I was able to get a new holiday row houses done today! 3 days until my next show, and these will now be there!!! My first Holiday Row House was on the cover of Quilting Arts 2012: Just like my mod house ornaments, the pattern for these are also in my e-book Create Handmade Gifts… Continue Reading
My show is just a couple days away now, but I took a few minutes to photograph my newly made Mod House Ornaments: When posting these on social media yesterday I got a few questions about the pattern; I designed these 6 years ago, and the pattern can be found in my e-book Create Handmade… 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
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
Wahoo! My Mid Century Modern House Pillows pattern is in print in the Spring 2015 issue of Interweave’s Modern Patchwork! You may remember my Mid Century Modern House Pillows that I made for my family room: I really love them! And when the call for this magazine came out, I thought they would be a… Continue Reading
Well, I was able to get one set of Row Houses done: and it’s SHOW TIME! Art for Heaven’s Sake is a 3 day show that opens with an opening reception tonight, from 7-10 PM, then continues Saturday from 10-5 and Sunday from 11-5. Although it’s exhausting, because they hire security we don’t have to… Continue Reading
I’ve had a vision of combining my individual 3-d houses into a long row. Forever. Truly, from all the way back I started working on my houses, which I see from the blog (see how useful a blog is) was in February of 2009! It took a proposal deadline (and some star alignments) to get… Continue Reading
Late last week my calendar reminded me: I was scheduled to be a featured artist at a local church here in Redlands. Yikes, it had kinda slipped off the radar! I’ve got a big display cabinet, thankfully locked, to fill with all sorts of 3-d pieces: Of course, it was incredible hard to get good… Continue Reading