Projects & Tutorials
Learn more about designing fabric with Spoonflower, creating graphics for your Etsy shop, and other sewing projects with these free tutorials. Have a question or something you want to learn about designing fabric? Just ask! Some of my favorite tutorials have come from questions asked by readers.
Art Word of the Week: Bleed
Bleed seemed like a great Art Word of the Week leading up to Halloween. But don't worry, it's nothing too scary. I use the word bleed two ways in my art practice. The first [read more...]
Art Word of the Week: Grain
Another art term I use a lot when I am teaching is grain. Grain is used to describe features of lots of kinds of art materials, but I'll talk about the ones I use [read more...]
Art Word of the Week: Baste
While I was teaching a class a week or so ago, I realized that there are many art words that I use often and I have a kind of automatic explanation that I say [read more...]
Tutorial: How to do a 3-Thread Serger Rolled Hem on Chiffon
Last week I went down a rabbit hole of trying to learn how to use the narrow rolled hem foot for my new Bernina sewing machine. The main thing I have learned is that [read more...]
Embroidering a Koala in 3 Minutes
I've been having a lot of fun embroidering an entire zoo full of animals. Here is a koala from start to finish. This took about 33 minutes to stitch and I have reduced it [read more...]
Mini Tutorial: How to Tie a Square Knot
I use square knots often in class projects and I had a whole group recently that had never done one before so I thought I would make a very fast video tutorial. When I [read more...]
