I originally designed my text prints to go with my art quilts so I wanted creamy and tan color, but I’ve noticed that my black and white prints are popular. So I converted 4 of my cream and tan text prints to have a white background with either black or dark brown text. Here you […]
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Selvages and fused scraps make a colorful background for a doodle stitched blonde in pigtails. Her shirt is has wavy lines and I used decorative stitches from my machine to add ‘tattoos’ to her arms. The scallops on her neck and neckline were done with free-motion stitching. The color was added with pigment ink pens.
After finishing my articles for Sew Somerset, I continued to make pieces similar to the ‘Glad Girls,’ but have been waiting to post them. These are all free motion stitched – me drawing with thread – no pattern – nothing to trace. They are lots of fun for me. Make more fun (10.5†x 11â€)
Yesterday was windy and I wished for a kite. Near my childhood home, there was a large empty lot a block away that was perfect for playing kickball and flying kites. Kite + wind = happy day (8†x 10â€)
Hello happy – blue skies and sunny A skirt embellished with decorative stitches and I finally found a pice for this tiny scrap of elephant print fabric She welcomes joy (6†x 12â€)
The latest issue of Sew Somerset is out and you’ll find a few of my projects inside. My favorite part about new magazine articles being published is that I can finally share the art inside them. It’s hard to not share the projects when I create them and it takes 6 months or a year
The Modern Quilt Guild Riley Blake challenge has 4 rules: – Make something fantastic that is quilted – Make something you have never done before – Challenge yourself to learn something new – Use only the Cottage Garden fabric line and Riley Blake solids I decided to play with improvisational curved piecing as my something
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A few weeks ago I visited quilt shops in nearby cities, when shopping for stash building/inspriation, I first look for fabrics that could be used in art quilts – small scale prints for backgrounds or dresses. The greens, blues, yellow and pink will work well and the gray with the lines and dandelion like puffs
It is sunny and beautiful here and I find myself outside more often than in my studio stitching. I’m trying not to freak out that my to-do list isn’t decreasing and have been focused on enjoying the green leaves and grass, blooming flowers and bright blue skies. She loves being in the sun (7†x
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I used tiny scraps no bigger than 2†wide by 2.5†tall fused to the batting to create this background. It’s the same technique used in my STITCHED 2015 class. The scraps create a grassy, floral area below a northern lights and star studded sky. With such small scraps, once the backing fabric was added,
