Creative Recycling

Making Fabric Postcards from Injured Prints This week I’ve been super busy making some fabric postcards for the upcoming Arts on Stage event I’m participating in next month, and along...

Things To Do With *Injured* Prints Before I upgraded to my new wide format Epson printer, I was using an old HP wide format to print my large images. It...

Another Use for Injured Prints or How I Made a Mousepad in 5 Minutes I’ve been threatening to make a new mouse pad for quite a while, but of...

Embellishments

Machine Wrapped Cording: Part 1 Machine wrapped cording is a simple technique with a variety of applications, and you can apply many additional options to make the cording unique...

Machine Wrapped Cording: Part 2 There are many options you can use to add surface texture, color and design to your cording that will make it unique and interesting....

Machine Wrapped Cording: Part 3 Now that we know how to make the cording and add variety and interest, what can we do with it? Let’s explore some applications....

Tyvek Beads Tyvek, when used for multi-media art purposes, comes in two different types: A firm structure which is the same type used for envelopes and...

Bead Dangles This post is part of the 30 Days of Titivations. Details can be found here and for additional information on the Titivations DVD, please...

How to Make a Fabric Yo-Yo This post is part of the 30 Days of Titivations. Details can be found here and for additional information on the Titivations DVD, please...

Tutorial: Fabric Flower Embellishment As I mentioned the other day I was on a mission to make a fabric flower which I wanted to use as an embellishment...

Making Fabric Postcards – Finishing the Edges As you know, machine wrapped cording is one of my favorite embellishments and I use it on many of my projects, particularly as a...

Fabric Painting

Roller Stamps for Fabric Printing I recently blogged about this idea for a roller stamp . But then I thought … one just isn’t going to be enough, but...

How to Paint Dryer Sheets Dryer Sheets are a fun and interesting way to add texture or other special effects to your art quilts. The Warning First of all...

Image Transfer

Instructables Check out my new Instructable. And don’t forget to visit the Instructables website and and check out their other great tutorials! Inket Printing on...

Taking Care of Business – Quick and Easy I don’t know how many times lately I’ve had to scramble around in my purse looking for my business cards. I usually have bunches...

The Care and Feeding of Fabric: Freezer Paper My very favorite method of transferring images to fabric is to print images on fabric using an inkjet printer. When I first started printing...

The Care and Feeding of Fabric: Sticky Labels The other week I showed you how to prepare fabric for printing using freezer paper as a carrier. This week let’s look at my...

Notebook Organizer Cover – Free Design and Tutorial As I mentioned the other day, I’ve been busy making some small items for an upcoming arts fair and I just *love* the little...

Printing on Fabric 101: The Basics I love to print on fabric and I know that you do too! Today begins the series Printing on Fabric 101 which will help...

Printing on Fabric 101: Washable Prints Resources Bubble Jet Set 2000 32oz Imagine creating and printing your own fabric, from the comfort of your own home, using your ink jet...

Printing on Fabric 101: Printer Feed Paths Continuing the series Printing on Fabric 101, today let’s look at printers and the best feed path when printing on fabric. One of the...

Printing on Fabric 101: Printer Inks Continuing the series Printing on Fabric 101. Last week we looked at printer feed paths so today I’ll discuss printer inks, which is another...

Printing on Fabric 101: Fabric Options Continuing the series Printing on Fabric 101. Last week we looked at printers and printer inks; today I’ll discuss a bit about fabrics. You...

Machine Needle Felting

Making Felt Using Yarn and a Layer of Tulle Decorative knitter’s yarn makes great felt. It is readily available, comes in great textures and colors and is relatively inexpensive. You can produce beautiful...

Machine Needle Felting: Using Layers I love to use my needle felting machine, particularly for texturizing and manipulating fabric in unusual ways. One technique I use is layering my...

Talisman Pouches Talisman or amulet pouches have their origins in Africa and were typically made of leather or sometimes cloth and contained sacred prayers or written...

