Category: Publications

  • Make an Impression!

    Make an Impression!

    I’d like help you Make an Impression by learning how easy it is to make and print on fabric with your very own custom made stamps. As you probably know if you’re familiar with my work, I like to create pattern using stamps. I also love teaching students how to print with foam, rubber and…

  • Hot off the Press!

    Hot off the Press!

    It’s been a while since I last checked in with you, since I’ve been really busy working on producing the catalog for the Threads of Resistance traveling exhibit with my daughter Indigo. We put in many hours designing, and producing the artwork, editing photos and sending it off to print, but now I’m happy to…

  • My turn on the Playful Fabric Printing bloghop tour!

    My turn on the Playful Fabric Printing bloghop tour!

    Melanie Testa and Carol Soderlund have written an amazing resource book! There’s nothing like it on the market, and I want to share with you the samples I made in a special Playful Fabric Printing playdate that I had with the masters themselves at Pokey’s barn in Napa. This was really fun, because I haven’t worked with dyes for about 10…

  • Announcing my new book: Alternatively Bound and Stitched!

    Announcing my new book: Alternatively Bound and Stitched!

    Well, I’ve been sitting on this a while. I’ve written and published my second book called Alternatively Bound and Stitched. This book is not on painting techniques, but about putting a quilt together and taking it through to completion after the top has been made. In this book, I share many of the techniques and materials I use in…

  • Woo hoo, I’m a cover girl!

    Woo hoo, I’m a cover girl!

    This is the image I just received of the next issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited that I wrote an article for. I was told that if you get a new subscription by February 10th, this issue will come with your subscription. To get 10% off your renewal or subscription on print issues, use promo code MQUSPECIAL to…

  • I finally did it, I wrote a book!

    I finally did it, I wrote a book!

    I wrote, designed and self-published  Creative Alchemy, 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks, as a supplement to my Acrylic Inks class, with the intention of eventually writing other books in a series on the different painting media and techniques I teach, under the Creative Alchemy title. 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks, covers all the various demos I do in my…

  • Give yourself a gift of inspiration!

    Give yourself a gift of inspiration!

     and get a few more for your loved ones too with this great deal! Get a copy of Lesley Riley’s new Inspirational Quotes Illustrated book for 50% off! on the North Light publishers website. I’m not sure how long the sale will last, but while I was there I bought 3 other books since there was also free shipping…

  • A Great New Surface Design Resource

    A Great New Surface Design Resource

    Fabric Surface Design: Painting, Stamping, Rubbing, Stenciling, Silk Screening, Resists, Image Transfer, Marbling, Crayons & Colored Pencils, Batik, Nature Prints and Monotype Printing A year or so ago Cheryl Rezendes wrote to me and asked if I could send her images of my quilts that were painted with acrylic inks for the book she was writing.…

  • Have you seen this?

    Pretty exciting to see the quilt I painted a year ago gracing the cover of Quilting Arts magazine! It’s like coming full circle. What a year it’s been. I am in the very midst of the transition the cards spoke of that inspired this piece. 8 of Cups: Moving on and letting go. Time to…

  • New Hand Sewing ebook

    Interweave has compiled a wonderful series of Quilting Arts articles on handwork into a beautiful new ebook Hand Sewing. What a nice surprise to find out my article on making felted wool ornaments from the first Quilting Arts Gifts issue is included. There are also articles by Jane LaFazio, Victoria Gertenbach, Rose Hughes and Jude…

  • Taping Quilting Arts TV

    I’ve just returned from an overnight trip to Cleveland to tape a segment for Quilting Arts TV with Pokey. I arrived tuesday afternoon and was thrilled to get together with my friends Deborah Boschert and Jane Davila for a long chatty dinner. Deborah and I in the green room. Deborah taped 3 segments and even though…

  • Introducing the Painted Threads ebook!

    I recently updated my Painted Threads portfolio book with two newer quilts and while I was at it I created an ebook version that can be viewed on an ipad. If you’d like to see a preview of the entire book you can see it here. I don’t have an ipad…yet, so I bought a…

  • I’m Talking Thread

    My friend Frieda Anderson interviewed me on her blog as part of a month long series she is doing about thread. Tweet

  • It’s been a week for dyeing

    This week I have been preparing samples for taping a Quilting Arts TV segment next month about creating dye color recipes.Here’s a little sneak peek Tweet

  • Removing Color article Part 2

    The second article in my 2 part series on alternative methods for removing color from fabric is in the February March issue of Quilting Arts magazine. This article focuses on several techniques using DeColourant, a product that removes color but also has the ability to put color back in at the same time. Because it…

  • Pre order Quilting Arts TV Series 900

    Earlier this fall, I taped three segments for Quilting Arts TV series 900: For the first one I demonstrate a variety of techniques for discharging fabric using two less toxic products; Color Remover by RIT and DeCorourant. I show a couple shibori type methods with the RIT product and use freezer paper stencils, stamping and printing with thermofax screens with…

  • Swedish Magazine Interview

    Last September 11th, I met with the editor of the Swedish Quilting magazine Rikstacket for an interview. The streets of downtown Chicago were unusually quiet on that somber 10 year anniversary, but the sun was shining and it was a lovely warm day. We met at the Art Institute for lunch and chatted about my…

  • The Best of Quilting Arts

    I just received my copy of the Best of Quilting Arts and was thrilled to see my art on the back cover! This book is really a nice compilation of articles from the first 10 years of Quilting Arts magazine. I am so happy my article about using teabags and other paper ephemera with fabric…