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Why I love the French knot
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 also…
Photo to Thread Painting
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…
Capturing moments in thread
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 of water is protected from the lake and is the most amazing spot to see...
Why stop at mending?
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 be done with regular 6-strand embroidery floss or perle cotton, and of...
My latest obsession
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 not so cool, there seems to be an enormous number of holes to be repaired!...
Branching Out
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 with binding as I prefer to stretch my artwork around a frame, or with a...
The Sky’s the Limit
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 decided to slice it into squares and piece it back together as the background...
New Year Purge
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 possible. Her scrap pile is wonderful to look through and I find myself...
Paint the Sky
Many of my fabric landscapes are inspired by 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 over the holidays to sort through my fabric drawers, has prompted me to paint!...
I Spy with My Little Eye
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" almost 30 years ago in a class with Judith Baker Montano, and over the...
