Shibori Fabric

I am please to introduce Hand Dyed Shibori Fabric. Oh if my surface textiles teacher could see me now. The colors I used are Procion MX Lemon Yellow, Medium Blue and Bright Scarlet. I used a gathered stitching technique to achieve this look.

PS - Teacher - I still don't wear gloves when I dye. Some day my hands will be every color there is.

The New Changes to LeslieGallery

Hooray! i just got done gluing the paper backing on the first set of Shibori book cloth. It feels great to get back in to fabric dying and book arts. Crazy how you take a couple of electives in college and they end up becoming something you want to do all the time.

The biggest thing I keep thinking about is how to let people know my book cloth is out there. There are so many solid colors. I am excited to offer patterns and alternatives to solid colors.

I was listening to the Etsy Success Symposium today. Today I started a daily list of things to-do to better my shop thanks to the helpful people of the symposium. The tasks for today were making fabric in to book cloth and post on my blog. I even squeezed school work in as well.

Keep checking in cause I'm obviously excited to bring you all the new adventures to LeslieGallery :)

Happy Crafting

New Product Line

Recently I have been disappointed in the selection of Book Cloth and Fabric at the arts and craft stores. One of the electives I took during my undergrad was a Surface Textiles class where you learned to dye and print of fabric using all sorts of techiniques. DING! Lightblub moment! Why not make my own fabric. So I have been busy collecting all the materials; dyes, squeeze bottles, soda ash...etc. I am thrilled to start. I have recently decided to make my own book cloth from printed fabric and sell it on Etsy. I think these business ventures are going to be great.

I'm going to start slow, a couple solid colors before I start mixing an experiementing....Oooooo. My creative juices get going just thinking about it. I am excited to share my creations as soon as possible.

Back to Business, Brown Floral Box

I am excited to showcase a new photo box, Brown Floral Box. ok so the name isn't fantastic. I was also thinking Chocolate Brown Floral Box....actually i like that. There's something about it that reminds me of nature. I think it's the compliment of the outside with the natural paper inside. I walked into JoAnn Fabrics and had something else in mind but I was thins fabric and felt how soft and strong it is I knew I needed it. Enjoy!

Treasuries Galore

WOW! When I signed into my LeslieGallery email there are 3 messages telling me I was in 3 treasuries. I was so surprised. Click the links and show some love.....

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d3e43aa9b4d8eef66ea19fc/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-g

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d3dde062c866d91bfa3d575/waiting-for-spring

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d3dbe50ecd48eefa75e501b/think-spring

The Future is Approaching Fast

Tomorrow school starts. It's my last semester of taking 2 classes together while working a 40 hour a week job. I'm getting this masters so I don't have to spend the rest of my life processing 130 applications a day asking for free medication. Especially since it has nothing to do with art or museums. That's what my masters is, museum studies. Even though I'm preparing for my future I still want to be an art/crafts entrepenuar...entrepenure...ok so that's why I went into art, I can't spell, do math or science. I hope that someday that dream can still come true and be my own boss.

Snow on the Horizon

What is it about snow that makes you want to curl up with a cup of something warm and a blanket? Stay in your pj's? Start a fire in the fireplace? Those are things I look foward to when it's cold.

When I used to live in Colorado we had a free standing fireplace. You could put a teapot ontop and make hot water. My dad used to put snow from outside in a cup and we would throw pieces of the snow onto the fireplace and watch is sizzle away. That was always so much fun.