Every year I look for something I can make for the girls’ group I belong to. We’ve all worked together years ago and have been meeting once a month for a meal for a long time. It started out as an evening meal, but now since we’re all retired we meet for lunch.
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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.
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As I mentioned recently I was giving a Zoom talk on Cloth Stories. It took place this past Thursday and it was so much fun. If you’d like to watch the recording, you can find it here.
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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…
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This tutorial is how to make a tote bag using a plain tote bag as the base. Here is my finished tote. Before I start, I need to give credit Stitches by Julia. Here is the video of her project using the tote base.
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I was so excited to find these sweet window cards that I had to write a short post about them. What I like about them is that they are small, square, and are perfect to fit in 5 x 5 picture frames.
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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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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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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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