Live from the Mangere Arts Centre
November 27, 2018Kia 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 (Ngฤ Tohu o Uenuku) for their tivaevae exhibition: Te Rima Ora o te Metua Vaine (Creative Hands of the Mother). It was a wonderful experience and a couple of the mamas were generous in spending a some time with me to discuss their works and what tivaevae means to them. That video will be coming to you in the first few months of 2019! ๐ In the meantime, I jumped…
Blocks of time for better stitches
When youโve been sewing for hours and canโt see straight anymore you gotta get close to your stitches. 😂 I’m kidding of course โ 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! โItโs 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!)
Weโre 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 Iโm here to make good on that promise. I forgot…
Our first featured tivaevae artists!
Meet our first group of tivaevae artists who will be interviewed for the film: Mary Ama and the Pacifica Mamas! As a collective the group have a shared passion for developing, reviving, and sharing the traditional arts…
Five fun facts about Melodie
Our crowdfunding campaign kicked off last week on Seed&Spark. Today, we posted our first update video. I hope you enjoy it! Read the rest of the update Like I said in the video, I would love to…
