Glow!

  I manipulated this photo of succulents and now it glows. This may be one to play with for a Spoonflower printed fabric. More to come!

Playing with Kaleidoscope images

I spent my snow day yesterday playing on Spoonflower with some of the kaleidoscope images that I had taken a week or so ago. I can't find a way to show the yardage but these at least show some of hte changes I made in Photoshop to get different effects. I am not getting anything printed but they are saved on Spoonflower for future use. The last one when I do a mirror image of it looks really great almost like cuneiform writing on a clay tablet. hat it started out as was the handles on my kitchen cabinets.

This is one of the new pieces that I have just completed based on photos of tree ring slices. I work with the image in Photoshop Elements, print through Spoonflower, and then go into the piece and start adding additional paint and stitching. This is part of new series and I have much to explore. I like these pieces because they seem like large abstracts canvases to me. This one is 54 inches wide x 68 inches tall. It is printed on a cotton canvas so there is texture in the material to begin with and I have backed it very stiffly so they feel like paintings. It was not fun stitching on this AT ALL.

 

Full

Detail

Miles and miles of stitching

I have been working on a new water reflection piece. I had one of Venice photos that was very painterly enlarged and printed thorugh Spoonflower. The piece  is about 9 feet long. I have been stitching away on it, adding the line work to create movement across the water.

 

Article in Quilting Arts

I have an article on digital design and printing using an online printer in the December/January issue of Quilting Arts. Please check it out. Available online at QuiltingArts.com or on the newstands.

I am excited to see the cloth and the words in print! This is my 3rd article with Quilting Arts. They also published my DVD -  Three Dimensional Fiber Art: Shape and Texture, Light and Shadow, which has been doing well.

Having spent so much of my previous career in publishing from the publisher end, it is fun to be an author.