by martita | Mar 18, 2025 | Fabric Art Techniques
People often wonder how animal fur can be created from fabric. They believe there is no way a flat piece of material with a simple design can transform itself into the soft fluff of a cat’s tail or the thickness of chest hair of a Retriever. While this month’s blog is...
by martita | Feb 11, 2025 | Pet Loss
Supporting someone whose pet has died is an amazing gift you can offer them. To be comforted with consoling words or gestures makes it a bit more bearable in that moment and throughout the grieving process. Imagine you receive an early morning call or text that goes...
by martita | Aug 4, 2023 | Pet Loss
Watching my cat’s health fail and anticipating her death years ago was a difficult experience. She had been the one we saw first at the shelter and lived the longest. Anticipatory grief, the grief that comes before a pet dies, can be challenging. It comes complete...
by martita | Apr 7, 2023 | Fabric Art Techniques
From their reference photos to the final pet pillow or wall hanging, a pack of fabric dogs made their way in and out of my studio recently. This group of canine portraits and memorials graced my design wall. I’m pleased to report they all were on their best behavior,...
by martita | Feb 23, 2023 | Fabric Art Techniques
There has been a clowder of fabric pet portraits and pet memorials on my design wall this fall/winter. What’s a clowder? Clowder: a group of cats. Over the 16 years that I have created custom pet portraits and memorials, the overwhelming number of customer requests...
