Archive | March, 2006
Cell Baby

Cell Baby

I guess you could call my dyeing experiments recess, so it’s time to get back to class. Rather than continue to fixate on the background buildings in my current quilt, I went back to making people which is much more entertaining. My friend Arleta suggested I put young kids into the quilt, so here’s what [...]

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More Dyeing

More Dyeing

Oh my, this is addictive! I’ve been ripping up fabric from my collection and dyeing it in different colors, and even gone a little crazy and ordered more black and whites to dye. Here’s what I started with, and then used different pots of yellows, oranges, and reds to dip into to create different color [...]

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Dyed and Gone to Heaven

Dyed and Gone to Heaven

I haven’t dyed anything in a long time, but have been thinking about it. I use lots of commercially printed fabric and love tone-on-tone patterns, so have been wanting to try to make my own by over-dyeing pre-printed fabrics. But the warehouse has been too cold, AND Russ bought me a stainless steel sink at [...]

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Sewing with Company

Sewing with Company

It’s time to send my quilt off to Visions for final approval and photography for the book. But when I finally got around to packing it up, I suddenly realized that the one selected was the second cartoon quilt I made, and I wasn’t happy with the binding or the hanging sleeve. So I had [...]

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Those Dang Dangos

Those Dang Dangos

Here’s a drawing I did today instead of getting my quilt ready for Visions as I should. I like getting accepted to shows, but hate having to actually ship the work. Back to the drawing though, it’s almost finished except I want to put Ree and Jun in a doorway looking into the room before [...]

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