Catching up

It's been awhile since I posted. Have been busy getting ready for the Leicester Studio Tour on Aug 16th & 17th. The link is http://cometoleicester.com/ Dan (my DH) will also be displaying his marvelous photographs. I have been dyeing baby clothes, doggie tee shirts & bandanas, silk scarves, cotton shopping bags and MANY yards of cotton as well as some silk. I will also have quilts for sale. It is hard to know how much to have of everything since this is our 1st time participating in this wonderful venture. There are fiber artists, a woman with more traditional quilts, potters, painters, photographers, handmade jewelry, iron work, wood work, and the most heavenly scented candles. Lots of different art forms and personalities. Hope you all can come visit us. We are stop 21 on the tour map.
We have good news to share...we are going to be grandparents again! Dan's dtr and sil had the twins in January and now my son and dil are expecting their 1st child Feb 2009. We are so excited! The grandchildren will live 11 miles from each other and we will be 12 hours away. Drat.

Well, it's been a busy weekend but not as productive as I would have liked. I did complete the lesson for Quilt University, Marjie McWilliams Tea Dyeing class. Not sure I will do much with this but love Marjie's classes so much I decided to give it a try. The 1st pic is of all the mugs with tea awaiting the cotton to be dyed. Then the completed samples. It was interesting to see the difference in the samples soaked in vinegar vs alum. The hardest part was waiting for them to air dry between the dyeing, and soaking in the "finishing solution. It does make a difference in color, pick vs blue.

Then I rinsed some of the fabrics from the shibori class.

Finally I ironed out the wax from the 1st Batik class. I have part of lesson 2 done, not dyed, and am behind doing lesson 3. I will get caught up though.

New website

The website is up! Please take a look at aquiltypleasure.com and let me know what you think. Please let me know if there are any problems with the site. I don't have anything loaded in the store yet but will do so as soon as I get items complete. I look forward to your feedback. Jan

Well I finally got started with my blog. I'm so excited to jump into this new adventure. I have taken the 1st steps to have a website created in order to sell my quilts and hand dyed fabrics.
Other exciting news - My DH and I have been accepted by our local artisan group to be included in an Artist Studio Tour August 16th and 17th this year. Which means I am busy making articles to display and sell. It's hard to know what and how many items to make. I hope to get more guidance from the veterans of this endeavor. Here is the link; http://cometoleicester.com. It hasn't been updated for the 2008 yet but will post when it does.
Please come back often - feel free to post - I'd love to hear from you! Jan