I’ve done quite a bit of sewing in my life… I’ve sewn everything from horse blankets to my duppioni silk wedding. I can make a tailored men’s dress shirt or a bed-size quilt. There are still fabrics that challenge me… I’ve come close to crying when I was sewing a faux-patent leather jacket (hint - […]
I thought that it’s been too long since I’ve hosted a contest on Tangled Thread… I’m giving away on of my DH’s copper fiber art tags, this one says “Love” in block letters. I had so many responses about my hand-dyed quilting cottons that I’ve decided to also include five 4 inch squares of the […]
Keeping my fabric and notions organized seems to take constant effort for me - I usually store everything in large, clear plastic tubs or storage towers with drawers. My thread is stored in drawers on top of my sewing table and I keep things like elastic and trims in another tall set of drawers […]
Hello my lovely readers - it’s the last week of the De-Stash Challenge! I haven’t bought any fabric, but last week was so busy that I didn’t get a chance to make anything either. Don’t get me wrong, it was a fantastic week - but I was out every single day and my studio definitely […]
Spoonflower is a new project that is bringing fabric printers and designers together - very exciting! It can be a challenge to market new designs for fabric prints and Spoonflower is making it a lot easier. They’re working to create small runs of custom printed fabric - but it’s just starting out.
You can sign […]
So my lovely readers, how is the de-stashing going? I’m still being a good little de-stasher and haven’t bought any fabric for myself. I will however need to buy some fabric to complete a commission… I’m not sure how this works into the De-Stash Challenge, but since it’s technically not for myself, will you forgive […]
I wanted to share some of the cotton quilting fabrics that I’ve hand-dyed, using the same dye as this project.
The only difference between these fabrics, and the much more subtle gauze that I dyed is the amount of water you use in the dye bath.
I used a low water immersion technique (LWI) to create the […]
Setting the pattern: Adventures in sewing and stitching and the artful use of fabric and fiber
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