From a photo I took at my mother's cabin last summer. Threadpainting. I LOVE IT!!

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This is one of my favorites.

Made a sandwich here of old papers, pictures and dried grasses while going for a walk. Free motion stitched and added a Lacey paper border from a background page. Used a blanket stitch to finish it off.

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Wire wrapped metal butterfly w/ Ice Resin wings, & a copper & Ice Resin raindrop charm (just behind the butterfly)...packaged on a free motion stitched fabric tag. created 3.13

Linked up w/ Friday ICE Linky Party!: www.vintiquitiesworkshop.blogspot.com/2013/03/friday-ice-...

Close up of the bib portion with the scrabble tiles I drilled to make beads .I wanted to capture the folk art quality of the Gee Bend quilts and also quilt part of the necklace so the bib portion is all pieced and free motion quilted by me.

The first step was adding tiny drops of color to the center of the feathers.

From a photo I took at my mother's cabin last summer. Threadpainting. I LOVE IT!!

blogged at www.mysweetprairie.blogspot.com

close up of the stitching and the scrabble tiles. I purposely used a contrasting thread so you could see my purposely irregular stitching, mimicking the truly handmade nature of the inspiration quilt.

And here you can see the thread spools I painted, decoupaged with fabric scraps and made into tassells with cotton crochet thread in black and white.

I've made a couple of New Year Resolutions. The first is to learn to use my camera better and take more photos. The second is to draw more and to get back into stitching. So here I'm combining the two!

Tutorial for Free Motion Heart Garland Here!

detailed close up of free motion stitching on my field trip bag.blogged here:

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Fabric journal page.

The same step in the process- pre- spritzing. I used copper, meadow, citrus, lettuce, stream, purple twilight and pitch black alcohol inks.

Butterfly and flower Kindle cover

Garden Pixie with Mushroom Hearts

I draw with thread on top of layers of fabric and paper.

Here is the inspiration quilt.

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you could found it here on this link on Slillshare.

The entire necklace with a neutral background. I will have my daughter model it later this week so you can see how great it looks on a person.

Spring snowdrops forever your kindle sleeve

The neck portion is just chain and a toggle I attached with irregular antique brass rings at the edge of the bib portion.

My bib necklace with the inspiration photo.

A birthday card I made for my niece. Fabric & free motion stitched cupcake w/ handmade polymer clay heart.

~ 1.12

Made with fabric that I tried many techniques on and then added all sorts of embellishments and stitching.

In honor of a book I read this spring entitled Happy For No Reason by Marci Shimoff.

I AM happy for no reason. :)

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Garden Pixie with Mushroom Hearts