What Day Is It?

MAKING STUFF

All this cold weather - perfect for hunkering down and 

making stuff. I have boxes & boxes of fabric that I have dyed, stamped, printed, painted, you name it, I have probably tried most surface design techniques. So now what ? I really need to make stuff. I will never use it all up because, of course, I keep making more fabric. 

Here is some painted canvas that I've had in my stash for years. I really need to get over the "not wanting to cut it up" stage. 

 I did manage to cut up a few pieces to make these little zippered pouches. 

 There are lots of tutorials everywhere. I wanted to do those little tabs on the ends of the zippers for a nice finished look.My first 2 tries did not come out well at all - puckery and messy. 

For the 3rd one I did not topstitch along the fabric next to the zipper and it came out nice and neat.

                                     

  TAH DAH !!

MORE FABRIC PRINTING

I had such a good time doing a presentation for the  Plymouth County Cranberry Quilters in Massachusetts last week. What a fun group. (Thanks to Phyllis for inviting me.)  

 

I wanted to bring along a few new things I was working on.

 

 Canvas printed with handmade stamps & found objects.

 

 Mobile made from leaf prints

 

 

 

 Wallhanging (strip pieced using hand dyed fabrics & machine quilted)

 

FABRIC PRINTING WORKSHOP

I did my

 "Tons of  Time-Tested, Tried & True, Terrific Textile Design Tips & Techniques for the Timid, Trepidatious & Truly Terrified"

workshop a few weeks ago with the Northern Lights Quilt Guild

in Lebanon,NH.

 

As always I learned as much from them as they learned from me. That's how it is when you get a group of creative people together and you explore all the things you can do using some basic supplies and simple, easy techniques.

 

Here's a sampling of some of the cool fabrics they created.

 

Click on image to see larger view 

 

This was a really fun day!!!!

ROAD TRIP

A beautiful spring day in Portsmouth, NH.

I grew up on Long Island Sound and I really miss the beach - so we headed to the coast yesterday for some ocean breeze and the smell of salt air.

 A perfect day for my birthday!

 

VENDING

NORTHERN LIGHTS QUILT SHOW

Hanover, NH

 

What a great time I had, vending my hand dyed fabrics, this past weekend.

 

My guild really puts on one hell of a quilt show. The creative energy from this group is contagious.

 

I always come home jazzed up to try new things.

 

 

Here's my booth - there's only so much you can do under the basketball hoop

 at the end of the school gym!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANOTHER CLASS

Another great class 
We put the TEXT into TEXTiles
Stamping - Stenciling - Printing
A wonderful exchange of ideas & techniques

Aren't these fabric postcards cool ?

( I really must stop & take more pics -

 I got caught up in things & just barely got this shot as we were packing up )

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This week's class will be FABRIC PAINTING
I can't wait to see what the participants will come up with.
I must say particpants NOT students because we all learn so much from each other
 - I always leave with lots of new things to try.