And here is "Angelique" unobstructed.

A fun thing I found out about my Marie-Joseph Angelique piece is that my posts about her were compiled into one (by whom, I don't know), along with my photos, all properly attributed to me with link backs, and then that post was re-blogged and re-blogged and re-blogged - it was a rabbit hole! I stopped looking after finding 10 or 15 shares.

Although ordinarily, I wouldn't approve of someone doing so without my permission (and in future, please ask!) because it was always properly attributed - even to the 15th share - I didn't mind, and thought it was really cool. :)

So, back in 2011, I made this wall quilt, called "Fractured" (you really should click on that link and the links within to see the story of how it came to be, I'm always amused by it!) - and that wall quilt eventually was requested by the curator of the Union Art Gallery, who wanted t it be part of a show called "Throw: Great Lengths of Innovation in Modern Quilting " (that link goes to a review of the show.)

Anyway! If you remember all of that you may remember that this flower thingy above, was originally part of that wall quilt. I have four of them, actually, but decided to make one of them into a journal cover.

...with a little help from our friends.

Do you know Deb Lacativa? If you don't, you should! She makes wonderfully intriguing pieces of art, sells amazing hand-dyed fabric which I've mentioned numerous times here as I use them in my pieces, and is a generous and warm-hearted person.


I'm writing today about her, because her Goodman has been taken ill, and though we are all confident he will get through this well and strong, their finances may not.

We can all help her by buying her work.  Whether it's a splurge on an original piece of her art, some of her beautful hand-dyed fabric, or some (newly available) reprographs of her work, we can all help her a lot by helping ourselves according to our budget.


I bought three of her beautiful reprographs on Wednesday as a birthday present to myself and when I have them framed up I'll be sure to show them here.

You can do the same -one of her reprographs costs only as much as two cups of fancy coffee, and having gotten a cusspot or two, I can tell you that they are simply stuffed with fabric - that big pile beside her cusspot is exactly how much is one of those. And if you want larger swaths of fabric, she sells that too.

Those quilters have a community, let's show that fabric artists do too. And if you *are* a quilter, then you already know how that works. ;)

Have a great weekend!

I have actually started on my challenge piece (but can't show you anything until it's been revealed to the group) and sent off one of my birds for the Cloth Paper Scissors Challenge. 


I was going to make a new one for the challenge because I thought they kept the piece if it was accepted, but they send it back. So, scratch *that* off the to-do list. But ...

So, I finished up my little disperse dyeing piece which, as it turns out, is a great sample piece for a future disperse dyeing class.

What's really lovely about disperse dyeing, is that if you have limited skills, you can make something really pretty, such as the piece above.