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Fabric Printing in Turquoise

With turquoise as my Color of the Year, I’ve started collecting and printing fabrics for a new group of collages. I have a few fabrics in my stash that may work, and I want to […]

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Color of the Year

I’ve never been a fan of making New Year’s Resolutions. This year, I’ve decided to do something different and choose a Color of the Year.   I got the idea from Pantone whose Color of […]

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Fabric Collages

This week I’ve finished four small fabric collages that I’ve been working on for several weeks. They’re mounted on canvas so they can be hung for display. Please watch this short video to see how […]

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Happy Holidays

Wishing you healthy and happy holidays this year. I’m continuing to work on small fabric collages, but progress is slow. I took a break and made a new design of a favorite subject, South Carolina’s […]

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Slow Stitching

This week I’m practicing adding machine and hand stitching to fabric collages. Sometimes it’s good to have something small to pick up for a few minutes between other projects.    

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Downshifting

Did you ever drive a car with a manual transmission? I guess I’m showing my age when I say driving a “straight drive” was one of my favorite things in my younger years. Especially that […]

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Gratitude and Hope

As we all know, 2020 has been, and continues to be, a weird and unsettling year. As we approach the American Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, nothing seems to be “normal”. When I look for reasons […]

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Stitching

  This week I’m adding layers to my fabric collages with machine and hand stitching. The design process is similar to adding drawing or calligraphy to a paper collage.  I like working with and combining […]

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Pause for Learning

As I worked on my small fabric collages that I started last week, I planned to add texture and definition with stitching. I realized I didn’t have the materials and skills to do the next […]

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Fabric Collage

Last week I made small collages in paper using design ideas from a book titled Art Quilt Collage by Deborah Boschert. She diagrams eight basic design ideas that could work for any type of 2-dimensional […]

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