Dave has been creating a lot of beautiful things with wood. Two of my favorites projects are the toilet paper holders. Here is the one for the small bath.
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I have spent the past 15 years designing fabric for my art using a wide range of surface design techniques. In 2011, I developed the popular ice dyeing method and later shared it through my online class Icy Delights, which I have since made freely available on my YouTube channel. In addition to dyeing, I explore sun printing, marbling, stamping, botanical printing, resists, discharge, and monoprinting to create unique fabric designs. My work has been featured in Quilting Arts, including the magazine’s first tutorial on ice dyeing in 2011.
Recently, I have combined her love of fabric art with my passion for genealogy, sharing this intersection in a Substack presentation titled Cloth Stories. I offer fabric surface design tutorials on my blog (lyndaheines.com) and share my genealogy and personal essay journey at Heines Sight (https://lyndaheines.substack.com/).
I live with my husband, Dave, and our two cats on Happy Acres, our little piece of paradise in Newburgh, Indiana.
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Back in early 2011 I created the popular dyeing technique I called Ice Dyeing.
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Spring 2024 Muck Dyes
Every Spring Dharma Trading sells what they call muck dyes. They are made in limited quantities and can’t be reproduced. They are CHEAP! For these I paid between $4.50 and $6 for 8 oz. Usually these fiber reactive dyes run, depending on color, between $1.95 and $5.75 for 2 oz! The down side is if…
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2024 Iris Parade
I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted. It’s been busy around here including lots of gardening and of course, the iris parade. This year only 35 showed up compared to last year’s 41. We added eight new irises from Breck’s, but only two bloomed. But that’s okay. it still was a nice showing.
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Hanging Art
I have several art quilts that I have entered in shows that are sitting in the closet. I needed that space, but also thought it would be nice to be able to see them. They all have sleeves. I researched how to hang them and decided on this solution.
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Total Eclipse Fun
What an exciting time this week with the total eclipse in our area. We invited a few new friends to share the viewing from our backyard. Here are a few pictures Dave took.
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Memory pillow and matching tote
A friend of mine lost her husband awhile back. Rick loved wearing flannel shirts so I told her I’d be happy to make her family pillows with his shirts. It took her awhile, but recently she gave me his favorite shirt to make her a special pillow. Like other “precious” fabric, his favorite flannel shirt…
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Framing a daisy piece
Last summer I had so much fun printing with daisies. I finally got around to framing a piece which will hang in our newly renovated bathroom.
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Using stenciling to make appliques
I really like making appliques or embellishments to add to my art, especially cards. In the past, I’ve made them from photos and clipart you can see here. I’ve also made them from rubber stamped images here. Of course, I’ve made them from leaf prints here. But not from stencils until now! I am making…
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