“Scrappy Squares” by Anne M. Bray | Style Imitating Art
It is time to get your style game on with the next Style Imitating Art challenge.
About Style Imitating Art
Style Imitating Art is hosted by Salazar of 14 Shades of Grey, Terri of Meadow Tree Style, and Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge. Style Imitating Art challenges us to draw style inspiration from pieces of art. Every other Monday, one of the hosts, acting as presenter, selects an inspiration image that they will each post on their blogs. The following Monday, each host shares her art inspired outfit. Participants are invited to submit their art inspired outfits to the presenter by 10:00 p.m. EST on the Tuesday following the hosts’ art inspired outfit posts. The following day, Wednesday, the presenter will share all of the submissions on her blog.
You don’t have to be a blogger to join either! In fact, you don’t even have to join but you can still use the art to inspire an outfit just for the sake of trying something different. If you want to share your inspired outfit, we invite you do so on Instagram or any other social media platform that you prefer. Just be sure to tag Salazar, Terri, and Shelbee or use #TeamLOTSStyle and #StyleImitatingArt so the hosts know you have joined. Go have some fun in your closets and join the SIA challenge next week!
This Week’s Presenter
It is my turn again. I have had this piece picked out from the beginning because I think it is really super fun and it is very special as it was inspired by me! So now I am going to be inspired by it in return.
The Artwork
ShelBee Scrappy Square by Anne M. Bray
About the Art
My dear friend Anne M. Bray of SpyGirl began creating a series of Scrappy Squares last summer by upcycling unwanted fabrics and garments into these adorable little poofs of fabric art. This particular scrappy square is my favorite because it was inspired by me and then named after me! How fun is that?
I had gifted Anne a yellow paisley scarf/poncho thingy many years ago and while she did love the color and print and the easy flowy style of the garment, she absolutely abhorred the polyester fabric. Since Anne does not waste things or allow them to go unused, the yellow paisley thingy was upcycled along with some striped and bee print fabrics in coordinating colors. And now the paisley polyester thingy is the ShelBee Scrappy Square!
Since my clothing inspired the art, I now want the art to inspire your clothing! But you are not limited to just the ShelBee Scrappy Square for inspiration. Anne has created 50 of these delightful little darlings and you can choose whichever one you want to inspire your style. If you click on the image below, it will take you to Anne’s page where you can click on each separate Scrappy Square to enlarge it. You can also scroll through Anne’s Instagram back into the summer of 2021 to see all the individual posts for each Scrappy Square.
Edit: Anne has shared some links where you can better see her Scrappy Squares. Thanks, Anne!
This is not the first time that I inspired Anne’s art either! I was one of the bloggers who inspired her Fashion Rainbow exhibit back in 2016. I own the original art featuring my likeness as well as the Fashion Rainbow scarf she had printed with all 50 blogger sketches.
Also, my boys and I participated in Anne’s #AtoZchallenge in 2020 for her Stitching the World project where she stitched 117 rainbow paths that represent the participants’ answers to four questions: Where are you from? Where are you now? Where do you want to go? What color is your journey? Somewhere on this gorgeous quilt there are three colorful lines that represent me and my boys!
If you want to be featured with your art inspired outfit in my gallery post on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, be sure to submit your photos to me at shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com by 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Happy styling!
Buzzing on the edge,
ShelBee
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I am a midlife woman, wife, and stay-at-home mother of 2 boys and 2 cats. I have a passion for helping other women feel fabulous in the midst of this crazy, beautiful life.
14 Comments
Suzy Turner
Oh wow this is AWESOME! I had no idea Anne did art like this?! It’s fantastic, and such a wonderful way to use old pieces of clothing! ANd I LOVE that you’ve chosen it for next week’s SIA. I am going to have a proper look at them and see which one speaks to me the most, I love this!!!!!!
Big hugs
Suzy xx
shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com
Thanks so much, Suzy! I am super excited to see which scrappy square everyone chooses and what kind of outfits you all create!
xoxo
Shelbee
Michelle
I’m going to need to put my thinking cap on for this one! But I love that you’ve used Anne’s artwork.
Michelle
https://mybijoulifeonline.com
shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com
Thanks, Michelle! I have some ideas but definitely need to do some thinking myself for this one!
xoxo
Shelbee
Anne M Bray
OMG!!!!! So honored!
It’ll be super fun to see how the ShelBee gets interpreted!
Rather than wade through my IG to get back to summer 2021, here is a link for the blog posts, I wrote a post on each piece: https://www.anne-m-bray.com/?keyvalue=88725&page=Blog&Topic=scrappy%20square
(There are a couple of extra posts before you get to the Scrappies. And that Database is admittedly difficult to use)
And here’s the ShelBee post: https://www.anne-m-bray.com/blog/171406/shelbee-scrappy-square
OR, the artworks are here (with blog post links): https://www.anne-m-bray.com/viewcollection/143219
😀
shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com
I am so glad that I could surprise you, my friend! I almost went with one of your truck images but then I realized it had to be the ShelBee! Oooh and I forgot to mention that I am also on your map one!
Thank you for sharing those links. I added them into the post for ease.
Also, I went scoping your bio info and you keep it wicked vague! Shall I keep it vague when I write the artist bio part or do you want to send me something more?! I think everyone wants to know more about you now!
FYI, we can probably move the rest of this discussion out of the comments into email or IG DM! Haha.
xoxo
Shelbee
Marsha Banks
What a fabulous way to use up fabric scraps. I’m heading over to look at Anne’s work. I had no idea she did things like this! And, wowza…you are famous…two Shelbee inspired artworks!! This will be a fun challenge, I think!
https://marshainthemiddle.com/
shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com
Aw, thanks, Marsha! Yes, definitely go click around Anne’s blog. She has a bunch of different blogs and websites linked there were you can see all of her amazing artwork! She is so talented with so many different mediums. I was contemplating featuring one of her truck paintings, but how could I not feature the one named after me?! This is definitely going to be fun and I can’t wait to see what everyone does with it.
xoxo
Shelbee
Jennifer
That is so cool!!
Jennifer
Curated by Jennifer
shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com
Isn’t it super fun?! I hope you are having a great week, my friend!
xoxo
Shelbee
Carol
That’s an amazing story about the Shelbee Scrappy Square and the original poncho that inspired it. Can’t wait to see how everyone interprets it.
Carol
http://www.scribblingboomer.com
shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com
Thank you, Carol! There is actually another art work of Anne’s that my kids and I both participated in as well and I forgot to add that one in. It is her Stitching the World Project. I should go back and edit this post to include it!
xoxo
Shelbee
Joanne
That is so neat to have mutliple pieces of artwork named after/ inspired by YOU!
shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com
Thanks, Joanne! I do get a kick out of it myself! It really is quite an honor!
xoxo
Shelbee