Well, it’s just about Christmas time in the Glendening household! After a very busy month, I’ve got to do some dyeing for some last minute gifts (thankfully one doesn’t need to be completed until the 30th!) and finish my Christmas cookie baking; this year I’m spreading it out over a few days, so I’ve already completed… Continue Reading
One artist I’ve followed for years is Ann Wood, I absolutely love her work. She creates fantastical creatures, usually from salvaged/vintage clothing, they have such character and expression. She released a new pattern last month for the cutest wee little squirrel and bunny, when I saw it I KNEW I had to make them! I… Continue Reading
It’s been a whole week before I got time to process pix and write up this post, but here I am with a show report for our Redlands Area Artists’ Open Studio Tour! We had a rainy Friday, causing a bit of trepidation because here in SoCal, rain is like snow other places, it keeps… Continue Reading
It’s time! This weekend I is my most favorite show of the year: my open studio! I’m part of a studio tour that several artists in the Redlands area particpate in. We all open our studios to show folks how we work. We also have items that would make great holiday gifts available for purchase, and… Continue Reading
It’s Giveaway Day over at Sew Mama Sew! (Actually, it’s all week long, with all sorts of bloggers having a giveaway on the same week!) so I’m participating by giving away not one but two of my hand dyed silk scarves to two lucky folks; one who comments on this post and another who is a newsletter subscriber, so… Continue Reading
Since I’ve got my Holiday Open Studio this weekend, I thought I’d make some ornaments to have available for sale! I have some of my Jewel Tone fabrics already fused with wonder under, so I cut out the shapes: and fuse them onto white felt: Then I add Free Motion Machine Sketched details to the… Continue Reading
I’ve been saving bits and pieces of fabric that I’ve dyed with indigo these past months, some of them small swatches as I’ve tested different clamping patterns, others are bits I’ve trimmed off larger pieces of fabric while making bags and pillows. THey’re a mix of linen, regular quilting weight, and cotton sateen fabric; I… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a Mom who needed a stocking for her new baby Trinity. She loved my red jester stocking, asking only that I use several colors of wool felt balls instead of a single color: If you’d like to make one, or more of these for yourself, the… Continue Reading