If you’re anywhere near Tequesta/Jupiter, FL you really owe it to yourself to check out the Elegant Threads exhibit at the Lighthouse Art Center. As the name implies, the exhibit includes wearable art, but also 3D fiber art, jewelry, accessories, and some large invitational pieces. My favorite piece was this quilt by Bisa Butler. Her…
Here’s that featured fabric loosely put into place. Not bad, I think. But what now? I think I’ll probably need to cut into the twiggy fabric some in order to create more energy. Perhaps a diagonal will work well. Hmm. It has potential. Time to fill in the corners. Of course, I could use blue-green…
I dyed this fabric last year and it’s one of my favorites. I was really happy with the way I had a viable design without doing anything more to it, but HOW do you design with that? I had a false start last year and am now trying again. These are the collection of “featured”…
After finishing up the left 2/3 of my red and yellow “bean” quilt, it was time to tackle the right yellow portion. It came together pretty well. (Still in -progress below.) During these final stages I also considered added some skinny lines, for energy. (See them pinned on at the top in the photo above?)…
Historically, I haven’t been a fan of red and yellow combinations, but for some reason, I now find myself drawn to them. I still think they’re a little jarring, but it seems that I now like that. As evidence, I recently dyed fabrics with these colors. I created a variety, hoping I could use them…
Check out my new studio flooring! I just love it! This photo was taken right after installation, before I moved ALL MY STUFF back in. I had it all piled in the dining room. Moving it in and out was QUITE the job! I wanted new flooring to accomodate fabric dying and this is going…
In my recent dye session. I played around with mono printing, which is great fun. This was my first piece. The colors were brushed horizontally, but I left the squirted “eyeball” in tact. There was a lot of dye left on the plastic, so I printed a “ghost.” As you can see, the brushed on…
As usual, I really enjoyed my recent dying session. I was trying out a new color, Tangerine, so I did a lot of swatching to get to know how it worked. The swatches above show what happened when I mixed tangerine with each of my other 7 colors, in 3 ratios, and 3 values. Yes,…
The ladies in my Grow with the Flow class learned a lot and got such excellent results! Here’s Eldora with her quilt. Didn’t she do a great job? First, they learned how to create an ombre background, with a horizon line. These were pretty to start with, but then the students added skinny accent pieces and everything…
The students in my “Design Your Own Nature Quilt” class did really excellent work. Their task was to be INSPIRED by their photos, but not to actually copy them. Eldora had a beautiful photo showing a ton of beautiful flowers, so she wisely cropped it way down. She did a great job depicting the foliage…