Came across this clothing brand in Spain - www.desigual.com I love it! Super fun and creative, with layers and stitching and non-standard use of fabrics that reminds me of my art and the quilts that I make! I love creative fashion, and altered clothes, and I’m always coming up with ideas that don’t exist yet, so I get out my sewing machine and hunt for what I need at a thrift store and make the ideas myself. I’ll have to post some of those creations for you to see. In the mea

I brought thread with me and started in on Africa and over to the Arabian Penninsula, and up around Asia and Europe. So Oman was sewn with American thread. But then I ran out of thread, so my friends in Oman took me to their sewing supply shop to get more. Actually, since she’s been a regular customer for 10 years, they wouldn’t let me pay for the thread. So then I proceeded to sew America with Omani thread. I thought that was pretty neat. Visit the process GALLERY for this

And you thought your TO DO list had overwhelmingly large tasks on it! Mine says things like, “Answer Emails”, “Study Arabic” and “Update Website” and then it says “Sew The World”!, so I’m working on it!! I always get crazy ideas for my art, and wonder what I was thinking - but they’ve always turned out to be worth it! This is for the under-layer of the painting I’ll be making live in Bahrain next week. Here are all the details: “Jesus and Mohamed: Paths to Peace” - Al Hus