Personal Adornment

Avian Designs – Longmont artist Amy Gates of Avian Designs enjoys combining her love of the earth and her creative side into making unique up-cycled leather and vintage tin jewelry. By using repurposed items like thrifted leather/suede jackets and vintage cookie tins, she is able to take something old and discarded and give it new life by making it into wearable art! Avian Designs donates 5% of all sales The Trevor Project, a non-profit organization which focuses on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth.

Eunjoo Kang is a master ceramicist.  Her work is rooted in the traditions of Korean art, inspired by the natural world, and shaped by a love for storytelling. Kang explores human emotion, spirit, and memory through clay and often draws on the textures and forms of nature, as well as the subtle expressions of the human face and figure. She shares, “Through my art, I want to share a sense of wonder, simplicity, and warmth. I hope to connect with others in a way that goes beyond words”.

Her necklaces and earrings are sure to delight you!

Eve’s friend Sue Hagedorn is a Longmont fiber artist. She has brought us a large assortment of beautiful indigo-dyed scarves and up-cycled clothing. Many of these one-of-a-kind garments are from high-quality fashion brands. 

An Anchorage, AK native, she became interested in indigo dyeing at a workshop there and was drawn to its healing and quiet contemplative properties. She has explored the traditional Japanese art of Shibori (a method of folding and tying to produce dye-resist patterns), and dyeing with a variety of natural materials on natural fiber fabrics, table linens, clothing and paper of all kinds. Sue also teaches indigo dye workshops outdoors during the warm months.

One of our favorite ceramic artists, Julie has recently extended her texture and pattern themes
to the realm of jewelry, bringing us her new lightweight ceramic earrings and necklaces!

Linda loves color! And she loves the creative process of making things from yarn or cloth. She started out in fiber arts as a weaver, but expanded into other forms as well, and is now also an accomplished quilter. She has brought her popular heat-insulated quilted cotton potholders, along with handwoven placemats and wool and chenille scarves to our Holiday Market.

Linda has been an active member and past president of the Handweaver’s Guild of Boulder for many years, with galleries throughout Colorado showing her work.

Joan Hemm began working with the fabrics found in thrift-store draperies, duvet covers, tablecloths, and sheets in high school where there was no budget for costumes for the drama department’s productions. We first met Joan at a Boulder County Farmer’s Market, where she was dressed in a wonderful period costume portraying Susan B. Anthony in honor of Women’s Suffrage, and armed with voter registration forms. She had, of course, made her costume from remnants.

Fashioned from top quality ‘designer’ home decor fabric remnants (small new, unused leftovers), Joan reimagines the fabrics into one-of-a kind crossbody bags for us. She designed her pattern based on features she personally wanted: a “gusset” to create a roomier interior, a pocket on the back for a cell phone, inside pockets, cotton linings, and an adjustable strap. Just what we all wanted!

Sondra joined us late in our 2015 holiday market and her fun, original hand-knitted hats and headbands immediately set off a buying frenzy! Eve gets compliments wherever she goes when she wears the fabulous feathery headband Sondra made, even from strangers on the street!

We’ve stocked up on her pieces this year, including her soft, snuggly hats and headbands, as well as her beautiful pressed-flower botanical cards.