Isn't this amazing? A Christmas gift that warms just to look and the perfect wrap for cold winter days. The pattern on the back is an intricate box within a box, with frames of different stitches out to the edges. The colors are mine...a range of oranges and greens, deep and rich.
Even as we've been working on many other kinds of pieces, I've continued to gather my loose threads and clippings and turn them into nests. It's just one of the ways that my work feels unexpectedly "green" ... as I use up even the smallest of scraps and cast-offs to sew up cards that each have their own personality, their own sense of tamed chaos, their own feeling of the 'natural.' To go along with our holiday offerings at the Camano Island Coffee Roaster Holiday Gift Shop this fall, I decided to make "to/from" tags using the nests. These are so much smaller than even the original nest cards... which I considered small! But they are sweet. I've done many sets in holiday colors already, but because I sew so frequently with orange thread (preferred by Opal), I've been putting together sets of orange ones in recent days, too.
A hole in each corner and a ribbon tied through... and you end up with a very satisfying set of tags... perfect for tying to a package any time of year.
Amy and Opal are two artists living in different states on the west coast who have teamed up to create fiber art together. Their journey and process is captured here.
