Hi there! Summer is going by so fast… as always… as life always does! And so goes my quilting days, too. The time just speeds by for me in pure pleasure {even with a ripper in my hands at times!}… , and I LOVE LOVE IT! There’s just something about summer that motivates me and adds energy to my days… …
Wow. It’s already {Happy} November! And it brings more luscious hand dyed fabrics as I’ve been thumbing through the stash and trying to decide which one to put under my quilting needle ~ yay! I have to say, I’m a little rough around the edges in my feather work, and have a couple mis-starts in quilting. Oh how quickly skills seem to …
Hi there! This sweet table runner… It’s really quite the combo of yummy, and summery bold color. Yay! I even dyed the velvet fabric for the flower centers myself. The rest of the hand dyed fabrics came from one of my favorite artists, Miss Vicki Welsh, as I have spoken of so often in my works. Although I have been …
hello everyone ~ i’ve been happily ensconced, practicing a basic feather, warming up for more! the piece below is a large, runner-sized piece of hand dyed gradient from vicki welsh. it’s called “navajo” and i love this color way .. perfect for our autumn holiday, and i thin this piece is a great beginning to setting a dining table for thanksgiving, and beyond! …
good day ~ leaves… leaves… leaves! always a fun, artistic motif to play with, especially this time of year. and i have a gorgeous view in my imagination!this is how it plays out: first, i hand-painted the leaves with silks acrylic glaze paints. and i added free motion quilting in two motifs, tiny stippling and miniature feathers. a bit of bobbin …
hi there everyone ~speaking of blues… {!} for most of the past week i’ve been coping with the flu + cold bug! wowzers, what a rough week. despite our montana wintery weather {to be expected} and chilly 15-20 degrees with a fresh couple inches of new snow… our spring will get here on it’s own time, and in it’s very. own. …
hi there ~ i don’t know why, but i just couldn’t make a decision on binding for this piece. i guess because it was difficult to choose a color, and fabric style for this binding, but i finally said, “just do it! and so i chose a multi-colored binding, one of the first fabrics i grabbed. this little quilt sample has risen up …
hi there ~ it’s more feathers! this time a new hand-dyed fabric in my studio, dyed by vicki welsh ~ she calls it the “woodlands” gradient. and i called it ‘mine!’ {at least for the time being!} lol i used this quilting opportunity try a different type of meandering feather, quilting continuous ‘branches’ and hopefully… achieving a kind of ‘flowing out’ …
hello and a super snowy autumn day it is here in montana ~ so i’m calling this runner “autumn’s midnight” which reminds me of those shorter days and nights of autumn into winter… i chose the following threads, as seen below, to begin the quilting on this piece of hand dyed fabric by vicki. and i began with my newest thread-fave, …
greetings on a monday ~ well. there’s nothing new under the sun ~ including those catchy tunes that play in my head! ya know ~ i love to play with color, for sure. and since i was cleaning and tidying the studio {well not a serious clean, just a ‘what have we here?’ kind of clean… and found we had saved …
hi ~ and magnifico friday to you all! i just ordered this new thread from superior thread company. it is just gorgeous! and i love quilting with it!!!this is what superiorthreads.com says about it:“After many years in development, we now have a polyester thread that has the high sheen of trilobal and the strength of filament polyester. It is a high …
hi there ~thank you for your sweet comments, and encouragement … i so appreciate it!! so here’s another beauty… from vicki welsh. you all know {by now?} how i feel about hand-dyed fabrics and the people who make them! they are incredible talents. what they do… the labor they provide, all to produce these incredibly colored fabrics, with care. i know …
good morning!!happy friday, and wonderful holiday weekend to you all! my sewing machine is revving up and we’re good and warm! vacation time… equals sewing time! i put some petal to the metal on this gorgeous hand-dyed, finished this piece, diving head-first into my handy-dandy ‘hand-dyed’ stash! isn’t this fabric ‘to dye for?’ {apologize for the overused cliche} but it …
hi there oh luscious happy summer days!!! it’s been a little cool weather-wise so far ~ but i’m warmin’ up! and i’m also warming up with a little quilting on my free motion feathers, too. a little out of practice, and it’s time to get tuned up again… {oh how i have missed you ~ feathers} i do adore the look of …
hello all and happy summer sunday ~ winners! we’ve got winners! well, it’s about time, huh!!! long wait, i know. i so appreciate all the comments, and your coming alongside in seeing my projects made with vicki welsh’s hand-dyed fabrics! she’s such a talent! don’t you agree? and… guess what i found in my stash? a yard of some fabric …