"Katherine Shaughnessy in"the new crewel" says that the traditional crewel fabric is linen twill and wool thread. It is kind of expensive and hard to find except on the web. I did a piece using a woven fabric and pearl cotton, I think. It…"

"I don't think I can help you identify it, but I would love to see a straight on picture of it. Is that possible?"

"thank you for sharing this I like your shells, and the designs for the coral.  Your technique sounds interesting."

"There is a method using inks with shaving cream to keep the inks from spreading.  Try it on a scrap first..to make sure it works.  Also some pencils can behave like water colors when you paint water over them.  Penicls by themselves…"

"Sounds like a good idea. I was going for an Assisi look, so that didn't occur to me."

"Cynthia, what would happen if you used inks or colored pencils to color in the large shells.  The background work seems more interesting than the subjects."

"What a lovely picture!"