Progress > Pretty
August 14, 2019I wanted to set up my camera with good light and take a pretty photo because that’s what ya do for the gram, right? 🤷🏽♀️ But also, who has time for that?! Not I! At least, not right now. Right now my life is teaching prep and writing a survey for work and editing wedding videos and showing up for my family+friends and my community and and and and… Tivaevae is a handful of high value minutes to step away from the computer. An invitation to try to remember how to breath. To get out of the ephemeral digital spaces,…
Habits of creation
This is how I’ve been spending a couple nights a week since mid-June. Stitching away and watching The Americans (just started season 4!). When I picked sewing back up last month I set a goal to have…
Live from the Mangere Arts Centre
Kia Orana! I am freshly home from a wonderful trip to Auckland, New Zealand. During the trip I was fortunate to squeeze in a trip to the Mangere Arts Center (Ngā Tohu o Uenuku) for their tivaevae…
Blocks of time for better stitches
When you’ve been sewing for hours and can’t see straight anymore you gotta get close to your stitches. 😂 I’m kidding of course – I didn’t really sew like this. A couple weekends ago I had the…
Live from Heritage of Aloha 2018
I popped on to Facebook Live video to share a look at my sewing progress while doing a tivaevae demonstration at the Heritage of Aloha festival in Los Angeles. The tacking is done and now comes the…
Designing a pattern
I got a little ahead of myself last week. Before picking colors or fabric, step 1 was: What is this tivaevae going to be about? I wanted a design that connected the Cook Islands (my father’s birthplace),…
We’re back and picking out colors!
Kia Orana! I’m super excited to be back working on this film project AND… a tivaevae!! 😊 Yep, it’s true. I finally designed and got started on my very own twin-sized tivaevae and I’ll be sharing the…
Follow our production adventures
The beginning of production is almost upon us! In about 12 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Rarotonga. There will be weekly posts from the road here on the blog. However, if you want…
Stitched with Love
Enjoy this lovely video posted by Te Papa Museum! “It’s my grandma, she presented me with a tivaevae and said, ‘You remember this. I sew it with my hands and all the stitches that I have done,…
KNX Radio Feature
Guess what?! We’re on the radio this weekend! KNX 1070 reporter Ron Kilgore did a feature on our Seed&Spark campaign and the piece will be airing throughout the weekend. Listen online here to see if you can…
Let’s dance! (We got the green light!)
We’re half-way through our campaign and we just got our Green Light on Seed&Spark! I promised you a special video when we got the Green Light and I’m here to make good on that promise. I forgot…
