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I call it nesting; that urge to surround myself with all of my little treasures and all the things I love.
These sweet little nests are made from scraps of your favorite fabrics, bits of yarn, and then embellished with your wonderful tiny treasures. After that, use them to store your crafty doo-dads, hold your jewelry, or sit on your coffee table with a stack of love notes and colorful postcards. Treasure Nests are the perfect little happy place to showcase your bits and baubles and to stash your goodies.
Each student will leave class with one completed Treasure Nest, brightly colored and embellished with lots of your fun little treasures.
Tammy Gilley loves fabric - the feel of it, the smell of it, what she can do with it. As a young girl, days were spent with her mother and her grandmother around the dining room table, each working on their own projects and having lovely conversations. It was Tammy’s first memory of growing into her woman-ness and a sense that this was woman’s work, and that it was important, and creative, and wonderful.
As Tammy likes to say, she does few things quietly, and her art is no exception. Her quilt designs are a fresh take on a craft of generations. With every quilt and now, with the addition of fun mixed media work, Tammy feels the presence of the women who have gone before her.
Tammy has been featured on AM Northwest, Portland, Oregon’s local morning television talk show. Her work has been published many times in Somerset Studio, and has been shown in galleries nationally and internationally.
