Aprilsongstress @ the Shirt Factory on March 7th

I've signed up for another event! Aprilsongstress Designs will be on the 2nd floor of the Shirt Factory Arts & Healing Center in Glens Falls, NY for Beat the Winter Blues.

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Embroidered portrait hoop art by Aprilsongstress

Redwork pillows by Aprilsongstress

Join the event on my Facebook page. I hope to see you there!


Happy Stitching!

LocalFest in Glens Falls, NY in 4 days!!!

So, today I ironed many of my lovely embroidered portraits. Now to get them ready to sell at LocalFest on Saturday! I'm still working on the Sacagawea embroidered portrait & she should be complete. Plus I will be demonstrating my technique during the entire event. Each portrait takes 8-20 hours to embroider, depending on the level of detail.

Just some of the embroidered portraits you will see at LocalFest

For the schedule of events, including small business seminars, music, food, local authors, history lectures, as well as Shirt Factory studios & businesses, click HERE for the pdf, check out the Shirt Factory website, or see below! Guest vendors, like me, are not listed.

LocalFest 9/06/14 in Glens Falls, NY

From the Facebook event page:

Join us for our third annual LocalFest: Stuff Made Here, a celebration of all things locally-made!

The rain-or-shine FREE event is a diverse festival to honor the history and continued tradition of entrepreneurship and creativity that makes the greater Glens Falls region so special.

Click here to view the complete program: http://shirtfactorygf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Schedule-of-events-2014.pdf

Here is what we have planned:

ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS, SALES, FREEBIES & MORE INSIDE
Tour the four floors of The Shirt Factory and shop local and independent specialty shops, browse fine art galleries, view artists at work, and learn how this art is made. Free acupuncture, special sales and more!

LIVE MUSIC
We have a full day's lineup of acoustic local acts outside in our courtyard. Lineup TBA, but acts include Drew Wardle, Ramblers Home, Krishna Chandra, Luke Garrett, Cie M., Lilting Forward and Sonic Ascent. This is coordinated and emceed by musician and volunteer Stephen Gallucci.

FOOD & CRAFT BEVERAGES
Taste specialty foods and enjoy locally brewed iced tea, beer and wine.

GUEST ARTISTS, ARTISANS & BUSINESSES
Shop from guest artists and artisans outside on our lawn, and learn about your local businesses and what they have to offer. (This is where Aprilsongstress will be!)

FUN STUFF FOR KIDS
Area non-profits will be tabling the event with free children's activities, membership information and volunteer opportunities. There will also be a bounce house!

SHIRT FACTORY THEMED SHOW
Inside our Shirt Factory Gallery on the first floor, view Shirt Factory themed artwork by local artists in this juried show called "Shirt Factory @ 15," celebrating our 15th year as the arts and healing center we have come to be.

BENEFIT GLENS FALLS PLEIN AIR ART SHOW
In the hallway on our second floor, view and purchase art created "en plein air" (live, rather than from a photograph!) around the City of Glens Falls on the citywide Paint Out! 50% of proceeds from sales from this pop-up show benefit the Open Door's Code Blue emergency shelter efforts.

FREE BUSINESS SEMINARS
In Betty O'Brien's Watermedia Academy on our second floor, attend one or more free seminar to help small businesses. Presenters include SCORE, SUNY Adirondack, Edward Jones and others TBA.

PERFORMANCE STAGE
New this year: A second stage for performances! Acts include a dance demonstration by Adirondack Ballet Theater and a fight demonstration by the Society for Creative Anachronism. Note: We are still accepting additional acts for this stage!

HISTORY TALKS
In the Shirt Factory Gallery on our first floor, there will be local history talks during the morning. Presenters TBA.

AUTHOR READINGS
In Adirondack Quilts Too on the first floor, local authors will read from their works and sign books they have for sale. This is coordinated and emceed by author and volunteer Maury Thompson.

This event is made possible by our wonderful sponsors:

PLATINUM
• Adirondack Broadcasting
• The Post-Star
• Lawrence & Cooper, Inc.

GOLD
• Mannix Marketing, Inc.
• Glens Falls Chronicle
• Glens Falls National Bank
• Kingsbury Printing Co, Inc.

SILVER
• Irving Tissue
• Hill Country Observer
• Stewart's Shops

BRONZE

• City of Glens Falls
• PJN Photography
• Advokate
• SensibiliTeas
• Adirondack North Country Association
• Glens Falls Art, LLC. https://www.facebook.com/kateboyle.GlensFallsArt
• Craig Murphy Photography
• Rock Hill Bakehouse Cafe
• Glens Falls Farmer's Market
• Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC)
• Mindful Massage @ The Lemon Tree Yoga & Healing Arts Studio
• Glens Falls Area Realty
• Downtown Glens Falls - Glens Falls Collaborative
• Ledge Rock Hill Winery
• Davidson Brothers Restaurant & Brewery

I hope to see some of you there!

Happy Stitching!

Holy shhhh! It's August!

Wow! It's August. That means I need to get my stuff together for the Washington County Fair. Hoping for another ribbon or 2 this year. The One Direction Quilt Project should be wrapping up this month. I will keep you posted!

I have my first craft fair of the year coming up too! It is more artisan/ artist based & the organizers want us to focus on demonstrating our technique! Very exciting.

LocalFest event page on Facebook

LocalFest is in it's 3rd year & focuses things made here in the greater Glens Falls, NY area. I am thrilled to be a part of it this year. For the Facebook event page- CLICK HERE! There will be artists & artisans- selling & demonstrating, food, music, history talks, author readings, kids activities, performances, and more.

Check out what I'm making... Adirondack Guide, Noah John Rondeau lived in the Adirondack Mountains as a hermit for 37 years. A true individual, and self-educated man, he is just the sort of person I like to render in redwork embroidery.

Redwork of Noah John Rondeau

I hope you can stop by LocalFest at The Shirt Factory on September 6, 2014 & see me & all Glens Falls has to offer.

Happy Stitching,

Current project- Town of Greenwich, NY

The annual Whipple City Days festival is occurring next weekend & mom & I signed up to do the craft fair. Well, mom signed up & is taking some of my stuff because, as duly appointed public historian for the beautiful Town of Greenwich, I will have a booth of my own.

I decided to work on some different kind of projects in the hopes of making a sale (it's been a while).

Town of Greenwich design traced out on tea towel

This particular pattern I created myself for a quilt project by a professional organization I belong to, Association of Public Historians of New York State (APHNYS). I blogged about it before in my Greenwich History blog. Check out that post here. I just "googled it" & found an image of the quilt with my 2 blocks included!

Embroidering Susan B. Anthony in Redwork

 Since the tea towel has red stripes, I chose to do Redwork, which is my embroidery of choice. Susan B. Anthony (displayed in progress above) & her family lived in Battenville & Center Falls. Susan even taught school in the area. As a Quaker, she was active in the Temperance Movement before devoting her life to the passage of a national suffrage amendment.

The image of Chester Alan Arthur (21st president) came from the book Presidential Redwork: A Stitch in Time by Michael Buckingham. Arthur lived in Greenwich while his father William was pastor of the local Baptist church.

Finished tea towel in Redwork

Below is the finished tea towel. I think I will do this pattern again in green & place it in a hoop for wall art.

If you are out-&-about in Upstate NY next weekend (6/14 & 6/15) my mom (Just-A-Duck) & I will be there on Saturday, 6/15 from 9:00-6:00 p.m. For more on Whipple City Days click here.