Handwork

Here’s a picture of what I have been working on since I got home from the shows:

You will need to enlarge the picture to see the detail; I have included an American and Euro 1-cent piece for scale. The fabric is about 19” / 48 cm square. The white vine is stitched resist, the pink bits are Kanzashi flowers. I love both of them, but separately. I’m not sure they work together. The fabric color is more celadon green than the grey that I see.
The stitched resist is totally inspired by Itchiku Kubota’s work. It reminds me why I love the results, AND reminds me why I don’t do this work on pieces for sale. I stopped counting my time at about 4 hours. However, I’m a slow, deliberate stitcher. The cloth is nice, but rather flat – I need to do more to it, or keep thinking about those flowers. Thanks for looking.

Two destinations in New Jersey

Found this link on the Surface Design website: Textility, at the Visual Arts Center of NJ - that page has a slideshow.  It's located about 20 miles from the Quilt Fest of NJ. Both will be open March 1 - 4, so plan on going!

Radio show archive is available

You can now hear the radio show -  I am in the archive. It was interesting to do, and I'm so grateful for the opportunity! I'm not listening to myself tonight - too strange. Thanks for checking it out!

Talk Radio to start the New Year!

Wow – the time has flown by. I have some exciting news to share – I will be a guest on American Patchwork & Quilting Radio, hosted by Pat Sloan, next week, Monday, January 9, 2012, beginning at 4 PM EST. I have listened to several of the shows in the archive, and today I listened to it live. Pat has lots of great guests – I hope I do as well as they did. Pat sent me a list of topics to discuss – I’m sure we’ll have no trouble filling up the time slot!

Here’s a link:

You can listen live, or check it out later in the archives. Woo-hoo!

Somerset NJ Class posted

It has been in the works for a while now - I will be teaching a 3-hour Dye Boot Camp at the Quilt Fest of NJ VIII, on Friday morning, March 2, 2012. Here’s a link if you want to learn more about it:
http://www.quiltfest.com/workshop_detail.asp?id=1105

And my name is in their advertisement in Quilters Newsletter – woo-hoo! Hope to see you there!

A benefit from the Halloween snow

We got enough snow on the weekend of Halloween to enable me to make more snow-dyes. I used (Pro Chem names) Intense, Mixing and Navy blues, Mixing Red, Cerise (from Aljo), Strong Orange, Golden Yellow and Lemon Yellow. Without further ado, here are more pictures:

Thanks, Kay and Jan

Well, after seeing all the eye candy over on Kay Sorensen’s blog, I was inspired to take a pipe to a fat quarter. (That probably sounds very odd to the un-initiated!) Here’s the result:

Thanks for looking, and thanks for the inspiration. I hope there will be more to come!