A Gift for Myself

This year I chose to buy myself a Christmas gift!!

Each year Amber (my D-I-L) and I visit a local Arts council craft fair. Amber is a master at finding interesting gifts for family and friends and many of them come from arts fairs, so while she is shopping for others, I often end up shopping for myself!!!

This year I was excited to see that my friend Elizabeth Barton had a booth there. Elizabeth is from here and is well known in the art quilting world, having written two books……

“Inspired to Design“…….

and “Working in A Series“……

In 2011 I took a 1-week class under her at the Arrowmont School of arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. During the first 4 days of the week, we spent our time learning to do Shibori dyeing…..

A Day to Dye For!!!!

Later in the week we used our fabrics to create a quilt from a photo……

I will post more about this quilt soon….I promise!!

BUT…..back to the Art Fair…..

Elizabeth had a booth and was selling some of her quilts. This one immediately caught my eye……

It uses her classic Shibori-Dyed fabrics and the lovely colors work perfectly with my “January Blues” decorating theme!!! I love the pink and mauve highlights that come through the dyes!!

So….to shorten an already long story….

It came home with me and is hanging in my den as I write.

Thank you Elizabeth for sharing your talent with me!!!

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