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2025 Iris Parade

By: Lynda May 24, 2025May 24, 2025

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Every spring I look forward to my Iris Parade, and this year didn’t disappoint. In fact, this was a banner year for my irises with a total of 51 different irises showing up. To see names of irises, hold your mouse over the picture.

Spring and New Fabric Book

By: Lynda March 30, 2025March 30, 2025

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It’s been a crazy busy month with little time or energy for creating art. However, Spring has sprung and I am starting a new fabric book.

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!

Repurposing Toilet Paper Holders and Substack

By: Lynda May 27, 2024

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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.

2024 Iris Parade

By: Lynda May 7, 2024May 7, 2024

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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.

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.

Around Here September 2023

By: Lynda September 19, 2023September 19, 2023

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Unfortunately, not much art going on the last several weeks. I did pick up this skirt at a consignment shop. I’ve cut the lining out and now I have this beautiful fabric to work with. Not sure what I’m going to do with it, but it’s so pretty!

Printing fabric with garden leaves

By: Lynda July 25, 2023July 25, 2023

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I was cleaning up (well, attempting to clean up) my computer desktop and I found this file called garden leaves. I opened it up and it was all of the pictures for a post about using garden leaves to print on fabric instead of my regular tree or shrub leaves. I usually make this type…