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Creating Pet Fur with Fabric and Fiber

Creating Pet Fur with Fabric and Fiber

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...

Offering Support During Pet Grief: A Heartfelt Approach

Offering Support During Pet Grief: A Heartfelt Approach

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...

Anticipatory Pet Grief

Anticipatory Pet Grief

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...

Fabric Pet Portraits: A Pack of Dogs

Fabric Pet Portraits: A Pack of Dogs

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,...

Fabric Pet Portraits: A Clowder of Cats

Fabric Pet Portraits: A Clowder of Cats

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...

Holiday Safety Tips for Pet Owners

Holiday Safety Tips for Pet Owners

Tips on keeping pets safe during the holidays as shared by Echo, leader of the Evening Song Farm pack   Dear human(s) in my pack and others, As we get into the season of that white stuff on the ground that sticks to my paws, it’s important that you remember: I...

Preparing for an Art Show After a Long Hiatus

Preparing for an Art Show After a Long Hiatus

Preparing for an art show is like getting back on a bicycle, except since it’s been 32 months since my last show, I had to: take inventory, redesign the booth layout, order what I needed, put fresh covers on the matted pictures, rewire some wall hangings with stronger...

Fabric Flowers Throughout the Seasons

Fabric Flowers Throughout the Seasons

Sunflowers, fuschia, coneflowers, black-eyes susans, painted daisies, tulips, lilies, zinnias and pansies are some examples of fabric flowers I have created, as well as tended in my gardens over the years. Fabric flowers offer a fabulous opportunity to play with color...