I am so happy to finally be able to share my free-motion machine sketchbooks with you! Today I’ll share the very first sketchbook I made while getting ready for my FMMS DVD. This one is called Maine woods, inspired by the Summers I spent on Mount Desert Island, Maine growing up. The color palette combines… Continue Reading
Hooray! The blog tour for my new Quilting Arts Workshop DVD “Free Motion Machine Sketching” is starting off with a colorful bang: Vicki Welsh over at “Field Trips in Fiber“! Vicki is the most industrious fabric dyer, quilter and blogger I know! Seriously, she gets so much done every day, she just wows me! She… Continue Reading
I am so excited! My new Quilting Arts Workshop called “Free Motion Machine Sketching: Drawing with Thread from Birds to Botanicals” has launched!!! “Free-Motion Machine Sketching” is a 74 minute DVD or download, filmed on the set of Quilting Arts TV last September. In it, I teach you how to Free-Motion Machine Sketch lots of my favorite motifs and… Continue Reading
I am so happy to be the first stop on Diane Rusin Doran’s blog hop for her new DVD called Digital Surface Design: Simple Techniques for Hand-dyed Fabric Effects and More! I met Diane in the summer of 2011 in the green room of the studio where QATV is taped. I had taped 2 episodes… Continue Reading
I am so excited! Last September I travelled to Cleveland to tape 4 episodes of Quilting Arts TV. Well, QATV series 13 is ready for viewing! This is a PBS show, so each station chooses when and how many times to air each show. To find out when these will air in your area, use the… Continue Reading
It was under a year ago that I wrote a similar post: Folks who follow me on Facebook saw the post a few weeks ago that I’d received an email promoting Quilting Arts Gifts 2013/14, and I was excited to see my art on the cover! And, like last year, I wanted to wait to… Continue Reading
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
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