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It’s been quite a week. I just got in late Wed from my visit to El Paso, Texas to put my Mother-In-Law to rest. I am spent and at the moment, lacking inertia and passion. I think this will pass as I catch up on sleep and resume normal life. In some ways, I did enjoy my visit to El Paso. I think if I hadn’t been introduced to El Paso through my Husband and in-laws, I would have an entirely different feeling for the town. Hubby grew up there. It is a bit of an outpost, not close to…
Please read to the end. It was a great 6-day trip! I estimate I drove 1300 miles through 3 states and visited 3 areas. Each day held some rain, some days lots of rain. You will see lots of green in my photos – it was so lush! It was early enough in the season that it was cool and humidity was not bad. I saw no cicadas yet. The humidity made my hair go all Farrah Fawcett. I flew from Sacramento to Chicago, Midway, picked up my rental car and drove 7 hours in the pooooooring rain on…
Just today I finished the total mother lode of videos, handouts and more for my on-demand class with Creative Spark. I decided I needed to sit down and watch the whole thing in order, from the site. What interesting discoveries I made, like THREE missing videos! I needed to make 2 of them and just find the other one. I wrote a book for C&T and that was intense. I don’t know about you, but when I write, I need to edit it 4 – 5 times. Anne Lamott calls the first draft the S%#% First Draft, SFD for short.…
It’s a quick note today, but one with a major announcement: I reached a major milestone on Monday. I submitted all the videos, photos and handouts for my online course with Creative Spark – Yes You CAN Free Motion Quilt!. WHOOOOP! There have been many hours and months of hard work, new skill sets and time in front of my computer editing those videos. I’ve included some of the new “lifestyle” photography below: It’s so worth it though! I am proud of the product I’ve submitted. Now the Creative Spark people will wave their wand and make it all…
I’m nearing the finish line for my on-demand course…I think. I keep waiting for a shoe to drop. I’d like to give a date but it’s a bit up in the air, hopefully within the next 2 weeks. As a result, my days are filled with videos, editing, writing…. On Tuesday I made, edited and uploaded 10 videos and edited another 6. Today I think I will have written maybe 1500 words for this or that. I’ve been working so much on this that I can crank out a video on one take (sometimes), edit and load right away. Whooooah!…
I’ve been consumed again this week with trying to get my on-demand class up and running. It never seems to end. I am sitting, a lot. My shoulders and back are sore despite my best efforts at good ergonomics. This is rough work! I did make a 3 min video about my upcoming Road@Home classes (type my name in the search bar) that you can find on my Facebook page, but it’s too big to load here. I’ll be posting random flower photos, just because… I did have a fail this week – my sheer piece was a bust. I…
I have so many projects going at once right now and they all need to be done yesterday! So productivity is high but so is demand. My son, DIL and grandson visited over the weekend and it was absolutely wonderful! I knew there would be some downtime, but I didn’t want to retire to my studio and leave the action. So I embellished a linen top from Target in my downtime: It’s subtle, and I wanted it to be. I was afraid it would go “happy hands at home” if I had a heavy hand. I loved having something to…
This week I revisited a technique I played with years ago, maybe 12? I was inspired by the book: Fusing fabric by Margaret Beal. I played around at the time, got a soldering iron and the whole bit, but it languished as my teaching life ascended. It was time to return to that and have a go: This is not even half of my sheer stash and they are packed in there tightly! I chose my color palette and cut up chunks of each color (I’ll do this differently next time)… and layered them on top of a sheet of…
We have a winner from last week’s give-away – Robin Parton! Robin please contact me so that I can send Catherine Redford’s Butterfly Stitches book to you. Congratulations! Robin was the 51st commenter (excluding double comments). I carefully eliminated double comments – I know that sometimes the comment will not show right away so you post again. I’m happy for Robin! PLEASE NOTE: I did not respond to any comments yet because it would have thrown the comment number off. I will respond to direct questions and such as I get to them this week; please be patient. Thanks to all…
In the midst of a week filled to the brim with the creation of video content, somehow I had a finish. Granted, this was close to the finish line last week, but I am claiming victory and a finish: I’ve written a little bit about this piece here and here previously. This is an art panel from Turtle Hand Batiks, a one-of-a-kind batik piece made by a young Malaysian artist. I love working with these panels and recently completed another one which I wrote about here . The quick recap: I embellished the panel using hand embroidery, inspired by Catherine…