Sue Bleiweiss

F&S subscriber spotlight and some new journals

I got some very exciting news in my inbox today about one of the Fibre&Stitch subscribers.  Betty Donahue is having a showing of her quilts (80 of them!) at the Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center in Sylacauga, Alabama!   You can visit Betty's flickr site here to see more of her wonderful work. 

That's Betty on the right in this  next photo standing next to one of her incredible quilts:

Betty has also raised a lot of money with her quilts for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt initiative which you can see here.  Congratulations and best wishes for a great show Betty!

I finished off a couple new journals today.  Remember the purple surface I posted yesterday?  Well today it became a journal:

More photos here.

and a new paper bag surface journal.

This one has actual paper bags for some of the pages and you can see more photos of the insides here.

And this just in... I've been featured on the Haute Innovations blog!  I'm so flattered!  Thank you Mimi for featuring me!

Now I'm off to do some work on the Journaling Techniques workshop.   Stay tuned for some sneak peek photos...

only a couple more weeks...

until issue 2 of Fibre&Stitch becomes available!  It's even bigger than issue 1 if you can believe it and packed with lots of great techniques and projects. 

This issue's cover image is from Mags article on creating Mini Byobu (artistic folding screens).  Gorgeous isn't it?!  You'll find a link to the table of contents for this issue on the front page of the Fibre&Stitch website right underneath the image of the cover. 

Guest authors for this issue include the fabulously talented Carol Clasper,  Marie Johansen,  Sara Lechner, Gina Ferrari, Terry White & Linda F.  My thanks go out to all of these incredibly gifted artists for their contributions to this issue.  This issue will be available on 11/28/07. 

Nuno felting and a sneak preview

It was such a nice day yesterday so I set myself up a workstation on the deck and played a bit with some nuno felting.  Here's a few of the pieces that I made:

The one on the left is my favorite.  It's merino wool on a base of back silk chiffon and I think I am going to turn it into a bag.  The one on the right is merino wool on hand painted cheesecloth and the one in the way back is a really pretty green pink merino blend.

And I'm continuing to work on the free projects for the July newsletter for Fibre&Stitch.  One of them is going to be how to make a faux chenille pillow cover:

Aren't these fun?!  If you have a request for something you'd like to see for a free project just drop me an email and we'll put it on the list if we can.