My daughter Steph had this link to threadbare on her blog today. It is really funny! Just wanted to share. She had some other funny links if you want to head over there and check them out.

Sorry for the title. My daughter Steph and I love to come up with punny titles. We used to work for a food and travel magazine in Wilmington , NC and it was part of our job requirement to come up with stuff like this. Like "Going with the Grain" for an article on whole wheat bread!!

I was making plans to paint some silk for leaves today and thought to myself -oooh! Shibori leaves would be cool. Then I remembered these pieces of silk that I did in a silk dye-painting class and my shibori scarf from Joy Lily’s class. So I pulled all the stuff out and I think I have some more organic looking fabric to work with.

I’m really loving the piece with the deep reds and blues.

We have 20 people coming for dinner on Friday night. I have guild tomorrow. I  have to get to work on this house. I hate to clean house! I’d much rather be messing up my studio, but alas, it also must be cleaned because everyone wants to come up and see what I am doing.

I did finish Dot Calm. Here it is:

Close-up:

I’m off to do the dreaded housework.