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Karen Tiede Studio

Karen Tiede Studio

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Raleigh, NC / Textile artist working with old clothing and recycled t shirts to make beautiful, decorative, and functional rugs; designs also on #dogbeds & other home decor.

Karen Tiede Studio

Dog Beds / Art for your dog, in the form of a bed. Three sizes; indoor (fleece) and outdoor (woven) fabrics. Digitally printed onto washable pillows. Zippered.

Rag Rugs, hand made in America

Rag Rugs, hand made in America / Abandoned clothing takes on a new life. The rugs on this board have been created by hand from recycled t shirts and other old clothes. For more information, visit www.rugsfromrags.com. Good news bad news: the rugs are off the market, pending release of my next book.... (they're needed for the photography).

Pussyhat Project

Pussyhat Project / I knit a #pussyhat for myself, and started one for my sister and my niece, and offered to make some for my friends, and now I'm planning a dozen. Notes from the journey. See more at http://rugsfromrags.com/plan-c-pussyhats/

Blue and its Friends

Blue and its Friends / Blue's a great color; unfortunately, it fades quickly. Good royals are rare in the #recycled stream. Home decor #blue sometimes works better when the blue is the accent.

Reds with Other Colors

Reds with Other Colors / Reds flow freely in the recycle stream; I'm always looking for new blends. Look at the backgrounds. Everything in these pictures works well with red, no matter what the color wheel suggests. The results of these studies can be seen in the Red Rugs page at http://rugsfromrags.com/rugs/rugs-by-type/red-rugs/.

Pink / I had thought I could stash pink ideas in with reds and oranges, but it hasn't worked out. Board-in-progress.

Green Rugs, and other colors

Green Rugs, and other colors / Green rugs, and all the other colors that go well with green (which is all the other colors), from lime to teal and in between. Why can't I get the really good teals on my monitor?

What I need to hear today

What I need to hear today / Quotations, posts, images, etc. about making art, getting important work done, and carrying on in the face of work that was better in my head. A: It's ALWAYS better in EVERYONE'S head.
Plus a few pins about dogs, because my dog portrait board is more formal than funny.

Orange / A little #orange goes a long way in the interiors market. Traditionally, orange is partnered with blue (UVa, Clemson); it can be much easier to live with when it's paired with other colors. BTW, many browns actually read as Orange, esp. hardwood floors.

Black and White Rugs for Black and White Rooms

Black and White Rugs for Black and White Rooms / Rooms that can take a black and white rug. I've been looking for a home for my spiral for a while now...

Gold & Yellow & Other Colors

Gold & Yellow & Other Colors / A study board for using gold and yellow in textile art.

Purple / A study board for using the color purple in purple rugs, looking for the accent and contrasting colors that make rag rugs more interesting.

#LoveIsLove / Documenting the growth of my version of Donna Druchunas' #LoveIsLove shawl, a fund raiser for the families of victims of the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL.

Browns and all their cousins.

Browns and all their cousins. / Brown is only incidentally a neutral; it skews red and green, goes to tan, greige, khaki, and blends into grey. This is a study board for using the color brown in textile art. See the results of these studies in textiles at http://rugsfromrags.com/rugs/rugs-by-type/brown-rugs/.

Art / Art that dazzles me in its ideas and implementation.

Real-life Inspiration

Real-life Inspiration / Real places and people in my real life I visit when I need to recharge my creative well.

Shot o'color / All sorts of scenes, items, and images full of interesting color. Not always fashionable; often unexpected. Either colors you wouldn't automatically put together, or items in colors not traditionally used for those items.
a. God loves color.
b. God loves all the colors.
c. God knows Winston Churchill would have come around about the browns in time. Maybe he has already.

Hula Hoops and Hooping Art

Hula Hoops and Hooping Art / I teach hula hooping to adults and will bring my pile o'hoops to your outdoor event in the Central & Eastern NC area for a reasonable fee. See more at www.karentiede.com. #hulahoop

Dog portraits / It has become clear that the most important "equipment" a good dog photographer needs is a pair of working knees. All the best dog portraiture is taken at the dog's eye level.

