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A big thank you to John Minge for expanding our sewing table.

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:26:14 +0000

An improvement upon perfection! This is 300 square feet of heaven. I want to thank you John for extending our table and adding wings behind each sewing station. This will allow us to make sure those boat cover blanks and boat lift canopies stay on the table. And given the increase in work space we can have up to four people working on this table at once. Thanks again John! Anyone visiting please comment and let John know what a fantastic job he’s done!

Water, Snow and Mud… lots of Mud.

admin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:02:22 +0000

This what we see outside our door this spring. Living out here we’re luckier than most. We have a tar road just about 20 yards from the entrance to the driveway. It’s always a running joke at CanvasWork. When spring comes it always comes in melting snow and lots of mud and our tables always seem to have an order of white canvas hoods or white seed pallet covers. My boys really love the mud though.

What I can see from my shop window

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:54:33 +0000

My family loves living up in North Western, Minnesota. At any given moment I can look up from my sewing machine and see a small herd of deer feeding on the edge of the corn field out my window. I can look up and see a bald eagle perched on a red oak in our wood grove hunting that same field in hay. He’s waiting for the farmer to cut a large swath and expose a field mouse or rabbit. There is a relationship between the work of my eyes and finglers as the walking foot of my sewing machine stitches a seam between my fingers and the way that deer and eagle are attentive to their own subsistence. Wendell Berry in “Solving for Pattern” is luminous in seeing these patterns. He’s incredible. I’ve got a pictuer that shows the slow solution of my workspace. Up on the scaffolding are my neighbors siding a barn built by the same three generations earlier. The money earned to pay them came from a local order for barn curtains. There is a beautiful symmetry. Between the eye and embroidery is the stitch and the stitch and the stitch…

A New Work Space!

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:03:51 +0000

Lights on the Barn

Welcome everyone to CanvasWork! My wife and I and our two children live in Northern Minnesota where it is beautiful and cold… as you can see by the picture. But were excited about launching our new website and blog. We are also very excited about adding an additional 2000 square feet of work space in what was our barn’s hay mow. This will allow us to make larger projects and it will also allow my family to play a lot of basketball. Which is also extremely important when you are snow bound. I look forward to talking to you all on a regular basis and to keep you up to date on all our renovations and projects.

Cheers!

David