Carlyn Clark 12/4/14 Carlyn Clark 12/4/14

In honor of National Cookie Day: A Palette Inspired by Macarons

In honor of National Cookie Day, a color palette taken from a photo of Macarons picked up at a small shop in Paris.

Carlyn Clark 12/3/14 Carlyn Clark 12/3/14

Day One Designing a New Collection of Prints and Patterns for Baby Boy Nursery Bedding

After a day working on my new print collection I thought I'd share what my Adobe Illustrator workspace looks like. This one is going to be a collection of fabrics for a baby boy's nursery with a desert theme. I started by researching Navajo textile traditions.

Carlyn Clark 12/2/14 Carlyn Clark 12/2/14

In Honor of National Mutt Day, a Color Palette Inspired by Mao Mao

In honor of National Mutt Day I created a color palette inspired by the world's all-time best mutt, Mao Mao.

Carlyn Clark 12/1/14 Carlyn Clark 12/1/14

Shadows in the Sand Color Palette

A color palette taken from a photo of sand and a stick in Joshua Tree, California,

Carlyn Clark 11/30/14 Carlyn Clark 11/30/14

It's Raining!!! and that made me want to create a new color palette

A palette derived from a photo taken of my front yard during the first rainfall in months.

Carlyn Clark 11/26/14 Carlyn Clark 11/26/14

A Simple, Graphic Christmas Tree Pattern

A new pattern celebrating the holidays with a Christmas Tree pattern in traditional Christmas colors red, green and gold.

Carlyn Clark 11/25/14 Carlyn Clark 11/25/14

Color Palette Inspired by a Pilosocereus Azureus Cactus

Carlyn Clark 11/24/14 Carlyn Clark 11/24/14

Color Tricks the Eye

One motif is colored using the same palette in six different ways which create strikingly different effects.

Every morning as I sit down at my work table I pull up an @oblique_se. Today's seems to particularly align with my mood.

Mending while camping, using hand-dyed indigo thread available on my website

New stock added. Oversold natural indigo dyed mending thread is back in stock. This cotton covered poly thread is stronger than pure cotton and takes the indigo dye beautifully, with little specks of undyed poly peeking through for an almost sparkly effect. It's strong enough for mending jeans but thin enough for most stitching and embroidery projects. The natural indigo will fade harmoniously as you launder your jeans. If thread sales are an indication, the dog days of the pandemic are inspiring people to dig into those baskets of damaged clothes with lots of first timers giving mending a try. It's put up in short skeins so its an affordable starter thread. The indigo dye started as seeds in my dye garden. I use this thread in Arashi Shibori processes and carefully unwind it as I pull off the dyed textiles. Nothing goes to waste! I can put up longer skeins if needed, pm me

Finished a pile. Now to assemble

Individual photos of the January 2021 Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches. I've written about the processes on my blog. Link to my website is on my bio #tastembroidery #takeastitchtuesday #pintangletast #handembroidered #stitchersofinstagram #linkedchainstitch #flystitch #italianborderstitch #blanketstitch #reverseblanketbarstitch #stemstitch #portuguesestemstitch

New thread colorway added to my shop. #handdyedthreads #bluethread #mendingthread #handstitching #varigatedthread #dyedthreads #dyedbyhand #denimfriendly #mendingjeans

More thread into a vat. Blending colors for stitching on collage. #handdyedthreads #stitchedcollage #dyersofinstagram #dyedthreads #dyeart #dyework #blue #multicoloredthread

There was a run on indigo dyed thread on my website over the holidays and I'm almost out. Today I'm trying out fiber reactive dyes on a few skeins to see how that works. Takes a lot less water than indigo processing which is an ongoing concern in SoCal.

Starting 2021 with some dye. #dyeart #dyeing #shiboripattern #dyersofinstagram #dyedcotton #fatquarter #konacotton #dyework

So long 2020! Welcome 2021. We're really looking forward to seeing you