Tools for Textile Artists

Tools for Textile Artists / A selection of pins showing tools that are useful for artists who work in various forms of fiber. Not all fiber artists will need or use all of these tools. I use many of these tools in my own studio. #textile

Textiles as wall art

Textiles as wall art / Some collectors use my rag rugs as wall art, both for the color and for their noise abatement properties. Textiles and #rugs on the wall absorb direct and reflected sound and increase acoustic privacy.

Projects I will possibly make one day soon

Projects I will possibly make one day soon / The projects on this board are ideas that strike me as do-able and fun, and mostly (ha!) useful, or at least, not a complete waste of energy and materials. I love yard art. I wonder if anyone's posted crown tires in Pinterest?

Projects I have already made

Projects I have already made

Living the log cabin life

Living the log cabin life / Log homes suggest an certain slant on interior design, but it doesn't have to be Adirondack Camp. Rag rugs are a natural accessory for this style of decor. See more rugs at www.rugsfromrags.com.

Peacocks and other brilliant birds

Peacocks and other brilliant birds / I love the peacock image and anything iridescent; as pinning progressed, other birds needed a place to live and this board was a pretty good place.

Crowning Glories

Crowning Glories / Crowns and tiaras, both "real" and "fake." (They're all real. Some are simply closer to affordable than others.)

Signs of my (maturing!) times

Signs of my (maturing!) times

What's "Vintage" about this?

What's "Vintage" about this? / This board is a collection of pins I've seen on other "vintage" and "remember this" boards, only it's for items I use regularly today.

Books I Talk About

Books I Talk About / One more place to recommend books. These are books that keep coming up in conversation; not in any way all the books I read. (Plenty of reviews on Amazon, too.)

Venn Diagrams / A tribute to Jessica Nagy, who creates Venn Diagrams and other sketches that help me to see and define the world differently. Wired Magazine often runs a few every month, too.

Transferring...

Transferring... / A board used to repin across accounts. Anything on here is temporary.

Great costumes from history

Great costumes from history

Next time I'm in Chicago

Next time I'm in Chicago / Chicago is my favorite big city. I spent six months there in the mid 90s on business and came to love it. Couldn't live there; too gray, cold, and expensive. But a fine place to visit...

Want to know more about this

Want to know more about this / This is a bookmark board with pins about some of my current research interests, including story telling and left-brain, right-brain differences and optimization.

Photography ideas

Photography ideas / Examples of (mostly) product photography as inspiration for rug images.

Shoes for an everyday life

Shoes for an everyday life

Bedrooms / Bedrooms I'd love to sleep, and wake up, in. Lush. Comfortable. Colorful.

Vernacular image

Vernacular image / A collection of images that have worked their way into popular culture, as well as an excuse to stash some of the more interesting Sherlock pins.

Books nearby, and libraries

Books nearby, and libraries / I love books. This board is a compendium of ways to store books, some of which are more eye-catching than practical. I once ran a personal ad that said, "If you don't own 2x your age in shelf-feet of books, you may not be comfortable in my home." I dated the guy who responded for four pretty good years.

I'd Remember This

I'd Remember This / Memories

Projects someone else needs to make

Projects someone else needs to make / For the most part, these pins are in the process of being suggested to someone else.

winter style / winter style for real men

Buy Local - #BuyLocal - Shop Local - #ShopLocal

Buy Local - #BuyLocal - Shop Local - #ShopLocal / This board is all about encouraging people to buy from Local Owned Businesses it was started on 12-7-2012 #buylocal #ShopLocal

Recycle & Repurpose

Recycle & Repurpose / To join this board please go to my first board "Invitations & Messages" to sign up, thank you. There are millions of uses for what others call garbage take a peek...no spam! Ask before inviting people I was just spammed really bad! 12/12/12 *Stardust*

[inspire] reduce & reuse

[inspire] reduce & reuse

Favorite Dogs / Because you never have to worry about why your dog loves you, they honestly love you and would not think twice about giving up their very lives for you. Besides that, they are great foot warmers, they don't talk back to you, they think every idea you have is the best idea ever, and they are the best at keeping secrets!! LOL!!!

Seascape (Textile)

Seascape (Textile) / I saw several textiles called "Seascape" come through the pinflow and it made me wonder what other artists thought when they used that title. Time for a new colorway, for sure. We're all thinking the same thing. Mostly.

