I like making little projects along with all the big projects I do. It’s very satisfying to finish something in a short amount of time. These place mats are made with my hand dyed fabrics, using the Fancy Forest pattern from Elizabeth Hartman. I was a little hesitant to start this pattern because of all…
Category Archives: hand dyed quilting fabrics
Unfurling
Yippee I’m a winner! My quilt “Unfurling” took first place in the Innovative Pieced category at the IQA show in Houston TX last week. I feel very humble and honored to have received such a wonderful award. Here I am grinning ear to ear with the quilt at the awards ceremony. My mom would be…
More fun in my dye class
I love how excited students get taking my dyeing class – Flooded with Color. Here are a few more examples from students who were in my class at PIQF a few weeks ago. Dear Frieda, I thoroughly enjoyed my first ever dyeing class – thank you. I had double the fun – dyeing in class…
Fabric to Dye For
My book on fabric dyeing is now back in print! Yipee It has been out of print for several years, but I now have many copies for your dyeing fun. Don’t miss out on this very easy and fun book. It will help you to create a flood of color to enliven your quilting projects.…
Two Days Left to get Birthday discount
May is my birthday month and it’s almost over, BOO HOO, but to celebrate I am offering all the items in my shop on SALE. You have two days left to get the discount! Type in the code Birthday to receive your discount. Happy Birthday to ME!!
Marking the quilt top
When I first started doing free motion machine quilting, I really didn’t want to take the time to mark my quilt tops and so I learned to do all kinds of continuous line quilting free motion quilting. That served me well for a very long time. But over time, we change, and our likes evolve,…
Rejection is tough
Rejection is always tough. You don’t understand why something you think is great isn’t accepted into a show. BUT you must remember that judging and aesthetics is all arbitrary. Anyway that’s what I tell myself. But I do know for a fact that when I judge a show, and I have judged many, there is…
One last Rainbow Stripe inspiration
I can’t help myself I want to share one more Rainbow Stripe inspiration story. This one is probably my favorite, because I love this way of working. Laughing Leaves collage quilt is a fun way to work with lots of color to achieve great movement and depth in your fused compositions. I have made several patterns…
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…
New fabric gradations
I have been dyeing up a storm getting ready for three upcoming shows. When I am in this intense dye mode I always start experimenting with new color combinations for my hand dyed fabrics. I have posted six new color combinations on my website. Tell me what you think of them. They are named, in…
Yummly
I say this over and over again, but I love dyeing fabric. I am always surprised and happy when I wash out fabrics and then get to have the pleasure of ironing them. Two really interesting fabrics appeared this week, along with all the usual suspects. Special Edition 4 – Orange Magenta “flower” design is…
Two beautiful fabrics
I have been busy dying fabric for my upcoming classes. I had some left over dyes and made some really interesting pieces. These two are just yummy. The first one reminds of something from India –fabric 1 -sold, and the second one is one of my favorite color ways -fabric 2-, blues and greens. These…