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Category Archives: Uncategorized I’ve always liked Good Friday. Not necessarily because what it means in the religious sense… although really, the day is devoted to pretty good guy.. but really, I love that we have determined a day to be “Good.” I just love the sound of the phrase as it rolls off my tongue… Good Friday… Good... 
April 7, 2012 - 3:13 pm
Just what I needed to see: bright, cheery colors. Happy Aloha Friday, a day late! 
April 6, 2012 - 3:12 pm
And I love those happy colors on this Good Aloha Friday. 
April 6, 2012 - 12:46 pm
LOL! Those funny texts were hilarious! And indeed, how fast time flies! Have a wonderful weekend Robin!  Part of the reason why I’ve been absent here has to do with my preoccupation with our house plans. It’s been almost a year now that we’ve owned the property… longer since the seed of the dream was planted… and now we are in the stage of finalizing the major plans. Early March changed things... by robin 2 comments 
April 10, 2012 - 2:31 am
Yowzer! I’m sure debris removal and contingency planning weren’t what you wanted to be doing. Glad to hear what you’ve been up to and hope your dream keeps evolving!
April 7, 2012 - 3:15 pm
Oh Robin, what a bummer.  Finally! Something blog-worthy to write about! Fabienne, a follower of mine on flickr, contacted me to tell me she wrote about me on her blog. You can read the article here. It’s too bad I can’t read it… she wrote it in French… thank goodness for google translator! By the way, you can see some of... by robin 1 comment 
April 4, 2012 - 8:52 pm
Thanks Robin for your article ! Robin Ferrier is a textile artist : the quilts she realises have bright colors, geometrical shapes ; she uses cotton or silk, mainly hand dyed solids. As you can see in the picture below, the shades of her fabrics are very deep, intense ! Her realisations are tonic and modern, a deep inspiration for me ! She definitely masters colors ! Sometimes, she uses trade fabrics. In this quilt, she used oblique stips, which is unsusal in her quilts. My favorite quilt : it’s been exposed in a gallery, and you can see it in a natural setting. Robin Ferrier doesn’t use only strips in her quilts, as you can find an evidence in this solar and spectacular quilt. At last, let’s have a look to this detail of a quilt tainted with light.  A reader contacted me the other day and I liked her question so much that I thought it would be good blog fodder: I just finished a solid color quilt using various widths of fabric cut into stripes and quilted it in straight lines. The spaces between the quilting has little puckers and I’ve noticed... by robin 4 comments 
March 26, 2012 - 1:22 pm
Sew Inspired is still there – the link has an extra “http//” in it. Remove it and you’ll get there. Great site – thank you, Robin. Love your quilts! 
March 22, 2012 - 3:44 pm
I call this problem “swag”. Daphne 
March 21, 2012 - 9:06 am
Agree, agree! It’s good to learn the basics and all the ” rules,” but it’s also nice to stray outside those lines deliberately from time to time. I feel like my box of crayons gets bigger the more I learn about fabric and how to manipulate it! 
March 21, 2012 - 8:38 am
Very interesting, Robin. So well said and clearly explained. Of course, there are situations when a fiber artist might want and embrace that puckering or texture as part of the work. It’s still important to understand your materials and techniques and make those choices intentionally. Don’t you think?  At my house today was a gathering of artists, collected here to discuss the topic of light. Our instructor, Dick Nelson, came prepared with lessons, slides and videos for us to follow. I’ve seen some of this stuff before in various classes I’ve taken from Dick, but always, there are things he covered I didn’t... by robin 2 comments
March 6, 2012 - 5:19 pm
Hi Georgia, dyeing silk is very easy! I’ve dyed it using the fibber reactive dyes that I use for cotton. You can find a great link on either Dharma’s or Prochem’s website, or here: http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/fiberreactive.shtml 
March 6, 2012 - 11:46 am
Hello, I have never dyed silk before and i need to dye a dress for my fashion project in the next 6 weeks. The colours i have designed the dress in are bright mexican style, bright pinks, yellows, turqoises. Could you give me any help with how to achieve this/ how to do it?? The material is 100% silk Thanks in advance, |
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