I have been dyeing vintage linens for several years and love every color that results. We’ll, almost every color, but that’s why over dyeing was invented wasn’t it? This summer I have been trying to master the dyeing of wool but am finding it a …
Fresh from the Oven Dyeing fabric has been one of the most rewarding creative endeavors I attempt in relation to my passion for quilting. Up to the present I have dyed the cellulose fibers of cotton, linen, bamboo and rayon. Now the wool dye bug …
No, granola has little to do with quilting other than it’s a good healthy snack when you’re so motivated to quilt that you can’t leave the sewing room. My recipe seems to be well liked by many of my friends so I am sharing here.
4 cups old fashioned oats
2 1/2 cups chopped nuts of various and favorite kinds
1 cup coconut
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cardamom (gives it that little difference that makes it great!)
Mix all in large mixing bowl.
In 2 cup measuring cup mix together
3/4 cup total of maple syrup and honey in proportions to your liking
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup brown sugar
Pour over dry ingredients and stir to moisten all ingredients. Cover two cookie sheets with parchment paper and pour the mixture onto the two pans. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes and then turn the oven off. Stir the heated mixture and let sit in the oven overnight or about 6 hours. Store in covered containers.
This was such fun!! I dyed some sale fabric that was classified as home dec by Riley Blake at Hickory Stick Quilt Shop. Cut some petals from some leftover metallic linen and cotton blend from Essex by Robert Kaufman and threw in some petals from …
My photo of dyed linens and linen fabric did not transfer with last post. Enjoy the colors of nature.
I was so inspired by the view from my kitchen window of the trees turning on their spring colors that I got out the dye. From yellow greens of early leaves to emerald greens as they reach full growth with the blue of sky peeking through I think I captured it! I dyed my usual vintage linens but also caught the images of spring on this 80 cotton, 20 linen fabric from Robert Kaufman.
My first published design is now available in the summer issue of Quilts and More magazine. With the support of Hickory Stick quilt shop I designed a bench pillow using fabrics selected by the staff there. Two other designers of the magazines choosing used the …
I have not used blue in quilts for a while so when this new fish fabric came in with bright coral type print a panel-like quilt came to mind. Simple squares sewn into a nine patch formation surround the larger squares and rectangles. I’m thinking …
Thanks to Hickory Stick Quilt Shop in Hannibal, Missouri for inviting me to be their guest designer as they selected the fabrics and one of three projects for the Scrap Lab Challenge, a featured article in Quilts and More magazine. The magazine and project kits will be available at Hickory Stick April 24. Bench pillows continue to be a popular quilted project. Check out all the patterns you can make and change out as seasons change.
It was intense concentration as students worked on their artful collage titled “Nothing Gold Can Stay”. My hand dyed vintage linens we’re the base with felted leaves, painted Tyvek leaves, and painted fusible web leaves being placed on the background with beautifully organic embroidery stitches. …