Machine Needle Felting: Texturizing Fabric A few weeks ago I released the updated version of my machine needle felting dvd “Felt-Punch-Embellish” which now includes all the techniques previously offered...

Machine Quilting

Tips for Machine Quilting Looking to find some tips on how to make your free motion quilting simply “fabulous”? I plan to have the “Fabulous Free Motion Quilting”...

Photoshop Elements

Photoshop Elements: How to resize images Resizing images in Photoshop Elements is not at all difficult. There are a number of ways to resize images, but this is the way...

Photoshop Elements: Collage Tutorial When I was first learning how to use Photoshop Elements, one of the things I *really* wanted to know was how to make a...

Photoshop Elements: Faded Edge Vignette There are a number of ways to make a vignette and there are a number of different types of vignettes. This tutorial shows how...

Printing on Fabric – Getting Better Results When printing images on paper I think most of us are used to, at the very least, selecting the “Photo” or “Best Photo” setting...

Photoshop Elements: Colored Vignette A couple of weeks ago I posted a tutorial for making a vignette with a faded edge. Today I’ll show you a way to...

Photoshop Elements: Colorizing a Photo There are different ways to colorize a photo; that is, to add color to isolated areas of a black and white or sepia toned...

Fabric Fold Textures What’s better than fabric? Well, maybe not better, but certainly in the ball-park …. Fabric Textures of course! And high resolution fabric textures at...

Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Changing Colors I don’t think you can improve on the colors of nature, but if you’re only a somewhat ordinary photographer like me, well it’s really...

Photoshop Elements Tutorial: Designing Repeat Patterns One of the most commonly used designs on fabric is a repeat pattern design. Repeat patterns are easy to make in Photoshop Elements using...

Piecing

Curved Checkerboard Curved inserts on your art quilts or projects add movement and interest, and curved checkerboard in particular can make a very bold statement especially...

Surface Design

Fabric Painting, Dyeing and Stamping This post is part of the 30 Days of Titivations. Details can be found here and for additional information on the Titivations DVD, please...

Thread Painting Tutorials This post is part of the 30 Days of Titivations. Details can be found here and for additional information on the Titivations DVD, please...

The Basics

Binding A Quilt Binding a quilt is usually one of the last things you do before the quilt is considered finished. There are a number of ways...

Continuous Bias Binding This is a quick way to make continuous bias quilt binding. Step 1 Calculate the size of your fabric square "Calculations for Continuous Bias...

Quilt Sleeve: Double Fold Instructions for making a double fold quilt sleeve Step 1 Cut a piece of fabric 10" by the the width of the quilt Turn...

Quilt Sleeve: Single Fold Instructions for make a single fold quilt sleeve Step 1 Cut a piece of fabric 6" by the width of the quilt Turn under...

Using Water Soluble Stabilizer

Decorative Stitch “Art” Lace This technique and many others can be found on my fabulous instructional dvd Titivations. You can find it in the Instructional DVD Section of...

Decorative Stitch “Art Lace”: In Circles This technique and many others can be found on my fabulous instructional dvd Titivations. You can find it in the Instructional DVD Section of...

Making Fabric Using Water Soluble Stabilizer This technique and many others can be found on my fabulous instructional dvd Titivations. You can find it in the Instructional DVD Section of...

“Decorative Stitch Art Lace” Book Wrap Book Wraps are great projects to make either for yourself or to give as gifts. They are easy to make and offer the perfect...

Fun with the Flower Stitch Foot I love playing with the flower stitch foot. If you’ve never used this foot, I can guarantee it is way too much fun. But...

Now You See It, Now You Don’t Update: The “Titivations” DVD is now available. Please visit the Instructional DVD Section of the store for details. I’ve been quite busy these last...

Wearables

Embellished Purse Pattern This post is part of the 30 Days of Titivations. Details can be found here and for additional information on the Titivations DVD, please...