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book review –Layered Textiles

Author:Kim Thittichai

Hardcover:128 pages Publisher:Batsford (October 4,2011) Language:English ISBN-10:1849940088 ISBN-13:978-1849940085

I have so many good things to say about this new book by Kim Thittichai that it’s hard to know where to start! So I’ll start right at the beginning with the cover. Yes you read that [...]

Stop the presses!

The first Sketchbook Challenge E-zine is now available for purchase!

Available for download right now for only $9.99!

The Sketchbook Challenge E-zine is 83 full color pages of creativity,inspiration and projects! Click here to peek inside!

What you’ll find inside…Learn how to draw a pinecone with Jane LaFazio [...]

inside out II

Inside out II

52″x38″hand dyed sandwashed cotton

You can’t tell from the photo but all the black lines are hand cut (no rotary cutters used here!),Mistyfuse‘d in place and then machine stitched over. In fact,the entire quilt is all done by Mistyfuse’ing the hand cut [...]

book review:Inside the Creative Studio

Inside the Creative Studio:Inspiration and Ideas for Your Art and Craft Space by Cate Coulacos Prato Paperback:160 pages Publisher:Interweave Press (November 15,2011) Language:English ISBN-10:1596683988 ISBN-13:978-1596683983

This book is divided into six sections:A room of one’s own,Organization and storage,Flea Market Flair,Small [...]

texture reveal

Today is the reveal day for the last Fiberactions challenge word. The word was texture which was an easy one for me to work with…

“continuity”

18″x 24″

Materials used:silk,cotton,fluid acrylics,rayon floss,Mistyfuse,textile foil

detail view:

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weaving wednesday

remember the fabric I showed you I was weaving last week?

Well here it is cut from the loom:

The bottom piece is done with cotton batik and left to right on the top is cotton with a touch of gold metallic print on it,hand dyed silk cotton blend,commercial hand dyed cotton,[...]

books that unfurl –a free project

When I saw this months Sketchbook Challenge theme two images popped into my head. The first was the image of the spiral and the second was an image of an accordion style book:

A dos-a’-dos book (accordian) book is a great book structure because you can really have fun and get creativity with how [...]

sketch-in with me and Jane Davies

Jane Davies and I are doing another sketch-in event at Ink About it Westford Ma and registration is now open!

This time it is a two-day event,though you can sign up for either day or both. I’m really looking forward to teaching with Jane again,we had a great time at the last [...]

and the winner is….

Gunilla Borjesson!

You won the free copy of Masters Art Quilts volume 2!

Gunilla please email me at sue@suebleiweiss.com with your complete mailing address and I’ll have your book shipped out to you right away.

weaving wednesdays

I decided to move my weaving updates to Wednesdays since “weaving wednesday”sounds a bit more lyrical than “what’s on the loom fridays”. I may not have an update every week but if there’s something on the loom I’ll be posting about it on Wednesdays and so ….

I decided to pull out my [...]