harvest

so, i decided to grow some potatoes, since i kill any plant that tries to live , i have heard these will grow no matter what. guess what? i decided to dig down and see what came up. woooooow! i was so thrilled. aren't they cuuuuuute? there will be more to come. and with the amount i planted, there might just be a potato coming your way.

craft show i am in

craft-in at the drive-in is this weekend at the newberg drive in movie theater. i will be there, and the show runs from 10 am to 6 pm. check out here for the vendor list. maybe there will be some of your favorites.

chair

my office chair needed some serious updating. here is the shell without the cushion...

here is the after. i put white on the seat, and this really cool batik fabric for the cushion.

my fanny is happy now.

spring beauties

i took some photogs of these gorgeous iris flowers in our yard. they smell lovely.

this yellow one is pretty stunning

this one i accidentally broke off the stem, but decided to include it, because the mottled dusty pink is a color that is hard to replicate.

i will have more coming. i have altered books to show you, cards, etc.

more screenprinting

i really loved my screen printing class. so much so that i pretty much inked the entire place. thist shirt turned out lovely.

i also did another one here on a piece of muslin that i will again applique' when time allows.

more screenprinting

i had a blast at my screen printing class. here is another image i put on a few pieces of fabric. this is on a t shirt. it consists of green and purple dye, and i just dolloped the ink and dragged the squeegee across. wasn't sure how it was going to come out, but i am pretty happy with the results.
this is one i put on a piece of muslin. i will applique' it on a later date.
this i put on blue denim. i used white ink and the excess left on the squeegee. it really popped off the denim, no?

screen printing class

took myself a screen printing class this weekend. didn't know the first thing about it, but i knew i wanted to try it. sooooo, here is the image i used as inspiration:

this is with screen filler on the screen. keep in mind, i didn't paint in the stems, i am going to sew those to whatever fabric in print on

the reddish stuff is another type of screen filler. this dries, and then you use a hose to wash out the blue stuff.

after you get rid of the screen filler and the screen dries, you can print. i used a few colors here, and came up with this sort of burnt orange. i printed it on muslin

this i used yellow and orange for contrast::::

i will be sewing in stems with pretty green thread, so it will be a mixed media type of thing. i had a great time in this class and highly recommend anyone to try it. more pictures later