Since I’ve been teaching a lot of classes lately, I thought it would to be nice to have a personalized painted apron to wear. Meanwhile, I made one for my Best Bud Barbara. I started by cutting out the stencils with my Brother Scan N Cut. In the Brother Scan N Cut Canvas I chose…
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More fun silk scarf dyeing classes
Yesterday I taught two of my Easy and Fun Silk Scarf Dyeing classes at Scattered Art in Newburgh. Since Dolly’s (Scattered Art’s owner) space is now limited, the maximum of students we can accommodate is eight. However, that didn’t limit our fun! I’ve gotten a lot of great comments about these classes, but never the…
Read MoreHow To: Watercolor and Free Motion Mandalas
I’ve been playing a bit more with mandalas, but this time on fabric. To begin this process I was inspired by the Painted Hearts article by Joanne Sharp in Cloth Paper Scissors. I thought I’d try the hearts and make Dave a card for Valentine’s Day. Joanne used watercolors on the fabric which I had…
Read MoreDyeing Hawaiian Fabric
Whenever we travel to Kona on The Big Island we have to stop at Kimura’s Fabrics. Here is a post I wrote several years ago about this interesting shop. You can buy about any type of fabric here from Hawaiian prints to lace and silk. On this trip I wanted to find some silk to…
Read MorePrinted Fabric Bee takes a new direction
If you’ve been following me for the past two years you know that I’ve been involved with a group of artists. Every month one of the members, “the queen,” would choose a topic and the other members would make a piece of fabric for her, and a 6 x 6 piece to be given away…
Read MoreBest of 2015 Tutorials
As we end another year, I am again looking back on my favorite tutorials, or what I consider my best of 2015. I hope you liked them. If you missed them, here are the links. I started the year with a soy wax batik tutorial on my Back-to-Basics video series. LINK Dyeing with ties was…
Read MoreBiscotti and more
I love making biscotti during the holiday season. This year I made three different kinds, all from the same recipe. For my recipe see this post. What’s great about this recipe is that it is so flexible. I used white whole wheat flour and they still were great. For the chocolate ones, I substituted 1/3…
Read MoreToday’s Word: Peace
Not much to say today after what has happened here in the states the last couple of weeks – really this year. May you find peace in your corner of the world today and this week.
Read MoreReview: Lumi Silkscreen Kit
Today I am sharing with you my new Lumi Silkscreen kit. But let’s start at the beginning. Before I could receive my Lumi silkscreen kit I needed to upload an image. I spent quite a bit of time thinking about what image I wanted and finally decided on a fern. After surfing the web with…
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