket, a skirt or a pair of trousers.
I used to repurpose already as a kid. In those days, repurposing was primarily motivated by me imagining [...]