CraftyPod & reverse-applique art
Custom work & wholesale orders have been pouring in thi week and I’ve spent tons of time typing responses to them and printing away! I decided to do a late night last night and as always on these late I nights, I went to my itunes podcast section and decided that this time I’d have a CraftyPod marathon while working quietly through the night! As I listened I gave in to temptation and thought I’d take a *short break from work and check out the CraftyPod website, while scrolling through the wonderful posts, I saw THIS POST! This was a great moment for me and the following email I sent to Diane tells why:
“Hi! I was listening to CraftyPod tonight (this morning actually, yikes!) and was inspired to check out your blog and happened across your post titled “Craft day with Mom” about the reverse-applique art. I can not tell you how excited I was to see your lovely post about this, I’d love to share why with you! Though I am mostly a paper artist, I do try now and again to sew and appreciate the skill very much! I was checking out a local yard sale a few months ago and came upon these 2 gorgeous things that I could not quite describe, they were unlike anything I’d ever seen. I asked the lady hosting the yard sale about them and what I heard her say over traffic, shuffling feet and mumbling, was that they were made by women in the “Sand Blast Islands”. She said that she had bought them on a vacation years and years ago! I immediatly bought them for only $1.00 each (can you believe that!) Then went home and googled “Sand Blast Islands” (I still did not know what to call them!) Obviously, nothing came up on Google and I figured the lady had just made the whole thing up and while I was still head over heals in love with them, I was very disappointed… until NOW! You have made my week by sharing your life and experiences, I now know that she was not making up elaborate stories, and that these beautiful things are called reverse-applique art and they are from the ‘San Blas’ Islands, not ‘Sand Blast Islands’ ^_^ The web can be such an incredible resource! Thank you so much for what you do, I love listening and am going to now start following your blog more closely! ^_^ I will send some pictures tomorrow of the applique (it’s 2am right now, and I dont want to wake up my little chalupa’s!) Thanks so much Diane!
She responded and was so sweet! I just can not express how happy I am to know a little more about the history of these 2 peices of artwork that I have displayed in my home! Here are the photo’s of them (the bottom 2 pics are the back side of the orange piece) it’s hard to imagine the intricy of the stiching, but I think you’ll enjoy them and if you need something really great and ispiring to listen to, check out Sister Diane at CraftyPod Happy Wednesday! 
xoxo, Mariah
