Month: June 2013

With a bit of patience and Photoshop, I turned my stitched doodle practice into art. It was an assignment for Lilla Roger’s Make Art That Sells course. The class is packed full of information on licensing and how different product markets work – definitely worth the investments in cost and time.

front back Oh these are not so good – the tension is way off on the top and middle pieces – this is when it was time for a new needle, rethreading and a break. Walking away when my machine isn’t behaving is the best way to not have sewing stress.

front back I ran out of black thread in the bobbin and I didn’t want to pause to make a new one so I used the white one I already had. The back of the little flower on the right is not so good but I’d probably not rip it out if I had done […]

front back This is the piece where my tension started to slip a bit, but the overall look on back is pretty.

front back Doodles are fun! I think I will add all of these to a fabric book.

front back The back of this piece looks pretty good – it means the tension on my machine and the speed of the machine vs. the speed I moved the fabric was correct There’s a bit of puckering around the stem of the curly flower thing – I was sewing on 2 layers of fabric […]

I have 3 bins of scraps in my studio. That is not allowed – I only have space for 2. So I either have to stitch them into a quilt top or give them away. So for the last 2 days I have been sorting scraps (separating all the grays out for a separate scrap […]