Also on the way...

This one is a gift for a friend's birthday. It measures 11.5" x 15". She loves cats and the color purple, so Lavender Garden Cat with Green Kneepads was born. This was fun to make using just free-edge applique with the machine and then applied embroidery and buttons. Background fabric is hand-dyed shibori by me. Inspired by Jude Hill's amazing beasts....

Gentner's Fritillary

Been busy working on the latest project which I'll be able to show in a couple of weeks time. In the meantime, I've just packed this one off to its new owner in Portland, Oregon. This piece measuring 6"x24" was done for the Rogue Art Quilters show in Jacksonville, Oregon. The show coincided with the Fritillary Festival, a celebration of the endangered wildflower, the Gentner Fritillary.

Changing Light

With all the unusual weather we've been having lately the light has been spectacular. Most days I find myself running for the camera to catch it before it fades, which only takes seconds. Now I think it's best if I keep the camera with me when I'm out. These photos are not doctored...this is the way it really looks. My husband calls it a 'Maxfield Parrish Sky', I think watercolors...



Today is a strange Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. We have yet to have a day in the 90°s, which is unheard of. Plants and trees seem confused, not knowing what to do with this cool weather. Peonies and iris are still blooming a month later than usual. Warm weather plants are languishing, waiting for things to heat up.



I've been busy in my studio working on another challenge piece. I'll show it when it's finished. Needless to say it is pushing me, not only by working on it, but by keeping up with all the ideas that seem to be generated when my mind is otherwise occupied. Looks like it could be an interesting summer.

Fabric Pieces in Detail...

I am getting really hooked on painting and printing on fabric. These were made with silkscreening and then overprinting with cardboard templates. Click for an enlargement.



This one (below) was stamped using half an orange, the detail was amazing.



More photos here.

More Painted Pieces

More fabric on the way from the June 5th open studio...

Fabric Flat Photos Are Up...

OK, the photos of the washed out fabrics are here on my Flickr photostream.

Painting Fabric Again

I've been busy while I've been away from the blog. I took two more fabric dying classes in Ashland and have been savoring the results. The first class was a low water immersion class and I need to take photos of the booty, but the weather here has not been cooperating. We've either had rain or windy sunny days. Hard to keep fabric pinned down when it's windy. Today we had a break in the rain so I washed out the five painted pieces from yesterday's class in thickened dye painting and hung them on the line. I really went crazy with some wacky ideas that had been floating around in my head since the last dye painting class I took last fall involving potatoes, stamps, etc. I love the look of these hanging outside in the sun. And I think I'm in love with the smell of Synthrapol. :D More photos in the next few days....



I have to write a bit about our weather which has been very strange lately. The last two nights we have been below freezing -- 23° on Friday night, 29° last night. Then on Saturday morning while driving over the Siskiyou Pass to Ashland and my class we were caught in a blizzard! I am really ready for summer to start in earnest PLEASE. My flowers and grapes have all been severely nipped by the frost and it's so frustrating!!!!