I’ve been thinking………  Sometimes when I’m looking at quilts in books or magazines, I’ll see one that has me thinking, “That is one ugly quilt”.  Then a few weeks later I’ll see the sa

There’s not nearly enough painting and dyeing going on around here.  I picked out this fabric to use for the doll’s dress.  I don’t like the pattern in the book, so I’m creating my own design.    

Judy asked us to show our stash, so I combined it with my stash report to save time.  My stash isn’t that big – really!  It just seems like it, at least to me.  I have no plans to tidy my stash.  A year from now I expe

I planned to post about some aspect of creativity, but the day job left me too drained to string meaningful thoughts together.  Creative inspiration will wait until another time.            

I finished the I Believe quilt and put it on the back of the sofa.                 It looks kinda weird with these sitting on the other side of the room.    &nb

I drove up to Ann Arbor with a friend today to hear Nancy Eha speak at the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild.  Nancy creates beautiful beaded images on her quilts.  After the lecture we went up on stage to see her work close up. 

She needs clothes and hair, but she’s all in one piece.                         I had a hard time stuffing the fingers.  The

Last night was the potluck with my quilt group and two other local guilds.  We used the pincushions we made last month for table favors.  I remembered my camera and got a picture of them.         

Here’s my first try at drawing a doll face.  It doesn’t look anything like the examples in the book.            I’m happy with it.  The features are in proportion to each o

I didn’t use anything this week.  I didn’t buy anything either, but a friend sent me this.                That’s a yard and a half of yummy hand dyed fabric in.&n

Remember the Woodland Bloom charm pack?  The one that encouraged me to fall off the stash-busting wagon because I needed more fabric to sew my EQ6 design?  Here are the four units that make up a block.      &nb

Today we’ll do a simple two-color stencil.  You will need freezer paper, a Pigma pen, fabric, paint, a Styrofoam plate and a stencil brush.  There are many books on stenciling that cover shading, blending, highlighting, gilding and ot

I bought the fabric I was thinking about last week.  That’s two yards in.  You can see the picture here.  I used a quarter yard of fabric for the doll body.  The picture looks a little horror movie like with all the body par

I have abandoned the journal cover because life is too short to waste time on things I don’t enjoy.  The stenciled butterfly will find a home in another project.  Look what came in the mail today!       &