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The Impulse to Make Something Beautiful

Margaret Almon Mosaics

Adele Swensen Award for Excellence in Home Economics, 1982. I keep this award for junior high Home Economics in my studio as a reminder of two things: 1)Just because you are good at something doesn’t mean you have to do it and 2)Creative energies get shepherded into available enclosures. I would read anything.

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Love in Glass Mosaic: A Commission

Margaret Almon Mosaics

The Love sign is a motif in her home. I was reminded of Home Ec class, and learning to find the grain of woven fabric and aligning the pattern pieces to allow a skirt to hang straight, or placing pieces that on the diagonal, to make bias tape, which gives into the stretchiness of the angles.

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