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I Blame Clue OR Why my Friend Jason Makes Movies

August 21, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment creativityOrigin Stories

A very bad photo of the "Clue" cast taken off of a tv screen. That's me as Mrs. Peacock second from the left in the back, and Jason as Mr. Green/writer/director second from the right in the back. Jace was 12 when he made the film. With any art or craf ...

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I Blame Kaffe Fassett OR Why I Knit

July 12, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment KnittingOrigin Stories

A photo of a photocopy of the photo that started me knitting. Sorry I can't properly credit the original photographer, but my copy of the book is in a box somewhere in a storage locker. Hence the photocopy. Just as it did with the Folkwear patterns, t ...

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I Blame Gilbert and Sullivan OR Why I Costume Theater

July 9, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment DesignFashionOrigin StoriesSewing

Me in the second production of "Pirates" that I both appeared in and helped to costume My first major foray into costuming for community theater was for a production of "The Pirates of Penzance" with the Sudbury Savoyards in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Ev ...

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I Blame Folkwear OR Why I Sew Historical Clothing

July 2, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment FashionOrigin StoriesSewing

Here's Folkwear's logo I was in college when I came across my first Folkwear pattern. If I remember correctly, I found it in a fabric shop in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard Square these days has a lot of the same chain stores that ...

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Greengrocer

June 22, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment DesignOrigin StoriesSewing

Meet William H. Maizey This photo may be the sole remaining artifact of one of my first original designs. I made it 37 years ago for the Loon and Heron Children's Theater in Boston as part of a college internship. It (or he, since I have retroactively ...

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I Blame Hansi Singh OR Why I Knit Toys

May 25, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment InspirationsKnittingOrigin Stories

Hansi Singh's "Amigurumi Knits" - The book that started it all About eight years ago, I found the book "Amigurumi Knits" by Hansi Singh. Singh's tagline for her work was "knitting the peculiar" and this book lived up to it - black devil anglerfish, pr ...

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I Blame Ruffles OR Why I Make Dinosaurs

May 13, 2018
by Patricia with No Comment InspirationsKnittingOrigin Stories

The Triceratones: Ruffles (center), Flourishes (left) and Timpani (right) In my world, toy triceratopses are herd animals. It started with Ruffles, who was a birthday present from my friend Scott over a decade ago. I soon realized I had another tri ...

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Patricia McMahon
Patricia knits, sews, designs toys, writes, costumes community theater productions and sometimes hangs around with William Shakespeare.

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