Remember this blanket I started? Well, I bought all of the Cascade Heritage sock yarn in color #HER5681 (the main tan color in the blanket) that The Fiber Gallery had in stock back when I began this ...
Good Fortune Hex, 6" x 6" wooden board, combination of gouache and acrylic. Even though the painting class is now over (see the 5 paintings I completed during this class on this page), I have...
I have been commissioned to design and sew a commemorative quilt for someone who is a long-time, dedicated cyclist. Hmmmm..... I wonder who that could be? There are more than enough tyvek race number...
How did everyone do on last weeks squares? If you havent finished those, or are still trying to get them down, no worries. This week well be doing the same traditional granny square, but were all abo...
at whats headed to the shop soon. Stay tuned.
20 minutes of quiet time, before the crazy afternoon school pick up shuffle... 1st pedicure of the season (the season finally warmed up enough to wear open-toe shoes) Emma and I stopped in Fusion Bea...
Vintage Floral Sheet, acrylic and gouache, 6" x 12" wood panel This was the final week of Lisa and Matis online painting class, Get Your Paint On, and our assignment was to choose between sta...
Are you guys ready to get started with the first weeks granny square(s)? Keep reading... To refresh your memory, heres a finished original afghan that inspired this project, taken from 1982s Better H...
Just a quick post to let you know that I now have an official website, one besides my dear old blog here.It all links back to the blog, which will continue to be updated regularly. And the niftiest t...
Have you gathered your yarn yet? Ok, heres an update on the granny square project. * Im finalizing what will be our own version of the granny square sampler afghan this week. I am trying some new squ...
Jewel Boxes, combination of acrylic and gouache, 12" x 12", on wood panel The class theme for last week was all about composition. Ive always thought that the composition in the work Ive done...
As I am working on the master pattern for our granny square a-long (say that to the non-crocheter and watch their face), I thought we could talk about the yarn youll need (thanks for asking about it ...
"Facets, Detail", 8" by 10", painted with a combination of gouache and acrylic, on pre-gessoed artist board Last weeks focus of the Get Your Paint On class was color. Using what we di...
I am working on the master plan and pattern for our granny along. Will have more details soon, so get your hooks ready! Thanks to all who signed up to get my newsletter yesterday! (You can still sign...
There has been a lot of exciting things going on here behind the scenes. You already know about the book, but what didnt mention is that that the work of repurposing, reusing, and recreating secondha...
If youre a regular reader, you may already know that I prefer to reuse jars and empty tin cans as storage around our house. I also hunt and gather glass storage jars with lids at thrift stores, these...
Sounds like I need to get to working on that crochet granny sampler, thank you for all your responses on yesterdays post. Were going to have some fun. Go at your own pace, learn as you go. Dont be sc...
Happy May Day! Thank you all so much for the comments and tweets about yesterdays painting. I feel a bit sheepish about showing something I am so new at, but you guys are so great and so enthusiastic...
My second weeks assignment for Get Your Paint On was completed on Sunday, a stylized painting of my Sunshine Medallions Quilt Pattern. Like the first painting I did from last week, I painted this usi...
Ta da! My first painting for the Get Your Paint On course (actually, my second, but the first one really felt like a practice run, to play with my new gouache paints). I started with my friendship br...
As we were getting ready for the coming week (a week of both kids back to school), I was glancing around at the "work" that happened here at home, when my kids got down to the busy business o...
I am addicted to Instagram. Have you tried it? I love the immediacy of it. The snap a photo with few words aspect, its addictive. I know a lot of folks are unhappy about Facebook acquiring Instagram ...
The blog has been dusted off and updated! After seven years of blogging, theres loads of content, crafts, quilts, etc embedded in here, it really needed some serious attention. I have had our Story T...
(Prints at top and bottom are both from Lisa Congdon, damn fine day print from the SIBLING shop- Courtney posted an image of this print on Instagram a week ago and I fell in love with it.) I am cle...
Last week, when Emma and I were out shopping for my new Clematis Arandii vine (thank you Melissa and Instagram folks for helping me ID it!), I picked up a simple glass globe and some air plants for t...
I love Jonathan Adler needlepoint pillows and would have a whole couch full of them if I could afford them. Or would I? I was trolling around ebay the other night and came across this beauty, which I...
Thank you all so very much for the positive and encouraging words following yesterdays post. My phone was vibrating and dinging all day from folks on the blog, on twitter, on facebook, everywhere. Th...
I have kept a secret from you lovely folks, and Im sorry about that. Ive been hinting at a large amount of work that was keeping me busy and big deadlines I was working towards during the second half...
These two. Is there anything you have in common when the boy is 10 and the girl is 13, except your parents? They recently discovered minecraft and it has proven to be quite the connection for them th...
I am once again honored to have a project in Stitch Magazines Spring 2012 issue, in the "Sewing Unplugged" section, on newsstands now. This pillow was handstitched and designed many months ag...
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