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Happy New Year – Katazome giveaway

by Kit on January 1, 2010

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I’m starting the new year with a giveaway designed to grow my email list and blog subscribers. Enter for a chance to win the 10×64” katazome (stencil-dyed) runner pictured below. The runner features my garden-inspired Meadow Rue pattern. It’s 100% linen, made from a reclaimed linen damask tablecloth, and is hand-dyed with natural pigment dyes in graduated green, teal and indigo tones. I brush the dyes on in 3 separate coats, drying the work between each coat. (To see the runners after I pasted the pattern, scroll to the bottom of
this post.)

To enter, please complete one of the following tasks by midnight January 15, 2010 (your time zone o.k.):

  • Join my email list to receive occasional updates (4-6 per year) about events, art fair participation and my online shop. (The sign-up form is  directly below my Etsy shop info in the center column.) Please enter the word “giveaway” in the Code field along with your info. You’ll be required to confirm your subscription by responding to an email. OR …
  • Subscribe to the RSS feed (upper right, next to my bio), and then leave a comment on this post letting me know you did so.

NOTE: If you already subscribe to my RSS feed or email updates, to be eligible for this giveaway please leave a comment on this post letting me know!

The winner will be selected at random (via random.org) and contacted by email on Monday January 18th.

Have a creative and peaceful new year, and good luck!

folded Meadow Rue Runner

folded Meadow Rue Runner

Detail

Detail

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Katazome Snippets for Free, Pasque Flower

by Kit on April 15, 2009

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I would like to offer a few free Katazome snippets from my previous experiments. Toss it in your fabric scrap stash, add a small bit to your exquisite quilt, embellish it, sprinkle water droplets on it to see how the soy sizing acts as a kind of scotch-guarding, put a patch on your denim motorcycle jacket, etc. Please email me with your mailing address and I’ll send a sample to the first 5 people who respond. It will go out in the mail on Monday April 20 after I return from a brief vacation down river!

katsamps

We were surprised to come across this beautiful pasque flower on our evening walk at Lake Como. The City of St. Paul and the regional water district folks have been improving the shoreline since we moved in almost 12 years ago . There is a show of blooming and ripening plants, mostly perennials native to the “edge of the prairie,” from mid-April through mid-October.

Pasque Flower

Pasque Flower

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