Phyllis Tarrant was one of my students when I taught Design Your Own Nature Quilt in Charlotte, NC. She recently sent me photos of her finished quilt, as well as her inspiration photo. I thought you’d enjoy seeing the progression. Her starting photo featured a simple tropical scene. A very good candidate for a class […]
If you’ve ever decorated a room, you’ve used design skills. See how I put mine to use in a recent redeocration of my kitchen.
Although it was rainy in Charlotte, we were warm and dry inside during the Design Your Own Nature Quilt class. Since the emphasis was on learning about design, we spent most of the morning working on that. The students used the remaining three hours in the afternoon to quickly create their compositions. They got a lot […]
More student results from Design Your Own Nature Quilt, in Charlotte, NC: Beth was working from some photos of fall trees. However, it’s difficult to get an accurate representation of this at the scale we were using. No worries: Beth decided to interpret her leaves loosely. She cut little bits out of her leaf fabrics, allowing the […]
Do you know where I was when I took this picture? Click any image for a larger view. I was in Charlotte, NC, at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. Don’t you love the mirrored sculpture out front? Especially when seen in front of the old church and “The Green” behind it. Charlotte has many wonderful […]
Identical patterns. Identical fabric/color list. VARIED results. It’s always amazing to see how different the DRA apples are, even though everyone starts with the same pattern and color suggestions. Peggy’s speedy results: Rachel softened her piece with different background colors. Shawn was busy with her duties as hostess, but still found plenty of time to complete […]
I’m just back from a teaching trip to Texas, where I learned a new term: high five. In this area of dense traffic it refers not only to a high hand slap, but also to a stack of five freeways crossing in various directions. However, the workshop venue was in a beautiful wooded spot, well […]
My Dirty Dozen Fiber Artists group just does the most fun stuff! Recently, we met at Ruth Anne’s “barn” for a day of experimentation. Most of us worked with synthetic materials, painting them and then cutting them with a soldering iron. This was too much fun!!! The idea was to paint this synthetic material to use […]
I recently challenged my fiber art group to make mixed media art books. Although I’m pretty new to this myself, I’m really intrigued by the creative possibilities they provide! One way to make such books is to alter an existing book. That’s what I’ve done on the two I’ve created thus far. My first altered […]
I really enjoyed working on this painted quilt. Click any image for a larger view I’m very happy with the combination of the textures, the layers of color, and the little bit of embroidery. I’ll definitely make a quilt in this style again. But the next time, I’ll plan better! I had a very hard […]
