Month: September 2010

  • A Day at the Antique Market

    Yesterday Nina and I went to the Randolph Street Antiques Market, it was the last one of the year. These rolling pins made me think about Kelli Perkins. The joy of paint by number… When I was little I remember there was one of these Magic Brain Calculators at my grandmothers house. I thought it…

  • Inspiration for the day: An Interview with Jane Lafazio

    The Style Substance Soul blog has a wonderful interview with Jane LaFazio today discussing her journey as an artist and work teaching childern and adults.

  • Productivity!

    Don’t you love it when you feel like you have accomplished a bunch of stuff on your todo list? I had a really productive day yesterday, I feel like my batteries have been recharged. I am preparing to teach Tsukineko Inks and Color Theory in Houston at International Quilt Festival in November and I have…

  • Painting canvas

    I have been so busy the last couple months: teaching in Long Beach, preparing for QATV, teaching at Create, filling out proposals and contracts, that I have had no time to just make art for the love of it. I still have a bunch of stuff on my to do list, but I just had…

  • Street art in the neighborhood

    One of the things I like about living in my neighborhood is finding bits of interesting street art when I am out walking my dog. This is one of the newer pieces of street art by Banksy a well known, street artist from the UK.

  • Get your copy now!

    Get your copy now!

    Woo hoo, look what I have in my hot little hands and now you can get the new Quilting Arts gifts magazine too! This is a fantastic issue, not only because I have an article on making a graphic painted reindeer tree skirt 😉 ooh, I love how Quilting Arts photographs stuff!… but also because…

  • Quilting Arts TV

    Quilting Arts TV

    On Thursday, I taped several segments for season 700 of Quilting Arts TV and a new DVD. My first topic for QATV was working with Shiva paintsticks and freezer paper templates. The next segment was on using tea bags for collage on fabric, like we did in my tea and ephemera class. Getting hooked up…

  • Tea & Ephemera, round 2: Sunday morning

    Sunday morning I think all of us were tired and happy, glad that we had such a wonderful opportunity to spend this time together making art and friends. Knowing that these were our last few hours were a little bittersweet. Preparing fabric for everyone to use before hand really helped the class be more relaxed…

  • Student show and tell

    Saturday night there was a student show and tell for people to display the projects they worked on during the week. This was a great opportunity for all of us to see the different things that were being made in the other classes. I thnk we were all sharing a feeling of great success.