Princess Bubbles Creates

 I am excited to participate in this grow your blog party!  I still feel like I am pretty inexperienced at blogging even though I have been doing it for a while now.  There is always something new to learn.  I am an artist who loves to play and explore with just about any art material!  My focus lately has been on fibre art but I do play with paint and photography as well. I have these napkins, threads and fibres to give away.  All you have to do is leave a comment on this post.  I will draw a winner on February 1.  I would love it if you became a follower too but that is not a requirement.   http://vicki-2bagsfull.blogspot.ca     This is the link to Vicki's blog to find more participating blogs! Thanks for visiting! The 16th comment won!  That is Denise Bryant.  Please contact me with your address!

This is my piece Fondly Remembering that is in the Memory show.  Tonight is the opening reception and I looking forward to going to it! Tomorrow I am participating in a grow your blog party.  I have never done this!  Vicki at  http://vicki-2bagsfull.blogspot.ca    is hosting.  So come back tomorrow to see what my give away is!

I added two pieces of peach colored trim to this block.  I also removed a piece of lace that wasn't working.  I really hate picking things off.  But I have learned that if I am not happy with something there is no amount of fixing that can be done to make it right.  It is best to bite the bullet and remove the offending embellishment.  I think there is another piece that I will have to remove from this block too.  Oh well.  I am learning as a I go and learning is important to me.

I created this piece before Christmas but haven't quite figured out how to finish it.  I don't think it needs much.  Some sort of simple edging maybe.  I have an old sewing machine (oh how I long for a good, new machine).  My machine will do a couple of 'fancy' stitches so that is what I used on this piece.

It is lovely to see a body of work all together.  I am looking forward to putting these all together into a quilt.  I think some of the blocks require some more embellishment though.  I also have to get to work on the 2013 crazy quilt project!

Last week I had the pleasure of getting together with some friends and exploring our gelli printing plates.  I did four prints onto fabric.  Love it!  I used acrylic paint for printing on the fabric.  It worked great.  I can't wait to do some stitching into these.

This is just a reminder of the classes I will be teaching in January.   We will focus on creating an interesting journal cover in each class.  For those that are interested in fibre/stitching these will be interesting surfaces that you can explore stitching into.  For those that are not into fibre/stitching the surfaces we create will not require anything more to be done to them.  I will be teaching some fun book arts workshops.  All the books will have interesting covers with some cool insides.  The binding methods will vary but none of them will be overly difficult or complicated. In February I will be teaching needle felting as I had a few requests for this.  We will be working with a lot of interesting materials.  You will find out why you need to shop in the fly tying section of sporting stores!  Silks and sheers, roving...