What’s on the Long Arm Wednesday and Horseshoe Market this Saturday!

"A&B" (in progress) - one of 8 textile paintings currently on the long arm machine

 I use my long arm machine a bit differently than most who have them – rather than quilt large functional quilts, I put a huge backing fabric and layer of batting on the frame, then layer (like postage stamps) several of my in-progress textile paintings across the backing/batting foundation, and then use my long arm machine to “draw” with thread to complete the pieces.

several of my textile paintings in progress on the long arm

 I currently have 8 textile paintings loaded on the machine.  I’ve finished stitching 7 of them and am just about ready to take them all off.  Then I’ll be stitching bindings and figuring out hanging/display options for each.

Horseshoe Market is this coming Saturday, May 11th!

This will be a first-time big craft market experience for me, selling my “Hanna-Dyed” goods – pillows, scarves, and textile paintings.  We went to this market last year, very cool event with great booths (it’s been voted Denver’s best market).  

Since Barbara and I have both been looking for ways to build and expand our art markets, she applied (without telling me) to see if we could get juried into Horseshoe as vendors this year – and we were accepted!  

So, we’ve been learning a lot very quickly about craft fair booth set up and everything that goes along with doing something like this for the first time.  “The factory” has been running full tilt too – I’ve got a pile of pillows and several racks of scarves ready to go and will bring along a few textile paintings as well.

 It’s going to be a big fun Market on Saturday – there are 115 Art, handmade, vintage, and antique vendors, music, food and all manner of good cheer to be had by the 5000+ expected visitors.  We’ll be at 46th and Tennyson from 9am-4pm.  If you’re in the Denver area, please stop by and say Hi!