An update on all things

I am currently doing a little Fabric Artist Trading Card swap with some fabulous people I know.  It is a Valentines Day swap ... can you tell?

I have hand stitched these so far but need my machine to finish them off ... sadly my trusty Bernina is having a few sick days and is off at the Machine Doctor being checked over.  I hope she is okay, I need her and miss her already.  Counting the days until Thursday when I can pick her up and bring her home again.

As many of you may already know, I have cancelled my FaceBook account, both personal and Jane Monk Studio.   I will be updating this blog every week, hopefully on Mondays or Wednesdays.   I have decided that I need to spend some serious time trying to build up my Longarm Quilting business again as it has gone decidedly quiet in the past year or so and it is my sole source of income.   I also want to spend time developing some of my art, especially my polymer clay One-of-a-kind (OOAK) dolls. 

So ... I hope I you will like what I have to show you over the coming months, please leave me a comment, I am ashamedly grateful for your comments and feedback, it is after all, a great way for artists to develop their skills. Of course it is also good for our egos :) .

I have also commenced a little self paced online workshop with Jude Hill, called Spirit Cloth (http://spiritcloth.typepad.com/)  I am really partial to hand stitched, intuitive work and would love to develop my embroidery skills and all the gorgeous natural fibers I have collected over the years. Sometimes you just have to do something that calls to you.  I have Mandie from Ewe Give Me The Knits to thank for letting me know of Jude's gorgeous work.

Okay, so that is it for the moment ... Happy Australia Day to you all this coming weekend.   Will catch up with you all next week.

Happy Creating for now ... Jane xxx

A New Scanner & an Update

Hi everyone ... it has been a bit quiet in my household as far as Zentangle and Quilting go.  I have had a computer hard drive failure, scanner failure and have had the horrible flu.   But ... things are going again.  I am well, after a few horrible weeks with the flu.   I have a new computer and will have a super duper scanner in the next week - one that I hope will take as good an image of my drawings as it says it will ... fingers crossed.    So a big project that I have had on the backburner in regard to Zentangle, will be able to progress - so look out in August for that exciting moment.

I am also back doing customer quilting and have had a small influx of quilts which has been lovely.  More are welcome, as this is how I make my living and if I can help you to complete your quilt, that makes it all the better!

I have also had some wonderful emails and phone calls from people who have watched my Zentangle Inspired Quilting DVD ... and some entertaining stories of how they managed to finish projects.  The current Quilters Companion shows how a lady has made my Zentangle tile drawing into an embroidered insert for her bag....page #6.   It is wonderful to see, and lovely to hear from so many people who enjoyed this DVD.  I thank Quilters Companion for asking me to do the DVD and making it so easy to share my style of Zentangle with Quilters everywhere.   I have some DVD's left in my shop ...  

Okay ... I hope to have some lovely drawings to show you once I get my scanner sorted out ...so happy tangling and quilting until I see you again next week :)