Welcome to Day 10 of the Minnesota Designer’s Blog Hop. I’m so glad you stopped by to join the fun. I’m Shelly Stokes, and I’m the owner of Cedar Canyon Textiles. Most people know me as the “paintstik lady.” I discovered this wonderful paint product about 10 years ago in a book from the UK. […]
Join the fun!
It’s day 2 of the blog hop and we just can’t believe how many people are visiting and making comments. Such fun! If you want to get an occasional newsletter or blog announcement from Cedar Canyon Textiles, please sign up for the newsletter on our site. Here is the link to the newsletter sign-up form. […]
Top Tips for Better Rubbings
Hey folks! This is the week for the big Minnesota Designer’s Blog Hop! (You can read all about it by clicking on the logo over on the right hand side of your screen.) I’m on my way out of town for the big Bernina University event in San Francisco, so my turn on isn’t until […]
Minnesota Designer’s Blog Hop starts next Monday!
Well here’s something new and different — I’ve been invited to take part in a Blog Hop that starts next Monday, June 22. A group of 10 blogging quilt designers, all from Minnesota are taking part in this adventure. Starting next week you can visit a new blogger every weekday. Each designer will have a […]
Congrats to our Quilt Market Winners!
It’s always fun to have something special going on in our booth at market, and this spring we decided to try something new. We painted a Coneflower quilt top each day in the booth along with our usual hands-on demonstrations and mini-classes. Because there is no piecing involved in making the quilt (all paint, no […]
Quilt it – then Paint it!
Sue Kelly joined me for the trek to Cleveland to film a couple of segments for Quilting Arts TV at the end of February. We traveled on one of those winter days when we really would have been much better off snuggled up in front of a fire at home. The weather was miserable, the […]
Fixing mistakes, Using multiple colors
I got the first set of plates from our new Happy Holidays set at the end of last week, so I had a good excuse to push all the paperwork aside and pull out my paints. (I love days when I have a good excuse to ignore all that “office” work!) I remembered to grab […]
Happy Holidays!?!
Yes, I know it’s March and we just got past the Christmas holidays, but we’re planning ahead! (Either that or we are waaaayyy behind schedule – I’ll let you decide.) All moans and groans aside, I’m really excited about our new Happy Holidays rubbing plates. With designs ranging from snowflakes to holiday lights, ornaments and […]
Coneflowers will be blooming!
In spite of the weather, it has been feeling a bit like spring for the past couple of weeks here in the office as we put the finishing touches on a new Coneflower pattern by designer Nancy Kazlauckas. I have a perfect place in my office to hang these quilts – and then it will […]
Paintstik Patina
Believe it or not, paintstiks are not just for fabric. While painting on fabric is my passion, paintstiks have been around almost as long as I have, and they have most often been used on anything but fabric. Paintstiks will adhere to any porous surface such as canvas (think fine art painting), metal, wood, paper […]
Better rubbings (part 2)
In the last post, I discussed how the addition of 2 key tools can make a huge difference in the results you see when making rubbings with Paintstiks. Today, I have two more tips for making rubbings. A little history… When I began working with paintstiks, I always used the end of the paintstik for […]
Better tools, better rubbings (part 1)
I must have seen one of the pizza commercials lately – I hate when that stuff sticks in my head! But, it gave me an idea for discussing a common problem, so I won’t complain. So what does pizza have to do with paintstiks? Well… The most common question I hear is “how can I […]
