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HI I'M RADHA
I’m a textile artist, sustainability educator and small business strategist based in San Francisco. But don't worry, I balance all that serious stuff with a fair bit of silliness, and I share my work without judgement.
My unique expertise and passion for sustainability was fueled by a 15-year career in the apparel industry where I travelled the world, visited denim factories in China and Bangladesh, and unfortunately had a front seat to the rise of fast fashion. I used to create new jeans but now at Sewing through Fog I help keep those same jeans out of a landfill through classes and patterns to help you Quilt Your Jeans.
![I went to wear this jacket the other day and was reminded of two things I wanted to share. [it’s my Cosmic Waterfall Mini pattern, if you want to try it out comment “MINI” and I’ll send you the link. It’s not easy, but there is a video tutorial ☺️]
#1: quilting is pretty cool. 😂. No seriously, what I mean is you can create so much texture and dimension just by quilting some smooshy layers together. I tend to get so caught up in the piecing, that sometimes I forgot how powerful quilting can be by itself.
You might be thinking “duh, that’s why I’m a quilter”. But, um, 🤷🏻♀️. I love the inside of this jacket so much, it makes me want to reverse quilt everything.
#2: I’ve been making things more complicated since the very beginning. I mentioned recently how I keep trying to make simple block based quilts but then I get bored and have to make them harder. I totally forgot about Cosmic Waterfall!
This was the first pattern I ever designed and it started as a simple block-based pattern but then I offset the middle row of blocks, and on the full size I did this complicated ombré thing, and then I decided to make a mini version with completely different construction instructions so it had to be its own pattern, but then I had to make video tutorials because it was so complicated.
My point being… some things never change? 🤷🏻♀️
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