Last Spring, my patio was looking especially gorgeous, with the Jasmine blooming out of control! I snapped some pretty pix for an article I was writing: how I accomplish snow dyeing in a place where it never snows. This “Faux Snow” dyeing article was for “In Stitches vol. 8“, which is an e-mag. I love… Continue Reading
I’ve been working on a new color palette I’m now calling “Autumn Splendor” (thanks to Vickie who suggested the splendor). I tweaked the gold a bit, and the five colors now work really well as a multicolor combination: Putting together a group of colors that work together as single colors is a bit harder…I… Continue Reading
We have a winner! I’ve got to say, I am now totally craving all sorts of holiday goodies, reading all your comments filled with descriptions of wonderful holiday cookies, pies and cakes, I just can’t wait to start baking! I used random.org to pick a number: and the winner is… Susan, who loves Florentine cookies drizzled… Continue Reading
I met Jackie from Havel’s Scissors last summer, at the QATV Taping. She gave all the guest artists incredible goodie bags full of awesome scissors and rotary cutters: (No, my studio doesn’t often look this clean and organized!) Any old who, she sent me some really great interview questions, the post is over on the… Continue Reading
I’ve been a long time fan Victoria Gertenbach’s work, she blogs at The Silly BooDilly and has an Etsy shop as well. She and I met 2 years ago in the green room of Quilting Arts TV and have become long distance friends after emerging from that beautiful, stressful day wiser and more experienced of… Continue Reading
And the days and weeks keep rolling along! I’m getting my main goals ticked off, but I’m NOT chipping away at stock for my first show in October…waaaay too early in October! September Goals Dyeing 102 Sessions 8 September 12 100% Custom E-reader class September 15 100% Dye scarves for Fall Shows September 30… Continue Reading
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you may already know this, because the digital version has been out for about a month, but I wanted to wait until I had a hard copy in my own two hands before blogging about it! Yes, indeed, those are my Holiday Row Houses on the cover of… Continue Reading
I taught the second half of my custom tablet/E-reader cover class at the Redlands Sewing Center Wednesday night. Oh we had so much fun! I showed them again how to stitch several of my botanical sketch motifs – the big classroom had a projector so I could play a slide show of some of the simpler… Continue Reading