Category: My Art

Becoming Unstuck

I’m happy to say I haven’t been artistically “stuck” in a while, in fact I wish there were more hours in the day or fewer ideas in my head! The other day I was thinking about ways to get unstuck and decided to see how fast I could produce fabric backgrounds just using areas around… Continue reading Becoming Unstuck

Flowers

In my world white roses mean love and passion. Do you know that the white rose symbolized “true love” before the red rose did? Have roses inspired your art? There is just something about flowers in general and roses in particular that speaks to me as a fiber artist. I can’t have flowers in many… Continue reading Flowers

When Photo meets Fiber

I love to see how some artists combine photography and fiber. Today I’m posting the fabulous work of two artists who approach and combine those two mediums very differently. Gunnel Svensson takes wonderful photographs and has them printed on fabric. She then stitches them and adds fabric and fiber embellishments. I’m fascinated by her tiny… Continue reading When Photo meets Fiber

What’s Up Wednesday

Yesterday I delivered and installed (with the help of my handy assistant) my most recent commissioned art quilt. The best part – the client was very pleased! I’m working on new Curious.com online lessons but I thought it would be fun to take a detour in today’s post and share some cutting up and putting… Continue reading What’s Up Wednesday

Wabi Sabi and pulling weeds

I like to think of it as experiencing Wabi Sabi instead of weed pulling work. The ground littered with wonderful decaying plants. The textures, colors, the shadows and light, it is ever changing. I’m happy to recreate it in art… My garden has often been a source of inspiration for me – from the old fence… Continue reading Wabi Sabi and pulling weeds

Warm-up Wednesday

Well, I thought about doing this post yesterday with the title Tension Tuesday but Warm-up Wednesday seems to have a better ring to it! I test tension and warm up for free-motion thread play at the same time. After testing my tension and ending up with this flower, I decided I needed to do my… Continue reading Warm-up Wednesday

Paint or Dye

I was enjoying the posts over at The Snarky Quilter’s (SQ) blog where SQ and a friend share their steps and early results following Mickey Lawler’s  techniques to create some painted fabric. They made some neat fabric pieces and a little discussion ensued regarding painted fabric. SQ commented that painters working in oil also paint… Continue reading Paint or Dye

Bonsai, Fiber, and Passion

Many years ago someone asked me “What do you do?” I answered “I make miniature landscapes.” In those days that was where my focus was. His response surprised me… He said “You do Bonsai?!” I said “Oh, no, I work in fabric.” and he replied with a disappointed “Oh” and that was the end of… Continue reading Bonsai, Fiber, and Passion

Quilt, stamp, or both?

I have this little pillow made from my hand painted fabric that was originally going to have buttons but then I made the Terial Magic, painted and stitched butterflies and had some other thoughts. I made a flower stamp out of Sculpey Bake and Bend clay so I could just stamp on the right side… Continue reading Quilt, stamp, or both?