This quilt had plenty of detours and course reversals. It started with my desire to use some of my hand-printed orange fabrics. But what else? I auditioned blue but decided on green. (What a combination! Nothing like my previous choices.) I spent quite a while working with these strong prints and trying to use them…
Have you heard about Kawandi style quilts? They’re an Indian tradition, brought to that country by African slaves. The technique involves hand sewing patches onto a prepared batting and backing. A large stitch is used. Here’s my first 6×6 attempt. This was sewn in the traditional way. That is, the edges of the fabrics are…
I decided to make a quilt featuring this fabric. Because of the strong motif I intended to use this as my featured fabric. I wanted to combine greens and orange-reds, but my selection of greens was limited. I got this far in the fabric audition process before I had to admit that something was really…
I was recently reminded of the importance of proportion and scale within an artwork. I’ve been working with some fabric I printed with a garden screen as a stencil. That gave me lots of oval “bubbles” and I’ve been trying to stretch the fabric and see how many quilts I can get out of it….
After dyeing some killer “bubble” fabric I was itching to see what I could do with it! I also dyed some coordinating fabrics, so I pulled everything out and auditioned them together. Well, the one with the wild black lines wasn’t likely to work, but most other things looked usable. But, I decided to save…
I really had fun on my most recent dyeing session. I did two things that were new to me. #1 – I used a piece of garden fencing (I think that’s what it is) as a stencil. It made a nice big bubble motif and, because of it’s size, it covered a lot of space…
Opening night of my joint exhibit with Gabriele DitTota was bright and busy! Here I am with my quilt Mr. and Mrs.. Hey, I’m short, but they DID hang the quilt rather high. 🙂 And here’s a full wall of my quilts. They are Mr. and Mrs., Magnetic Attraction, Heat Wave, Happy Family, and Exuberance. (We…
As part of our exhibit preparation Gabriele and I needed new head shots. We got a friend to do them and he did a great job. Here I am. And here’s Gabriele. While I was updating things I decided it was time to update my zoom teaching photo, too. It was about time! I think…
Planning an exhibit requires a lot of behind-the-scenes tasks. There are the obvious things like deciding which artwork to send. And the not-so-obvious, like sending instructions for hanging and for return packing. Then, there’s the shipping. I sent four boxes from home and one more from QuiltCon. OF COURSE I didn’t have the right size…
My friend, Gabriele DiTota, and I are having a two-person exhibit in Raleigh, NC, and we’re very excited about it We’re calling it “Fabric, Dye, and Serendipity” because that’s pretty much how we work. Both of us dye our own fabrics, and then compose them with minimal planning, (although Gabriele does more planning than I…