Melody Crust - Fiber Artist

If you live in Seattle or are visiting, consider a short excursion to the ferry town of Kingston. Take the ferry from Edmonds across Puget ...

I can tell what interests me at any given time, by what I am doing. Right now it is quilting a quilt. I'm always on the search for inter...

From thought to reality.

I like pink!

Sew a nine patch cutting the pieces 4 1/2". I used different bright colors and black, but it would be just as effective using one brigh...

Eye Candy Quilts are the April Centerfold in the inaugural issue of the new magazine The Quilt Life !

Hand and machine quilting in essence are not interchangeable. Although it is possible to make machine quilting resemble hand quilting, each ...

Gained three or four pounds 'cause of a strung out holiday. The unexpected out of town trip meant we celebrated twice! The second one wa...

With the coming of the New Year all I want to do is sew! Scratch that ... all I ever want to do is sew! I'm working on a new embellishe...

Christmas this year was a bit abnormal. Wednesday, I got a call, my sister was unexpectedly called out of town. So I cooked dinner for 12 .....

May your holidays be filled with joy and happiness! Melody

My job at holidays is to decorate the table. Are there any ideas here? Usually by now I have settled on one idea. This year I have visions o...

Thinking of Christmas brings images of lights, trees and other Christmas symbols to mind.

Paint Sticks are oil paint in a crayon like form, my favorite for stenciling on fabric. This example is painted using a purchased stencil ...

1. Understand the paint : Textile Paints can be applied with brushes, sponges, stamps and squirt bottles. Luminere are metallic pain...

Painted Desert Pink and blue border fabric painted with textile paint, and freezer paper stencils. Rhapsody - painted with Dye-Na-Flow pain...

Fabric paints can enrich your material before you begin sewing—or at any time during the construction process. Use paints to add new designs...

In these days, learning opportunities fall at every doorstep. New and clever techniques are taught in the latest publications, at our local ...

____________________________________________________ Tell Santa you want to go to Nancy Crow's barn studio to take a class with Philippa...

Shopping for stuff.

Peace by Melody Crust The Priority quilts for December's Show and Silent auction have been posted on small quilters' favorite webs...

I have been shopping for a new lamp. There is some really interesting stuff out there. Who knew? Great shapes for quilting designs or?

Many of you know I collect vintage rhinestone jewelry. I buy it whenever I get a chance. Phyllis, one of the lovely ladies in Dallas took me...

Saffron Color, always I am driven by color. Machine pieced and quilted using cotton and silk fabrics. Using specialty threads with tradition...

We painted fabric We foiled Fabric