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If I had to define my approach to art, it   I can even remember the first appliqué I
 would be a modest attempt to sweep away   ever did when I was at primary school; a
 the dust of daily life and make others see   monster with big buttons for his eyes and all
 that often the simplest of things can be the   sewn around the edge with blanket stitch.  I
 most beautiful.  I recently came across the   have really been sewing for as long as I can

 Swedish word ‘fika’, which describes a   remember.
 moment to slow down and appreciate life.  I
 thought I would borrow this term to   I like to capture people going about their
 characterize what I see as the purpose of my   everyday lives, often the simplest of things
 artwork.  To me, an artist is someone who is   can be the most beautiful.  I start off with
 capable of bending things that most people   a lineal drawing of the image and then the
 see as a straight line.  fun begins when I choose which fabrics to
 use for the appliqué.  I carefully cut out the
 I don’t really know how I arrived where I   shapes and sew them in place with my
 am now with my artwork.  It was just a   machine.  After that, I sew the rest of the
 natural progression of several factors.    image with black thread, as though it were
 Creatively I have always been a Jack of all   my pencil line and finally, I add embroidery

 trades, as long as I was creating, I was  thread to highlight just specific parts in
  happy.  My grandmother was a very gifted   the image, which is what helps to bring the
 embroiderer and when we went to visit her,   pieces to life.
 she would give us big, blunt, needles and   Contact Ann at…
 small squares of canvas which we would   anchoafabrics@gmail.com
 then fill with rows of stitches.    www.instagram.com/anchoafabrics
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