Crazy Quilting in Little Steps

Starting with a 4x6 piece of Muslin

Adding on a 2nd piece, you stitch through all 3 pieces fold over , press and repeat

My moms mothers day card

Turn into a card or finish a few and make a pillow or finish alot and make a blanket

My favorite stitching book that I still don't own...

Art Quilt Kit Before

Discharged Fabric with Gelatin Monoprint using textile paint

Metal Chains and Wool Roving

3 yarns

Sulky,Aurifil,Beading thread Beads and  Silk Square

Indigo Dyed Dryer Sheet
Commercial Fabric
Hand dyed Fabric

Kit as a whole
All the kits will include things you see here. They are all individualized though, so no two have the same things in them. Excluding the thread, but I will talk more about that at a later date...
All are easily transportable.
You provide the batting, backing fabric, binding and border fabric and needles.

The Art Quilt

The art quilt is a new endeavor, a chance at something new. I started making art quilts in 2005, at first I was just unsure of what I was supposed to be doing.  I like traditional quilting and felt and still feel that it is therapeutic to follow the rules and have an item that is purposeful.

After the 3rd art quilt I made, I just gave up. I went into the next one with no goal, only the intention of learning new skills.  This turned out to be the way to travel...finally letting go and just working on new skill sets. I have fallen in love with this kind of quilting and wanted to share it with everyone. A traditional quilter gone rogue...

This is a current art quilt I am working on.

I am going to sell pre-assembled art quilts in my shop Burnt Toast Ranch.

For this project I picked a word --Passages and sewed until it looked like a passage. 

My life, my soul for others to see.

"Passages"

Zombies

This is what I worked on this last week--250 zombie cookies. 2 days to bake and 2 days to frost. This was a fun gift to give to the students as a subtle reminder to keep their zombie plans close to the surface.
I purchased them here www.etsy.com/listing/109116006/zombie-cookie-cutters-halloween-themed?ref=shop_home_active

They are formed out of copper and can be rebent to make the zombies all look a little different-fat, thin etc.  The hatchets were my favorite and are from the early 1900's.

Ombre

This is right after it was hung up on the drying rack.

1 hour later

After it was set washed and ironed.

 I have struggled with ombre dying for the last year. I never seem to get it right....try try again. These were beautiful even before they were dyed and I was so worried that I would ruin yet another item with ombre dyeing.

Photographed for the shop and listed.

After they had dried they still didn't look correct. I had mixed another vat of indigo that day that was pretty strong so I repeated the process, this time in the new vat. Let them dry again and was thrilled with the surprise.










I would have kept them for myself but the DH is hitting the limit on the amount of stuff I am keeping. LOL Our home is like a commercial fabric store, I just need a sign on the front of our property!
I usually don't realize things have not turned out until they are on the ironing board, my happiness was so joyful that I realized they needed done again while still on the drying rack!
                                                                         Go here
to look at more pics or to purchase  www.etsy.com/listing/129927973/set-of-2-linen-shibori-hand-dyed-indigo?

Sand Dollar

 I love the ocean and the peacefulness it gives. My dad made these stencils for me and I love them! Depending on how I situate them they look like sand dollars or oranges. I need to branch out and do some different colors.

Mom and I

This is my mom

 My mom came to visit for a week and a half. We convinced her to stay because of a science program my husband and I do at the school. Thank goodness because we got 2 awesome days of Indigo dyeing in.  I should post about the science program, I love the idea of art and science together but am still trying to mesh the two into a program for K-5th.


This was the beginning----->

Getting ready for the results 

Boom! Looks like barbed wire!