Rust-Tex

There are two vidcasts about International Quilt Festival that I would like to bring to your attention. First Alex Anderson just gushes abou...

I guess I had the wrong information yesterday when I posted that the weathermen said it would snow on Wed. It actually will be pretty nice o...

International Quilt Festival in Chicago was fun but exhausting for me. It was the best week-end of my professional career so far. So many co...

I host "The Queen's Birthday Party" for my UFO Club, on the Friday night closest to my birthday, which is just two weeks befor...

When we got to the booth on Sunday morning we saw a terrible stain on one of the white sheets we use to cover the merchandise at night. Merr...

Dear Rust-Tex.Blogspot.Com Reader, Don't click on any link in the comments that say "Click here to see more" or maybe just ...

Here is what came out of yesterday's set ups. On the second shelf in yesterday's bottom photo you can see two small cast iron frying...

The weather today was way too nice for me to be working in my cold, damp Wisconsin basement studio. I NEEDED to be outside. So I spent most ...

One of the students who took the rust dyeing class on Thursday afternoon came by the booth on Sunday to show the results of her class projec...

One morning, when I looked into the Rust-Tex Dye Studio, I found that the big pile of snow in the studio was almost melted. I took a picture...

There were "high wind advisories" in the forecast today. I am not sure what that means. But I could tell I didn't want to be o...

It really was "Too Windy to Work" today but I had to rinse out the bottle wraps I had made as one of the presenters of Dye Days at...

I looked at my blog today and was surprised that the last time I posted was April first. (no fooling) In the middle of February I started g...

The first flowers in our yard are always the snowdrops by the corner of the playhouse. Years ago I buried a big rock there and left a little...

The muffin cups totally emerged from the snow pile on Sunday! I moved them to a place where water would drip into the muffin cups from the...

Everyday, since I buried them higher , I have been looking for the muffin cup and sidewalk salt bundles. Because it snowed the very next day...

Here is a picture of my new business card. How cool is that??? Oh and about the egg dyeing using silk ties, don't eat those eggs and don...

Some one posted a comment to yesterdays post asking "Does it only work with silk fabric and does it ruin the fabric?" To answer th...

Many people were talking online about dyeing Easter eggs ala Martha Stewart. I tried it and it worked pretty well even though I forgot to pu...