{group} Spirals

${group} Spirals / Group Board for Spirals in Nature, Architecture & Design. Focus is on real rather than abstract. NO psychedelic art. NO fractals. NO CGI 'art'. NO ETSY or blatantly commercial pins. MAX: 2 pins/day. ►THIS GROUP BOARD IS FULL. Follow only. NO NEW PEOPLE ARE BEING ADDED◄$

Eco-Friendly MARKETPLACE

Eco-Friendly MARKETPLACE / A place to find all your eco-friendly gifts and decor! No more than 3 "new" pins a day, please. No DIY pins. Pinners, please do not invite anyone without my approval-if you do, you will be removed. This prevents spam. Thank you.

Folk & Country MARKETPLACE

Folk & Country MARKETPLACE / A place to find folk art decor, art, gifts, and fashion, for home, weddings, garden, wear, and design. Pinners- Pin YOUR OWN folk items ONLY-and not someone else's. I will gently delete pins that are not typical of what we pin here-and if the pins are not yours. NO romantic, DIY, decor,....Pin only 3 "new" pins a day. Do not invite anyone without my approval-if you do, you will be removed; This prevents spam. ALL things Folk.

Chalkware Lamps

Chalkware Lamps / Found the first pair of chalkware lamps at an antique store in Beaufort, NC, one New Year's weekend. They are addicting... Found a pair of bullfighters in the Chatham County swap shed. Need work, will post.

Dogs Our Furry Friends

Dogs Our Furry Friends

#EcoDesign / pins about ecological landscape design

TS Designs & other post-manufacturing creativity

TS Designs & other post-manufacturing creativity / This board began with pictures from and about the TS Design business, making t shirts from organic cotton in the US, in Burlington, NC. More info at www.tsdesigns.com. When TSD changed their production process to eliminate a lot of the waste completely, I shifted the board to include other creative uses for post-factory leftovers.

Design Education

Design Education

Knitting Fabric Rugs The Book

Knitting Fabric Rugs The Book

Would like to find this pattern

Would like to find this pattern

Jewelry Inspiration

Jewelry Inspiration

Bohemian Home / A collection of (mostly) colorful living spaces, with some pins about modern furniture that would be fun to live with. Bedrooms are on a different board.

Projects in Process

Projects in Process / What's happening in the studio right now.

Shopify Merchant Community Board

Shopify Merchant Community Board / Beautiful products from around the globe, curated by Shopify's 275K+ merchant community. CONTRIBUTE: To join this board, follow Shopify on Pinterest and email social@shopify.com with your Shopify URL and the email associated to your Pinterest account!

Pawsitively - Best Group Board - Going to the Dogs (and Cats) - Products

Pawsitively - Best Group Board - Going to the Dogs (and Cats) - Products / GROUP BOARD: For Small Businesses

This board is for businesses that are dog or cat related. All Etsy, EBay, Zazzle, CafePress etc. small online businesses are welcome! No identical repins please. No Spam. Definitely NO PORN. Help and promote items for other dog/cat businesses too. You may invite others. Follow the board to join and/or message me here or on Etsy at HappyDogHydrants.
Let's make this the pawsitively BEST board!

Pawsitively 2 - Best Group Board - Going to the Dogs (and Cats) - ALL

Pawsitively 2 - Best Group Board - Going to the Dogs (and Cats) - ALL / GROUP BOARD: All things Dog and Cat welcomed. Pin your favorite Dog or Cat pictures, information, and/or products by small businesses and individuals. NO DUPLICATES please, they will be deleted. Definitely NO PORN. Follow the board to join and/or message me here or on Etsy at HappyDogHydrants. You may invite other dog and cat lovers too. Let's make this the pawsitively BEST board too!!!

Clothes to make

Clothes to make

you are my fave

you are my fave / new daily discoveries. fresh, favorite pins of the week.

Other Shopify Sites

Other Shopify Sites

On the Needles Now

On the Needles Now

From my websites

From my websites / Links to the latest posts on any of my websites--RugsFromRags.com, KarenTiede.com, KarenTiedeStudio.com, and Red-Tuxedo.com

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