I have a goal. To complete my mosaic patchwork tunic/coat before this winter finally gets to us. I have a short mosaic vest and want a midi legth tunic/vest. It is the same pattern as my vest pattern just extended beyond my hips. Its a project that I have been working on in bits and pieces over a number of years. Its not that it takes that amount of time to create it, I just got side tracked and kept putting it aside well this year its going to be done. I have some pieces and

This morning a friend on facebook asked in a post what our obessions are. I was just thinking about that! Standing with a cup of coffee in my studio and looking at all the things that I have created this week. Making new fabric from scraps is what I would call my obsession. It is the technique that I connect with the most. I have downsized my fabric supply, given away 200 boxes of fabric and the thought that I might need some of it in the future had crossed my mind while sort

Every time I create with small pieces I wonder how I can work so small and then I go even smaller. I have a number of techniques that I have created for working with small pieces and then when I go smaller I find that I need to adapt and create even yet another technique. For these small pieces I initially began by using my mosaic technique and then discovered that the pieces were way too small for that. I turned the sewing machine off, made a cup of coffee and sat and though

Last week I wanted to create a little bag to carry a mini sewing kit in my bag. I didn't want a zippered pouch I wanted something much smaller than that. And I wanted it to be flat. After many experiments I came up with the idea of creating a small pocket which could fit very easily into my bag. I made one - success. And then I thought of all the other little things that I carry in my bag. Some of them are wrapped in fabric and some are in nylon bags. I carry a lucky stone, a

I am working on a new tutorial for fabric buttons. Everytime I create I work on a number of different projects in parallel I looked at all my summer scraps this week and decided to create new fabric using my ScrapFabric technique. So colorful! I had lots of scraps left over so that got me thinking of what I could do with them. Of course fabric beads came to mind, they always do when I have lots of very small scraps. I added some more orange scraps to the mix and made some fab

This is what I was busy with this morning I had gifted the neighbour 2 small sewing machines, actually mini ones for her small children to play with. Neither of them worked, so I told her to bring them over this morning for a check up. I had been working on my industrial and it was cute to place them next to each other to see the difference in size. I threaded with read thread so the threading route was easy to see. And started sewing. Tension problems, so that was the first

I always enjoy finding ways to use up all of the remnants and scrap pieces when working on a project. While sewing I place 3 bowls next to the sewing machine, I don't throw ANY of the pieces away, they are sorted into three different piles. The first is for the very narrow strips which will be used to create fabric beads and those that are really tiny I will move to the pillow/doll stuffing box. The second, for the slightly larger pieces which will go into the mosaic fabric b