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This hottest season has sparked my thoughts of bold, bright landscapes that show summer. With that in mind, I have started my first piece in the "Seasons Slow Stitch" series, which I've named "A Mediterranean Summer." This embroidered appliqué landscape piece, crafted in a hoop, will use solid bold colors to capture the spirit of this hot season.

From a tablecloth that adorned a table to a designer shirt. This is how she did it Was this a table cloth?

Art of upcycling is not only how to create textile art pieces. It is also how to creatively upcycle textiles.

Spring is in the air Its definitely time to get the spring wardrobe organized. But how does one do it?

A twilight wave landscape patchwork pocket. The studio moved and I am just beginning to get settled again.

We have spent the last month moving the studio. Even a neverending move ends at some point.

Sometimes the simplest things that we do give us the greatest pleasure. A student decided to create a set of pyjamas to gift her sister

I am often asked how do I downsize. There are a number of ways in which I could downsize my fabric stock, which is still huge

In the summer sewing sessions I surprise the students. In addition to the basic sewing skills that are taught to new students in the summer,

When working on my combat series I found a number of fatigue skirts and pants which I had purchased many years ago at a second hand store

Sewing is for the soul. I have decided to create art quilts but not to leave them as art quilts.

I began sewing the quilt a few days ago and had to finish it this week, as Friday was the day for it to be gifted.

Yesterday I had a one on one teaching session. My favorite type of class. She wants to learn ALL of my art quilt techniques.

I finally finished writing the tutorial for the technique. All you need are sheets, or cotton and polycotton fabric scraps to create an...

Sewing and upcycling - I haven't had in person classes for a while and last week my talented innovative student came over .

This week in T Shirt Workshop 2 I decided to teach them how to make t shirt tube necklaces. I brought a bottle of upcycled wooden beads which were a hit

My contribution is to teach of course. They don't know how to sew yet, not even sewing by hand. I had to be creative when thinking of how to keep them occupied and interested for 2 hours. I am going to do a series of workshops teaching them how to create interesting items with t shirts. This is the first T shirt workshop.

Who says pouches that are practical can't be pretty. I have been working in these colors for the past month together with my students.

This is a study in colors for 2 boro rectangles for my zippered pouch.

They are all in shock. They are finding the creativity helpful. Most of the meetup was spent talking about good and evil in the world and why the children?