Famous last words … It’s almost done! At this rate I should be finished later today. I am finished now, but that was a long day. It was eleven days ago in fact. But here it is finished, my latest art bag, Lavender Crush. It’s difficult photographing this style bag because of the shape, and [...]
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As you know, I recently began a new art bag. You can see the preparation of the samples here. I find that once the samples are prepared and the technique is fine-tuned, and all the bits and pieces are assembled, it’s amazing how fast things go together and how smoothly the process progresses. And of [...]
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One of my very favorite things to work with is texture on fabric. I love exploring new and creative ways to make it and to use it. And I particularly love to use stitch as a way to create raw texture on fabric or fabric paper which can then be used for painting or printing. [...]
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This is what I did this weekend. It doesn’t look like much does it? Until you get up a little closer. And closer still. Yeh, all that machine work took a long time to do. These pieces are panels for a new art bag that I’m making, in the same style as “Blush” which you [...]
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With my online embellishing class ending this week, it left me some free time to do some *exploring*, and playing with fabric paper is always a fun diversion for me. I love the way papers and fabrics can sometimes play “nice” together, and I wanted to try out a couple of techniques that had been [...]
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