heARTfest Blog Hop Day 2
Get your heart on for this round of LOVE infused tutorials! Check out Traci Bunkers, Printed Heart Ice Cube Trays: Quick Printed Backgrounds, Part 1 Jane LaFazio’s Sketchbook page to Valentine Card (& envelope too) Diana Trout, Friday, Jan 27, Woven Heart Valentines Card Lyric Kinard, Saturday, Jan 28 Lovin’ my Thermofax Screens Judy Coates Perez, Sunday, Jan 29, Chocolate Peppermint Cream Heart Cakes Kelli Nina Perkins, Monday, Jan [...]
Off the Print Table fabric blog hop
My friend Lynn Krawczyk has been making fabric and you could be the lucky winner of a fat quarter of it! Just leave a comment over the next 5 days and on Tuesday I’ll randomly pick a winner. Here’s what Lynn has to say: “I never feel more connected to my art then when I [...]
heARTfest Blog Hop Day 1
Get your heart on for this round of LOVE infused tutorials! Check out Jane LaFazio’s Sketchbook page to Valentine Card (& envelope too) Traci Bunkers, Thursday, Jan 26 Diana Trout, Friday, Jan 27, Woven Heart Valentines Card Lyric Kinard, Saturday, Jan 28 Lovin’ my Thermofax Screens Judy Coates Perez, Sunday, Jan 29, Chocolate Peppermint Cream Heart Cakes Kelli Nina Perkins, Monday, Jan 30 Heart shaped [...]
Have you ever been challenged by monofilament?
Monofilament is clear thread, similar to a light weight fishing line that is a perfect solution when you need to add stitching but don’t want the thread to be prominent. I personally love MonoPoly by Superior, it’s a strong, matte, polyester thread that comes in clear for light to medium colors of fabric and smoke to [...]
Happy New Year!
Indigo and I took in the new year at a tavern in the neighborhood that hosted a wig themed new years party. What fun we had! One thing I’ll really miss about living in Chicago is being able to go out for a night of fun and walk home or just hop in a cab. [...]
Merry Christmas!
May your holiday be blessed with good food on the table and loved ones around you. I raise a toast to you good friend, that your life be filled with peace, love and happiness. I am so grateful for all the wonderful friends I have met teaching and online from around the world, my life is [...]
Are you going to International Quilt Festival Cincinnati?
This will be my first time teaching at IQA‘s newest location. I’ve never been to Cincinnati and am looking forward to spending a long weekend there this spring. Hopefully I’ll still be in Chicago then and can make a road trip out of it instead of fly (so I can bring more stuff, lol). If [...]
Interested in a cool new online class option?
STITCHED is a collection of 20 online video workshops by 20 talented fabric artists. Students have access to all 20 workshops and can choose to view and work on the projects any time of the day, any day of the week. Registration opened Dec 1 and the workshops kick off on Jan 1 and run [...]
Cool Japanese style fabric gift wrap tutorial
Check out Diana Trout’s Furoshiko gift wrap tutorial. Tweet
Need help resizing jpgs?
Check out Gloria Hansens great video tutorial on resizing a digital image. Tweet
Chart a Course Making Gorgeous Decorative Paper
Check out Jill Berry’s Geo Papers tutorial, making abstract design papers that reference maps, to use for a multitude of projects. Tweet
Experimental Letters!
Check out Lisa Engelbrecht’s tutorial on Experimental Letters. I love the retro look these initial letters have. Very fun, I’m going to have to try making some of these. Tweet
Kelli’s posted a new sparkly holiday tutorial
Make a Whimsical Spool Garland that you can repurpose after the holidays. Plus, sign up to win a copy of the Quilting Arts Workshop dvd “Stitch Imagery: From Photo to Fabric Fun,” a leather bound journal, fantastic paper packs and more! Hop on over for another day of ArtSpark. Tweet
Repurposing at its best!
Check out Melly’s Zipper pouch tutorial. Check back here tomorrow for my Folkart Inspired Ornament tutorial. Tweet
Check out this cool stamp tutorial
Hop over to Traci Bunkers tutorial for some fun and easy stamping ideas.Tweet
Spark Some Holiday Spirit with Festive Merry Making Tutorials, Starting Tomorrow!
November 9:: Jane LaFazio Sketch & Stitch Gift Bags November 10: Lyric Kinard Glitter, Glisten, Glimmer: Beaded Snowflake Ornament November 11: Tracie Lyn Huskamp Christmas Cardinal Ornament November 13: Traci Bunkers Moldable Foam Stamps November 14: Melanie Testa Zipper Pouch November 15: Judy Coates Perez Folk Art Inspired Ornament November 16: Kelli Nina Perkins Whimsical Spool Garland November. 17: Lisa Engelbrecht Experimental Lettering November 18: Jill Berry Geo Papers and Projects November 19: Gloria Hansen Resizing [...]
It’s that time again!
On All Hallows Eve, I fly to Houston for a week at International Quilt Festival. With so much luggage I will have to skip the broom this time and travel by more traditional methods on Southwest airlines. To get into the swing of things Monday night, Indigo and I will be having dinner with a coven [...]
Drowned iphone resurrection
On saturday my iphone took a plunge, so in an effort to bring it back to life I put it in a bag of rice for two days to dry out, then plugged it into my computer to see if it would work. It turned on, but then the battery only lasted 15 minutes before dying. [...]
New handwarmers for fall
I still have a few projects that I am working on that are not all that creative and art focussed so I am getting my fill of creating in the evenings with some more knitting. I started this pair of handwarmers last winter, I had one knit and about an inch and a half of [...]
Cuban Dinner
Last night I prepared one of my favorite meals with friends; Cuban black beans, rice, roast pork and pickled red onions for garnish. My friend Alexa came over and made mojitos and brought a cabbage slaw with avocado and jalepeño and a mango sorbet for dessert. Everything was delicious, so I thought I would share [...]
Latest happenings at Harpo
A week ago, taping began on the new Rosie show. Thursday I heard a commotion and looked off the balcony to see a crowd gathered on the corner. Evidently Oprah and Rosie were down there unveiling the new sign. Tweet
This is what I really want to do right now
When those first few signs of fall are evident, I always want to break out the knitting and start a new project. I really love to knit because it engages a totally different part of my brain than painting and quilting and frankly I have a hard time just relaxing without something in my hands. [...]
And the winner is….
Congratulations Andrea from Talking Horses Arts! Please send me your email, so I can enroll you in Color Theory and have Interweave contact you for the DVD download. Thank you everyone for the amazing feedback!It was so hard knowing only one person could win when there were so many wonderful comments, I wanted you all to [...]
Final day of the Hot Summer Giveaway
Make sure you stop by Melanie Testa‘s blog today for a chance to win her wonderful book and a download of her DVD. These are all the other ArtSpark bloggers participating in the giveaway, so stop by and leave a comment if you haven’t already. Carla Sonhiem Diana Trout Gloria Hansen Tracie Lyn Huskamp Jane LaFazio [...]
