I wanted to share a few more pictures of all the presents I made for my cousin’s new baby Lucy, as well as share some thoughts on working with a limited color palette. Folks who have followed me for awhile will know that even though as a fabric dyer I can dye ANY color I… Continue Reading
Well, 23 years ago last night, hubby and I were doing this: Fast forward 23 years, and yesterday Andrew was running around getting the pre-college portion of the Pokorny Low Brass seminar started, while I was doing this: Yep, our fridge in the garage started dying last week, and we didn’t want to lose all… Continue Reading
Every nursery needs a mobile, right? So I decided to make a bunch of birds just like I make for Christmas ornaments (pattern is in my e-book) Then I described in really general terms what I wanted and he built the mobile scaffolding. The birds were tied at different heights off each arm and voila!… Continue Reading
Here is the piece de resistance of all the things I’ve been making for my cousin’s new baby!!! The front is a series of improvly pieced rectangles, quilted with a grid (using a walking foot) that avoids the center rectangles each time, and then I free motion machine sketched a bird or two in each square…except one!… Continue Reading
As I’m hard at work on creating Dyeing 104: Multicolor Silk, I realized that it’s been a long time since I had a sale on my other online classes!!! Would you be interested in learning how to dye? Or perhaps you’ve done some dyeing with Procion MX fiber reactive dyes and are less than happy… Continue Reading
Some of the dyeing I did last week: Included a set of six tees dyed in Red, White and Blue for a set of cousins who meet at a big family reunion held every 4th of July! How cool is that? Continue Reading
Tadah! Here’s the first of the two quilts I made for my cousin’s baby: I based this quilt on the canvas quilt pattern developed by she can quilt. It allows me to celebrate the colors they picked for the nursery and emphasize the complementary-ness of the gold and purple! It’s 39″ x 48″, the back… Continue Reading
If you’ve been following along the past couple weeks, I’ve been making a couple of quilts for my cousins baby. I used a leftover quilt block to try out my quilting ideas: I’m so glad I did because it made me change my quilted grid on the large quilt, but it still was cute, so I… Continue Reading