Art Abandoned

Helping Handmade Classes – they’re off and running!

The end of this month marks the launch of our first few classes at Helping Handmade. If you haven’t read about it here on my blog, it’s my pet project (totally labor of love right now) to get people crafting so they will reuse and recycle rather than buying new!

The first of [...]

Crazy quilting meeting and Helping Handmade classes update

Yesterday was our monthly Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters meeting (http://www.rmcq.org/) and we had some fun!

We swapped our Round Robin blocks. Here are mine! I only added a few embellishments to this, but I had to put the whole block up…aren’t the colors gorgeous? The embellishments and fabrics all go so beautifully! This one is [...]

Sitting at a coffee shop and observations

One of the great things about working at home is that I meet clients in great coffee shops…in this case a wonderful one at the Tattered Cover book store in Denver. Poor me!

I’m sitting here as kids descend from the high school across the street and I’m amazed at how times have changed. Every [...]

Gifties and doing some more round robins!

I’m here! And have been diligently getting ready for our next RMCQ meeting – we’re doing a round robin and so here are my two blocks. I did a black and white feather stitch and then a silk ribbon feather stitch with the roses to create a spray. Easy and I’m happy with how it [...]

A new website for a Happy New Year!

I’m in the middle of a little blog reconstruction – most notably because I’m launching a new site.

This is a “soft launch” right now, to just get the word out and line up a few more teachers (the ones I have lined up will be posted soon!). The concept of the site [...]