Here’s what I have been doing the last couple of weeks… My 13 year old niece came and spent 4 days with me and we had an absolute blast. She was very comfortable sewing on my Bernina and even taught me a couple of things about using some of the special alphabet stitches that it … Continue reading
So I managed to get quite a bit accomplished in the studio last week…. I wrote two book reviews and posted them on my blog here. I drafted these two full sized new quilt ideas. I couldn’t decide which one to work on first so I decided to just take a day and … Continue reading
If you have ever stood in the aisle at the paint store and wondered what all those acrylic mediums are for then you want, you need this book! Broken into 13 chapters beginning with acrylic medium basics their anatomy, additives and some terminology. Chapters 2 through 4 take you through the different categories of mediums … Continue reading
Well my plan to have a lot of time in the studio last week didn’t go exactly as planned. I ended up spending quite a bit of time on the Threads of Resistance exhibit dealing with some scheduling and venue changes, website updates and other things. That all took up quite a bit of my … Continue reading
From the moment the Threads of Resistance exhibit was conceived I knew I wanted to play a role in bringing it from concept to reality. I have received so many emails and have had many conversations with viewers of the exhibit thanking me for my role in putting it together and getting it into so … Continue reading
I’ve been doing these weekly round up posts for 6 weeks now and I am finding them to be a great way to see where and how I am spending my studio time. There is also something about declaring my intentions for the week here on my blog that makes me feel more accountable to actually … Continue reading
No I am not talking about little green men from Mars! I am talking about un-finished objects. Those projects that you started, made a little progress on and then abandoned for some reason. At the time you probably said something to yourself like “I’ll just put this aside and do this other thing for a … Continue reading
