Arts Gowanus Open Studios 2014

Last weekend, Arts Gowanus celebrated its Open Studios event where local Gowanus-based artists invite the public to visit their work spaces. The Gowanus neighborhood in Brooklyn is right next to my neighborhood and is only a short walk from my apartment, so it was an easy and fun event for me to attend.  You can read more about it here.

Artist and fabric designer Lotta Jansdotter’s studio is in Gowanus and she participated in Open Studios. Yea!  I’ve visited her studio before and it is my dream quilting space.

When I got to her studio, it was packed with people and there were some really good deals to be had.  I mulled over a few different items, but in the end the only thing I really wanted was fabric, of course.

I picked up a few bundles of fabric that caught my eye. I have no plans for these at the moment, but I’m sure they’ll make an appearance in a quilt sooner or later.

For those of you who couldn’t make it, I hear she will be opening her studio again before the holidays. And if you don’t live in New York but are in the neighborhood, I highly recommend stopping by Four & Twenty Blackbirds for a slice of pie.  The pie shop is right next to her studio and is pretty amazing.