We’ve made it to the end of the year month and our treat for you is the very first Daughter Judy Extracurricular! It’s what it sounds like; creative, extra bits collected during the past few weeks to ponder over at the end of the month. This may include things like styling, shopping, watching, viewing, reading, recipes, etc. We can’t quite promise there won’t be some math equations involved, but we can say that it will be fun and we will learn to spell extracurricular by heart before the end of the year month. Last week in The Lab we did some number crunching and earned our study points learning about all things knit. In this inaugural post we will be bringing you some reading material about tailoring women’s jackets which I personally recommend, two humorous artistic perspectives, one from this century and another from the last, a tool one just can’t live without, and a knits follow up video about choosing sweatshirt fabric… Now, on to the show… Upgrade to paid EXHIBITION Peggy Bacon : Biting, Never Bitter (Portland Museum of Art) Over the New Years holiday I took a little trip to the other Portland, in Maine. If you’ve never been, it definitely gets two thumbs up for me and I will definitely be returning during the warmer months. Beautiful architecture, surrounded by water, exceptional food. While there, I went to the Portland Museum of Art and stumbled into an exhibition about the artist and satirical caricaturist Peggy Bacon. The show focused on her time in art school at the Art Students League of New York and the early developmental stages of her career. Following in both her parents’ artistic footsteps, Peggy Bacon taught herself the drypoint etching technique while attending the Art Students League which she imbued with her wry sense of humor. The show highlights her precise comical voice...