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| Deb, my husband Richard and me! |
We have been friends for twenty plus years and met through the collectible bear world. Deb specializing in her fabulous miniatures and mine on the larger side.
Although very different in our styles, we have admired and encouraged each other along the way.
Deb continues to design and produce many wonderful miniature bears, dolls, dragons and other creatures, which can be seen on her website www.debcanham.com . She is also teaching a variety of workshops both sewing and serging.
I stopped making bears (under the names of Teddystyle and Janet Clark Originals) a few years ago to concentrate on my many other interests - all of which involve fabric and thread! I've continued to teach, both hands-on workshops, but more and more online.
With Deb living in Florida and me in the UK, we kept in touch mostly by email and the occasional phone call.
Then we got Skype!!!
Now - we could not only email, but we could actually talk face-to-face and show each other what we were working on. I've even taken Deb on a tour around my garden in the spring - via the laptop!
Best of all - we could ask each others opinion on a piece of work, whether that be a doll or our other shared passion - Quilting!
We both found ourselves in a period of transition - Debs business was changing and she was making more originals and the business that hosted my online classes changed direction and stopped running the classes.
We chatted and Deb casually suggested she could put my online classes on her new website www.debcanhamstudio.com - alongside her work and tutorials.
The idea grew from there. What we are especially good at is encouraging and inspiring each other. We have different ideas and styles but they complement each other.
And so ' Creative Sisters' was born. We could have a joint blog to share our work and patterns we are working on. The products would be for sale on the website, and the blog could show the processes, have tutorials and the odd Freebie!
We hope you will enjoy this new adventure along with us - and tell your friends of this great new place to buy patterns for dolls, bears, and quilty things, as well as finished products and workshops.
Here is a selection of what can be found at www.debcanhamstudio.com
These are from Deb .......................
.................................................... Boomer
....................... a gorgeous Folio Cover using machine stitches
........... and just look at this fabulous Serger Cover - a full tutorial is available for this. Not only will you learn new tricks for using your serger to the full - but you will finish with a beautiful cover for it.
............... and from me .......... don't you just love this little felt bird?
Lots more in the tutorials
........................... Funky Mermaid ....... one of my most popular patterns ......................
..................... and below is Santa and his giraffe ..............................also available as a pattern
All patterns and tutorials are available as downloads - no waiting for the postman!!
...................... and coming up very soon ..........
Quilty Things to make and use
Water Lily Candle Mat
Christmas Table Topper
and lots more in the planning and sampling stages.
Thanks for looking. Please come back often to see what else is new.
Jan and Deb x
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