Ellen Hauptli
2016 Holiday Studio Sale
and studio news
Friday, December 9, 1-5 pm
Saturday, December 10, 10 am-4 pm
Some of my new denim and wool jackets exhibit a few of the techniques I use in an effort to use every last scrap of fabric. That’s ‘pre-consumer recycled content’ and is defined this way:
Pre-consumer recycling is any movement of material from a finished or partially finished product backwards into the production chain. When a material destined for landfill is instead used as a raw material in a new product, this new product has recycled content.
The pieces have a happy story to tell about mingling with others of different fiber persuasions and how they all get along beautifully despite their differences.
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The last of my Polartec stash has been sewn up into pullovers, jackets, vests, muffs, baby blankies, and mitts – these last items more examples of pre-consumer recycled content. Some cool weather is bound to come our way soon despite what the early blooming iris, daffodils, and magnolias might think.
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Summer clothes are marked down 65% even though rapid global warming may mean they will soon be winter clothes as well.
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A new, really nice batch of pre-owned Ellen Hauptli’s have arrived from several clients who are culling their flocks. The prices are extremely low, and the money goes to the MSSociety to fund research. Speaking of the MSSociety, I will be picking the three winners of my latest and last raffle on Saturday afternoon. Heartfelt thanks to all of you who have supported my fundraising efforts these last few years. It means the world to my family and everyone waiting for a cure to multiple sclerosis.
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There are workshops in the offing for those interested:
Writing the Unexpected: Workshop Intensive
December 22
9:30am – 12:30pm
Ellen Hauptli’s studio will be a source for inspiration, conversation, and playfulness in this generative workshop suitable for poets and prose writers. We will use visual ephemera, art, and the outdoors to experiment, get out of old habits, and create new work. Along the way we will attend to the craft of poetry to learn tricks and tips from published pieces. Our goals will be to establish a positive environment for critical feedback and community, write new pieces, and leave with a collection of writing exercise to draw upon in your own practice. Expect to leave with a new prose piece or poem.
Fee: $35. Includes handouts.
Materials: Bring a notebook and pen or pencil.
Valerie Wallace holds an MFA in creative writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has taught workshops and seminars throughout Chicago area. She has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, the San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Award, and was selected by Margaret Atwood for the Atty Award. A former editor with RHINO Poetry, she is author of the chapbook The Dictators’ Guide to Good Housekeeping and the book House of McQueen, winner of the 2016 Four Way Books Intro Prize.
January and February workshops tba:
Kantha Scraps to Whole Cloth
Up Cycling a Favorite Garment
