Fast Fun & Easy Fabric Ficklesticks
Art Sticks to Bend, Wrap, Weave & Wear

Author: Diana Taylor
Pages: 47
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4W30191
Weight: 0.6 lb
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MSRP: $14.95

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Turn Fabric Strips Into Fun and Funky Adornments

• 9 quick and engaging jewelry projects plus an inspiring gallery of stick figures, baubles, bouquets, belts & bows.
• Stitch a Ficklestick in just minutes from an assortment of fabrics, pieced and unpieced and finish with easy-to-find supplies.
• Create Ficklesticks in any length, from tiny 1" posies, to 36" wallhangings.

About the Author

Diana Taylor was born in Lafayette, Indiana, the oldest of four. She attended Purdue University briefly as a "Hoosier Scholar," and managed two art-related courses before leaving to marry at the age of eighteen. She raised four children as a military wife in Spain, Holland and in the South. By 1981, after a couple of years consigning her work and selling at art crafts shows, she established "Granny's Fan," a cottage-industry manufacturer of softly-sculpted items from vintage fabrics. She took the company to market where she secured orders from Macy's, Bloomingdale's and dozens of other retailers. Diana closed the company in 1989, went on to work for Leisure Arts briefly, and then spent fifteen years as a newspaper advertising executive in Little Rock. During this time, she also rescued a historic house, joined the Arkansas Quilters Guild, traveled in the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America and was a founding member of the Little Rock Wind Symphony, where she played clarinet for ten years.

She arrived in San Francisco in 2003 to be near her grown children and grandchildren who had all arrived, one by one, ahead of her. She had planned to sell real estate, frolic in the bay and play clarinet in a band in San Francisco. Instead, in 2004 she established Stickball, an artware studio producing a full line of ficklesticks "art" being sold in museum gift shops, artisan galleries and other boutique across the U. S. She gave up real estate and found out the bay was too cold, but she is still playing in the band.

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