WHAT’S NEW • Gallery Spotlight

• Counting Down the Days Until…
Smithsonian Craft2Wear 9/26 – 9/28/25

Dreams do come true!! Counting down the days until my first show at the Smithsonian.
Looking forward to sharing my work with friends both old and new at the show’s new home in the Arts and Industry building on the National Mall.

This necklace, “Bronze Age,” is the one of a kind piece I’m donating to the Smithsonian Craft2Wear silent auction. This lightweight, flexible bead knitted necklace highlights Japanese and Czech glass beads that I’ve pre-strung on viscose fiber according to my original pattern design. A color coordinated acrylic, magnetic closure guarantees ease of wear. Approx length 18”. I’m more than happy to support the critically important work done by the family of Smithsonian museums, especially neeeded in such challenging times. I hope some of you will support us as well. 🤞🏻🥰👏🏻



• Exhibition News
“Material Stories” The Elsie Michie Art Jewelry Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thrilled to discover that this necklace of mine, Meander II, is part of an upcoming exhibition of select pieces from the contemporary art jewelry collection of noted collector Elsie Michie. Ms Michie purchased this piece just prior to the dark days of Covid and her interest in and support of my work during that time was much needed and greatly appreciated. She later told me she wore it to dinner in her own home on occasion, to cheer herself up when going out was still not possible. She lifted my spirits when they needed it most.

The exhibition will be held at the Lake Object Contemporary Art Gallery in Taos New Mexico. Ms Michie will be in attendance during the opening weekend, Aug 1 – 3, 2025. Click HERE for additional information about the exhibition and the gallery. The owner of the gallery, Julie Lake, is a fabulous artist in her own right. Check out her work on the gallery website.



• LOTS OF NEW WORK!
CONTINUALLY BUSY BEHIND THE SCENES…

My social media presence tends to be sporadic in nature. Occasional posting here on the website and perhaps a flurry of images over on my Instagram page HERE, but just because I go publicly silent for awhile it doesn’t mean I’m not head down, needles clicking, beads being threaded, working continually behind the scenes. So now it’s time to show some of the results of that work. Some images here will be in full while I’m offering some closeups of others because I think the detail warrants a closer look. For full, zoomable images of all of these pieces, head on over to the Necklace Gallery page HERE. Hope you like!



• This Is What’s New!
New Work To Share

These are two of the new one of a kind necklaces now available at Gravers Lane Gallery. Second Impressions and Sunset Beach Walk. Very different in feel from one and other but both from the same brain and same hands. I love how the variety of materials available to me can inspire me to design with so many different techniques and constructions, colors and shapes. Impression Jasper in the first. And yes, REAL tiny sea shells in the second. I can’t see how I’ll ever run out of ideas. And that’s a good thing, right? :-)



• I’ve Been Busy!
Lots of New Work to Share

It has been SO good to get back to work this new year! I’ve been happily hard at work, revisiting a technique I used on one of my favorite necklaces from years ago, utilizing some newly purchased vintage components and exploring the possibilities of combining I-Cord with my Abacus Bead Knitting technique. Images from my professional photographer just landed and I’m happy to share a few of them here and the rest in the One of a Kind Necklace Gallery.



• It’s Been Awhile…
Happy to Be Back!

So yes, it’s been awhile…. but for a good reason. We made a major life change, sold our family home of 39 years (very hard to do but definitely the right choice) and moved to a new single home in a nearby life care community that sits next to a working farm and beautiful nature preserve with lots of walking trails and ever changing natural views. We are beyond fortunate. We look out on grazing (and occasionally mooing) cattle right beyond our back yard. So peaceful here. But the process of downsizing and selling our house and moving into a house that we gut renovated was not…. So peaceful, that is. But we’re pretty well settled, I have a lovely, dedicated studio space and I couldn’t be happier to be back at work. Here are some home-taken photos of the first few new pieces completed since the move. Several are already at my professional home away from home, Gravers Lane Gallery in Chestnut Hill, PA. Professional photos to come.

Thanks for the continued support and best wishes to all for happy holidays and a happy and healthy new year ahead.



• Back to Virtual Reality
CraftBoston “Pins + Needles” Next Show Up!

Next up!! Always happy to have my work appear in a show sponsored by The Society of Arts and Crafts (SAC). This time it’s the virtual show “Pins & Needles,” up on their site from March 4 – April 17.

I work on anywhere from two to five knitting needles at a time, but given the tiny scale of some of my stitches, some might think that I’m working on pins! And in truth, early knitting needles were actually called knitting pins. So I guess I fit right in!

For this show I am offering a wide selection of my Slider bracelets. They are the fiber equivalent of a bangle bracelet. They have some stretch so fit a wide range of wrist sizes. And best of all, NO clasp. Just roll them on. So, as I call them, partner free! 😉

Head over to the Society of Crafts website HERE to see this wonderful show!



• New Year. Hallelujah!
New Work to Share

I can’t imagine I’m the only one who is not sad to bid goodbye to 2020. Not that there wasn’t anything to be joyful about. At the top of my list? We welcomed another lovely granddaughter to our family. That makes three of them! And it’s pretty clear that the world is profiting from the presence of more and more strong women. We’re just doing our part.

Working with The Society of Arts and Crafts as they mounted their first online CraftBoston Holiday show was also a highlight. Yes, sales were made, but equally important was expanding my circle of friends as I “met” and learned from other participating artists in ways I might not have had time for at the live shows of the past. Whatever format they choose to utilize, I will be grateful for any opportunity to work with these great people in the future.

And while there were times when I wanted only to retreat into “regular” knitting in order to self soothe, I continued to find inspiration in materials and diverse visual imagery. I’ve added images of some new pieces to the One-of-a-Kind Necklace Gallery so please click on over and have a look. One of my favorites appears below.

Lastly, if you are in the Philadelphia area, I urge you to stop in at The Gravers Lane Gallery in Chestnut Hill. I’m always grateful to have  my work shown there alongside so many gifted and inspiring artists.

I feel positive changes brewing for this coming year. I choose hope. I hope you will too.



• HOW TO SHOP THE STUDIO B WEBSITE
All available work is 20% off during Craft Boston Holiday Online thru 12/31/20

JAS - SlinkyGo BigDo-KNOTS

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s the bottom line.   I don’t have a “Shop” component here on the website.   Never have.   But you can follow the links below or in the Navigation Menu to the left to see what’s available in the Galleries.   I’ve listed both the regular retail and 20% discounted prices (which are in effect thru 12/31/20.)   Contact me HERE with any questions or to arrange a purchase.   FREE PRIORITY SHIPPING ON ALL SALES.

ONE OF A KIND NECKLACES

ONE OF A KIND BRACELETS

BEAD BALL NECKLACES

CUSTOM SLIDER BRACELETS



• Back In the Game!
Craft Boston Holiday 2020 Goes Virtual

Craft Boston Holiday 2020 (1)

Wonderful news! Leave it to the Boston based Society of Arts and Crafts to find a way not only to offer a safe, virtual version of their highly regarded juried Holiday Craft Show, but EXPAND the show in a way that will provide exhibitors a longer time to show and sell their work and lots of different ways for virtual attendees to connect with and learn from artists in real time. I’m thrilled to be one of those artists this year.

If this is your first visit to my site, I hope you’ll take a moment to look around, especially in the jewelry galleries, using these direct links in RED or the Navigation Bar on the left. Check out One of a Kind Necklaces and Bracelets and Limited Edition Bead Ball Necklaces. If you are a return visitor, look again. I’m posting some new work as of 9/23.
 

Watch this space for updates as more details are coming. Thank you SAC!