Tag: Fabric
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Improvisational Surface Design
Very rarely do I abandon other projects to work on something new. Recently, an opportunity presented itself that caused me to work on something unexpected. This recently happened because of a challenge posed by the Improv group of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild. The July prompt was ‘Surface Design’. My piece incorporated both improvisational quilting…
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Sometimes I just want to sew!
I just want to sew something! There are times when I just want to sit at my sewing machine and mindlessly run the fabric under the presser foot. I do not want to have to think too hard about what I am making. Nor do I want to pay attention to a technique that is…
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Tips for Purging Craft Supplies, Tools and Fabric
Tips for purging fabric Yesterday, I posted here a little about what has been happening with me over the past year and a half or so. It sort of feels like the theme of this time period has been Purging and Starting Over. Downsizing has taught me quite a few things. To that end, here…
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Moved! Starting Afresh!
Door frame growth chart About a year and a half ago my husband took a new job in a new state. Our large house and, more importantly, several rooms of craft supplies and workspaces had to be packed and moved into less than half of the space. Downsizing is not easy for most people. But…
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Art Journal Entry – Working Through "Stuff"
White Denim Base With Gesso Last weekend, my family went to California to pay our last respects to my 56 year old cousin and share in her family’s grief. Eight years ago she found out that she had cancer. During that time she celebrated many wonderful things. She re-married, became a grandmother, witnessed one of…
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Life On The Farm – Art Journal Page
Could Have Been Tacked Inside the Barn My family moved to a rural area of Iowa when I was in elementary school. It felt far away from everything and very hodge-podgey to me. Nothing seemed to ‘fit’ together on The Farm. As we lived there, things continued to get cobbled together, just to work until…
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Frosted Designs Color Challenge – Another Art Journal Page
It has been a long while since I posted about the art journal that I made out of white denim fabric or shared any of the pages inside. The Color Challenge at Frosted Designs seemed like the perfect opportunity to work on some things that had been kicking around in my head for a few…
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Mixed Media Art Journal – Made From Scratch
* A Lot of Pictures Alert! Front of Book – Closed With Metal Clasp I have been wanting to work more with collage and mixed media using fabrics and papers. It occurred to me that one of the best ways for me to learn How to do this, was to Do this. So I decided…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 