Sewing, blogging, and creative business.
I’m very excited to have finished this patchwork Progress Pride Flag quilt. The pattern is by Bobbie Gentili from Geeky Bobbin. All of the fabrics are scraps from my stash.
This was a fun project and the finished quilt is really bright and colorful. As part of this process, I also enjoyed learning more about how the design of the Progress Pride flag came to be.
This little blog of mine turns two this month. For two years I have been sewing little creatures and taking pictures of them and writing about them and it has been (and still is!) terrific fun for me. All of you who read what I write here and who look at my work and comment Read More →
I found two of these shadow box frames at a church rummage sale a few weeks ago for $1.50 and got really excited about making a shadow box with a sewn bird. Here is "nest of thread II". The frames are backless so for this one I made a small white-on-white quilt as the backdrop. Read More →
I spent some time this weekend thinking about perches for birds. This little flour sack bird is in the midst of constructing a nest of thread (actually she is made from a cloth sack that contained sugar cookie mix from William-Sonoma). I have so many beautiful wooden spools with thread still on them but theRead More →
I’ve been thinking a lot about unexpected fabric. You know, like random bits of fabric that come into our lives that we may not even think of as fabric. Flour sacks are an obvious favorite, but what else. What about the tags in clothes, the ones with the size and the brand and the washingRead More →
I owe a big thank you to Pamela for suggesting that I might like to make an ibis. She said she thought the long beak looked like it would be fun to make with fabric, and she was right. At 18″ tall this bird is one of my taller ones. As you can tell, myRead More →
I did some sketching of crested birds and some more thinking about bird legs. White crested bird. Her legs are wrapped with floral tape left over from wrapping the stems of the one hundred and forty five origami flowers I made for our wedding. Hurray for floral tape! I have a big roll of itRead More →
Sketches of crows, some with open beaks. And a bird with raised wings. A crow, with an open beak and raised wings. And a little bit of fluff around the head made from some synthetic horse hair-like stuff from Stephanie (check out her beautiful crow pillow!). Speaking of Stephanies, see another Stephanie’s beautiful crow here.Read More →
Picture of a hawk from my folk art book. Sketch. Raptor (made in part from a Guinness bar towel I found at a church rummage sale last weekend). Back detail. This is the first bird with a turned head. And toenails. I was a bit waylaid in finishing this guy because I had to sendRead More →
Porcelain hen from my folk art book. Sketch. Hen and egg.
I received a beautiful package in the mail from Melissa for the Vintage Button Swap. Everything came bundled together in this amazing fabric box she made It will now hold sewing supplies on my desk. Isn’t it so lovely! And inside were all these excellent things A card from boygirlparty, a sticker book for Roxanne,Read More →