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Tiny Devotional Pouches
Some of my first sewing projects involved making small purses. (I love a good bag. So much to carry). Nowadays, I consider my textile endeavors to be devotional objects, especially when there is a lot of hand stitching, embroidery, and applique’ involved. I got inspired …
Sewing with Spoonflower Fabric
It’s been a dream of mine to design my own fabric and then turn that fabric into quilts and clothes. When I came across a Spoonflower Magazine (Spoonflower is the company the prints fabric, wallpaper, and wrapping paper designed by artists), that offered a free pattern for making baby hats, …
Rug Hooked Pillow Workshop
Wow! What a great start to the 2019 “A Season To Make” Workshop Series! We kicked off the series with learning to make Rug Hooked Pillows. Both days were realizations of my dream of creating opportunities to make in community and in nature, at the …
Spring Bird Story Quilt
This quilt is just my favorite thing. Here’s why. I fell in love with Spring Bird even before I lived here. This place, this piece of land has made me more like me. If that makes sense, and having made all sorts of art throughout …
Introducing: The Art We Make Podcast
There we were, lying belly down on brown shag carpet, in our corduroys and striped velour shirts. Our toe heads hovered, with spit dripping down our chins, and an eager index finger positioned above the red circle of the RECORD button. Then with a nervous …
Snakes For Sale and Name That Snake!
Well, I made some time recently to perch myself on top of my picnic table with knife in hand to peel back the bark on some sticks. If I couldn’t carve an intricate fish or bird figurine, maybe I could carve a snake. The idea …
The Spring Bird Artist Residency Recipient of 2019!
I am so pleased and excited to announce this year’s Spring Bird Artist Residency Recipient, Dawn Bertuca! Dawn’s application spoke so well to the spirit of this residency, which supports artists, writers, and makers needing to find time away from busy lives. Furthermore her work …
Living Willow Arch
We are in the 3rd year of cultivating our Forest Garden. A forest garden is an old method of agriculture based on the ecosystems of forests that utilizes fruit and nut trees, berry shrubs, and other perennial useful plants and fungi. The whole entity should …
Monthly Nature Sketches
Here’s a long story about this simple spread in my sketchbook. As you know, I write Woolgathering, a nature magazine about our connection to the seasons. Part of the mission of this magazine is to inspire awareness of the patterns and cycles in nature, which requires observation …
Sweaters For Sticks Workshop!!!
When Colored Squid Gallery owner, Joyce, reached out to me to lead a Sweaters for Sticks Workshop at her shop, I was initially confused. It was my assumption that the process of wrapping yarn around sticks seemed too basic and boring for anyone to be interested in …
Green Glass Shrine
As Spring seems more mythical than inevitable, I decided to focus on the indoor potential of making a shrine to green – to life! I even planted some old oat seeds in an empty tea tin to witness sprouting. (This is great to do with …
Spring Wallpaper For Your Computer
Well, my tech savvy daughter, Penelope, gave me the great idea that I should make computer wallpapers for the seasons. Since so much of what we do at Spring Bird, is encouraging connection and awareness to the seasons, I recognized that she was on to …
Sweaters For Sticks
Like most sensible people, I like staring at beautiful balls of yarn in colorful combinations, but I don’t always want to invest myself and my time into long term projects like an afghan. So, why not wrap small bits of colorful yarn around sticks? This …
I Make My Own Magazine, and You Can Too!
Who Said Print Media Is Dead? This is the third year of making my own magazine, Woolgathering, a quarterly publication about the seasons. Realizing that we are growing more and more disconnected from nature, I wanted to create a magazine that connects the reader to a …