Here’s what I made out of my bottle-cap rusted fabric. I’m calling it Rusted I. While brown is not a color I usually work with, I'm liki...

Since the 2009 Quilting Arts calendar is now out, I can reveal my piece, "Home Planet,” which was selected for the month of April, beca...

I went with some friends, Cathy and Michele, to see the Asheville Quilt Show this weekend, and after that we wandered down to Cloth Fiber Wo...

About two weeks ago, I spoke to the Foothills Quilters Guild of Shelby, North Carolina (a wonderful, friendly group, by the way), and I star...

Yep, vinegar works better. Tying the rusty objects into the fabric also helps. Here are the same rusty bottlecaps I used yesterday, only I u...

I've been eager to try rust dyeing for a while now, and yesterday I came across Bonnie McCaffery 's interview with one of the rust d...

I'm in the last few weeks of my online Studio Journals class, and I've been working on some ideas for some new art quilts. Our instr...

Yesterday, I discovered that the LCD screen on my Canon PowerShot SD400 digital camera was damaged. I have no idea how it happened. Those ph...

Yesterday I was at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, and set myself the job of taking photos of lines. All but the bottom row of ph...

I created this collage of circles for an exercise in my online class. This week's lesson is called "Looking, Hunting and Gathering ...

Through the online class I'm taking with Sharon Boggon, I was introduced to an addictive piece of software on the internet where you can...

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...