Activity
Mon
Wed
Fri
Sun
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
What is this?
Less
More

Owned by Melissa

A community for anyone interested in mixed media textile arts to learn and share projects and ideas.

Memberships

HobbyScool®

6.7k members • Free

The Aligned Collective

34 members • Free

YAMS Ai Club

86 members • Free

Midlife Momentum

18 members • Free

Skool Scale Camp

5k members • Free

The Watercolor Journey

401 members • Free

Pinterest Skool

5.5k members • $7/month

Lauren Dallas Creator Hub

7.8k members • Free

Pocket Square Club

64 members • Free

8 contributions to Pocket Square Club
What would you like to learn to draw?
We have a 1M+ Youtuber joining us in a few months to teach us to draw something that fits inside a square 🥰 if you know what I mean. He would like to know what you would like to learn to draw. Choose from the list or add your own in the comments and I will let him know. This will be live so you can draw with him.
Poll
9 members have voted
1 like • 2d
@Jane Harbison I voted “other” because I think learning to draw a landscape in a square would be fun.
May 11 • 
Workshops
🤎 How did you go with your Feeling Word?
I have just put a quick video in the Classroom for DAY 1. showing you what my feeling word will be for my next pocket square design. Share yours below.
🤎 How did you go with your Feeling Word?
1 like • May 12
I started with "Awe" but now I'm going to go with "Expansive."
May 10 • 
Workshops
🤎 DAY 1 MOOD-BOARD SCAVENGER HUNT: Feeling Word
1. Watch the video for your first task. 2. When you are done share Your Project and Your Feeling Word here in this post. ACTION FOR BOARD: Write your Feeling word on a piece of paper (decorate how you like) and place at the centre of your board Download your Workbook here in the Classroom.
🤎 DAY 1 MOOD-BOARD SCAVENGER HUNT: Feeling Word
1 like • May 11
I'm going to make my moodboard about my next body of artwork, which I've been stalled on for a few months. My feeling word is "Awe."
1 like • May 11
@Jane Harbison Yes- the theme I'm working with is "Sky Like Mind." Its from a Buddhist teaching.
What do you do for a living?
What do you do during the week for work? If you no longer work what did you use to do? For many years I was an accountant/commercial manager. It was only at 40 that I returned to a creative field (where I should have been all along). I started by doing an intensive graphic design course and I loved it. While I was finding my creative feet, I served on independent school boards. It was in these roles I got to experience what good working relationships between men and women can achieve. Your turn.
What do you do for a living?
2 likes • May 4
I am a certified Wholistic Neurogrowth Learning Success Coach- I coach clients online of any age who are struggling to achieve goals, either in school or in later life, or they are stuck in a major life transition. Its a nervous system-based coaching system that looks at every aspect of the client's physical and mental environments, and clears the obstacles to a life in flow. I also teach part time in the art department at Cochise College: Beginning Painting for Personal Development, 2D Studio Art, Art History Survey. I also teach online art workshops! The next one coming up will be "Drawing and Painting Meditations."
Interesting results from the red cabbage dye workshop!
Here are pics of my results from yesterday, and also side-by-side shots from my first round of dyeing. The results are surprising! I'm excited to do more experiments! Since the baking soda gave more of a green, I'm going to try adding much less- starting with a teaspoon rather than a tablespoon next time. ;-D That might be the ticket to a cool blue. On the comparison pics, the first round of dyed silks are on the bottom, and the second round of dyed fabrics (1 silk, and 3 wool) are on top. The yellow tint of the wool warmed up the color quite a lot. And the shibori resist-dyed piece was quite a surprise! It looks orange instead of pink, and the stripes are blue instead of white (!) What a beautiful surprise~! Such a different result on the wool compared to the silk, using the exact same dye recipe.
Interesting results from the red cabbage dye workshop!
1 like • Apr 23
@Jane Harbison I know~ i was really surprised, but I should have known to expect something different because of the color of the wool. You could also use gray wool and get even darker hues… 😉
1-8 of 8
Melissa Gill
2
3points to level up
@melissa-gill-2493
Founder of Printing, Dyeing, & Stitching Skool Community, teaching artist and Wholistic Neurogrowth Success Coach in Tucson AZ.

Active 5h ago
Joined Mar 8, 2026
INFJ
Tucson, AZ