Category: Making

A large cloth

I’m excited to be starting another journey with Jude Hill’s Patchwork in Perspective series. She’s hosting this third part, which relates to scale, including Large Cloth, at her spiritcloth blog directly, not in a...

Joining stitches 11 – 14

The joins are complete for now. 21 squares, seven strips of three. This has been a really worthwhile project. The sampler concept helped me overcome my anxiety about starting a new unknown stitch. I...

Joining stitches 7 – 10

Time to catch up on the joining sampler, having suddenly sped up this project. The end is in sight. If I don’t join more panels than 21 in groups of 3, I have four...

Joining Stitch 6

Back to my joining sampler after some disruption. Due to the Coronavirus pandemic? I’m not sure. Maybe due to a dyeing workshop and its aftermath. Or due to finishing my panel for the 25...

Starting weaving – again

I’ve started weaving at least twice before in my lifetime, but didn’t get very far. Weaving should be simple in theory, but it is really kind of technical with a lot of terminology and...

Dyeing with extracts – wrapup

I brought home two plastic bottles of dye from the dyeing workshop and used these leftovers to dye some additional fabric and yarn samples. Here’s some photos.

25 million stitches panel

This panel is finished! I’m mailing it off to Sacramento today. 25 Million Stitches project This is a community art installation. We are asking volunteers to hand stitch on fabric panels. We now have...