Last month, I was preparing for an upcoming workshop and spent four solid days cutting fabric to get ready. I was using my Cricut machine and the Silhouette I purchased two years ago to speed the process up. Using both machines for such a large project ga…
Continue Reading →Back in January, I wrote about three show quilts I wanted to complete this year. But as my year ended up being much busier than I'd anticipated (I started my tenure as a SAQA Board Member, I picked up more teaching and writing gigs, and I traveled to seve…
Continue Reading →Back in October, Alex and I attended Illuxcon for the first time. Illuxcon (IX) is a convention for imaginative realism artists to gather, exhibit, and share appreciation for fantasy/sci-fi art. It was fabulous. IX is held in the GoggleWorks Center for …
Continue Reading →When designing a realistic scene, adding a shadow under an object makes it feel like it has mass and is actually resting on whatever surface it's on. It's a simple solution for a pretty common situation. But sometimes implementing that solution isn't quit…
Continue Reading →Once a quilt has been quilted, it's time to trim the excess sandwich in preparation for finishing the edge. This is the position I found myself in after finishing my newest creation, Echoes of Time and Magic, earlier this week. Assuming the quilt is a sq…
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