COUCHED SNOWMAN
Follow my blog with Bloglovin –– Staying with the holiday theme this December 2018, and wanting to try one more couching experiment I decided to make a small snowman wall hanging. This would be good...
View ArticleFMQ Zipper Bag Tutorial
Ok, you asked for it, you got it. This is how I make my quiled zipper bags! There are different ways to make them. This one is not lined and is a simple, flat rectangular bag. If you’re in a hurry,...
View ArticleRaw Edge Appliqué Cat Art
Yes, I know, it’s been almost two months since I posted…sorry! Been so busy!! I’ve made some quilts (which I will post soon). I recently wanted to try my hand at raw edge appliqué and do something...
View ArticleLOTUS and PAISLEY QUILTS
I found two gorgeous Kaffe Fassett prints and paired them with Moda orange grunge to make two lap quilts, each 55×70″. [Actually, I’ve found way way way more than two gorgeous Fassett prints…and other...
View Article“Galaxy” Quilted Art on Canvas
Another fearless experiment with paint! (I say fearless because I don’t know about you but I find a blank canvas or a blank piece of fabric quite intimidating!!) I got a nice set of Jacquard...
View ArticleInktense Flowers
By popular demand, how I created my “Inktense Flowers”. I was new to Inktense last year so this was an experiment. A normal person would have thrown this experiment away pretty early on, but we’re not...
View ArticleCat Faces Quilt
The challenge: design a modern, heirloom cat quilt for my granddaughter, age 10, which will appeal to her now and as an adult! Here’s what I came up with! This is for you techies: I drew the design...
View ArticlePainted Trapunto Flower
Another experiment with new paints. I had been curious about Dye-Na-Flow liquid acrylic paints so I decided to see how they performed. My first experiment was going to be a simple flower which, I...
View ArticleSateen Quilted Art
Still being fairly new to FMQ (2.5 years now), I’m still enchanted with all the possibilities for stitches. To celebrate these stitches as an art form, which they are anyway(!), I wanted to do a...
View ArticlePoe Quilted Art Caricature
Once upon midnight not so dreary… I pondered… a caricature of Edgar Allan Poe, in part because he is still such an intriguing literary figure, and because my daughter teaches high school English. I...
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