Last week, I showed you some results from my first experience dyeing Radiance, a 50/50 cotton/silk blend. I have a client who is making a stole for her pastor, inspired by the stained glass in their church. She wanted deep, glistening colors, similar to the colors in the glass, and a light green background color,…
Cyn of Riverdog Prints has a meetup called “Collecting Color” that’s all about…you guessed it, color! Last week, I made a set of nesting baskets in some custom colors my client had selected earlier in the summer. When I was working on the pieced strip for the basket, I was worried about the colors. The…
I’ve been thinking a lot about my botanical sketches lately, I’d like to add some new flowers to my sketchbook. I was out in the backyard, photographing a couple of scarves, and lo and behold, the fennel flowers in our garden looked incredible. I thought I’d share them with you.
I know I’ve talked before about how inspiring Jan DiCintio is. Her choice of colors is impeccable, and her patterns begin as hand-draw images, which give me that evidence of the hand that I find so important. Her newest organic fabric line is called “Shades of Grey”: and I just LOVE it! Now – I…
My twitter pal Cyn of River Dog Prints has a bi-monthly meetup on color. Big surprise, color is something that rocks my world! I’m slowly recovering from the school year and (hopefully) entering a zone of creativity. What’s been helping me do this is a lot of dyeing for dyeing’s sake, rather than to make…
And so, another week is over. We’ve been crazy busy, the world news is even more depressing than normal, spring shows, final exams, May Term, teaching at the Create Retreat, all loom ahead of me. I’m exhausted. But the Jasmine has been blooming, and I’ve got a first draft of a new silk color palette…
One of subjects I’m going to try to talk more about here on this blog is color…why I choose the colors I do, how I make them, where I get my inspirations. I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to do this, but color is so important important me, I realize that I should try…
I got an email the other day from Lidija, of the blog BluDor Magazine. She wrote me to thank me for the videos of free motion machine quilting I’ve got posted on my site. After watching me stitch she used the same technique to write nursery rhymes on the side of the hanging cradle she…
I’ve posted previously about how I find the evidence of an artists’s hands in their work to be inspirational. I spent the lion’s share of yesterday writing a tutorial on how to make an ultimate storage cart (coming on Friday over at Lillyella). My twitter friends were regaled with quips about how much I loved looking at…
I thought I’d share some photos I took while making my Pocketin Boards. What was a stack of pockets waiting for topstiching became elements to use for playing around with composition!
My name is Candy Glendening...and I’m addicted to color! I dye fabric so I can have just the hue & texture I want, and then use it to make art quilts and “everyday art”.
My name is Candy Glendening,and I’m addicted to color! I dye fabric so I can have just the hue & texture I want, and then use it to make art quilts and “everyday art”.
