It’s the fifteenth of the month, and that means it is time to reveal the next Bohemian Bouquet block in my mystery block-of-the-month progra...

My local guild, Lake Norman Quilters, is having a Christmas in July bazaar at our meeting next Tuesday, July 22. We are all bringing items t...

Have you heard about Spoonflower? It is a company just down the road from me in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that is building a company that ...

I created this snowflake for this week’s Studio Journal lesson. The little diagram at the top left shows me how I did it, so I can repeat it...

The Pandoras had our annual dye day today. The day was blessedly less humid, although still plenty hot, but we had shade in Grace's gara...

WARNING: DeLane, if you are reading this, go away! Spoiler Alert! Tomorrow is the July meeting of the Pandoras (a group of four fiber artist...

I am totally in love with this new mechanical pencil (above) by Bohin, a French notions company. I had been using the Clover mechanical penc...

I just had to share a few photos of an amazing birthday party my neighbors down the street had for their 8-year-old son yesterday. They buil...

I just took the Jung/Enneagram Personality Test on Similar Minds.com , a website with enough personalilty tests to keep you busy for a long,...

This is the third week of my online class, and one of the exercises is paper cutting. I had a lot of fun cutting into colored paper to creat...

For the class I'm taking on joggles.com, I created these color studies. I cut one-inch squares of colors from magazines, and then sorted...

This is a page in the sketchbook I am working in for my Studio Journals class. This week we are working with color, and one of the things th...

Here are photos of some of the exercises I am doing for my studio journal online class. The first two are frottage, or rubbings, done with a...

I have just started my first online class, "Studio Journals: A Designer's Workhorse," with Sharon Boggon , offered through Jog...

All work has come to a standstill here now that the mail carrier arrived with Rayna Gillman 's new book, Create your own hand-printed cl...

I had a great day yesterday in Rock Hill, South Carolina with the warm and welcoming York County Quilters showing them some surface design t...