What I'm Working On
Weekly updates on what's happening in the studio
Hours and hours of stitching and this beautiful little picture is complete. I decided to change it from a 5X7 image to a 5X5 square... partly because of the way the image looked as a square and...
This photo was taken by a good friend while staying at a vineyard in British Columbia. As soon as I saw it, I knew this would make a spectacular thread painting, but I wasn't certain I could do it...
Just finished stitching the final grasses on this course sample for the Embroiderers' Association of Canada. This image was taken from the dock at my parent's home in rural Manitoba. The channel...
I can see this is going to get out of hand! I simply LOVE the look of the cotton sashiko thread on denim and am now looking for ANYWHERE that I can add it.
I've been asked if visible mending can...
I can't get enough of visible mending.
I'm embarrassed to admit that my daughters and I succumbed to the recent trend of buying super worn and pre-ripped jeans (why???) and now that it's...
It's been a marathon, but I am finally finished "Spring Solitude", a wall quilt designed to enter the call for the SAQA Exhibit "Renewal". I don't have a lot of experience in sewing wall quilts...
I am trying something new.
I have been saving this 1.5m wide sunset for YEARS waiting for the right time to use it. It has lots of purple and too much bright yellow to use easily, so I've...
My mother and I decided to sign up together for the "Just Get It Done Quilts" sewing room de-clutter challenge. My mom, Susan, is an avid quilter creating more quilts in a year than seems humanly...
Many of my fabric landscapes are inspired by the sky fabric, so I like to have a number of painted skies on hand to choose from. Something about beginning a new year, or maybe just having time...
I could spend all day, every day, hand-stitching. I love to embroider and in my fabric landscapes, the finishing touches added with thread is my favourite part. I first heard of "crazy quilting"...
I don't have a lot of unfinished sewing projects. In fact, I have a very difficult time moving on to a new project when the first one isn't finished. This might be due to my small studio space or...
