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Express your own style in this class where we will alter and embellish a standard canvas tote using paint, carved potato stamps and textile decorations. Learn techniques for paintwork, printing and simple stitchery while creating this artful, personal workbag with pockets, an attached needlecase and pincushion. Add your own touches with textiles from your stash, trinkets and fiber accents. Endless possibilities in class and beyond.
Charlotte Lyons’s career as a writer, designer, and artist began when she left teaching to raise her three daughters. In an effort to stay creatively connected and to find activities that would be fun for her and her children, she immersed herself in the home arts – and discovered her true vocation. Her skills and imagination with domestic crafts, repurposed materials – and her firsthand understanding of how creative activities can form a wonderful personal bond – have informed her professional work with magazines, books, manufacturers and arts events.
She is the author of Mothers and Daughters at Home: 35 Projects to Make Together and Between Friends: Craft Projects to Share (Simon and Schuster). Additionally, she co-authored the Home Companion series of eight decorating and craft titles with Mary Engelbreit and Barbara Martin (Andrews and McMeel). She has appeared on the CBS Early Show, DIY Scrapbooking and HGTV.
Inspired by the humble designs of traditional art and craft and the inventive use of everyday materials, Charlotte’s work has been featured in Country Living, Victoria, Rosie, Romantic Homes, Woman’s Day, Better Homes and Gardens, Where Women Create, Cloth-Paper-Scissors, Somerset Life and Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion. Presently, her artwork is also licensed to a growing list of companies for sale in the marketplace including Midwest Seasons of Cannon Falls, Bethany Lowe and Oopsy Daisy. She teaches locally in New York (Manhattan and lower Westchester) and nationally at arts events for creative women (Silver Bella).
