Cyber Monday Sale Now Open

Our Cyber Monday sale is now in effect and runs through 12/3. The discounts are as follows:

10% off Books, Tim Holtz, 7 Gypsies, Glimmer Mist, Scrapbooking and Metal Supplies
15% off Inkjet Fabrics, Patterns and Silk Items
20% off Thread, Notions, Paints (excluding Golden Fluid Acrylic), Dyes, and Paintstiks.
25% off Fabric (excluding $6/yd clearance fabric)

Don't forget Free Domestic Shipping on orders $75 and over. Items must be in stock to receive the discount.

Whoopee! We Survived Houston

International Quilt Festival, Houston 2010 is but a memory...we have survived to tell about it. After many long hours of setting up our booth Kristin is just a wee bit slap happy. Our booth is ready for opening night, even if we could have used a quick nap. They opened the doors at 5 PM Wednesday for Preview Night and the crowds were still there at 10 PM absolutely ready for a weekend of fun. Our booth looked pretty good when we finally finished, packed full of goodies just waiting to find a new home.

For those of you who have not been to Houston this is the Make It University "MIU" open classroom. We each taught 2 classes, we had loads of fun and hope all those who participated did too.

Kristin worked in Open Studios showing how she makes her Mixed Media Collages on watercolor paper on Satuday. Here she is enjoying chatting with the attendees. She also made several ATC (Artist Trading Cards) for trading. Attendees come to the "tree" in MIU just to trade their artwork and chat with like minded souls. Kristin enjoyed trading her little pieces of art.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to shop and chat. We love seeing old friends and making new ones. We are now off to the Mancuso show in West Palm Beach, FL; November 12-14....stop on by.

Yippeeeeee!

We finished our kit preparation for MIU Houston yesterday. Whoopeeee! This doesn't look to bad, does it? Now consider these are only 1 of ours and a small glimpse at that.

Here is the full picture (just one of us though...no space large enough for both) and I even cleaned up the floor before I took the photo....couldn't let anyone see that mess it was awful. Even the dog was trying to figure out how to reach his bed. Hope you can join us in Houston for some fun and laughs. Some how people always hear us laughing aisles away...just follow the happy sound.

Make It University & Open Studios International Quilt Festival

Open Studios

Saturday November 6th 4-6PM Kristin Rodriguez

Make It University

Thursday November 4th 1:30-2:30

Tag Journal by Janelle Girod

Alter shipping tags using Glimmer Mist and Distress Inks. Then use papers, fabrics, found objects and stamping to complete your journal.

Thursday November 4th 4:30-5:30PM

Mixed Media Card by Kristin Rodriguez

Use paint to alter commercial scrapbook paper in order to make a unique card. Use paper, paint, stamps, and found objects to create.

Friday November 5th 4:30-5:30PM

Mixed Media Collage by Kristin Rodriguez

Using watercolor paper as the base you create your own colorwashed/stamped background. Then use fabric, paper, ribbons, found objects, and TAP photo transfer to create your collage.

Saturday November 6th 10:15-11:15AM

Canvas Journal by Janelle Girod

Participants will use painted MistyFuse, watersoluble crayons, canvas, papers, TAP photo transfer, metal embossing, and more to create an art journal.

"Sheer Delight or Hubba Bubba"-Jan Girod-Ebullient

This piece has been a struggle from beginning to end. The word itself was a challenge all on its own, I searched through multiple definitions, I tried multiple color combinations and as you can see by the title I could not even choose a name for it.

When I saw phrases like "full of joy, unrestrained high spirits, effervescent bubbles" as well as a definition of "boiling", I latched on to those and began my creative meditation....this is not the same as procrastination. Mainly my work is realistic, however "ebullient" is an emotion and I could only see it as abstract, not my strong suit.

Over the last several years I have been experimenting/playing with techniques where synthetic fabrics are distorted using heat. I knew that nylon organza would give me the look I was envisioning, however I tried three different colorways before making my final decision. My dog was not thrilled, as he followed me up and down the stairs to go outside to do this technique (safety first...proper ventilation for me and the dog), he really just wanted to lay in the sunshine but you know that phrase "curiosity killed the cat", well that applies to him.

First I ripped the organza in strips of varying widths, took them outdoors and used my heat gun on them, which caused them to bubble and shrink lengthwise and a bit widthwise. After trying to weave them I realized I would need to seal the edges or all those stray threads were going to drive me crazy, so I took out the soldering iron and sealed all the edges of my strips. I choose to use the "ombre" organza because once woven I could adjust the colors back and forth, up and down to get various color combinations.
To accentuate the bubbles, a simple running stitch with metallic thread around the perimeter definitely gave me the look I was striving to achieve. Then in the "concave" bubbles I beaded circles. Try as I might I could not trim the edges straight and even, they needed to be irregular. This decision was certainly one of those times when I waited for the piece to tell me what it wanted. I think this piece represents my "ebullient" personality.
If you would like to see the whole groups pieces please go to www.12connected.blogspot.com

Last Weekly Sale of our Birthday Month!!

Our last weekly sale of our birthday month is HUGE!!! Scoop them up now at www.fiberonawhim.com before they are all gone.!!

Our weekly sale 9/26-10/3: an additional 45% off select fabric categories. They include Amy Butler (quilting cottons and Nigella), Joel Dewberry, Textile Creations, Kona Bay, and Robert Kaufman (Color Theory and Another Iota).

Also 45% off Art Gallery purse patterns and kits.

Birthday Sale

Our 5th birthday sale is as follows 9/15-9/17:

5% off all Books, Magazines, Inkjet Fabrics, Shiva Paintstiks, and Mixed Media/Scrapbooking Supplies

10% off all Fabrics, Silk Products, and Threads

15% off Patterns, Lumiere, Setacolor, Dye-na-flow, and Tsukineko Inks

25% off all Notions, Beads & Accessories, Misc Clearance Items, and Foil

35% off Art Gallery Purse Kits

We will be running doorbuster sales each day from 8-10AM EST and 5-7PM EST.