Kaleidoscope Fabrics Marbling & Crafts

Summer break is over. School is back in session and with that comes the hint of fall with cooler crisp early mornings. This means, it’s comfy sweatshirts and scarves season! My favorite time of year!

New for this season’s fall craft shows are cotton buttery soft scarves with fringe! Each one is permanently hand-dyed & measures approximately 27” x 75.” I love the look and feel of these scarves! Made this scarf with my Alma Mater in mind.

I hope everyone had a great summer! Have a fabulous day!

First craft show of the season is on November 23rd for the Plymouth Canton Music Boosters Fall Craft Show.

Had a little fun designing and ordering printable items with my water marbling patterns. I handmade the necklace pendant using a cut from a sample swatch of fabric.

I’m excited to see what other fun designs I can put together with my other paintings! Maybe one or two items from my collection will make it to the craft shows this fall and winter season. Cost is the big drawback and so I am searching for items that are affordable to stock. Time will soon tell.

Just had one of my sample orders arrive and I’m happy with how it looks! Now the question is whether it will hold up. Time will soon tell!

Happy Monday, everyone! How are you all doing? It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been extremely busy creating and am excited to announce that we have been jury selected into the fall show for Plymouth Canton Music Boosters! The show is on November 23rd. More details will be shared when we get closer to the date.

On another note, I have been hard at work with turning my Ebru paintings into digital patterns for printing. I’m leaning towards offering digital file downloads. Here’s some examples of what the designs can be used for. What do you think? I’ve placed orders for some really fun products and I cannot wait to see how these turn out in person!

I hope everyone is doing well! Have a great week!

Happy Thursday! How have you all been? Last week was my child’s school spring break and we took her on a road trip to Boston and Salem. It was such a fun vacation filled with historical highlights.

This week, I have been experimenting with bandana scarves. Fun, fun! This technique is one that involves dyes, stencils and decolourant. I think it turned out really neat!

I also received an acceptance into the Berrien Artists Guild Box Factory For the Arts juried Makers Market event which is being held on Saturday, November 30, 2024 from 8am-5pm. 1101 Broad St, in St. Joseph, MI. Mark your calendars! 😀

I hope you are all doing well. Here’s my latest scarf creation. This one is on a 12mm satin silk bandana with hand-rolled edges. I love how it turned out! What do you think?

Have a great day and remainder of the week, everyone!

What happens when you melt ice sprinkled with dyes over a silk scarf? You get a beautiful and unique marbled effect.

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Happy Sunday! How is everyone doing? Yesterday, I saw the forecast for today and decided it’s going to be perfect spring scarf wearing weather here in the mitten. To pair with my hand-dyed silk scarf, I decided yesterday to make a linen poncho top. Took me roughly 3 hours to design and sew. I love how it turned out & am excited to wear it! What fun crafts have you been up to?

Fun with crafting continues. For this piece, I used a water marbled silk square bandana scarf that was cut to fit the size of the glass insert for the metal tray. I adhered the scarf to the back of the glass, turning into a reversible piece. One side can display the original decorative pattern & when flipped over, the other side will display the water marbled fabric. Underneath the tray sits a water marbled silk scarf table runner.

Happy MLK day! How is your 2024? My kiddos just wrapped up their first week back to school after their long winter holiday break. I have been easing myself back to the grind as well. I spent my week working alongside my bookkeeper to help her get the year’s taxes in order for next month’s state sales tax filing. Not fun like crafting, but a necessary task. The marketplaces reports have caused quite a bit of confusion and headaches for the bookkeeper (& myself!). With the headaches experienced between Etsy & Goimagine, I have decided to make it easier on myself and downsize on my marketplaces. I am assessing which one,if not all, to eliminate. I’m leaning towards stepping aside from both and simplifying by offering Square sales links on a request basis since I use Square to conduct sales transactions at craft shows. I will update my FB page when I finalize my decision.

