I started the week feeling pretty down. When this happens, I'm never sure what the cause is. I try to just work through it, which usually works well enough for me. Finishing projects definitely helps. Performing successfully for an audience helped, too. I'm feeling much better as the week wraps up. Here is my weekly … Continue reading Weekly Update – Sept 17
I've been thinking a lot about Stacie Bloomfield (Gingiber)'s Leverage Your Art course this week. I'm an affiliate, and there has been a lot of chatter on that team about selling seats. I knew this would be uncomfortable for me, but I got so much out of the course, and I'm not the typical student … Continue reading Leveraging My Art
Happy New Year! This is going to be another wordy post, I'm afraid. I enjoy spending some time in these gray days at the beginning of the year planning what I want to accomplish in the coming months. (In Northern New Jersey, we are in a gray weather period. Most mornings are foggy, and the … Continue reading 2022 Plans and Goals
With the end of the year always comes the urge to look back and evaluate the year that has slipped past. 2021 was a great year for Dizzy Quilter. I wasn't quite as active on my blog as I would like to be, but I had some wonderful opportunities come about, and I explored new … Continue reading 2021 In Review
Thanksgiving is always a big celebration for my family. Typically my Mother in Law hosts the meal, with a menu that is mind-blowing. Somehow, as years go by and the number of family members goes down, the list of dishes that are prepared goes up. This leaves us with not only a huge mess to … Continue reading Using Up Your Thanksgiving Leftovers
Welcome to those of you coming to visit me from Accuquilt's Friendsgiving show! I'm Jen Strauser, and I am in charge of this beautiful disaster. I make an effort to be very environmentally conscious. Currently, that means I try not to let any food or fabric go into the garbage. I do not waste leftovers … Continue reading Friendsgiving – Oven Mitts and Enchiladas with Accuquilt
I'm back with another Imagination Renovation quilt designer challenge this month. Kate and Tammy chose the Strip Star for September. This was one I was not familiar with, but it has some potential. I immediately went right to Electric Quilt 8 and got playing with the strip star block. First, I moved some lines, pulling … Continue reading Imagination Renovation – Strip Star
Last year I took a course on designing fabric, and it encouraged watercolor painting as one way of exploring my creative voice and making art. To say that I've never had success with paints would be a dramatic understatement. For the most part, I find painting to be tremendously frustrating - I want to be … Continue reading 100 Days of Watercolor Painting
This year one thing I said I would focus more energy on is my Quilt Lab experiments. Our assignment for this month was to play with Bojagi, a traditional Korean patchwork technique. I'm happy to report that my first Bojagi project is complete. I haven't done a deep dive into the history of this art … Continue reading Quilt Lab – Bojagi
Never have I greeted a new year with such a sense of both optimism and cynicism. Rather than dwell too much on the year that has scarred us all, I'm looking forward to a new day. Today I'm getting started with planning out 2021. In reflecting on my annual goals, I realized that I need … Continue reading Welcome 2021!
