Meet My Idol --> Salley Mavor

No, I don't know her personally.
But yes, I super admire her amazing skills at making fabric relief (blush blush) - if you never heard of her or had not seen her marvelous work, then you must 'meet' her here (click the link below):

Meet the illustrator of 'Pocketful of Posies' --> Salley Mavor

Her works are very inspiring - well, she did inspired me to do a simple fabric relief series called the 'Red Riding Hood Series' an adaptation to Lila Prapp's illustration in '1001 Stories'.  Here they are:

They're not as intricate as Salley's work (yet!) but they're my first darlings (and will be on their way soon to grace the studio of a very talented lady, the owner of Sew Stories. ^O^)

More on Salley Mavor's exhibitions:

July 15, 2011- March 4, 2012, Salley Mavor – Sewn Stories, an exhibit of Salley Mavor’s fabric relief artwork ( including 9 original illustrations from Pocketful of Posies) at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Oct. 10- Dec. 16, 2011 at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut  (26 or more pieces will be shown). Salley Mavor will give a presentation at UConn, during the Connecticut Children’s Book Fair, Nov. 12th, 2011.
July- August, 2012 at the Mahopac Public Library, Mahopac, New York (25 pieces), Talk by Salley Mavor- Wed., Aug. 29th, 7:00pm
Oct. – Dec. 2012 at the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts (25 pieces will be shown)
Feb. 23rd – May 5th, 2013 at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois (25 pieces)
July 13- August 11, 2013 at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachusetts (25 pieces will be shown)
Sept. - Oct. , 2013  at Historic Highfield Hall, Falmouth Massachusetts  (all 51 pieces will be shown)

Stay tuned for my next fabric relief project!