Last year was spent testing the water with selling scarves at craft shows. I learned that the scarves are not the best fit for craft shows, and so I will be selective in my applications for 2024. As of now, I am paid up for the Michigan Maker’s December 14, 2024 show at the Suburban Collection Showplace from 11am-5pm. The rest of the year is still up in the air.

On a fun note, winter has finally decided to arrive at our front door steps. We had a decent snowfall over the weekend that resulted in beautiful scenic views, but brought with it below freezing temps.

Yesterday, the bitter cold that swept over our area made for a great day to just cozy up on the couch and read- a luxury I had not been able to do in years! I am enjoying this easy read fiction book and will take today to finish it because it’s another chilly day. What have you been doing to combat the winter chill?

Wishing you all a safe and Happy New Year!

Happy Wednesday! How was everyone’s Christmas Holiday? We had a nice, but busy one with traveling to spend it with family this year. Now that we are back home in Michigan and gifts have been given, I can share my sewing craft that I spent days making.

It was inspired by my recent upper respiratory virus that I fell ill from while working this winter’s craft show season. I spent many days sipping warm drinks to soothe my sore throat, and while carrying a hot to the touch coffee mug around my house and into rooms without coasters, the idea came to me: a coffee cup cozy for my hands with an attached coaster for the bottom of the coffee mug! So I put on my inventors cap and innovated one. I loved it so much and thought that it turned out rather cute as practical use gifts!

One year I made the family microwaveable bowl hot pad coasters and decided to make this year’s sewing craft another practical use gift and introduced everyone to my invention: the ‘Coazty’ - a name I coined after shipping a coaster with a cozy. 😄 Some I made with snaps that supposedly can sustain short times in the microwave, making them okay to use for reheating drinks in the microwave. Others are made with Velcro closures for a more secure fit around different sized mugs. I don’t think Velcro is microwaveable so I wouldn’t recommend the microwave for those.

What do you all think?

One gift recipient said they could see these as a better use if I re designed them to fit around the paws of dogs to make dog booties. The idea seems interesting, but I have yet to know a dog who enjoys having things strapped to their paws. 🤭 BUT…maybe I could see baby booties made out of my pattern! 🤔

Merry Christmas weekend to all who celebrate the holiday! Are you all feeling prepared? I am not! Today will be my last day of crafting last minute gifts and last minute shopping. Eeek! The days are going by in a flash and before I get too caught up in the frenzy of the holiday, I want to wish you all a safe and happy holiday!

Happy Monday! How was everyone’s weekend? Yesterday, the natural lighting in the house did not make for ideal for photography. So I took advantage and cleaned up the marbling studio (aka, the dining room).

I tossed the Pointsettia shawl that I hand painted with the serti silk dyes technique onto the table and I love how it looks! Today, I will close the center seam to fully join both scarves together and use it as a large scarf and/or table holiday decoration. What do you think?

Saw this posted somewhere and found it comically funny as this is how it looks here on this gray morning. Not starting off with adequate natural lighting in the house yet to photograph the collection for goimagine or Etsy. Welcome to the Michigan life, folks. 😄

That’s a wrap for 2023 craft shows! Thank you to the Michigan Maker’s, LLC and to all the attendees who visited and shopped our booth today! It was a fun day seeing familiar and new faces! We enjoyed our day so much that we even decided to do it again next year and reserved our spot! Have a happy & safe Holiday season, everyone!

Our selling platforms are back online (yay!) and they will start getting re stocked tomorrow into next week.

Have a great remainder of your weekend, folks!

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It’s been a steady flow of crowds here at Suburban Collection Showplace here in Novi. We are down to our final few scarf jewelry pieces and one Great Lakes scarf (a luxurious 12mm silk satin!) is left, plus a lot of the others! There’s still time to come on out and shop some scarves! 😬 We are here until 5pm.

We are all set and ready for our last craft show of 2023! Come on out to Suburban Collection Showplace tomorrow from 11am-5pm and see us at booth 303.