Classes!

Classes!

Last week’s classes {Unleashing Color on Fabric & Pumpkin Printing} were a huge success! 

In Unleashing Color on Fabric we dyed a rainbow of 12 fat quarters. Then in Pumpkin Printing we made dish towels, printed with pumpkins for the pumpkin season.

Both classes were big fun and it feels so good to be teaching again.

Coming up in November will be a potholder class. In this class you will learn 4 different improv blocks as well as how to quilt using your walking foot, and finally binding your pothlders.

These potholders are quick to make and are a great gift!

I will be announcing the date of the class shortly.

There will be two more classes at the beginning of December and then we will start back up in the new year with dyeing, printing, quilting and clay classes.

 

Art Elements Seed Pod Challenge

Please go to www.bahamadawn.com to see my post about the seed pod challenge.

New Signs

 

I have been painting signs again, after a 8 year break!  Kind of in love with anything octopus now-a-days!!  And of course mermaids, I will always love them!

~NEW WEBSITE~

Hey there!

I keep forgetting to let you know that I have a new website, and I guess, because of that I have been ignoring this page.

Go check it out, follow it, catch up!

 

There is a lot of new work posted on the new site.

New information on classes that take place in my studio, in Abaco, Bahamas.

www.bahamadawn.com

~~Happy 2014~~

Happy New Year!!

The beginning of a new year can be so refreshing and stressful all at the same time.  I have so many ideas, goals, things I want to do, that my mind is just overflowing!

There are my business & creative goals and then my personal ones.

The last three months of 2013 kept me very, very busy between new creations, sales, shows and teaching.

I will continue my quilting classes in February and I am hoping that there will be some interest in classes in some other mediums.

I have updated the Classes page on this blog, so click on that to see what I will be offering.  There is only one class posted so far, but more will be posted over the next few weeks, so keep checking back.

I love to teach, but most of all I love to help people achieve that feeling of accomplishment when they have finished a project.  I believe that everyone has a streak of creativity.  It is just a matter of tapping into it and helping it flow.

Another of my creative goals, for 2014, is to bring back a few items that I made in the past.  I have had many customers asking about them so I thought I would reinvent them to some degree and offer them again.

One of the items will be my quilted silk pillows, but they will be totally different from the ones I did previously.  Below are the quilted silk pillows that I made several years back.  I am in the process of redesigning them.
{There will also be a silk painting class offered in 2014, so keep checking the Class tab on this blog}

Another *new* or recreated item I am working on are my Bahama Mama Quilts.  Remember these....?

I am currently getting ready for Art for the Parks, which is January 24th, 25th & 26th.  I will have new items as well as class samples for the classes I am offering in February and March 2014.  Hope to see you there!

~~~Have a Happy & Creative 2014~~~

Something New from Something Old

Since Halloween is wrapping up I am starting to get Christmas on my

mind.  Waaaaaaay back when I was about 12, I made this advent calendar.  Every year I find it around February, long after Christmas, tuck it away being sure I will remember where I hid it, then Christmas comes and lo & behold I can't find it!  It would be way too logical to put it with my Christmas decorations!

I was on a mission this weekend to find it and I did!!!

It's pretty pathetic!  I can't even figure out what some of the ornaments are!

I am trying to decide if I should make a new one and keep this for old times sake, or redo this one......

I am leaning towards making a brand new one with this same concept.  It will be good to keep this one to look back on.  I didn't even stitch down the numbers!!!!  And my mom proudly hung this in the dining room every year! WOW!

Since I began writing this post I also found the original pattern.

I have also been doing some brainstorming and doodling.  I even wake up in the middle of the night thinking about this.

Just trying to decide on a color scheme, greens with fuchsia or greens with royal blue.

Stay tuned to see how this renovation goes!  I've got one month to complete it!

A Little Bit of This & A Little Bit of That!

In between real work and orders I have made a few more fall items for me.

These Halloween place mats just need some binding.  The little 3 inch blocks are from an online group I was in a few years ago.

Started a few more clay characters that just need paint now.

And finally a copper owl ornament.  {Well, not really *finally*....got a few more projects I haven't taken pictures of yet....my insomnia is coming in handy lately!}

I just LOVE Fall inspired crafts!

I have also been putting the finishing touches on my first (in a long time) quilting class, which will start in November.  A Christmas Table Runner.

There are just a few more spots left in this class so if you want to join the fun contact me soon!

Also busy filling shop orders.....

And building inventory for online sales and a few holiday shows.  I will not be at Jollification anymore.  Things just weren't working out for me to go, but it is just as well since the work is piling up!

Leather cuff bracelet, above with dangles.  The dangles are a silver heart charm, 3 word charms and a seashell.

I will soon be letting you know about some new stores that will be carrying my creations, so stay tuned.    Until then, I will be at Da Market, here in Abaco ~ October 26th, November 30th and December 14th!

Thanks for stopping by to see what I am up to!