I have been having a lot of fun creating flowers for small art quilts and greeting cards. They may not be “fine” art but they are easy and (the cards are) useful and the flowers require very little thinking! Here is my newest video – How to Make Simple White Fabric Flowers. As you can… Continue reading Fabric Flowers a New Video
Tag: art
Wasting Time?
As I’ve said before, I thought it would be a good idea to leash train our cat and so I seem to be spending more time out on the kitchen deck. It’s going to be a sad day when she realizes we have winter. When I’m not working on hand embroidery and other hand sewing… Continue reading Wasting Time?
Finding Surface Designs
I lifted the lid off a cast iron pan after allowing it to cool for cleaning and discovered this… At first I thought – Oh, that’s cool, in a rusty, creepy sort of way, and then I looked again and thought, it looks familiar. I remembered coming across an old painting while I was organizing… Continue reading Finding Surface Designs
Watercolor and Flowers
I was looking through my art supplies and discovered an old box of watercolor tube paints that may have been my dad’s or maybe mine from high school! They were pretty far gone, seeing as they were made sometime between the 1960s to 70s, but I managed to get some out of the tubes and… Continue reading Watercolor and Flowers
Triptych to Switzerland
This is “A Clear Necessity”, my entry to Quilt for Change – “Water is Life: Clean Water and Its Impact on the Lives of Women and Girls around the World.” I’m excited to tell you that it has been selected to be part of the Quilt Challenge Exhibit which is scheduled to open at the Palais… Continue reading Triptych to Switzerland
Sky watcher
We have a second story bedroom with a deck. There are no plants or furniture on the deck. It is south facing and the sun beat on it all day long so no need for places to sit or sun toasted plants. But most mornings and evenings one or more of us will be out… Continue reading Sky watcher
Respect and the Art Quilt
After viewing pieces included in the Akron Art Prize venues, The Snarky Quilter posed this question on her blog: “Do quilts still get no respect in the art world?” Here are my thoughts… First, I would say quilts get less respect rather than no respect. I think that it actually is the word “quilt” that… Continue reading Respect and the Art Quilt
Deadlines…
I have a love-hate relationship with deadlines. If not for deadlines I probably wouldn’t have finished many of the art quilts I have started. But I also (gently) kick myself when I don’t get a piece finished by a deadline. Today I’m kicking… This was going to Visions Art Museum Members’ Challenge – Curves. Deadline… Continue reading Deadlines…
Excited Over Small Things
The other day I spotted a large bright green spider on the trumpet flowers in our back garden. At the time I wasn’t sure what type of spider it was so I got my phone to take a photo and just as I did a Skipper butterfly landed near the spider. I was so excited… Continue reading Excited Over Small Things
Father and Art
We have been celebrating my husband, father of my sons today, but I’m also missing my own dad. He spent his professional life inside helicopter and jet engines but when he had leisure time he could be found in his workshop designing and making wonderful things… My dad made this table for me, at my… Continue reading Father and Art