2015 Liberate Your Art Swap card received from Eric Bruth

The Lovely 2015 Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap Cards I Received

April 15, 2015

In between my 100 Day Project patterns I took some time today to get outside with my camera and the 5 postcards I received in the 2015 Liberate Your Art Swap. There should have been 6, but once again the post office hasn't delivered something I was expecting. This is getting to be a regular thing, both coming and going. I sent a priority mail box to my daughter that took 6 weeks to get to her. And I got a postcard from China this week that was mailed the 29th of November. But these 5 lovely cards did find their way to me, and I share them here.

2015 Liberate Your Art Swap card received from Kat Sloma

2015 Liberate Your Art Swap card received from D.L. Correa

2015 Liberate Your Art Swap card received from Anthony Leggins

2015 Liberate Your Art Swap card received from Rebecca Hill

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Mending while camping, using hand-dyed indigo thread available on my website

New stock added. Oversold natural indigo dyed mending thread is back in stock. This cotton covered poly thread is stronger than pure cotton and takes the indigo dye beautifully, with little specks of undyed poly peeking through for an almost sparkly effect. It's strong enough for mending jeans but thin enough for most stitching and embroidery projects. The natural indigo will fade harmoniously as you launder your jeans. If thread sales are an indication, the dog days of the pandemic are inspiring people to dig into those baskets of damaged clothes with lots of first timers giving mending a try. It's put up in short skeins so its an affordable starter thread. The indigo dye started as seeds in my dye garden. I use this thread in Arashi Shibori processes and carefully unwind it as I pull off the dyed textiles. Nothing goes to waste! I can put up longer skeins if needed, pm me

Finished a pile. Now to assemble

Individual photos of the January 2021 Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches. I've written about the processes on my blog. Link to my website is on my bio #tastembroidery #takeastitchtuesday #pintangletast #handembroidered #stitchersofinstagram #linkedchainstitch #flystitch #italianborderstitch #blanketstitch #reverseblanketbarstitch #stemstitch #portuguesestemstitch

New thread colorway added to my shop. #handdyedthreads #bluethread #mendingthread #handstitching #varigatedthread #dyedthreads #dyedbyhand #denimfriendly #mendingjeans

More thread into a vat. Blending colors for stitching on collage. #handdyedthreads #stitchedcollage #dyersofinstagram #dyedthreads #dyeart #dyework #blue #multicoloredthread

There was a run on indigo dyed thread on my website over the holidays and I'm almost out. Today I'm trying out fiber reactive dyes on a few skeins to see how that works. Takes a lot less water than indigo processing which is an ongoing concern in SoCal.

Starting 2021 with some dye. #dyeart #dyeing #shiboripattern #dyersofinstagram #dyedcotton #fatquarter #konacotton #dyework

So long 2020! Welcome 2021. We're really looking forward to seeing you

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