A few years ago, I started to dye my own fabrics. Another adventure in surface design: so many colours, so may possibilities. Dyeing fabric using Procion dyes is a lengthy process: preparing the dyes in different colours and the soda ash solution, scour the fabric, the buckets. And then waiting for a few days before […]
When I think about landscapes, a myriad of images come to mind; not just those created with fabric, but with paper, paint, and a combination of elements. I decided to investigate the history of landscape art. Summarized below is what I found. Landscape painting is the depiction of natural scenery in art; landscapes may capture […]
Every once in a while you come across a photo in your life that just needs to be featured in a big way on your wall of your home. My husband and I went on a canoe trip once to Kilvert Lake, Ontario. This was one of those trips where our child was with the […]
When I originally created this project the word Dream was meant as inspiration to follow your dreams and to encourage pleasant dreams. Though this still holds true I think that it now holds the added meaning of hope for our future. I dream of a time when we will once again be able to attend […]
I was recently a guest on the Gift Biz Unwrapped Podcast by Sue Monhait and she began with a traditional question she asks of each guest about their motivational candle. She asked me, “What colour would your candle be, and which words of wisdom would you write on it?” I was so delighted by this […]
2020 was a difficult year for most, adapting to a whole new way of life. From a personal standpoint, the pandemic was but one of the events that changed my life. That, paired with personal loss and everything that brought about, and then the loss of my job made for a complicated year. One of […]
The shape of my life changed in 2020. I lost my partner, the pandemic hit the world and then, I lost my job. To try and help with all the emotions hitting me at once at the time, and at the urging of my daughter, who was staying with me at the time, we both […]
A neutral background of black, grey, white, or a well-curated palette of low volume fabrics in a quilt can be timeless in its execution and very pleasing to the eye, but a vibrant pop of colour against that negative space can be the element that wows the viewer and really makes a quilt tell its […]
Welcome back to another installment of “In the Studio …” I remember the day the world stopped: March 13th, 2020. Suddenly, the world was thrust in the middle of a tsunami of news, troubling reports and conflicting information about the seriousness and dangers of the Covid-19 virus. Read more in our Issue 55. Ana Buzzalino […]
Are you working to improve your quilting skills but just aren’t seeing results? Have you started new quilts and hit snags or difficulties and then given up only to add it to your pile of unfinished projects? Do you have a quilting goal for yourself, but it just seems out of reach? Read more in […]