When one's chosen print style fabric has run out, but you need to enlarge an in-process piece.........what do you do? I audition options after shopping in my stash.
Proud of her for approaching him and rewarded with a nice chat and autograph on her precious vintage jersey (which by the way, we gave to her many moons ago).
She's the darling Packer fan seen on the left taken at a game in 2008.
Sooty is sporting her jersey too.....GO PACK GO!!!!
My preparation for the Aristan Faire on Nov. 8th is nearly complete. Though the urge for one more whimsy mini had to be satisfied. Happily it has a forever home already.
Commercial cottons raw edge fused
appliqué, hand embroidery, & machine quilted.
After nearly 18 years meeting with 6 like-minded bubbly drinking quilt pals we've experimented with just about every surface design technique you can imagine. Some were one and done and others we revisited many times.
I shared the technique of creating paper fabric with 4 friends. Basically one collages novelty paper napkins and tissue paper onto a base of fabric, adhered with diluted white glue.
Here are our results...the last one is my collage that I cut into pieces for notecards.
I used the last of my inventory of canvas covered frames on this final small holiday piece. There are 5 remaining of the 7 I made, available now and at Heritage Placer Vineyard's Artisan Faire Nov. 8, 2025.
As always my work is one-of-a-kind, original design you will not see a duplicate.
$50
Commercial cottons & felted wool, raw edge fused
appliqué, hand embroidery, & machine quilted.
Secured to canvas covered frame. Ready to hang or display on a small easel.
I'm having such a jolly time creating these small holiday art quilts......this one is wrapped on a canvas covered frame with a fabric backing. Holler if you are interested.
$75
Commercial cottons & hand gelli printed cottons, raw edge fused appliqué, hand & machine quilted. Secured to canvas covered frame with a fabric backing.
It's been so enjoyable creating these small holiday whimsy pieces. The newest one is bound rather than on a canvas frame as my others have been. It's available for purchase now.
MEOWY CHRISTMOUSE
12” x 12”
Commercial cottons, Ultra-suede, felted wool,
raw edge fused machine appliquéd, machine quilted.
A hanging sleeve is attached.
One should never be criticized for having too much team spirit.
"The husband' got new 'kickers' just in time for the game today.....
Still finding it weird to be watching a Packer game at 9:00 PST....Bloody Marys here we come.
GO PACK GO..............
Recently I completed this small 12" x 12" holiday art quilt secured onto a canvas covered frame.
The holidays are filled with a riot of colors and patterns....so I decided to use some of my polka dot collection for trees. In order to provide an apparent 'Christmas' theme.....one tree needed to stand out. So I 'made' my own fabric!!
Here's how.....first I experimented with sizes and fonts of the word NOEL.....and printed it out for confirmation. Next some red gelli print fabric was stabilized using a letter size adhesive label and run through my ink jet printer, printing the created text.
The adhesive label was removed and the fabric was then backed with a piece of Wonder-Under (which is still my 'go-to' fusible choice.) Following my tree template, it was cut out.
Before fusing to my project I added polka dots using Prisma Pencils. It seemed sensible to do that prior to securing to the project in case I didn't care for the look.
I love the concept of creating 'fabric on demand'.
