{"id":2727,"date":"2012-11-11T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2012-11-26T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T10:01:20","slug":"buttonblanket-robe-making-at-ravens-nest-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/buttonblanket-robe-making-at-ravens-nest-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttonblanket Robe-making at Raven’s Nest Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just enough room to fit 7 students learning to create a buttonblanket robe sampler in the cozy Raven’s Nest Gallery owned and operated by Sue and Israel Shotridge on Vashon Island, Washington State<\/p><\/div>\n

Almost 30 years I’ve been designing and creating button robes.\u00a0 It never occurred to me to teach a class until Sue Shotridge dropped the first hint a couple of months ago.\u00a0 She bugged me some more until she got a real commitment.\u00a0 Golly, I’m sure thankful she insisted.\u00a0 As usual, like anything a teacher teaches, we just get better at it.\u00a0 With the tricks-of-the-trade I learned from my students, I shoulda been teaching classes long time ago!<\/p>\n

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Tools of the trade: thin sock filled with baby powder, pounce wheel, rotary cutter, snip scissors, Elmer’s glue, paper pattern, straight edge, antique mother-of-pearl buttons and of course, your fabric…!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The pounce wheel creates tiny holes along the design lines which will allow the baby powder to filter through onto the wool<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cindy Leask using the rotary cutter to cut the pattern in her black wool<\/p><\/div>\n

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…cutting out the design. The entire class pretty much kept up with one another…impressive!<\/p><\/div>\n

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A few of the students worked late into the evening…<\/p><\/div>\n

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After sewing down the design with a blanket stitch, the buttons are carefully laid out<\/p><\/div>\n

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Each button is carefully glued in place. This trick I learned from the late Agnes Thlunaut Belllinger back in the late ’70s when I never even thought of making robes – one day during dance practice, out of the sky blue, Agnes said “…Clarissa, when you are making button robes, do the layout of all the buttons and then one-by-one glue each carefully with Elmer’s glue…” Little did she know I couldn’t stand sewing buttons onto even a shirt let alone a robe with hundreds of buttons, but somewhere along the line, she musta known what my spirit many years later would go into…<\/p><\/div>\n

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It was great to see enthusiastic students play with buttons…<\/p><\/div>\n

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Clarissa’s first button blanket-making class – L to R: Clarissa, Anne Kelly, Michelle Ruelas, Paul Barry, Marilynn Short, Cindy Leask, and Steven Seto<\/p><\/div>\n

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Almost 30 years I’ve been designing and creating button robes.\u00a0 It never occurred to me to teach a class until Sue Shotridge dropped the first hint a couple of months ago.\u00a0 She bugged me some more until she got a real commitment.\u00a0 Golly, I’m sure thankful she insisted.\u00a0 As usual, like anything a teacher teaches, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,50,1],"tags":[90,62,43,9,210,100,98],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels-adventures","category-classes-retreats-apprentices","category-tlingit-cultural-events","category-uncategorized","tag-alaska-native-art","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-button-blanket-robes","tag-buttonrobes","tag-israel-and-sue-shotridge","tag-native-american-art","tag-northwest-coast-tlingit-native-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}