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Two weekends ago I spent the day pulling prints.  The end result looks pretty good.  I meet next week with CA (watercolor and pen and ink), Cindy (water based oil), and another "challenge" participant Donna (pastel), (my mom (collagraph) also participated and I have her results) when we plan to do a Show and Tell.  I promise to share all the final results then, so we can see

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So we are a few weeks into our challenge.  I have seen a value study from Carole-Ann and the base oil "color placement" from Cindy, and was told by my mom (who is joining in on the challenge) that she has tried twice so far at a collagraph, she feels she hasn't quite gotten it yet.   This last weekend I finally got to planning my block print. My process and thinking is

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As I wrote before, I spent a week on Monhegan Island last summer with two artists friends, Carol- Anne Centre and Cindy Hendrick.  We rented a cottage with a studio and we all did our "art" for the week.  It was very special to be a part of this and I spent the entire week working on my new artistic endeavor, block printing (it felt like I was away at art camp but with wine and

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These late fall and winter months I have been working on a fun project.  It is a custom order, and most unusual, I have had a luxuriously long amount of time to work on it.  The client is not yet in their beautiful new home, (being built) and I have Monday through Friday commitments that are not felt making. (aka a new job)  So the designer Laurie McDowell, who met me many years

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Checking my inbox and headlines this morning I noticed an MSN post on the trend and style updates from the Stockholm Furniture Fair. The fair is this week, trend reports hit the news media up to two months ago preparing fair-goers (designers) what to get excited about. It was also trending on Bing, Yahoo and Xinhua e-news search engines:  The below report is directly from

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Hat Band for Steven's leather hat.  Attached, boxed and mailed today.  It should arrive in Virginia in two to three days.  I can't wait to get a photo of it on Steven's head!  And yes Alpaca lovers, this is the second time I have felted with this fiber.  It is very fuzzy! great for the band that gets to replace a furry fox band!

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Those of you who follow me on Facebook, will know this past Summer we got a dog.  He is a rescue, from South Carolina.  I assume he will be chilly as the New England colder months set in.  This morning it was 32 degrees so we bundled up.  Yes I knit him a Dog Sweater.  And it has a cute hood on it.  Buddy puts up with it, but after a long walk he literally shakes

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Did I mention that I have weekends back again?  And when one is motivated, how much one can actually get done over a weekend?   #2 I have had this bolt of turquoise fabric I won as a final contestant in the Norwalk Sofa Design Contest two years ago!  Wow yes, that was two years ago when I met Candice Olson.  So I finally made something of the 8 yards a fabric; a

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Wow the last post date was a long time ago!  Well a lot of life has certainly been happening, good things all, but it has made my posting time fall to the way side.  So no more time to spare, in the next couple of weeks I will catch you up with all the things I am finally catching up to!  Do we all have To-Do Lists?  The Oxford Dictionary says: Definition of to-do list

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Here we go, I had a very productive day last week and am pretty pleased with my first trial.  I definitely learned a few things, and as students of mine know from classes I teach, have given myself a healthy bit of self-critique.  To coin Martha, "It's a good thing" (critiques, that is!) As my inspiration was wood block printing, which I am still planning on doing,

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If you have been following my ruminations here and on the Festive Fibers Facebook page, you will notice my newest interest in the medium of Printmaking.  Sure, as a textile designer and trained artist I have done some sort of printing over the years, lino-cut, silk screen, relief printing, stamping, etc. But as a textile designer I have never really focused my creative powers to this medium,

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      As I started this post a month ago I was wishing everyone a Happy New Year!  Now it is days away from Valentine's Day, and snow is coming down as we sit on the edge of an historic New England Blizzard.  This past of New Hampshire, often just lies on an outer edge, so we have about 8-10 inches rather than 18-24 inches (thank goodness!)  Probably

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I am almost finished with my mermaid design group, and it is too cute!  I am working on a tiny loopey texture and the other coordinate is umbrella tops!! (Cute and a bit retro too!)  But now that I have a cutest GIRLY pattern set - think sheets and PJs, and a mermaid mobile - I feel the need to do a BOY companion, and I have just the right bit of inspiration... Gondolas!&nbsp

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It is all in the details...this collage shows you what I mean by how I see things.  I think some times my mind works like those macro lenses on cameras, thank goodness I have a decent zoom on my little digital Olympus.  These shots were taken in Milan, Florence and Lucca Italy.  and this collage is an ode to pattern and specifically "motif".  Enjoy!

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Some more glimpses through my photos, and today I am concentrating on food and the markets we visited. The second day in Milan on our way in, we stocked up at a farmers market, to see more images from that outting click here. As we visited the many hill towns and even the super grocery store near our house, being the foodie I am, I simply took it all in.  The end of our trip was in Venice.&

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Florence Well you see correctly, we have just returned from a 15 day trip to Tuscany, Italy. Tom asked me towards the end of our trip if I was freshly inspired, the answer was unequivocally, yes! But what was I inspired to do?  That is the more interesting question.  Many of you know I am a fiber artist, but I am also a trained painter/artist, watercolor being my favorite medium,

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Wow how this summer is flying by!  We are planning a trip to Italy in the Fall and that is taking up some of my mental space.  I have been diligently but slowly working on my painted designs and am loving my current theme...Mermaids. This croque is a peek at the fun I am having!!  I am playing around with the idea of making greeting cards with some of my newest design bits

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These pillows are fun and quirky, I am calling them Wheels and Sprockets.  They have funky lavender pompom trim and are backed with a woven linen, edged in a teeny squared off decorative stitching.  They sit upon my famous Mary Chair!

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If you haven't been following the fast and furious posts on the Festive Fibers Facebook Fanpage, I am putting up a small grouping of pillows onto my Etsy shop.  The three bottom pillows are currently in the shop and this funky lavender pair (shown half done) will soon follow.   Purchase pillows here! Dark Teal RED FLOWER PILLOW Dark Teal STARS PILLOW Turquoise pillow with YELLOW

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I know there are quite a few of you out there who have been pondering this on-line way of learning, we've spoken, but for those of you just in the I wondering phase, I am putting up this post to share a fantastic class and project, and show the progression of 4 weeks!  PLEASE NOTE the designs shown here are the property of Deb K. Deb chose to do the Upholstery Fabric class, and with the

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 Boy I cannot believe it is a month since I last posted.  In the past week or two I have been yard sale-ing (Thanks to a Saturday off on Memorial Day Weekend) with great friends.  I BOUGHT a ping pong table!  Which now fills the floor space in the studio.  I really need to sell that felting machine to make room for game time!!  I have been painting print designs

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Surface Design Portfoilio: Loving this first group, I think it still needs a smaller scale floral to add to the mix.

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Well, I cannot believe it is two months since my last post.  Yes, I guess I can, I have been going going going! We took a vacation to San Diego and Los Angeles the end of February, and after we returned, the weather here in So Western New Hampshire has been threatening SPRING in full force!  We had over a week of over 80 degrees in March, and now it is the middle of April and I have

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I recently visited NYC, my goals when I travel is to find treasures, be it shops, food delights or color, textiles and art, my eye looks for adventure.  I think that's whay I respond to the repeating pattern in things. Here are a few things I spied on my trip. See if you don't agree that I am funny about pattern and color, to read my whole entry and follow my tour through out Manhattan,

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I have just finished a couple of felted tea cups - one is an order, the other I will put on my Etsy site, but based on the comments I am getting on the Festive Fibers Facebook page, I better get busy and make many more of these!! What do you think?   The concept for the felted tea cup, I am sure is not a new one, years ago I was juried into SOFA and invited to participate in a

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