Woot Woot!

Yesterday I sold my mermaid bag. This is my first BIG sale. When I first saw it with my bleary eyes early in the morning, I had to shake my head to try to clear the fog. I thought I was imagining it! I took it out of its storage place this morning and lovingly packaged it up to start it on its journey out across the sea. It is hard to send such work so far away to a strange home but I imagine the...

More dye experiments

I told you I would try to post these pics today and I made it!These two velvets are made just a little differently. As I stated yesterday, I am afraid to use resists as it might damage the nap on this luscious fabric. I know that once you press a fold in this velvet it is permanent so Im not sure what would happen with a lot of tying and clamping, I do intend to find out though...with some small...

Back to Normal

My honey is home again and we spent two glorious days just being together. He came home with many prospects and we discussed them at length. We keep going back to the place in Oberhausbergen. Oberhausbergen is a small village adjacent to Strasbourg. The apartment is big. A large livingroom, seperate kitchen and two bedrooms. The one bedroom is a little odd shaped with an area that juts off at an...

Alone

I have been here for three days alone. I never realized how quiet or big this place could seem. It never bothered me when I knew D would be walking through the door each evening. It doesn't help that the iron deficiency has reared its ugly head again. We thought it was better and I quit taking the supplements. Well I am back to sleepless nights, fatigue and restless leg syndrome. Doc called about...

Moving Pains

I had planned on spending the day yesterday listing all these lovely new cloths and threads on my etsy shop. I am surrounded by a rainbow of luscious colors even as I speak! Well as with many good intentions...mine fell by the way side. I started out by trying to organize all of them near me so I could go through them in an ordered fashion. This is impossible in the set up I have now. Before I knew...

New Experiments

Sorry I have been so very quiet. I was lost in the winter landscape for awhile and decided to snap out of it with color. Lots of color. I have been on a dyeing frenzy like never before. Not only have I done up 12 gorgeous new pieces of velvet, I have also done 25 new flosses! In my down time I have been stitching on myPaisley Belt project and it is almost finished. I will try to get some...

Joybringer

I just wanted to make a quick post to tell you about this wonderful woman I met. She recently bought a piece of velvet from me and upon receiving it wrote me a letter telling me about how she was going to use it. It was quite a surprise! I have many customers tell me stories about what they are making with my velvets and floss but this one was a little different...I encourage you to go read this...

Color abounds!

I have been a busy, busy bee! A huge package came to the door the other day and what could it be? A nice big pile of gorgeous white velvet! SO exciting!I cleaned off the dye table, sorted my dyes and prepared to do some more dyeing.Right now as I sit here I have six lovely pieces of velvet and 9 floss colorways washing away in the machine. I cant wait to pull them out and see what magic has occured...

Contemplation

Excuse my silence lately. I seem to have lost my voice. The winter stretches on and the silence is deafening. I have been lost inside myself alot. Many thoughts running around in here.I have been sitting among thisand thisas I stitch on this...It is good to sit and stitch and contemplate. I have many changes coming in the near future. I am setting my thoughts in order and preparing myself to...