Tutorial tab working again!

I am so happy! After several months of my tutorial and other menu tabs not working, with the help of the Happy Engineers at WordPress we finally corrected the problem. Here is what I’m talking about. When you click on the tutorial tab you get a drop down menu. When you click on one of…

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Total Eclipse Fun

What an exciting time this week with the total eclipse in our area. We invited a few new friends to share the viewing from our backyard. Here are a few pictures Dave took.

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Resisting with Daisies

I’ve been on a daisy kick lately, and thought I’d use resist with daisies to see what happened. It’s really the same process as printing with daisies. If you missed that post, see this link.

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Creating a Garden Flag with Polyester Ripstop

Happy Spring everyone! What a great way to celebrate the season by sewing up a garden or yard flag. Two years ago I made a garden flag with waterproof canvas. Here is that post. It was a nice flag but it didn’t take long to fade, and it was heavy. I wanted to make something…

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Best of 2022 Tutorials

Another year has flown by, and it’s time to list my best of 2022 tutorials. In case you missed any of them, I’ve included links to tutorials above the pictures. You also can find all of my tutorials under the Tutorials tab at the top of the page. This year it was pretty slim pickings…

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Christmas Gift Ideas

I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for gift ideas; things I can make that won’t take a lot of time but would hopefully be welcomed. I thought I’d share today a few of my favorite gift ideas and tutorials.

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Tone on Tone Stenciling

Every October a bunch of artists online participate in Printinktober. It’s all about printing on fabric or paper every day. I participated in 2019 (here is the first of several blog posts). I wanted to participate this year, but I’m getting a late start. This first tutorial is tone-on-tone stenciling. Angie Knowles, a wonderful textile…

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Making Roving Fabric

Been playing a bit. When I cleaned up my studio I found some wool roving that I’ve not used in awhile. I thought it might be fun to try to make some roving fabric. This process is just like when I made the Scrappy Fabric awhile back in this post. However, this time instead of…

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