Mark Making with Nature Special Extended

Mark Making with Nature Special Extended

August 24th!!!

I went to sleep last night thinking that something wasn't quite right with yesterdays sale, but couldn't put my finger on it until this morning when I realized that the service I used for the digital downloads hadn't contacted me. Response to the book special was overwhelming, so why wasn't I hearing from my digital service? One good nights sleep and I realized that I had used the wrong buttons for the special, techie I am NOT, and yesterdays snaffu proved that one to me!



So I am extending the sale until Wednesday, why Wednesday you ask? I have a LOT of garlic dill pickle relish to put up and a zine to finish and don't want to mess with the buttons again, now that they are correct. If you should pay for your books and you do not recieve an email from me for the digital download instructions please contact me at prairiefibers@hotmail.com For everyone else that bought a copy yesterday, but didn't recieve a digital download I am popping it into the mail for you!



The buttons have all been fixed and should take you directly to a PayPal invoice after which you should promptly recieve an email with download instructions.



~ Kimberly

Mark Making with Nature Special Extended

Mark Making with Nature Special Extended
August 24th!!!

I went to sleep last night thinking that something wasn't quite right with yesterdays sale, but couldn't put my finger on it until this morning when I realized that the service I used for the digital downloads hadn't contacted me. Response to the book special was overwhelming, so why wasn't I hearing from my digital service? One good nights sleep and I realized that I had used the wrong buttons for the special, techie I am NOT, and yesterdays snaffu proved that one to me!



So I am extending the sale until Wednesday, why Wednesday you ask? I have a LOT of garlic dill pickle relish to put up and a zine to finish and don't want to mess with the buttons again, now that they are correct. If you should pay for your books and you do not recieve an email from me for the digital download instructions please contact me at prairiefibers@hotmail.com For everyone else that bought a copy yesterday, but didn't recieve a digital download I am popping it into the mail for you!



The buttons have all been fixed and should take you directly to a PayPal invoice after which you should promptly recieve an email with download instructions.



~ Kimberly

Mark Making With Nature Book Package Special

All three books in on great package!  Special for Sunday, August 21st ONLY!

$30.00, normally $40.00 USD

Mark Making with Nature Book Combo Special

Sunday, August 21st ONLY!!!

This is all three books, Compost Dyeing, Mark Making with Nature, and Rust and Clay dyeing being offered as a package for $30.00.  The price is normally $40.00 for the book package deal!

Artistically Speaking Live Interview!

Just recieved my transcript for tomorrows live interview with Rebecca Parsons of Artistically Speaking live at 6 pm eastern time.  Lots to think about on why I work with natural dyes, etc., before tomorrows show!

Cucumbers!!!

I now have enough cucumbers, about four gallons worth, to make a batch of Lisa's Garlicky Dill Relish!

WIP - Hot Flash

Hot Flash in progress.

Silk Crinkle Crepe, wool batting, cotton backing.

Natural Dyes, Compost dyed.

Machine stitched so far.



Added additional stitching to the surface this afternoon after much encouraging from Brenda to take the plunge and use some bold colors in it, and I am think fuschia and firey bronze gold.  It's definately starting to pop now, but, there's aways a but isn't there, I have tons more stitching to do and the silk crinkle crepe is a major pain to machine stitch.



I missed the deadline for the QAQ/Schweinfurth I thought it was a post mark deadline but alas it's a recieved by date.  One of these years I'll get the application actually sent off.

Thomas

Thomas sitting in my basket of natural dyed silk organza's, wondering why I'm bothering him.

Rust Dyed Silk Cocoons and Carrier Rods

Ideas for the newest zine!

Silk Carrier Rods

Am working on the new zine this afternoon, so far InDesign has locked up on me only once :-)

Summer

Grasshopper

I've never seen one this color before, image was taken near Winterset, Iowa this past weekend. 

WIP - Corn No. 1

7x7 ish inches.

Silk Organza, Dupioni, Cocoons, Cotton, Natural and Compost Dyed.

Still have lots of hand stitching before this piece is finished, and then on to finish the final seven pieces.

Iowa from 1000 Feet

8 x 11 inches - ish



Now for some more hand stitching.  Natural dyed and compost dyed fabrics cotton and silk.  Natural dyed silk eyelash yarn.  I found it hiding in a pile of UFO's (unfinished objects)  I started it several years ago, added the dark velvet circles for the bins and silo's this evening.

Cucumbers

We have cucumbers, finally!

Thistle and Bumble Bee

I've been enjoying watching the butterflies, bees, bugs of all types, gold finches, and hummingbirds hang out in the thistle this summer.  This year it came up right outside my kitchen window, in the east garden, and is currently over 12 feet tall.  Luckily some of the blossoms were down low making it easier to snap photos.  The hummingbirds had a nest in it this year so I was able to watch the mamma and pappa bird tend to their baby until it fledged earlier this week.

Porch Redux

John is on vacation this week, the weather is absolutely gorgeous making the ordeal of taking the porch soffit apart for repair. 

Will post photos of the gardens tomorrow.  A long time friend and gardener proclaimed my potatoes to be perfect, so hopefully we will have a sizable yeild this year?

Cloth

Yes this is the same piece of cloth I've been photographing the the past several years now, it's still sitting outside on the indigo vat waiting for something... what I don't know yet.

Oak

Oak Leaf Cloth

I wasn't too thrilled about having our oak trees pruned in July but it needed to be done as I could no longer see to safely back out of the driveway, oak trees pick the darnest time to have a growth spurt.  So I pulled a bunch of the red oak and burr oak leaves aside in addition to some acorns and put them in a metal pan until I was ready to use them.  And then it rained, and rained, and rained, and rained.  The end result was an oak leaf acorn soup.  So today I will dye some cotton yardage and see what I come up with.

I added some rusted coffee tin lids in between the layers of fabric as I shoved it into a five gallon plastic bucket.

Final layer of oak leaves, branches, and acorns.

Topped off with rain water, that had been sitting for several days in another bucket, and a lid to keep the skeeters out.

Crow Card No. 2

I think I may have made it even more confusing by using a varigated thread, two different varigated colors actually, to do the stitching.  And then I remembered that the Crow is a Trickster...

Hand stitching and some possible beading will ensue with this piece tomorrow.

Constructed Rusted Cloth

I had put together a zine sometime ago on how to make constructed cloth with silk carrier rods, and found it while cleaning up some folders on my computer.  This is one of the samples.

Dye Studio Update 080511

The blast furnace heat now seems to be behind us! This coming weekend I will be making bundles and posting information in my new pages section of this blog and over at The Natural Surface Network.