I’m so excited: I’m
finally going to peek inside the boxes that I picked up from Jim Thompson just
before moving from Atlanta
to Oberlin in 2012.
First I had to haul them up from the basement where they've been stored for the past 4 years. Hmm, some are a bit damp and slightly moldy. Hope the fabric inside is ok. There are fine little roots growing on the basement walls - I'll need to get Dominique to take a look at that.
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| Boxes in the basement |
Next step, get them into the my studio. I have no idea what’s in
them. Let’s see…
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| Boxes in studio with Sunny |
Well, interestingly, many of the samples are additional
colors of ones I already have, but there are several new ones, as well. Plus a couple of boxes of silk scraps and 2
really big bags of more samples. What a
treasure trove.
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| The unveiling! |
Counting them all took me about 10 hours; that doesn’t
include the time to stock them. What I
do is keep one sample of each color of each fabric on my shelves upstairs; the
rest go on my shelves in the basement.
My mystery boxes added about 3,000 pieces to my stash –
time to get busy!
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| New fabrics, sort and counted - all 3,000 pieces |
