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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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What are you waiting for?

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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Let me run

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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Nightstand Mini Quilt

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...

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Pink 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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Up next: clouds.

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...

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Riley’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...

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Arrows 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...

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Feather Stitch

Here’s a feather stitch sampler I started last night. Cotton embroidery floss on linen.

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Don’t listen to them

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Painting 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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