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Portrait Mirrors: Wild Women, Monsters, Puppies and Cats

Margaret Hagan — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:14:14 +0000

There are big haired brunettes, puppies, dinosaur-dogs, and then there are monsters. It’s a whole new crop of portrait mirrors, all completed and ready to go out in the world — and on sale up at Etsy right now!

Portrait Mirrors: Girls with Wild Hair

Margaret Hagan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:24:39 +0000

Sweet Bee Portrait Mirror

Margaret Hagan — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:40 +0000

Blues, golds and blacks — a fabric bee mirror! Another LP-based craft, this time with a powder blue (exblanket) winged bumblebee as the mirror’s persona. I started them a *long* while back, but it’s time to tie up loose ends, finish up some bee mirrors! And get them on sale at Etsy too… up now!

The Orange Satin Elephant Mirror

Margaret Hagan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:57:02 +0000

Another Elephant Wall Mirror – this time in orange satin, with lots of scraps deployed for elephantine purposes. On sale at my Etsy site now!

Monster + Bumblebee Mirrors

Margaret Hagan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:54:31 +0000

In preparation for the I Made It Market last weekend, I went into a mirror frenzy. Monsters, Bumblebees, Cats, Dogs, Robot Aliens! The show was buried under Pittsburgh snow, a no-go, but now I have a little more time to take pictures before I sell them on. Here’s a glimpse of the mirrors in middle of production.

The Elephant Mirror

Margaret Hagan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:28:50 +0000

This is the third Elephant Circle Mirror I’ve made — the other two have sold out over the last two craft sales. People love elephants, I love elephants, and here there are 6 elephants worth of good luck upturned trunks! I’m deploying all my smaller upholstery samplers for maximum color. This one is now available for sale over at Etsy.

Just as with the Monster/Bear mirrors, this one is built around a mirror affixed to a vinyl record, and sewn around with old blankets cut and sewn together. Materialwise, they are purely repurposed, but they are really labor intensive! I enjoy the stitching and the colors enough to be hungry for more. I am planning wedding presents with these, everyone needs more elephants in their life.

Monster/Cat Portrait Mirror

Margaret Hagan — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:45:34 +0000

Thanks to God’s Helping Hand’s bounty of weird fabric remnants, I made off with two luxurious swatches of white furry fabric.
So finally I found a good use for it: A Monster Mirror! Also known as a Cat Mirror, as it was interpreted by many of the browsers at the Union Project sale.

I cannot put into words how much I enjoy this mirror, and I am very happy that my new sewing ally Suz also loved it, and bought it.

She also promised lots more furry kinds of fabric, maybe some velvets too, so a whole new crop of soft little monsters will be emerging soon! Now I am making a spate more to go up on Etsy and next week’s sale at the Union Project fundraiser. Attack of the Cat Monsters — faces yet to be determined.

Here are the four fabric portrait mirrors I made, and another shopper at the Union Project recommended I do some Mohawks, some side profiles, a sun or two, and straight haired ladies instead of just wild haired ones. The list goes on!

The Dolls Go to the Union Project!

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:56:44 +0000

Yesterday was a great sale, maybe the best ever, at the Union Project in Highland Park, all day in the first snowy day of Pittsburgh this season. The dolls, monsters, elephants, lp bags, portrait mirrors, and even a Sarah Palin voodoo doll are released into the wild. So long!

Fabric Portrait Mirror

Margaret Hagan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:40:20 +0000

I’m working on a bunch of fabric portraits with mirrors for faces. I’m attaching the mirror to an old LP, then sewing on the portrait surroundings on two layers of fabric — one old blanket from God’s Helping Hand and a dead dark gray dress. This is my first one completed — long neck, big hair, wild flower, in a big red and white chair.

And before I attached the portrait to the mirror, I tried it on myself — some inspiration for a monster with hole for its head, that I can take pictures with at this Saturday’s I Made It Market! Also coming up — a woman with a large mess of hair, a circle of multicolored elephants, and a white furry monster with purple paws, all in fabric portrait mirror form…