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Category Archives: fabric kits
More Rainbow Stripe inspiration
I dye multi colored hand dyed fabrics. I want to help quilters understand how to work with all these colors to their best advantage. So I’m doing a series on working with multi colored hand dyed fabric. I have found that I really like working with my Rainbow Stripe fabric, mainly because it gives me so…
Using multi colored hand dyed fabric
I’m finally back from a few weeks off blogging. I had shoulder surgery last Friday. This morning I saw the doctor who gave me the all clear to start working again. So I started blogging again too. I recently had a customer at a quilt show ask me about the hand dyed fabrics in my fabric kits…
BOOTH #1739 – is where all the fun happens at IQF in Houston
Will we see you in Houston? Laura and I will be at our booth #1739 – on the main aisle somewhere – if you are a SAQA, SDA, PAQA member or graduate of the Chicago School of Fusing, or participant in the FiberBeatles or made a pet postcard——— or just want to feel happy…
Always Dyeing
I am getting ready for my “big” push this summer. I have lots of teaching engagements and in order to keep up with all the kits I am always dyeing. I dye a little everyday. I dye all my fabrics flat on platters. Then they dry overnight on racks. …
Blushing Aspens
I recently received this email from a former student – Lois. I would like to share with you what she sent me.Frieda, here are a couple of photos of Blushing Aspens which I finally finished last night. I am really pleased with the results (although it can’t compare to yours). I made it for my sister…
Why do I love fabric?
I have been a sewer all my life. OKAY, maybe not ALL my life but since I was about 7 or 8 years old. My maternal grandmother was a beautiful seamstress and she made lots of cloths and things for my sister and I while we were growing up. Of course my mom can’t sew…
Making kits and machine quilting
I am working on machine quilting a triptych. I am quilting the last panel. It isn’t difficult quilting but I am really bored with it. I am currently listening to Laurie King’s The Language of Bees and it keeps my behind in the chair to work on this. These are all the tails from working…