I was trolling around on YouTube one evening, as one does when it’s late at night and you have insomnia, and I came across something I’d never heard of before – boiled books. Think about that for a second. Boiled. Books. BOILED. (Here are the videos I found on YouTube if you want to take a gander: video 1, video…
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I’m beyond thrilled to announce that my newest book is now available for pre-order on Amazon! Woot! This new book is more focused on creating a resource of different stitches. I stitched until I just couldn’t stitch no more! 🙂 This book was a lot of fun to write and just cemented my adoration for needle and thread. Plus…
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I can’t really count how many times I’ve changed the logo for the studio. (Or the name for that matter…started as Fibra Artysta, then Smudged Textiles Studio and now Smudged Design Studio.) I’ve had several that I’ve liked but there’s always been something nagging me about it. Kind of like how I felt before I settled on Smudged Design Studio…
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At the start of the year I enthusiastically joined a facebook group about making a piece of art every week so that at the end of 2018 you’d have a body of artwork – 52 pieces. Well, life took a different turn for me with the cancer diagnosis and I abandoned the idea almost immediately. Lately I’ve realized how much…
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I’ve been wanting to create some more mixed media stitcheries and there’s no time like the present, right? I started this as a doodle and intended to make it a solid satin stitch abstract thing. But then I was going through the mail and this groovy octopus was in the Trader Joe’s flier. It was instant love. So I…
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