It’s been quite a while since I made an art quilt, however I’m participating in an upcoming art exhibit to be displayed in the Deland City Hall (see more details at bottom of this post), so I took the opportunity to make this digital art quilt titled Wildfowers in the Mist. This quilt was made […]
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Designing your own fabric is a fun and creative way to make unique fabric that you can use in your own sewing projects, or even sell. Although professional designers invest a lot of money in the software and equipment that they use to create their designs, to get started in fabric design you don’t really
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Working with texture has always been one of my favorite things and I’ve always found it challenging and rewarding to find ways to merge both visual and tactile texture into my artwork. One of the biggest challenges though has been to find ways to successfully print images onto textured fabric. I particularly like working with
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If you have ever printed images onto fabric using Inkaid, then no doubt you’ve discovered that once fabric is treated with any of these products it becomes quite stiff to rigid depending on the product type that you use. Sometimes this isn’t a problem if you’re going to sew the fabric using a sewing machine,
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I’m always thinking of new and creative ways to use my photos, and after spending the day out and about photographing things last week-end, and ending the day with my camera banging about with the rest of the junk at the bottom of my tote bag, I decided it was finally time to make a
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When I first started printing on fabric I immediately fell in love with the process of using an inkjet printer to transfer images to fabric. I love the ease in which you can get an extraordinarily good print onto a piece of fabric in no time at all. One of the challenges I had when
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