Cherokee Syllabary Quilt, Quilted in Cherokee Syllabary

I may have posted this quilt before it was quilted.  What's unique?  The color hand-dyed panels contain Cherokee syllables made with batik wax or some discharge process.  But totally unique is that I've done what I believe to be the first modern-time machine quilting using sometimes Cherokee Syllables in the background, written in thread.  Have you ever seen anything like that?   It is for sale at my Etsy shop.

The Talking Potholder

"Ouch, This is hot!" said the talking potholder, when she used it to take nice cinnamon bread out of the oven, so it could be drizzled with orange glaze and a handful of chopped almonds.  But really, the Talking Potholder didn't mind too very much, because after all, being a potholder was the only life it had ever known.

Potholder Of The Buena Vista Social Club

Here's a cheery unique potholder from hand-dyed cotton and lined with heat-resistant batting, for your next meeting of the Buena Vista Social Club.  But you do not have to play salsa in order to enjoy it. 

Blue Pool Potholder

Today's delicious lil artsy potholder looks like a black and white striped air mattress on a cool pool.  Visit my Etsy store:  Island Retreat to see more.

Osage Orange Dyed Silk Chiffon Ladies Scarf

Silk Scarf, dyed using Osage Orange

Dyeing using natural dyes is just an unpredictable adventure.  Here is an amazing piece.  I was dyeing a pair of bamboo custom socks for a friend in Oklahoma Food Cooperative, and had this osage orange dye made up so I thought I would test the results on silk and had a chiffon scarf that I could use.  The socks came out buttery, khaki and sort of lighter than I would have preferred.  (One can never be very unhappy with bamboo socks because they are just incredibly soft and comfy.)  But the scarf came out a rich yellow.  Actually, this outdoors pic doesn't show how bright and golden the color is.  Its darker yellow than lemons, and has subtle shading.  It reminds me that no two fibers will strike color the same.  Protein fibers always give more pow.  And though it is fussy and hard to work with, causing lots of waste and errors that cannot be corrected because the silk is delicate... it remains my favorite medium because there is always a surprise.