Making Faces

by | Oct 30, 2015 | Art Quilts, Design, Quilting

This has been a busy week with most of my creating art time spent working on several birthday and Christmas gifts (pictures later but don’t want to spoil the surprise for recipients). Last weekend, however, I had a chance to take a really fun workshop AND get in...

Playing with acrylic

by | Oct 8, 2015 | Design, Sewing

I’ve talked before about my experiments with acrylic paint but today I’m talking about an entirely different thing.  Stephen has been wanting to try making something with heavy duty plexiglass sheets and he recently found a project: a sewing machine...

Colour Challenge – shades of gray

by | Oct 5, 2015 | Design

It has been a few weeks since I posted a colour challenge but I have been continuing to play with my acrylic paints. This week, I was focused on finding a spectrum of shades and tones in my scrap stash. Since I was experimenting with adding gray (or grey) to colour,...

Drawing challenged

by | Oct 4, 2015 | Art Quilts, Design

I am a writer, a list maker, a planner.   I am most definitely NOT a person who can draw much of anything that would be recognizable without a label.  Not entirely true, I guess because I can manage things like fruit or line drawings of fish or simplified animals....

Hacking Becksvoort

by | Sep 14, 2015 | Design, Inspiration, Woodworking

Today’s post is written by Stephen Parsons. In the August edition of Fine Woodworking Christian Becksvoort presented an article on making a traditional Shaker laptop writing desk. His version uses dovetail joinery and features a small drawer at the side of the...