Winter Reds & Blacks & Greys

 Just posted some new fabrics on the Eclectic Clothing Page... here are a few that i like a lot... as always, happy to make any of my styles in whatever fabrics i have... just give me a call!

New Boucle Pullovers & Jackets from PT @ CURVE

Fall 2013 boucle pullover • S M L • $135

colors • purple, olive, robin's egg blue, navy, red, sage

74% acrylic / 20% wool / 6% polyester

machine wash gentle / lay flat to dry

Wraps in New Colors!

promised a customer i would post the new colors so she can let her daughters chose the colors they will like the best! so here it is... most are rayon & a little bit of lycra... the stone color (& the blue to its left) are rayon/wool/lycra adding just a nice bit more warmth without too much itch! i was wearing the stone @ Clingman Cafe this am

Just got a really sweet note from Edith Kaan, a linguistics professor @ University of Florida, who came to shop this summer... read more about Edith with a photo of her in her digital dot wrap dress from Pattiy Torno @ CURVE! Thanks for sharing, Edith!

Origami Skirt & Rayon Wraps for Fall 2013

The Origami Skirt is my new skirt for this fall! am loving it! @ $145... 21", 23",  25" & 27" waist sizes in the grey matte jersey & blue or brown heathers slinky jerseys shown below... working on finding some more fabrics that will work with this pattern! 

shown with a Cap Tee in the big  grey floral @ $60... M & L

and for those of you who have loved the wraps i used to make for Alena to print on... you can now get these versatile rayon/lycra jersey wraps (without the printing) @ $30 each... color selection below! they measure at least 28" x 72" with some longer... 

Go Big or Go Home! (new photo piecing commission)

I got a lot of positive feedback from my show @ The Junction this spring... what i heard more than once was the desire to see the work bigger... so my mantra was "go BIG or go home" so I ordered some 4 foot x 4 foot surfaces... little did i know that i was about to get a commission for a 4 foot x 8 foot photo piecing for the lobby of a new building in Davidson, NC.  So that work has begun and here is where i am today.... will post progress as it happens... so much fun!!

here is a photo of the finished piece installed in Davidson! only two months later! whew!

MAKE : DO ~ Photopiecings @ The Junction March 19 - April14, 2013

Please join me for cocktails on March 21, 2013@ 6pm @ The Junction Restaurant & Bar @ 348 Depot Street in celebration of a new body of photopiecings, from my travels this winter & around the ARAD. (Asheville's River Arts District)... you can see most of the photopiecings images here! thanks... Pattiy

A Few New Fabrics for Spring 2013...

blue optic dot wrap dress S/M/L $95

brown/blue optic dot aline skirt S/M/L/XL $60

here are a few photos of two new skirt/dress ITY jersey fabrics...  there will be more in a few weeks... 

CURVE 2013 Spring Open House & Twilight Party! SAVE the DATE!

CURVE studios & garden will host its 5^th Annual Spring Open House & Twilight Party on 2^nd Saturday, April 13, 2013 from 10am to 8pm @ 6•9•12 Riverside Drive, in the heart of Asheville’s River Arts District.

All day Saturday, April 13^th, starting @ 10am, our 3 buildings will be filled with artists working, demonstrating their processes.

In #6 CURVE, you will find fine silver jeweler, Mary McCall Timmer & color/pattern/textile artist, Pattiy Torno.  Downstairs in #9 CURVE, welcome enamel jeweler, Monty Phillips & Celia Barbieri, The Button Florist, as they join long time CURVE ceramic artists, Angelique Tassistro & Cassie Ryalls.

Upstairs in #9 is now home to 6 new artists.  Visual storyteller & HaTfolk artist, Laura Balombini, has brought together Hanji Home Lamps by Pamella O’Connor, large scale oil paintings by Jo Ridge Kelley, hand weavings & wearables by Suzanne Gernandt, fine woodworking by John Gernandt & upcycled PatteCoats by Patte Vanden Berg into a diverse yet cohesive workshop. 

Downstairs in #12 you will find new Contemporary Ceramic work by Akira Satake, Kyle Carpenter, Karen Newgard & Maria Andrade Troya.  The CURVE garden, will be in full bloom, so do come and “smell the roses”, magnolias, lilacs, lily of the valley… you get the idea.

The CURVE Twilight Party starts @ 5pm.  Edibles will include carnivorous & veggie selections, prepared by Mark Rosenstein & his GO Kitchen staff, on his custom wood fired “inferniollio”, as well as goodies from 12 Bones Smokehouse & Rosetta’s Kitchen.  Baked goods will come from Short Street Cakes & Yuzu Patisserie.  Drinks will include sangria, wine & local beers… with music by DJ Marley Carroll between 5 & 8pm, with a performance @ 7pm by CURVE artist, Akira Satake, on banjo & shamisen.

The mission here @ CURVE is “Bringing people to ART & ART to life in Asheville’s River Arts District”.  This Twilight Party, 10% of sales @ CURVE will go to support the GO Kitchen job-training program, so bring your credit cards!  This event is free & everyone is welcome.