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Stupendous Stitching Class

I gave myself an early Christmas present – Stupendous Stitching, a class on Craftsy taught by Carol Ann Waugh. This wonderful present has possessed me occupied many of my waking hours for the last several days! This is what I’ve … Continue reading

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Art Quilts with Terry Mominee

This week’s interview for my “Telling Your Story” column in The Evansville Courier & Press is about Terry Mominee, a stained glass designer and business owner, who also makes beautiful art quilts. See her story HERE. Here is one of … Continue reading

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Quilting Arts Mag giveaway

Giveaway Closed. Audrey and Denny won! I am so excited to be published in the August/September issue of Quilting Arts magazine. If you look on the cover under Create your own fabric, my ice dyeing is listed. So exciting! Because … Continue reading

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Thimbleberries Small Wonders Giveaway

We have a winner! Patty Dudek from North Carolina. Thanks for entering! Today’s review and giveaway is a brand new book from Landauer Publishing called ThimbleberriesĀ® Small Wonders by Lynette Jensen. This book by Lynette Jensen, creator of ThimbleberriesĀ®, includes … Continue reading

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My Not Perfect Bags

I’ve had this thing about perfect. If it’s not perfect, it’s not any good or worth doing. I believe I got this from my Dad who was the perfectionist in our family. As a teenager, one of my duties around … Continue reading

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Working with paint cloth

My new friend and wonderful artist Katherine Sands makes lovely art and often works with her paint cloths. I bought a couple of her beauties for Christmas presents last year. Well, one of them I ended up keeping. So I … Continue reading

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Review – In Stitches Vol 2

Since we bought identical cameras for Christmas, I’ve been wanting to make a cover for my camera strap to distinguish my camera from hubby’s. I just had no idea where to start and this might have been one of those … Continue reading

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Snow Dyeing: Technique #2

Now for the second technique. For this one I used less dye. I love the intense colors I got but wanted to see what they would look like using less dye which equals less cost. If you prepared your fabric … Continue reading

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Review: Havel Embroidery Scissors

I love tools – good tools. When I interviewed Terry White recently for my column, Telling Your Story, for our local Scripps Howard newspaper, as I was leaving she gave me a pair of these scissors. “Try these and see … Continue reading

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Gelatin Printing

I’ve been wanting to try this technique since I saw it on Quilting Arts TV last summer. I knew we’d be snowed in today so I got all of my stuff together yesterday so I could start playing this morning. … Continue reading

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