I know it has been almost a month since I have posted here. I have received a number of emails and even a few calls wondering if all is well. Yes, all is well. Thanks for checking in! This is a very busy time of the year for anyone who calls making [...]
Jude over at Spirit Cloth was inspired by Heather who was inspired by…………and so on, to send a little something handmade in the spirit of “making” , something which many of us share.
I’m going to participate but in a slightly different way………
There are so many other things to make note of here I’m not sure [...]
maki means “to wind” and age means “upward” in Japanese. To make these motifs, I stitched circles through four layers of 3mm silk gauze and pulled them up tight. Then I wound thread upward from the gathered stitching to the tip, finishing with a backwards halfhitch- kind of like you would when casting [...]
Photo of Kantan (kantan means simple in Japanese) style scarf display for Houston Quilt Festival show. Preview night is Wednesday the 31st (halloween!) where you can purchase the “pick of the litter” from all the one of a kind handmade booths.
I came across this as a result of a google alert.
Which led me to this
I wondered if anyone went to this lecture who would share what you heard? I emailed and asked if the audio file was available online or through iTunes as a podcast and I’m waiting to hear.
Working, working, working. Try [...]
It all started here one year ago. So much thanks to give for all that has transpired this past year. I started this blog with one thing in mind and ended up with so much more. Initially, I viewed it as a place to keep track of what I was doing, sort [...]
When I started making shibori (almost a year ago now!), it didn’t take me long to start looking at it close up. From there I started taking pictures of it and from there, taking pictures of it close up. Soon I realized that I wanted to take better pictures and got a new [...]
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