Transform Nature into Fabric Art: A Guide to Creating Nature-Inspired Designs

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Incorporating natural elements into fabric designs is an inspiring way to capture the beauty of nature in textile art. Today, I’ll walk you through the process I use to transform items I find on my morning walks—like leaves, seedpods, and feathers—into striking, nature-inspired designs ready for fabric printing. Whether you’re a textile artist or fabric […]

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How to Use a Flexible Cutting Mat as a Paint Palette: A Creative Hack for Artists

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How to Use a Flexible Cutting Mat as a Paint Palette: A Creative Hack for Artists As an artist, finding versatile and cost-effective tools in your studio is always a win. Did you know that a simple flexible cutting mat can double as a perfect paint palette? In this blog post, I’ll show you how

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Discover How I Transformed an Upstairs Storage Room into a Functional Fabric Storage Closet

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As a textile artist, having a well-organized space for your materials is crucial. Here, I’ll share my journey of converting an unused upstairs storage room into an efficient fabric storage closet, tailored to meet my needs as a textile artist. Maximizing Vertical Fabric Storage I maximized vertical storage space in this fabric storage area by

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A Change Has Come

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A Change Has Come A lot has happened since I last posted on this blog over seven months, to be exact.  And since that time, my husband and I have packed up and moved from Florida to Kentucky.  It was a major move for us because we’d always envisioned ourselves dying in our home in

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2023 in the Rear View Mirror

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2023 is gone.  I’m about ready to kick it to the curb, but before I do, let me recap some of the highlights. January 2023: I created and launched my first online course, Design 2 Cut Masterclass.  After holding a short 3-day boot camp in November 2022, I launched the full course. It was a

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Mini Rust Art

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I was at an art exhibit recently and saw an art piece that gave me a few ideas for creating small pieces of art for sale. I’ve never wanted to sell any larger pieces but I am open to creating smaller pieces for sale. So in the last few weeks I’ve created several smaller pieces

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YouTube 500 Subscribers Giveaway

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Yes! my channel finally has over 500 subscribers. It’s been a slow crawl getting there and I’m trying to be more consistent about posting videos, so hopefully the trend will continue. To celebrate, I will be having a giveaway on the channel, which I will announce in a video later this week. You will need

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16 Mini Silk Screens

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Recently I had a project where I needed 15 small painted interfacing silk screens. There was no way I was going to cut them by hand, so I pulled out my big cutting machine, the Silver Bullet. The Silver Bullet made short work of this and in less than 1 hour from start of cutting

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