Woohoo, the background of my current quilt is finally complete! Composed and glued and ready for stitching, (but without the green hexie in the center of the photo.) In the photo above, I was considering adding some hexies to the background. Just because I’ve been making a lot of them and to give a nod…
I’m happy with the way the quilt featuring my two brothers is developing. Here’s my brother Ricky almost complete. After making the face of my other brother, Todd, it was time to work on his jacket. First, auditioning fabric. Here it is, in-progress. All these little pieces were eventually glued to the muslin base and…
I’ve been thinking about making a quilt inspired by this photo (composite) of my two brothers. I took quite a few photos that day and loosely merged 3 to get this composite. In the quilt I’ll leave out the extra arm and the clay pigeon thrower. This will be a special quilt for several reasons. –…
Update: the title of this lecture was later changed to “Confessions of a Fabric Whisperer.” That’s the title of my newest lecture and I’m very excited about it! If you’ve been reading my blog for a awhile, you know that I DO exhibit some odd behaviors. Things like cutting up quilts and putting them back…
Back in October, I wrote about creating torn paper collages in order to loosen up and to work more abstractly. Like this: Original photo Torn paper collage Because the paper is torn, you can’t be too accurate, so you HAVE to focus on the largest shapes. The fabric interpretation, Ti Party. One of my readers, Suzanne…
For me, one of the highlights of the AQS Daytona Beach quilt show was SAQA’s exhibit “People and Portraits.” Even though I had seen these pieces before, I thoroughly enjoying studying them again. Mary Pal’s cheesecloth portraits were some of my favorites. This one is called Homeless Love. As you can see, she shapes tiny bits of…