It's that time of year, and I'm passing the blessings along to you! As a special bonus I'm running this sale through November 30th! Like many of you I get paid twice of month, so I'm running this sale through the 30th so that you don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity!

This sale includes ALL available online classes, ebooks, DVD's, artwork, art cloth, and more!

CLICK HERE TO START SHOPPING!

Save 30% OFF Your Entire Order For Labor Day!!!

Save 30% Store Wide

Includes Online Classes, eBooks, Art work, and More!!!

Now through September 5th!!!

Day One 60 Days of Birds Mixed Media Challenge

Rodney

6x6 inches.

Pastels, graphite, and white Signo gel pen on black scrapbooking paper.

Join Me for 60 Days of Birds Starting May 30th!

60 Days of Birds Mixed Media Challenge

Begins in 5 Days!!!

Learn more here!

It's Back, The 60 Day Bird Challenge!

The 60 Days of Birds Mixed Media Challenge is BACK!!!

I’m excited to offer this new option for 2017!

I’ve had requests for an in-depth version of the challenge for those who want to push their mixed media skills further! I will be sending daily email lessons for the duration of the challenge, you’ll also receive an invite to an exclusive version of our popular Facebook group, The 60 Day Bird Journal Challenge. Get more details and sign up here.

Basic Blues: Five Indigo Vats Five Different Ways

Basic Blues

Five Indigo Vats Five Different Ways!

Join Me in March for a Five Week Online Class!

Learn More HERE!

https://vimeo.com/202786778

Field Notes at the Blanden

Field Notes No.'s 1 - 42
On exhibit at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum thru April 15th.

Quilted Expressions at the Blanden

Join me this Saturday

the

Quilted Expressions Opening!!!

Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa

January 28th from 3pm to 5pm

Artist Talk 3:30pm

Exhibit runs January 28th thru April 15th

Colors of the Earth Self Paced Class!

Learn how to create beautiful fabrics using earth pigments, clays, ochres, charcoal, and much more!

Click here to learn more! 

Fields No. 37
Earth pigments, clay, ochre, charcoal, conte, pastels, and graphite on cotton fabric.
Machine stitched.

All Things End, Eventually!

Field Notes #'s 1-36 ready for their edges to be bound and then mounted to their stretched canvas frames.  Each piece is 6x6 inches.

So why am I having such a hard time getting there? Excellent question. And I finally decided it's because I don't want this particular project to end.

Which is odd because the whole time I've been working on this project I've been chomping at the bit to start the next state of my Fields Series!

Anyway, I'm off to stitch their tiny edges, and get started on attaching the hanging hardware to the frames.

Mixed Media with Pigments Live Stream!

I will be hosting a mixed media with earth pigments live stream tomorrow evening on Facebook!!!

Join me as I experiment with earth pigments, and more.

January 3rd, 7pm CST

Registration NOW OPEN for Earth and Sky From Sketch to Stitch

Earth and Sky: From Sketch to Stitch 

A Mini Master Class

Earth and Sky is an Eight Week Mini Master Class divided into 2 Four Week modules with a One Week break in between the two modules.

Module 1: Sketch, Draw, Paint, Surface Design

Break Week

Module 2: Sketch, Surface Design, Stitch, Embellish

Class begins April 15th! 
Lifetime Access to the Class

NOTE: Because of the intensity of this class I am limiting the number of spaces available to 20!!!

From Sketch to Stitch

My Aurifil thread color palette for my latest series "Field Notes"

Field Notes was born out of several loves, passions of mine:

The love of the prairie.
The love of crops as they rise out of the ground each year.
The love of the symmetry and simplicity of how the fields themselves are arranged in the countryside.

Field Notes in progress on my table.

Some color studies.

Watercolor crayons, water soluble oil pastels, and water soluble graphite on sketchbook paper.

Field Series Update

My thread order came today. If you've been following me on Facebook then you know there's been a lot of drama lately with my trying to obtain a rather allusive Aurifil Thread color #2612 aka arctic ice.
Well that was through Amazon.

Three spools of the wrong color later I put out a plea on Facebook begging to know everyone's favorite place to buy Aurifil Thread.  Follow That Thread came up, repeatedly.  So late Sunday night I put together my order, which included the much desired #2612, and it arrived today.

And the much desired color is quite desirable!!! It IS the perfect sky color!

#2612 is second from the left and it matches my earth pigment painted fabrics and perfectly!

Six pieces almost stitched, thirty left to go.

My color palette for the Fields Series sans one spool that should be here hopefully this weekend, because I of course ordered it from Amazon.  Odd that it'll be the correct color?

ReVamping My Look

I've been working on my newsletter, creating templates, welcome and thank you pages, and pages where I offer freebies just for subscribing to my newsletter!  Today I created a new banner for the template I created... 

Biography:  I am a Mixed Media Fiber Artist living in a small rural community in the heart of the Prairie!

My passion is using the colors found in nature all around me to color my cloth, papers, and bending the rules with stitch.

Please join me in my community, Almost Stitched, on Facebook, I would love to see how you interpret the world around you through found color and stitch!

It's Been Awhile

So begins a new series I've titled "Fields". So far the goal is 18 large pieces and 12 small pieces. I'm using earth pigments, charcoal, conte, and mixed media pm cotton and silk fabrics this time around with machine stitching as the finishing touch.

I've been dragging my feet to start on this series, as it is the first series where I won't be using natural dyes. Fabric painting begins tonight. Photos coming soon.

Autumn is Finally Here!

I love Autumn, I truly do. The lack of humidity, the cool crisp air, fresh apples, and pumpkins everywhere, and most importantly my allergies are starting to calm down.

The part I love the most,  however, is the colors of the leaves. Reds, golds, oranges, and brilliant yellows, and everywhere!

So it's no surprise that I created art cloth show casing these colors in my Colors of the Earth and Pretty Pigments online classes.

If you'd like to capture the beauty of nature's natural palette using natural earth pigments then join me in my newest class Colors of the Earth.  Class starts on October 17th!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Lamy Al-Star fountain pen in dark lilac.

Not knowing any better I ordered the fine tip nib.  It is now filled with lilac ink!

Registration Ends Tomorrow!

Pretty Pigments Online Class Begins 
Tomorrow
September 6th at 6pm CST!!!

Click here to learn more!

This session includes a special Bonus Session called Getting Started. Once this session of Pretty Pigments has finished I will not be offering this special bonus offering again.

The Bonus Session will become it's OWN class starting in October. 

Register for Pretty Pigments TODAY, you will be getting TWO of my classes for the price of ONE!!!

When you Register TODAY for this Session of Pretty Pigments you will have lifetime access to TWO of my classes!

WIP - Starry Swallows

WIP Starry Swallows

Mayan Blue, Italian Satin Ocher, Bohemian Green Earths, Black charcoal, black and white conte, on cotton fabric.