Artober 4th

Artober 3rd Into 4th Project After posting yesterday evening’s entry, I had some free time, so I decided to start another page.  My initial inspiration came from this YouTube video by Cate Field.  It’s not that different from things I’ve done before, such as some pages inspired by Diane Antone (also to be found on […]

Leaf Gel Prints

Gel Printing with Leaves I’d been wanting to play around with gel-printing leaves again, so one day recently I decided to do just that.   Apart from the gel plate and brayer, it doesn’t take much—just some acrylic paint and a handful of leaves gathered from outdoors.   Usually, you start with a darker color of paint.  […]

Crumb Quilt Top Finished

Just a quick update today!   I finished putting together those strips of crumbs and denim.  The result is stay-stitched, folded, and put away for quilting at a later date.   A few photos (though there’s not much to see, really): Not much more to say about this one! When I went to look at the leftover […]

Crumbs & Gel Prints

I feel like I’m perpetually behind schedule, so far this month.  (It’s been busy!)  Still, I want to take just a few minutes to update this blog so that it doesn’t get too far behind (and I don’t fall out of the habit of updating it… again). Last time, I wrote that I thought I’d […]

Bitcoins & Playing with Paint

Since last time, I’ve finished building the long strips/columns for the “Bitcoin” quilt.  Next was joining them along the vertical edges.  Such long, twisty pieces are not easy to lay out and arrange, so I decided to just let it be completely random.  I tried to mix earlier strips with later ones to get a […]