Do you like to try new things? I do. Especially as they relate to art and quilting. Whether it’s a tool, a technique, or a color palette, I consider experimenting with such things to be adventures. (As a matter of fact, that’s why I call my website Adventure Quilter.) I recently discovered a new white pen….
More photos from my students’ awesome work during “Design Your Own Nature Quilt,” in St. Augustine. I know you love the see the students’ inspiration photos as well as where they take them. This was Victoria’s starting photo. She planned to really play up the blossoms. And ended up with this. This is a wonderful…
“What do key lime pie and beautiful quilts have in common?” Answer: It’s the COMBINATION of ingredients that make it work. This is just one of the concepts students learn in my “Design Your Own Nature Quilt” class. The supply list for this class includes “artistic courage.” And my St. Augustine students definitely packed theirs….
Are you getting tired of seeing my tomatoes? Don’t worry: this is the last one. This tomato, on the right, is only a partial one. Still, I’ll need to build a little extra to allow for positioning and trimming. This time I started with the lightest spots. A detail of that, with many little pieces…
I’ve been a little tomato crazy lately. I’m working on a new piece which needs three tomatoes. I’m making them as stand-alone units, to be later added to a background. Number one is complete. Here’s number two underway. Once again, I’m constructing the tomato on a muslin base, lightly gluing fabrics into place as I go….
You remember the leaf quilt I made, right? Well, it has a companion piece which I recently finished. Here it is, underway, as I was auditioning fabrics. You can see I placed the red squiggles of my feature fabric on a “sweet spot” and built everything around that. Of course, the fabrics changed a good…
After selling one of the samples for my Floral Improv class, I needed to make another one. No problem. It was fun and went together quickly. Here’s Cheerful Garden. Perhaps you can tell the background is composed of three different fabrics. That’s because I didn’t have one piece of fabric large enough for the 13 x 16…
Our favorite thing in New Orleans was a visit to Laura Plantation, about 1 hour west of the city. Our tour guide was EXCELLENT! She made the distinction between a Creole plantation and a French one, saying that this land was a plantation before it was part of the United States. That is, before the…
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know that my mom and my sister and I go on a short trip together every year. Oh, we DO have fun! This year we went to New Orleans. It was fantastic! Intriguing culture, amazing food, and good company! We spent some time at the…
Woohoo! My quit, Coastal Overlook, took first place in a local art show! I’m delighted. It’s always nice to win an award but it’s even better when it includes exposing art enthusiasts to quilts as art. Yes! The show is the Titusville Art League’s Spring Show and I won in the mixed media category. The show is free…