By leslie | September 21, 2009
You can read about my design contributions to Terry Jarrard-Dimond’s Compositional Conversation project over here on Terry’s blog today. The photo above is the “final composition” I mailed off to Fulvia Luciano last Tuesday. Rather than pile-on some additional fabric figures, I ended up really thinking about the formal elements of the composition, and how I [...]
By leslie | September 10, 2009
A nicely packaged bundle arrived in the mail for me yesterday containing something special. This week it is my turn in the fantastic group art project, Compositional Conversation. Compositional Conversation is the brain-child of Terry Jarrard-Dimond, an award winning artist who creates moving and muscular textile constructions in her South Carolina studio. Terry blogs about [...]
Meet Bette. Bette Bernina. Otherwise known as my brand new Bernina 820 sewing machine computer. I don’t usually name inanimate objects. But this one seems to have a Bette Davis, take no prisoners sort of way about her. Plus I watch a lot of old movies on TCM while sewing.
Did I mention I’m in love? [...]
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 [...]
