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Welcome to the Gallery! Where we would like to feature five or more exceptional needle arts designers or crochet designers at a time. Every month a new designer will be added to our revolving system, which allows each artist to participate for at least three months. If you are a designer, we’d love to consider your work to be shown in our monthly parade of artists on the web site. Click on Submission Guidelines to find out how to submit your art work to us.
If you’re not a designer, have fun browsing our gallery page for inspiration, or just to admire the beautiful handwork that’s being featured.
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Just to get the gallery started, one of the first artists to be featured is of course, our head inmate, Mary Estok Nolfi. Her first love in any pattern design is hats and handbags. So that is what we will be concentrating on here. Mary has always liked to use a mixture of needle art techniques, which include crochet, needlepoint, embroidery embellishment, and a variety of hand-sewing methods that include attaching found objects and some appliqué.
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After browsing The Gallery, you might want to
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***Note: We really don’t want this website to be just about ME Nolfi. We prefer to provide crochet info that concerns ALL crochet addicts out there. We want to feature original works from any needle artist who can provide us with photos that are good quality and of more than one or two items. Please, if you are a needle artist and would like to participate in our gallery, read our submission guidelines and then submit your photos by the deadline dates. We would absolutely love to feature your wonderful work.
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We have one more artist to feature in this first show of the gallery...Jeannette Abramson, a multi-media artist, working mainly in textiles.
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Jeanette makes clothing items with techniques that include shibori and other tie dye methods. She also likes to use crochet techniques because of the portable nature of the craft. Jeanette travels quite a bit and crochets en route and during her many visits to foreign lands. She uses neutral cottons which she often dyes when the item is finished. Jeanette gives a lot of thought to the interiors of the bags as well, giving them each a unique lining, and then adds beads and other found objects that lend a wonderful bit of flare to the finished product.
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To purchase Jeanette’s bags, contact her directly at jma@bedu.com.
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