Category: Fabric & Sewing

Can you resist collecting fabric scraps and dreaming up soft, cozy projects to create by the sewing machine, or by hand? I can’t. Hand Sewing is meditative and calming to me. I embrace (or hoard?) these soft art materials as well as buttons and beads… because I can’t resist!

Textile Love: Mending a quilt

I consider myself a collage artist and book maker first, but I also have this huge love for textile art. I…

Crafts/Fabric & Sewing

Sewing with pencil patterned fabric

Hi friends, let’s sew something shall we? I bought a beautiful pencil patterned fabric a few years ago “for mom”, but…

Creativity & Life/Fabric & Sewing

Quilted Christmas Table Runner

It’s time for some quilty pleasure, sewing for myself. It’s especially “bad” because I was supposed to create handmade gifts “for…

Fabric & Sewing

Book review: Freestyle Embroidery on Wool by Karin Derland

I think that Swedish artist Karin Derland makes a time-consuming and seemingly tedious craft like embroidery look like so much fun…

Fabric & Sewing/Read a book

Embroidered wool handbag

This summer I created a little handbag for quick outings or fancy parties perhaps… I love sewing into wool, so that’s…

Fabric & Sewing

Trip documented: Festival of Quilts Vlog

Since we’re not allowed to travel anywhere, I have been diving into past travels via photos and video clips. This month…

Creativity & Life/Fabric & Sewing

Making Luna Lapin – a book by Sarah Peel

Last year my mom (who loves sewing and quilting) bought the book Making Luna Lapin by Sarah Peel, and we got…

Fabric & Sewing/Read a book

You’ve gotta have Moxy

Moxy is definitely not a word I learned in school when the English language was on the curriculum… But when I…

Creative People/Textile Art

Don’t go breaking my Beaded Heart now

A beaded heart I made, part of a recent embroidery exhibition. A Beaded Heart The reason for this was a heart…

Textile Art

Always try New Things

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right? Michelle Obama This weekend…

Creative People/Fabric & Sewing

The Embroidered Heart and the Fear of Failure

I love the beautiful symbol of love and its many pains; the heart. I’ve been obsessed with the heart shape for…

Crafts/Creativity & Life/Textile Art

Embroidery Workshop | How to stitch a Heart – with LOVE

This weekend I sent out a Newsletter announcing that my darling embroidery workshop Stitch with Love, is up for grabs! I…

Fabric & Sewing/Mixed Media Experiments/Textile Art