Things have been interesting lately. On July 9, I had my plastic bag dress with the hyperbolic crochet skirt in a Trashion Show in Long Beach. The runway style show was the culmination of a month’s long series of free local workshops for transforming discarded materials into wearable art, led by Amy Bauer. A documentary… Continue reading Resistance (to casting on) Is Futile
Author: Julie Kornblum
Julie grew up surrounded by fiber arts. Her earliest memories are her mother sewing. Her grandmother knit and crocheted and taught her to crochet during a summer visit to her family’s hometown in Pennsylvania. When learneing to sew in Junior High, it was like she was born to do it. She explored embroidery, crochet, macramé, batik.
Coming to LA at age twenty, her only real skill was sewing, which led to the Fashion Design program at Los Angeles Trade Technical College and being a pattern maker in the garment industry. Marriage and children followed. Julie taught Fashion Design at Otis College of Art and Design for seven years while completing her BA in Art at California State University Northridge.
Julie has exhibited widely, has been published in books and magazines, curated art exhibitions, and coordinated large public yarnbombing projects. She often speaks about the plastic pollution crisis that informs her work.
Completion
I love completion. A few weeks ago, as happens sometimes, I completed three projects within days of each other. One project is a wall piece for my sister, it was in the works for two years. one is a Drop-in (to my annual challenge) shawl that I started in March during the Bay Area Yarn… Continue reading Completion
Quilts of a Non-Quilter
I am not a quilter, yet somehow, I’ve made six quilts since May last year. This is thanks, of course, to my becoming involves with Quilting for Community. Here’s the back story: In early February 2022, I was in the process of making a fiber art wall piece for my cousin, Karen, out of her… Continue reading Quilts of a Non-Quilter
Five Year Plan
About a year ago, Quilting for Community began hosting a Guided Autobiography group and I joined to fulfill my latent desire to write, of which This blog is also a manifestation. It ran for two five-week sessions, then paused. The writers conferred, reconfigured, and relaunched the group in January as the Q4C Writers’ Block. We… Continue reading Five Year Plan
They Will Always Break Your Heart
Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem called The Power of a Dog. I’m not sure if I would recommend looking it up. Maybe there should be some kind of trigger warning for this content… Saturday, January 6 We woke up to find a swarm of bees on a decorative bird house we have in our front… Continue reading They Will Always Break Your Heart
Chicken Gorilla
I’m not as ballsy as people think I am, probably never have been. It’s possible that being foul mouthed,
Avenue 50
What a nice day. Judy (my knitting around LA partner) and I went to the opening of Connie Rohman’s solo exhibition of The Thomas Guide Project at Avenue 50 Studio art gallery. It was a B-E-A-utiful day, warm enough to not wear a sweater, sunny and sparkling clear. The kind of day when everyone goes… Continue reading Avenue 50
New Site, New Day
Well…I wanted to add a blog to my site. But WordPress has changed a lot in the 10 years since I last used it. And I’m working on figuring it out. The purpose of this blog is to post about works in progress, events and announcements – things that are date-specific. A few years ago… Continue reading New Site, New Day