My final guest post for the Quilting Arts blog “Quilting Daily” illustrates how to Free Motion Machine Sketch the Mum motif, and then make this simple sketchbook cover. In the previous post, I detail how to make this awesome multicolored fabric that is the base of the sketchbook. The multi-color fabric is combined with some… Continue Reading
I’ve got another pair of tutorial guest posts over at Quilting Daily: this time, I’m showing you how to make a unique sketchbook cover. Like my previous guest posts for them, for the cute “freshly picked” baby outfit with the single color LWI dyed clothing blanks and the free motion sketched birds tutorial, I’ve divided the… Continue Reading
The folks over at Interweave’s Quilting Daily have asked me to guest blog for them for the next month. I’ve got a series of four tutorial posts planned; the second post shows you how to free motion machine sketch a cute little bird, and then how to stitch the patch onto the shirt for… Continue Reading
The folks over at Interweave’s Quilting Daily have asked me to guest blog for them for the next month. I’ve got a series of four tutorial posts planned; this first post illustrates how to dye the clothing and fabric to make a “freshly picked” baby outfit. Click here to see the post. Continue Reading
It’s time for another Ask Candy post over at Alamode Stuff Blog. I’ve got a really great question to answer from Cyn of River Dog Prints about tie dyeing with kids! I’ve tie dyed with groups of kids lots of times so I have lots of info and hints along the way to make it successful.… Continue Reading
Ever wonder how I figured out how to take pictures of scarves like these? Edit: This was a guest post for a blog that is defunct, so now I’m re-publishing it here! For the larger items I need to photograph, like bags & scarves, I had been setting up in front of the new white… Continue Reading
This is an older post that was a guest post for a blog that is defunct, so now I’m re-publishing it here! My art is visual, I need great pictures, so people can see what I do. And if people are going to spend their hard earned money on something I created, I want them … Continue Reading
I had a lot of fun writing up a beginning fabric dyeing tutorial for the folks at Sew Mama Sew, it covers probably the first type of dyeing a beginning dyer should do…making tints of a primary color. I had lot of fun folding, stacking and snapping pix of the finished product: But I ALSO… Continue Reading