BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:New Orleans Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:New Orleans Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:de82f81f-ab0a-420e-aa75-3b658a9a9380 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260804T192809Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250122T160000 SUMMARY:Embellish your New Year Wardrobe LOCATION:Virtual Events\nVirtual Events X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Virtual Events;X-APPLE-RAD IUS=10;X-TITLE=Virtual Events:geo:29.9544733,-90.0756623 GEO:29.9544733;-90.0756623 DESCRIPTION:Re-vamp your store-bought or handmade knit and crochet garment s by adding embroidery\, decorative stitches\, patches and more. .\nhttps: //neworleans.libnet.info/event/12708690 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join crochet artist Twinkie Chan and craft er Courtney Cerruti in embellishing your wardrobe for the New Year. Whethe r you want to mend a garment or adorn it with your own designs and details \, the techniques shared will get you rethinking your wardrobe.

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Twinkie Chan is a San Francisco based crochet designer with an ins atiable appetite for creating fun\, food-themed accessories. She launched her website in 2005 with a dozen scarves and some tater tot dolls. Since t hen\, her unique work has been featured online\, in print\, on television\ , and in art shows. The demand for her crochet patterns inspired her to wr ite her first book\, Twinkie Chan's Crochet Goodies for Fashion Foodie s: 20 Yummy Treats To Wear \;in Fall 2010. Her second book\, Twinkie Chan&rsquo\;s Crocheted Abode a la Mode\, was published in Sp ring 2016. She also launched a licensed lifestyle brand\, "Yummy You! by T winkie Chan\," to make her signature crochet pieces more accessible and mo re affordable. You can see her crocheted bakery installation "Sucre Fleuf! " at Sweet Tooth Hotel in Dallas\, TX\, which has been on view since 2020.  \;

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Maker extraordinaire\, \;Courtney is the author of&nbs p\;5 art books translated into 6 languages. \;Courtney teaches worksho ps all over the country and online at \;Creativebug.com where she is E ditor-in-Chief. Her work has been featured on \;Oh Happy Day\, \;D esign Sponge\, the \;SF Chronicle\, Instagram \;and \;BuzzFeed . \;She makes something everyday and can be found on \;instagram a s @ccerruti. She sees books as objects to be read and re-purposed\, candy wrappers as paper flower petals\, toilet paper tubes as a menagerie of ani mals. She sees the potential in the discarded\, history in the mundane and art in the everyday. She saves everything\, makes anything and teaches fr om a place of passion and authenticity. Courtney believes everyone is crea tive and she&rsquo\;d rather spend an evening drinking tea and painting th an doing anything else (except maybe scavenging treasures abroad). You can find her books online and at your local bookstore. \;

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