PQ 16 - 1 Mythical Creatures - A Korean Folktale
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Hi and welcome. This piece is in response to Project Quilting's first challenge of 2025. When PQ's first challenge was announced, I had just checked out TextileArtist.org's Stitch Club's latest class about Korean folktale art. What serendipity! From the workshop I made a piece that I call "The Rabbit's Adventure". Let me tell you about it
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December 17, 2024
A FM stitched portrait finish on Free Motion Mavericks
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August 11, 2024
Learning Tibetan Appliqué on Free Motion Mavericks
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July 1, 2024
Prayer Flags on Free Motion Mavericks
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Welcome! I hope that you're having a great week
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December 30, 2023
Best of 2023 Linking Party
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November 12, 2023
Abstract Free Motion Embroidered Landscape
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Hi! I just finished a workshop by artist Dionne Swift on creating abstract embroidered landscapes with a perspective that lets the viewer enter the piece. I know that doing more than one sketch and piece is great for learning, but I'm usually impatient to get on with the next thing!
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July 30, 2023
A handmade album covered with Glimpses of Antarctica
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I still haven't written my posts about our Antarctica trip, but I'm one step closer - I finished my stitched piece "Glimpses of Antarctica" and used it as the cover for an album to hold a few photos, postcards, etc.
Glimpses of Antarctica
In February, I wrote a post about a few of my ongoing hand-stitching projects. The first was a mark-making and stitching project with Gwen Hadley through TextileArtist.org (see Related links below). I made marks on two pieces of white cotton - the first was heavily marked while the second was not.
I cut up the pieces ...
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June 27, 2023
Learning Whitework techniques
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I'd like to share with you some lovely drawn thread work and pulled work embroidery techniques that I learned through TextileArtist.org's Stitch Club. I hope you're having a great week!
Whitework Embroidery
I've had an excellent session with Tracy A. Franklin this week on TextileArtist.org's Stitch Club. I've always admired the beauty of whitework but have always been too nervous to pursue it. In Tracy's workshop we learned drawn thread work and pulled work embroidery techniques. Very, very cool
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June 1, 2023
A Large Experimental Sketchbook on Free Motion Mavericks
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Hi, I hope that you are well and spent more time stitching that I did! More sorting in my studio meant that there were no surfaces left to work on - so I've been slow stitching in the living room but don't have much to show for it....it's very SLOW!
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May 15, 2023
Making an Experimental Sketchbook
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Hi, I hope that Spring has finally shown up in your part of the world (on the top side of the equator). Otherwise, I hope that you're enjoying your Fall weather
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April 24, 2023
Fibre Fling and Free Motion Mavericks
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Welcome to week 427 of Free Motion Mavericks. This week I'm busy getting ready for the annual Out of the Box (OOTB) Fibre Artists Group show. It's been virtual for the last two years so it's wonderful and a lot more work, now that it's live again.
Fibre Fling 2023
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I have two pieced in the show this year, one of them you've seen a few times on the blog.
This first piece is still my favourite - Let Them Flourish. This ...
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March 20, 2023
Embroidery and Free Motion Mavericks
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Hi! I'm back
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Off the Grid Sampler is finished
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Welcome! I'm very happy to share this finish with you
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February 17, 2023
So many projects on the go!
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Welcome! Have you ever felt like your quilting life is out of control? Since finishing Version 2.0 I have been working on more and more projects. Some are classes, others are my usual TextileArtist.org workshops and then there are those squirrel projects from who knows where.
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February 5, 2023
A new art project with FMQ on Free Motion Mavericks
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Hi! Welcome to another week of Free Motion Mavericks. Today I have some free motion quilting (FMQ) that will be enhanced with a lot of hand stitching. I'm still trying to figure out what to do exactly, but I have ideas
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January 28, 2023
Going somewhere is Finished on Free Motion Mavericks
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Welcome to week 417 of Free Motion Mavericks! I hope that you've had a chance to play since I last posted. When I began this piece, I had no idea that it would end up being free motion quilted (FMQ). I think that the FMQ added a lot to it. I'll let you judge this for yourself.
"Going somewhere..."
This piece began, as many of them do, with a workshop on TextileArtists.org. I haven't had time to do as many workshops as I would like, but this one grabbed my attention. It took me a while ...
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January 8, 2023
Project Quilting 14.1 and Slow Sunday stitching
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Hi, Project Quilting, season 14 has started again. The first theme is "The First One". I just had time to make a quick piece. I'm also working on a new slow stitching project.
The First One for Project Quilting
The theme brought me to think of "one" which can be alone but also unique. That's where my thinking stopped!
I found a beautiful, unique piece of hand-marbled fabric that was gifted to me.
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December 31, 2022
Planning for 2023
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Thank you Yvonne at Quilting Jetgirl for hosting this great linking party again this year. Hopefully it will help keep me focused. Last year I minimized my plans for 2022. Of course it didn't all get done but that's ok because that's what planning is all about. For 2023, I'm keeping it as simple and general as possible. My intention for 2023: learn by playing, with mindfulness and contentment QuiltsThis category is more specific because of my promises to get these projects done. I'm very hopeful of completing these and they'll provide great ... read moreDecember 18, 2022
Off the Grid Sampler
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Hi! I hope that you are surviving December and all of its potential craziness read moreDecember 9, 2022
Mindful stitching with natural elements
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Hi! I hope that this weekend finds you well. I have a slow stitching project to share with you today. Mindful Stitching with Natural ElementsI'm still doing the TextileArtist.org Stitch Club workshops, and this one was great to incorporate into the mindful stitching that I've been doing for the last few years. The workshop was "Using natural materials in embroidery" with Claire de Waard. Here are the two meditation blocks that I created based on the workshop.
In the ...
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