Nine nines
I stitched a few one-inch squares every morning. Then I stitched them into strips of three. Then stitched three strips of three into nine-patches. Very satisfying and before I knew it, I had nine....
Author: Catherine
Modernist smocking
I learned this smocking technique from Annie Coggan, in an online class offered by Tatter Blue Library. Easy to do and makes quite a dimensional piece of fabric. Drawing the grid on the fabric...
Tiny indigo harvest
I was feeling embarrassed about my neglected dye garden and was continuing to ignore it. But an Instagram account I follow posted about her experiments dyeing little pieces of cloth with a small amount...
Late summer dyeing
My blogs were down for awhile. I changed something that had a drastic effect and it has taken awhile to get back to posting. My gardening blog is still not working right, in fact....
Foldable screen structure
Amazingly, I was able to attend Margo Klass’s workshop at Chapter Two. In person. In spite of the virus and catching a cold. Grateful. I always learn a lot from Margo and she inspires...
Cyanotype on linen
I really like how this turned out. My first cyanotype on fabric, specifically linen, using leftover chemistry from the goldenrod project. The composition is crowded but it gave me information on how the different...
Deep greens and blues
This is to document a therapeutic process more than an actual plan. Sometimes I just want to match colors and sort scraps as a kind of comfort. Today these blues and greens really spoke...