Carlyn Clark 5/28/16 Carlyn Clark 5/28/16

Zigzag Quilt for the Riley Blake/Modern Quilt Guild Challenge

A 36" x 54" quilt machine-pieced and hand-quilted by Carlyn Clark for the Riley Blake Fabric Challenge Spring 2016 with The Modern Quilt Guild

Carlyn Clark 3/24/16 Carlyn Clark 3/24/16

Stitching for Change

Carlyn Clark 11/19/15 Carlyn Clark 11/19/15

Can you use fiber reactive dyes to print on fabric?

Experimenting with applying thickened fiber reactive dyes to cotton fabric.

Carlyn Clark 11/17/15 Carlyn Clark 11/17/15

Sometimes it's Good to Pick Up a Needle and Thread

I pulled out a needle and thread to hand quilt the Zipper Pouch from Sprout Patterns using two of my print designs from Spoonflower.

Carlyn Clark 7/22/15 Carlyn Clark 7/22/15

My first gif

Carlyn Clark 7/15/15 Carlyn Clark 7/15/15

100 Day Project Summary, and a Contest!

Win a Society 6 pillow printed in your favorite pattern from the series 1 Motif 100 Ways series for The 100 Day Project.

Carlyn Clark 7/14/15 Carlyn Clark 7/14/15

The 100 Day Project - Day 100 of My "1 Motif 100 Ways" Pattern Series!!!!!!!

For the One Hundredth and final day of my "The 1 Motif 100 Ways" series for "The 100 Day Project" I used all the colors of the palette to make a small scale plaid background underlying the open, geometric vector surface pattern design.

Carlyn Clark 7/13/15 Carlyn Clark 7/13/15

The 100 Day Project - Day 99 of My "1 Motif 100 Ways" Pattern Series

"Salir", by Carlyn Clark of "The 1 Motif 100 Ways" series for day 99 of "The 100 Day Project" is a vector surface pattern design that is intricate and delicate with a lacy effect reminiscent of Moorish screens.

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