Here are a few pages:

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Of course, lots of people will be familiar with the traditional dark grout with honey comb  or hexagonal tiles (a classic and a favourite, I don’t know why I never noticed how much better it looks with dark grout).

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Sometimes the grout colour can really make or break a tile job. Like in the image below. The light grout distracts you from the lovely pattern.

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And, sometimes the preferred grout colour will depend on your personal taste and the effect you’re looking for. In the image below, I prefer the light grout because it makes the tiles really pop and shows off the pattern.

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Of course, sometimes it’s all about the tile. When I win the lottery I want a shower lined in an amazing mosaic of tiles like the one below (incidentally, they used lighter grout, but then used enhancer around the darker bits to make the grout darker in those areas).

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Fabric is Outfoxed by Lizzy House. The pattern is just something I made up, but it’s based on a bunch of similar patterns I’ve seen online and in quilting magazines.

The quilt:

A close-up:

The back:

The label:

The first piece I did was a mini version of the pattern for a Mother’s Day pillow. I decided to go with vibrant colours and matching threads (though, in the book they use other colours of thread and it looks great).

The second piece is very loosely based on an Autumn themed table runner (which I love, so I will probably do the full sized project eventually). In the book, they describe how you can make the leaves look a little bit ruffled, but I didn’t feel that it translated well on these tiny leaves (they’re about half an inch long). I might add a few more leaves …

I still haven’t decided where the hang the banner.

I found a lovely pale green piece of felt in my stash and some contrasting dark green thread (I wanted the stitching to be a bit messy and to show), and I decided to make it zombie/dead thing style (because, let’s face it, there are many days when co-workers and clients can seem like the living dead). I winged the design and in the end it turned into dead thing as opposed to zombie, but I can’t seem to stop calling it the zombie voodoo doll.

As you can see, I haven’t sewn the head on yet, but otherwise, it’s pretty much done and I love it!

This is a piece that I did back in high school (almost 20 years ago … now I feel old) as part of an bigger, year long project.

At the beginning of the school year, our art teacher read us a passage from a book describing some scenery. The part that resonated with me was a full (?) moon shinning on to a field (or possibly the bank of a river). Originally, we just had to do one piece (a painting) relating to the scenery, but I was really drawn to the initial image and ended up doing several pieces:

I did a couple of different paintings providing different interpretations or using different styles
I painted on some plain unbleached cotton and used the pieces to create a patchwork piece for a quilt top (which was never completed, but still impressed the teacher)
I designed and made a small “line” if decorative pieces or jewelry out of fimo and random beads (I wore one of the pieces often and another piece was on my key chain for years – I still have the fimo beads/pendants I made)

This is one of the decorative pieces. I made the pendant and used beads (the large pale ones used to be a dark mottled green) and fishing line to make something inspired by dream catchers. The large beads and green glass beads represented the tall grasses that the moon shone over and the small glass beads were either the sky or the moonlight reflecting off the water, I can’t remember which.

I love this piece and was really disappointed when the large beads faded (they were cheap, so this happened almost immediately). I entertained the idea of getting new beads and redoing the piece, but eventually decided to move on and just relish in the memory of how awesome the piece was originally (and how the whole collection earned me one of the highest grades in the class … makes me wonder why I didn’t continue my pursuit of art beyond high school).

Anyway, after years of treasuring this piece, I finally decided that it was time to dismantle it. I’m keeping the pendant, but not the rest. It was a little sad dismantling it, but I have plenty more creativity in me.