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I am fortunate to live on a piece of property that is surrounded by trees which not only provides a lot of privacy but some really wonderful views as well. And because I live in New England,every fall I am treated to some wonderful ranges of colors as the trees begin their ritual of [...]

taking the slow road to art making…

I know it seems that I haven’t posted any new work lately and there’s a reason for that. It used to be that I’d get an idea and I’d jot down a couple of quick notes and then I’d dive right into a frenzy of fusing,cutting,painting and stitching and in no time at [...]

has this ever happened to you?

you pull a fresh new piece of hand dyed fabric from the dryer and…

those nasty specs of undissolved dye on your fabric –UGH! I hate it when that happens! I’ve dyed a lot of fabric over the years and I’ve never managed to come up with a solution to get rid of [...]

inside out

“inside out” 12″ x 30″,hand dyed cotton,machine stitched

details on the inspiration for this piece is on the sketchbook challenge blog here.

indigo dyeing...indigo dyeing…

I’ve been wanting to try indigo dyeing for a long time but was put off by the amount of work and the chemicals needed to create a vat but after seeing Vicki‘s results using the pre-reduced indigo from ProChem I decided that I couldn’t put off trying this type of dyeing any longer. So I [...]

and the journey begins...and the journey begins…

with a dye notebook…

Last week I received the first set of preparatory assignments to have completed for the first trip to San Antonio in March and one of the assignments was to make a dye notebook. I’ve been wanting to make one of these since I read about it in Jane’s Art Cloth [...]