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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 didn’t just wake up one day and decide to make a bunch of denim faces. It started a year ago when Quilting Arts magazine asked me to write a tutorial for upcycling denim, and I created a kind of mod appliqué out of various size circles, and then used those circles on a jacket and other things.
I’ve had the extra circles sitting around, and at one point I realized they should also be faces. That’s usually how it goes – each project is connected and leads to the next project. Materials get used and transformed and the materials left over become something new.
The circle of [fabric] life. Also things tend to start more serious and progressively get sillier…
#denimart #upcycledfashion](https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/558979742_18017493173785896_5940312861235912060_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiQ0FST1VTRUxfSVRFTS5iZXN0X2ltYWdlX3VybGdlbi5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=LQZA_1r3E-QQ7kNvwHdFfE7&_nc_oc=AdmUKL4tHxSetkbjM9qNS1XQS1hn0nG9XP86sGMiKjoKkQD5Co3l-zqFEfFZkMCY_t8&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=tXM-gVkvTno-8SQy9RKSVg&oh=00_AfgEwAQdki_iIWI68fspJEws4W7iPIIhJqWbDHEnYOPd9w&oe=690E0A43)
![I can’t sew the denim faces on my quilt yet because first I have to make stop motion films with them… until I run out of patience because this whole 12 seconds of video took me at least an hour 🤦🏻♀️.
But how cute is the little pac-person tumbling down and bouncing on the big pac-person’s head?? It’s true denim art. 😆😁
Also now the quilt has radioactive green on it, which is making me like it so much more. [you can’t see the green yet, but let me tell you, it’s pretty cool, especially because of what I made it out of ☺️].
#upcycledjeans #denimart](https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/556542670_18017138450785896_998864163741376802_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiQ0xJUFMuYmVzdF9pbWFnZV91cmxnZW4uQzMifQ%3D%3D&_nc_ohc=Y5Cyv32kau0Q7kNvwGjxTYb&_nc_oc=Adk2HjEZ2CcDbRNBoy3ajn5TuaK0HXA1OPpPqevVwmZHAGPo5X50SCqtPQInVZZt2Xs&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=tXM-gVkvTno-8SQy9RKSVg&oh=00_Afh0iUvg1t1Se_2Xs1-xDC1GH09REwgB9kjlfmjUTKehYw&oe=690DF655)
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