Inspired by an old map, I’ve been working on this little quilt for a while. I wanted to experiment with sheer fabrics, so the background is loaded with a wide variety of them. The list includes cheesecloth, lots of decorator fabrics, and even an embroidered sheer fabric from Mood Fabrics (of Project Runway fame.) I’ve also used paper and loosely woven craft [...]
Do you know about the SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) fund raising auction? Oh, it’s phenomenal! Hundreds of artists have donated quilts approximately 12″ x 12″ which will be auctioned online in batches. This is the one donated by my friend, Martha Wolfe, called Nasturtium. Click image for a larger view Martha constructed this piece entirely [...]
After arranging plants and such, our vignette looked like this: Click any image for a MUCH better/larger view. That’s Renee Decator seated near her painting, and me standing near my quilt. The quilt at left was made by Lynn Greenberg, not shown. Here’s a better view of Renee’s painting, Taking a Bath with You: I [...]
In my last post, I showed you my quilt, Ripening, which was inspired by a photo. Here it is again: Click any image for a larger view I was very happy with this quilt, so when I needed a small one for a SAQA exhibit, I decided to loosely copy it, and Ripening II was created. [...]
My good friend, Jo-Ann Jensen, is a talented fiber and mixed media artist. She’s particularly adept at batik and various fabric dyeing techniques. So, I was delighted to recently preview her latest class, Double Vision. Since a picture’s worth a thousand words, let me show you what we did. First, we each created a fabric collage [...]
After transforming my ugly circles quilt into a vase, I needed something to go in it. Something circular, of course. And here it is, a fabric vase filled with a bouquet of sheer circle “flowers.” Click any image for a larger view. I’m pretty happy with this. What do you think? After getting the folds [...]
I thought you might be interested in my set up for melting sheers. Since melting plastic releases toxic fumes, I always do it under my cook top’s exhaust vent, with the fan on high. Plus, I always wear a respirator with acid gas filters. The cook top is glass, so it’s a good working surface. [...]
Ta-da! It worked. Plan B is better than my first botched attempt! (Click photo for a larger view.) I’ll add some hand stitching to the border/background part, attach the two portions, and this piece will be complete. (Although I think I’ll rotate it 90 degrees to the right.) I’m making this piece to swap with [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to make a distorted sheer blue piece to serve as the background/border for the piece in progress. I did just that, but I forgot to take into consideration how much it would shrink when I melted it. (Click the photo to see a larger view.) Darn [...]
This is a detail shot of my current work in progress. (Click image for a larger view.) I started with a dark blue sheer fabric. On top of it, I scattered bits of interesting sheers: metallic, patterned, and white. The top layer is a hand painted sheer fabric. I used my soldering iron to burn [...]
