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Aren’t you tired of  spending half of your art time looking for your tools?  Well here is the answer...the custom apron...made by you to hold everything you need to work uninterupted....find your glasses, camera, cell, scissors, brushes, pliers, pin cushion, tape measure, glue stick, your journal,  pens, tape, beer opener...you get it...In this class we will take a pair of jeans and alter them to be a fun and useful apron with paint and embellishments.  If you are more comfortable in a butcher type apron you can customize one of those....or both.

Custom Apron

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supply list

• a pair of jeans ( does not have to fit you) or a butcher type apron or both sewing machine...I will have mine there and this could all be done by hand.
• brushes for painting the fabric
• container for water
• pins and needles
• scissors
• thimble
• embroidery thread or pearle cottons
• 1/4 yard fabric for sash ( not a fat quarter)
• Embellishments like buttons, rick rack, ribbon or silk flowers
  
  
• optional: pliers to grip needle, contrasting fabrics,  felt

I , Syd McCutcheon, aka Sheep Floozy, am is a mixed media artist.  I know ...who isn’t?  But along with painting, book arts, collage and assemblage, I have a long time love affair with fabric,  starting with needle and thread in nursery school.  I find combining fabric with other mediums is especially exciting. I like using lots of color and mixing up the textures and materials. Adding paint to fabric is a natural next step.

    I live in a small community, Ballard, near Solvang, CA and co- runs a  studio / workshop, where I teach and work, called the  ART CLINIC.  Once a year I coordinate a benefit art faire for Domestic Violence Solutions called Queen of Arts.