Very busy of late. A period of upheaval and transition. But I know this throwing things up in the air bit often provides fodder for sustained periods of creativity later on.
In stolen moments I have been playing with scraps of hand-dyed fabrics. Some of my own cottons mixed up with bits of silk leftovers [...]
Last weekend looked like this.
One of those glorious indian summer days that always seem to be ordered up by the chamber of commerce for California in January. I snuck off to the beach and caught this golden sunset over the Monterey Bay.
Life in the real world is impeding my progress in the virtual [...]
This week’s winning Spoonflower fabric is by Rachel of MammaMade fame.
Rachel has been posting extremely detailed tutorials on designing fabric using vector art created in free software tools like Inkscape, a new SVG authoring program (shameless plug for SVG, a web technology I worked on years ago). In fact, she details her complete design process [...]
Have you checked out Spoonflower, a site where you can upload your own fabric designs and have them digitally printed onto fabric?
I made this small quilt using one of my beta tester swatches of Spoonflower’s first printed fabrics on Kona cotton. Spoonflower has subsequently switched their print stock to Moda cotton (Bleach White from the [...]
