Values Clarification
The artistic kind, not the money or morals kind. 🙂 I was watching a Quilting Arts video from Season 2, and quilter Katie Pasquini Masopust was saying that she stores her fabrics by… Continue reading
Category Archive: Colorious
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Digital Collage with Fabric
For weeks I have been trying to figure out how to take my own fabric swatches and digitally blend them with specific shapes, to use in art quilts. Even though I have a… Continue reading
Summer Dye Wrap-up
I had a lot of fun this summer finding out what colors I could get from plants here on the farm.  Most of them were bland tans, but a lot of them were… Continue reading
Colorious Results
All summer I have been experimenting with natural dyes from the plants in my yard. After getting many wonderful yellows, I was full of anticipation to try pokeberries and get red for a… Continue reading
Colorious II
Every weaver worth their thread does sample pieces called gamps, to try different threadings, or yarns, or colors – or all of the above-Â in one reference piece. Â These color gamps are… Continue reading
Colorious Weaving
These are some of my weaving samples from over the last 30 years. I have always been more of a Textile Experimenter (Experimentalist? Experimentician?) than a Textile Expert. Magazine articles and workshops constantly introduced… Continue reading