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Artists in Hawaii

By: Lynda January 29, 2025January 29, 2025

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We just returned from Maui where we met some artists. When we travel we always like to check out art and if we’re lucky we get to meet them.

Five Favorite Things 2024

By: Lynda December 17, 2024

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Every December I highlight my five favorite things in my studio. Sometimes they are recent purchases; some are tools I’ve had for years.

Creating fabric art from a photo

By: Lynda October 19, 2024October 19, 2024

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This is something new to me, and really something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but felt it was way out of my wheel house. That is, creating fabric art using one of my photos. I searched online for quite awhile for tutorials. None of them seemed to help. Then I found Nanette…

Photo Memory Quilts

By: Lynda September 5, 2024September 9, 2024

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I’ve been wanting to make these for quite awhile – photo quilts. I’ve added photos to other pieces of art, but wanted to make a few that were larger and could be bound like regular quilts or even framed.

Kohlrabi Leaf Printing, and Ice Dyeing

By: Lynda August 5, 2024August 5, 2024

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I’ve been just doing a bit of this and that lately including kohlrabi leaf printing and ice dyeing.

Creating Together

By: Lynda June 30, 2024

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With Dave’s renewed interest in woodworking, we decided to create together, marrying his wood skills with my fabric and finishing a project we started over seven years ago!

40 Flags Finished

By: Lynda May 30, 2024

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Yipee! I finished the 40 flags for the Toward 2050 project I talked about in this post. The deadline for these flags is December, but I decided to get this deadline off my plate. Here are all 40.

Hanging Art

By: Lynda April 17, 2024April 17, 2024

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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.

Using stenciling to make appliques

By: Lynda March 4, 2024

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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…