This week on CBS Sunday Morning they presented a themed show on the topic of cancer. A group of women, myself included were interviewed for a subsegment named, “The flat movement”. Read the CBS article related to the segment, A Matter of choice: Mastectomies without Reconstruction. And watch the individual segment here. I love the women I amContinue reading “CBS Sunday Morning +”
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Take a long sigh, steam and boil.
This week in Studio Melly, processing has been happening, it is time to steam and boil fabrics! I kind of think about these things as, designing, printing, processing. And right now, I am at the processing stage. The studio needed some clean up and neatening too. So I went through my backlog of printed fabrics, andContinue reading “Take a long sigh, steam and boil.”
This weekend in Studio Melly
It started with tickets to Jazz at Lincoln Center , a happy couple, and some great lighting. The show was amazing. My weekend continued with a request by my Man to change my cellphone lock screen to this image of David Bowie. And I couldn’t agree more. I remain ever grateful to have walked the earthContinue reading “This weekend in Studio Melly”
Out and about while binding a quilt
When I was a child, one of my favorite books was called, We Were Tired of Living in A House. Much like it sounds, the children in the family, packed their bags and headed out to make house in a tree, on the beach and so on. Ever in my life as an artist hasContinue reading “Out and about while binding a quilt”
Considering Color and Placement
In learning to use the concepts Carol and I present in Playful Fabric Printing, I have done a lot of experimentation (we both have). In retrospect, as I ponder my approach to using dye paste and printing as is described in our new book, I would say, at first I was exuberant, I threw caution toContinue reading “Considering Color and Placement”
Printing away the day.
This is a day of off-set printing and I am using the StencilGirl L498 Vine Swirl to do so. As an aside, when I was at the Fashion Institute of Technology, I took a screen-printing class. I loved it. My first print was a design based on shoes and I got to cut rubylith, which is suchContinue reading “Printing away the day.”
Lace Swirl print job (almost) complete.
There is some crazy mad Speed Printing going on over here. Thus far I have printed 29 Lace Swirl. Not all are pictured here, there are reds and purples that didn’t make the photograph. I need to round this job up to 30! This multicolor set has proven to be an easy 3 layer colorContinue reading “Lace Swirl print job (almost) complete.”
Stencils, Stamps, Thermofax, oh my!
Earlier this week, I started a Speed Print job using my Lace Swirl Kit and I spoke about the difference between using the L498 StencilGirl stencil and the Thermofax screen to color the swirl portion of the design. So, today, I wanted to update you and show you the difference between the two. The StencilGirl stencil allowsContinue reading “Stencils, Stamps, Thermofax, oh my!”
Threads, Resistance and being an art blogger
I am really happy to be a member of the group calling themselves, The Artist Circle. We are concerned people, also artists, who think civic duty is admirable. At the same time, being artists, we often depict our experience visually. These two ideas merged in this Call For Art on the topic of resistance. Threads ofContinue reading “Threads, Resistance and being an art blogger”
Lace Swirl: printed & book giveaway winner announced
First off? Julie H, comment #37, won my giveaway copy of Playful Fabric Printing!!! I am waiting to hear back from her now, Congrats Julie! As you know, I have released a line of stamps and am working with StencilGirl products to release a line of stencils. I am selling Kits (and soon individual stamps) though myContinue reading “Lace Swirl: printed & book giveaway winner announced”
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