Fabric
I’m starting to use toile textiles as a base for my work. I had leftover remnants from a chair project and have wrapped three canvases with material. This larger gold one is today’s project.
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Embroidery floss on linen. Approx. 9″ x 9″, 2013 This piece is meant to get you thinking about the question I’ve stitched.
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Embroidery thread on cotton with photographic transfer, 2013. My sisters and I used to swing on this tire in Dickson, Tennessee.
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I’ve begun to experiment with my new Brother quilting foot which I received yesterday. Drum roll…and here we have my first quilting attempt! I walked around the house with this tiny treasure and it...
View ArticlePink Arrows Textile Design
Here’s a peek at my pink arrow fabric, now available by the yard at Spoonflower.com in a number of weaves, from cotton to silk. I drew the arrows on paper with Crayola marker on paper, scanned them,...
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This photograph of the Arizona sky is meaningful to me because it’s where I came to be. I shot this a few years ago as part of my own personal library of source material, and here you see it printed on...
View ArticleRiley’s Mixed Media Adventure: Creating a Custom Canvas
THE BASE LAYER Ever since I stole away time with my sister’s Fashion Plates set in the early 1980s, I’ve always wanted to design my own textile, which is now easier than ever with the simple user...
View ArticleArrows galore!
New swatches of my arrow textile design arrived. I chose to experiment with neutral charcoal gray backgrounds in two values. This large expanse of cotton contains eight options I designed in various...
View ArticleFeather Stitch
Here’s a feather stitch sampler I started last night. Cotton embroidery floss on linen.
View ArticlePainting with Light and Lumi Inkodye
In honor of Earth Day, I’m testing out a product called Lumi. This fabric dye kit uses the power of the sun to help you blast off in new creative directions. Check out what I did with some leaves and...
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