Hand embroidery thread – how to blend custom thread colors

Jul 4, 2018

If you do a lot (or even a little) hand embroidery, over time you can accumulate quite a collection of embroidery floss and yarn. But doesn’t it always seem that you simply never have the right color hand embroidery thread to finish...

Sentiment Cards – the Perfect Handmade Gift for the Holidays

Nov 1, 2017

It’s hard keeping secrets but now it’s time to share – I’m so excited to have one of my stitched mixed media projects featured in the latest issue of Somerset Studio magazine! This issue is perfectly time for the...

Fragments of Nature as ephemeral art

Oct 26, 2017

After spending several weeks making “Fragments of Nature”, this project is finally complete. It was an intentional decision to make these stitched pieces fragile and ephemeral in nature because the inspiration came after the...

Fragments of Nature – seeing with new eyes

Oct 18, 2017

The walk around my back yard last week ended up being quite inspiring, which just goes to prove that inspiration can strike at the most unexpected times because I’ve walked around the back yard hundreds of times before and never...

Aspects of Nature

Oct 12, 2017

Today I wandered around my back yard for the first time since it was finally cleaned of debris from the last hurricane. I don’t really have much of a garden back there, but it’s a lovely place to walk around in the summer when...

If You Can Dream It

Jun 1, 2017

Another of the Fragments cards that I’ve been making recently. You can see the previous one I made here. I have lots more in various stages of progress so I’ll share more soon.

Imagination will take you Everywhere

May 25, 2017

As I’m planning a trip home to Australia next month to visit my family, I’ve only just now begun to think of gifts to take. I was originally going to buy gifts, but decided instead to make things by hand which is much more...

Fragments Art Journal: Breathing Space

May 4, 2017

I recently shared a few photos of my new fabric art journal and finally found time to upload some full size shots. As with all my Fragments projects, this art journal has a theme – Breathing Space – and I found that using a...

Art Journaling … on Fabric

May 2, 2017

These past few months I’ve been immersed in developing some new techniques for making art journals that have pages that can be easily painted on as well as stitched. Although it’s easy enough to stitch on paper, paper just...

My Summer journal + a quick Photoshop texture tutorial

Nov 3, 2016

I’m still working on my stitched summer journal. This week was particularly busy so I’ve only managed a few stitches here and there, but I did get the PhotoArt image for the cover designed and printed onto fabric ready for...

Stitched Journal of Summer Memories

Oct 27, 2016

I started sewing when I was about 6 years old, and way back then I loved nothing more than to sew “little” things. A stitch here, a stitch there, small pieces of fabric scraps being stitched together to make … well...

Stitched textiles with a little wabi sabi on the side

Oct 13, 2016

Here in Central Florida Hurricane Matthew is now a thing of the past and life is getting back to normal. Although we were fortunate to suffer only minimal damage, it does take a few days to destress from a force of nature such as a...