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Free-Motion Flowers

ATCsforAll.com is having a get together in Indianapolis in June. I am super excited about it because members are coming from all over the US and even from Canada and Australia. There will be art workshops and lots of trading! I have finally started getting ready by making up some fabric ATCs. I figured flowers is a theme that a lot of people collect, and I've been wanting to try out this technique again ever since I realized that my machine has the option to drop feed dogs and do free motion.



It took a while for me to figure out exactly how to get my machine to do free motion (I think I need to find a new foot) but even so it went a lot faster than the last time I tried these with just a straight stitch and lots of starting and stopping and rotating the fabric. I'm really happy with how these are turning out. I'm adding lots of beads, which I never do for cards that get sent in the mail.

Self Portrait Wednesday

I saw some gorgeous photos on Misty Mawn's blog. She posted some lovely self portraits, and I decided to post one too:

Wordle

I made this neat image using Wordle. It grabs the words from a website or words that you give it and makes the words that are used more frequently larger. I was surprised NOT to see more art-y words in mine!

Tool Love

I know I don't *need* any new pliers, but look at these! * Glitter Pliers * What's not to love about pliers with glitter-y handles?!?

Tweet!

Finally jumped on the Twitter bandwagon -- it's fun :-)

Spring Break = Breaking Bread

Been on Spring Break this week and trying to fit in as much fun as possible :-) One thing that has been a lot of fun is making bread. I started out with sourdough and then tried to find a recipe for black bread.

When I lived in Russia I was across the street from a store that had fresh bread delivered every day. All different kinds, and I think I tried them all! The one that reminds me most of Russia is the black bread, but I haven't been able to find anything like that in the States - at least in the small cities where I've been there's no Russian bakeries.

So how lucky to find a recipe for sourdough rye! Sourdough seems easier to me because you don't have to start with yeast again every time. It's not exactly like Russian bread, but it's close enough! Here's a link to the recipe I used: Sourdough Rye.