Good Morning! I wanted a sunflower applique I could use to make a small art project. I found some clipart, but I wanted something a bit more whimsical. Why not ask AI to find me one? I went to Chatgpt and asked, Do you have a sunflower pattern that is organic with pieces I can…
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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.
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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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Last week I visited my friend Dawn, who is a local artist. Dawn loves to work with scraps. She had told me awhile back that she had some scraps for me to dye for both of us. Of course, I wasn’t expecting it to be three large bags!
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Well, it’s been pretty quiet around here. My muse might have missed the flight back home from Hawaii in January. She sure hasn’t been in my studio. So I thought maybe I could call her back if I started going through my fabric. I spent a day going through most of my fabric pieces, and…
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I’ve been having fun just sewing easy stuff. I belong to a group where we get together every month. Well, that was until Covid. We are now meeting again, but for lunch instead of dinner. Since we are all retired it’s so much more enjoyable to meet for lunch. We used to exchange ornaments which…
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The last couple days I’ve been adding to my art for the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Holiday Fair. I had taken a bunch of goodies down there a week ago. When I noticed someone else had cards, Andrea told me I could definitely bring more stuff. So I’ve been making a few cards to…
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In my quest to use my scraps, I decided to make a snippet roll. This is not a new idea. In fact, the very first article I found about them was written in 2011. I’ve been seeing them a lot in the past year or so, but just didn’t take the time to make one.…
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I’ve been looking at my bag of scraps I’ve been collecting over the last year, and wanted to do something with it. I’ve made a scrappy scarf in this post, but wanted to just make pieces of scrappy fabric for upcoming projects.
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