Applique is the process of stitching something to a background fabric. It will take about an hour to finish these. It also took about 40 minutes to handcut them.

If you had told me I was going to fall in love with vinyl, I would have laughed in your face. I'm actively designing new organizers. The top/front is fabric. The interior is vinyl print on top of a fabric backing. I am in love!

I'm working on new handmade practical items, fabric and mixed media artwork. I've added a few more events to my April and May schedule. I'm really looking forward to my 4th appearance at the Inman Park Festival and my 2nd for Alpharetta!

I've started my favorite landscape, the Dragonscape, my DragonCon theme. When finished, it will feature the red & blue dragons with that very special carpet fabric & hand painted gold stars. 19"x22"with roughly 18 more hours of design time and sewing remain. Creative juices flow!

The trees continue to grow as I add strips of fabric within them. The next step will be to free motion quilting hundreds of smaller limbs and adding sparkling Angelina fiber.

Sneaking a peek at 5 fabric Trifold Organizer tops. I've finished grid quilting them to a thick stabilizer. I'll work on interior fabrics next week.

I've been building up a nice sized stash of vinyl over the last few months, as I prepare to start my new line of practical organizers, zipper pouches and a few other surprises. I'll be pausing for a while, so I can dig in and finished my taxes. That's the life of a one Geek shop!

I held onto a 1st generation landscape and now I can compare my skill development and evolution. They have come so far after some 6ish years. I've added additional layers and reflective fibers and broadened the backgrounds and created new themes.

The trees are growing! I have changed out some of the backgrounds and some of the tree fabric textures. I have cut, shaped and pinned Individual limbs. They'll stitched into place next. By the time these 4 are finished, I will have spent between 16-20 hours on each.

Emotional Support Chicken Dragon variants are hatching soon. Gold, Blue and Purple crests.

Spring is about to get sprung! As I enter my 7th fantastic year, I find myself on both the UGA and Georgia Tech campuses, along with my 4th appearance at the Inman Park Festival.

I picked up my first load of frame lumber this morning! I'm preparing for 3 Atlanta area two day festivals and 1 in Athens between April and May, along with a few single day events. I do build the frames for every piece of artwork- be it fabric or acrylic mixed media.

Every new landscape begins with selecting the fabric pallets. Every tree is hand-cut, trimmed and shaped. Thread colors will be picked and them they'll be stitched into place. I'm designing these for MultiversCon later this year.

I am testing a new integrated social media posting platform. No more posting to individual social media platforms!

My Guardian Snails are now arriving. Molded air dry clay that have been painted with a spiral fabric shell that has been hand sewn onto the snail's body.

I was able to find a much better display for my Guardian Snails. I ❤️ them so much! They are molded air dry clay, painted and sealed with spiral hand stitched shells. I will be at the Athens Farmers Market in #athensga on Saturday #emotionalsupport #snail #fabric #athensfarmersmarket

I am in that camp and my mind will not be changed.

I acquired a pricey imported Japanese elastic that I've used to create Emotional Support Chickens. There will only be 7.

Geek In Stitches Portfolio & Behind The Scenes | Geek In Stitches Geek In Stitches Portfolio, featuring my full range of handcrafted machine sewn practical items and artwork and Behind the Scenes.

I finally finished redesigning my Portfolio and Behind The Artwork web page.

I'm about to start working on two new Rainbow Doodles. They'll be acrylic painted, then quilted along still out the lines. The last step will be building the frames.

I started using #spoonflower several years ago to turn my Rainbow Doodle Heart acrylic painted & quilted artwork into fabric. It becomes Bowl Buddies & Emotional Support Chickens - as unique as it gets 🙂 You can even buy my fabric on Spoonflower. I'll start working on new designs very soon!

Emotional Support Chicken made from fabric stuffed with crushed walnut shell with felt crown, beak and waddle shaped in a small triangle

I’ve been steadily hatching new Emotional Support Chickens for the new year! Dragons, Gay, Pokemon, Spandex and STEM, oh my! I have more spectacular fabric on the way for February too! No spoilers though. 😄

Geek in Stitches does have eGift cards for last minute needs! shop.geekinstitches.com/s/gift-cards

I create my own fabric by way of painted acrylic canvases. There iridescent blues and greens with iridescent gold splatter turned out pretty good! #mixedmedia #acrylic

My DragonCon Sale will be going live on Sunday while I'm at the Grant Park Summer Shade Festival

My DragonCon Sale will be going live on Sunday while I'm at the Grant Park Summer Shade Festival!

This is one of my favorite combinations of my hand dyed fabrics interwoven into a rope bowl. I call it the sunrise bowl. #ropebowls #handmade #grantparksummershadefestival

I'll be at Grant Park Summer Shade August 23-24 with my handcrafted fabric and mixed media artwork in geeky and LGBTQ themes. As a reward, we'll be going to DragonCon the next weekend! #grsntparlatl #DragonCon

Geek In Stitches Geeks of the world unit! Emotional Support Chickens, Rope Bowls, Artwork Bowl Buddies & more!

I'm launching my Geek Culture shop theme this week. It includes my special Emotional Support Chickens in time for #DragonCon!

I make Emotional Support Chicken with a large variety of fabrics.

I've been creating new landscapes for upcoming effects. I call this background fabric Cotton Candy Sunset. It's the time I've used the hippo and bluebird patches. #sewing #Artquilt #quilting