Summer Setacolor Play Day

We decided to have a summer play day to do sunprinting. A group of us got together with kids ours and borrowed from siblings. Lol.....

This is 1/2 the room on their tables.
Maggie working hard on her piece.

Can you tell the kids had the run of the place.

Morgan was out checking the progress on one of her pieces.

Ginny was looking at all the different things used on the fabric.....leaves, spaghetti, rice, lentil beans, washers, stickers.....the list goes on.

One of Hellene's pieces.

Margaret loves her stars and spirals.

Lance, my nephew, loved the washers.

The leaves didn't show too much when this one was done. Oh well.

Lots of New Stuff

So much new stuff......new fabrics, new roving, new quilt, new socks.......



This is a batch of the new Kaffe Fassett and Joel Dewberry fabric we just got in from Westminster. It is actually what our online sale is this week. You get 15% off if you buy it from http://www.fiberonawhim.com/


More of the Joel Dewberry fabrics.

New colors of Lorna's Laces roving for needlefelting and wet felting.

Just finished and hung this small wallhanging I designed this morning. It is 22" w x 27" l. It is made from a panel in Lonni Rossi's new line of fabrics called Graceful Geishas with the border being from her older line Asian Harmonies.

I got asked to teach a sock class here so I decided to make up my own pattern for them. One is a simple stockinette stitch with the other being a swirling rib. These were fun and a challenge to write myself but I feel it turned out well.

Wow I'm bad!!

Well I've certainly fallen off on the postings huh?? Mom(Jan) went on vacation right after that last posting all the way through the 4th of July. I should look at her and say that I was having to do all her work too and couldn't post anything right?!! She'd probably just laugh. Her trip up to the New England states went as smoothly as possible. From Boston all the way up in to Maine. I have to laugh at her details of her Whale Watching cruise. All she can say is that she was thankful for the Dramamine!!!

We've been busy this week with lots of fun stuff from the Beaney/Littlejohn workshop, private knitting classes and a guild meeting here today. Hopefully tomorrow I should have some cool new pics of great fabric. At least I hope so as they sent it to the wrong destination last week and they are trying to find it!! Didn't know we could get lost so easily.

Hope everyone is having a great day. I'm off to photograph some socks I just finished and to write up the patterns for them.

Crochet Class Near!

Well I finished my first major crochet pattern successfully. I was able to read the pattern and it turned out!! Maybe in a couple of weeks I'll put up a Beginning Crochet class. Today is the 21st and I only learned to crochet on June 1st so look at what can be done! This pattern was in the new Interweave Crochet magazine and it uses Rowan Summer Tweed. Only sad part is looking at it just hang on the manequin. I think they need to make the manequins with a little more meat on the bones!!


Close up of the overlap area. The cool thing about this pattern was that it was worked as 1 piece. The only seams were at the shoulder. Everyone that hates finishing work has got to love that. Now if only I can figure out how to do such a thing while knitting!

New Classes Announced

I guess this past week has been kind of low key for us. Really unusual but highly relished I might add. This week is getting back into the swing of things though. We have two classes this weekend with Sharon Ahmed. Friday will be Needlefelting and Saturday is Wetfelting so the roving will be a flying downstairs!! Then next Tuesday is Crazy Quilting w/Margaret Betz who is an amazing and inspirational artist.

New Classes Announced: (don't forget our Double Your Fun deal!!)
Basic Beading on Fabric w/Karla Stuber Aug 8th or Sept 22nd
Color Cups w/Stacy Michell Oct 4th or Oct 20th
Check out the website www.fiberonawhim.com for more info or to register.

Jan is getting ready for vacation and of course has been rubbing it in every day this week. She leaves on Friday for 9 days in the New England states. She has been collecting things for her bag for days now. She just painted Lutrador and cut them down to 4x6" so that she can embellish them along the way. She also cut down PFD cotton to the same size and has a travel watercolor kit and watercolor crayons already packed. We'll see how much she actually gets done on the trip!!!

I've attached a couple of photos Jan finally downloaded from her camera....you know all in preperation for this trip!!

This is what half of the basement looked like last Tuesday during the Beaney and Littlejohn class. Can you see how many machines these 4 women have.....yes that is 7 between all of them!!


This is a picture of the Dairy Barn in Athens, OH where Quilt National is held.



That is all I've got for now! I'll do my best to take some pictures of this weekend's class.

Fun at Fiber Art Fusion Meeting

Last night's meeting of Fiber Art Fusion was led by Heidi Miracle McMahill. She did a demo on watercolor crayons/pencils. Heidi showed us how she works on paper and fabric with these and the different effects you can get. Here are the things Jan and I did at the meeting.


Yellow flowers on cold pressed watercolor paper. - Jan

A bird and I'm guessing a field of flowers on fabric!! - Jan

A flower on fabric. - Kristin

A flower on fabric. This is a take on our block for this past year's Shop Hop. - Kristin

As you can see we need a lot more refinement if we are going to continue with this or use any of these. Sure was a lot of fun though.

So many new things......

We have been busy in this past week with trying to prepare for the start of the Beaney & Littlejohn classes that mom and Sharon Ahmed are teaching. Mom's downstairs now trying to prep her machines for tomorrow. If you can just imagine.....I think we are at 8 people coming in with 2 machines a piece (sewing machine and embellisher)!!! Oh the fun to be had downstairs!

Look at all the goodies she has down there.....it's enough to make your mouth drool.

Here is a pic of some of the new Heather Bailey Fresh Cut series we got in. It is an absolutely great line for spring/summer. A lot of fun colors and patterns.

I finally finished both purses. The pink one was crocheted. I just learned how to crochet on June 2nd and already I have a piece done. That's an awesome feeling.....now if I can just figure out what to do next with the few stitches I know. The purple bag is knit. My aunt and I challenged each other to try cables for the first time and chose this purse. I'm finally done!!!

A close up of the diagonal cable.

A close up of the single crochet stitch. Color is a little off on this pic....gotta work on that.