The MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Art) does a community exhibition once every 10 years called “A Foot in the Door“.  Anyone can enter a piece of art in nearly any medium as long as it fits in a box that’s 12x12x12 inches.  I can’t pass up an opportunity to exhibit something at the MIA!  This is a detail of my piece for the exhibition.  I won’t show you the whole thing until the show opens, that just seems like a spoiler.  This is made from my hand-dyed cotton fabric and embroidered with perle cotton thread. (Each of those squares is 1 inch, so you have a sense of scale.)

I love alphabet samplers.  This scrap of fabric was a remnant I found last fall and I have been waiting to make something fun with it.  It is a tan colored cotton, which is coated with a fine layer of metallic gold, so it’s slightly shimmery in person.  I decided to to a tiny little alphabet sampler with a goldfish.  And when I say tiny, here’s a photo for scale…