Comadres

If you're looking for my website after getting my cards at the Worldwide Comadrazo, please go to

www.tejanastudio.blogspot.com

See you there.

Moving!

I am moving my blog to Tejana Studio and it will be focused solely on my fiber art and quilt projects. I decided on the name "Tejana Studio" for a couple of reasons.  The first is pragmatic--the name "Tejana Studio" was available on etsy and blogger. The second reason is due to my personality--basically, what you see is what you get. I am a Tejana and this is my virtual studio. I don't do cute well and I'm proud of my Texas and Mexican heritage.

Anyway, please go here to check out my new (I hope improved) blog and here to check out my etsy store.

Finding the Right Background for a Heart

In trying to find an appropriate background fabric for the heart I posted about last time, I found plain black fabric was too stark.  So I started playing with stamping the fabric.  I used acrylic paints thinned with a fabric medium on stamps I carved myself or bought from Ruthie Powers of Next Signal Designs. In the photo, the fabric on the lower right corner uses my stamps.  The other stamp designs are Ruthie's.  The fabric with the orange-ish colored stamp (top right section) is discharged using full strength bleach. I painted the bleach onto the stamp with a foam brush and then stamped the fabric.  I really like the color on it.

While I like the experiments, now I feel that the fabrics are too busy for the heart.  Where to now?

Starting a New Piece

I had some leftover four patches made of black and white fabrics that I decided to use as the base for a small heart quilt. I started playing with a red batik and cut out large portions of the heart so you can see the black and white grid below.  I don't like the stark black fabric behind it so I'm going to experiment with stamping random designs and hearts to the background fabric.  I have white and silver paint plus I'm going to see if I dip the stamps in bleach if I'll get the black out.

Spring Blooms

One of my garden beds is taken over in the early spring with bluebonnets.  I also have a rose bush that is full of buds right now, with one flower starting to open, a Mexican Redbud tree, and a Pride of Barbados in the jumble of bluebonnets.  If you look real close you can also see cilantro plants scattered around.

Tomorrow will be all about yard work.  Making a bed around three crape myrtles and a Rose of Sharon, weeding and adding soil amendments to one veggie/herb bed and prepping another small bed for more veggies.  Then it'll be time to plant and mulch.  I'm tired already.