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I'll be honest..all those non-textile activities have been a kind of therapy for me, since I wasn't accepted to two events I really wanted to do. It made me question my 'status' am I a dabbler, and artist, a maker? Please don't answer that , I just need to get it off my chest. The weirdest thing happened last week over on Facebook. I posted a picture of a piece I made in 2007 to show an example of what can be done with teabag paper which I'm selling in my etsy shop. It went berserk. I got loads of new likers, 34 shares and lots of comments. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree and should go back to that! Anyway I have things to do and I just sat down and 'did it' yesterday (after a break when I made curtains and cushion covers) and I was quite delighted with the pieces I did. They are a bit different to my usual. Whether they will be brooches or what I don't know. I'm just exploring the technique at the moment. So there we are.
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The meaning of kantha is patched cloth. Kantha is pronounced “kahn-taa” although the western world seems to continue to incorrectly pronounce it “cantha”. I ...
November ended with a flood but first I had to go back and add stitches. Last week's moon just looked naked lost in a sea of flat muslin In my humble opinion you can never have too many stitches. The cloth comes to life valleys and hills shadow and light send the eye on an exploratory journey around the image. Then there are the regular neat lines of samples from years gone by. You don't see blue in my work very often but the rains came the most rain we have ever seen. One stream broke it's banks If you look carefully you can see it swooshing through the woods and flowing into the vegetable garden. Trouble is it didn't stop there. It worked it's way into the basement which, by the way, is fine again but was very wet for a couple of days. We thought our little bridge would get swept away but it stood strong. I wonder how the beavers did further down stream.
Daniel Kornrumpf‘s embroidered portraits on linen are truly unbelievable. His work is reminiscent of the great Chuck Close, but employing such unorthodox materials. I’m blown away by the detail in his stitches and the way he’s able to mimic brush strokes. I wonder how long it takes him to make one of these? (via Illusion)
Yeah!! Another finish thanks to my extremely talented friend and long-arm quilter Krista. This quilt really needed a quilting professional to work with all that negative space. The opposing triangles Krista quilted in from the edges was such an amazing surprise. I love how they break up the organic free-motion quilting throughout the rest of...Read More »
Moi qui aime plutôt les quilts abstraits, je n’ai pas résisté au talent incroyable de Annemieke Mein. Son travail est unique : observation de la nature, dessins et aquarelles, puis broderies, travail en relief sur le tissu, c’est époustouflant de réalisme. Vous pouvez visiter son site pour plus d’infos et de photos. … Continuer la lecture de L’artiste du vendredi : Annemieke Mein →
When I first saw the work of Sophie Digard, I was stunned. It was the above amazing necklace which captured me with its combination of velvet and crochet flowers in gorgeous colors. Beside the necklaces, her scarves are unique artwork created in her magical Madagascar workshop where she uses rustic linen, merino wool and cotton thread. Her extensive colour palette is out of this world – I learned from Selvedge - the site that sells her work - that each hue used in her creations is made up of sixty threads in merino, mohair, and velvet which gives rich, intense individual tones and makes each item unrepeatable. Enjoy the selection I chose!
Sue Heinz is the owner of Kismet Quilting LLC, and is the author of two Drawn to Mastery series workbooks, and Fill Harmonics, a background design workbook. Sue teaches quilting classes and sells her books and other tools on her website.
Yeah, that's right - Kimberly Einmo, can you believe she asked me to quilt a quilt for her? I'm still pinching myself. Every time I showed this quilt to friends and family while it was on the racks, I pulled out Kimberly's books and showed them how awesome she is. She is an author, teacher and quilter extraordinaire! This is her design and she is offering a class on this quilt called "Modular Quilting" at the National Quilt Museum Retreat. You can sign up for her class here. So this quilt has two layers of wool batting. It was the first time I used two layers of wool, and it proved to be a little difficult at first because of how bulky it was, but it turned out great and I am pleased with the results. I have a few pictures in the line up, so I will try to keep the words short and sweet. I used #2003 Magnifico thread for the white areas and a silver metallic for the blue fabrics. I think the funnest part about this quilt was that I took each piece of white fabric that would normally just be a background fabric (not a focal point) and made it its own design. Simple, but so pretty! Okay, take a look at the diamonds in the center star block - I love them, but trying to free motion quilt at that angle was almost impossible. But, it keeps it real, right? not perfect ;) This is the diamond quilting in the square block - tough, but worth it! A theme in this quilt is 1/2 inch - I wanted to set designs out by leaving a 1/2 inch border. I love how it looks in this block. The long rectangle strip section to the left of the star block is my favorite part of the quilt - no joke! Holy cow!! - don't you just love this texture? It really is hard to give these quilts back. I really love the pebbling in this quilt - it is fun to see how I have improved over the years with pebbling. It is just proof that practice really does make a difference - so all you newbie quilters out there - keep it up! Half inch theme that sets the heart off perfectly. I also quilted along the fabric design in the heart which worked out great. I love being able to showcase fabric. I love these diamond blocks ;) I kept the quilting in the blue fabric simpler than the white to give balance to the quilt. When Kimberly first shared this quilt with me and asked me to do some modern quilting on it, the thought came to me that I should pull the block designs out into the white borders - with no rhyme or reason as far as where the blocks should be quilted. So, this is how it turned out. The border background quilting is awesome - and since I am slightly crazy, I went for difficult as far as marking is concerned - totally worth it though ;-) The best part of this quilt, I never got tired of it. It was something that I had never done before and I was always excited to work on it. But, I guess having a Christmas season and a very sporadic quilting schedule can make that happen. This quilt took me 50.5 hours to complete. Well worth the time I sure. Thanks for letting me share!
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I made some darning samples a few weeks ago, inspired by the darning samples created by Ellen Mahon in her sampler book (left page) darning samples by Ellen Mahon, 1852-4 I’ve never done darn…
My own design, freemotion quilted using Silk Dupioni on an APQS Millenium
I am making good progress on quilting “I See the Moon.” I have quilted around all the branches (whew!), done some of the darkest part of the sky at the top, and have finished the moon. I used two colors of thread on it, a medium blue on the darker areas, and white. At first, I worried that I had made it too textural and bumpy. But I think it looks okay, especially since the rest of the quilt is fairly flat. And since it is the focal point of this piece, I guess it doesn’t hurt to let the quilting draw some attention to it.
Inspired by the often erratic and eccentric stitching found in some Japanese Boro pieces.
Quilted by Jessica's Quilting Studio
The meaning of kantha is patched cloth. Kantha is pronounced “kahn-taa” although the western world seems to continue to incorrectly pronounce it “cantha”. I ...
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Baseball quilt - posted in Quilt Pictures, Patterns & Inspiration...: Just finished making a baseball quilt for my daughter. She is hosting a ball reunion this fall so I made a baseball quilt to raffle off to off set some costs. This was a fun project that I did mostly on the long arm sashed a plain fabric and marked the stitching line with a frixion pen then put on my Maxine my Millie and applied the chenille strips now for the secret to fluffing it up.......Take your shop vac and vac...
I’m a working mum-of-5-boys who crochets in my spare time to save my sanity. Here are 9 crochet blankets I have made for my family.
Yeah!! Another finish thanks to my extremely talented friend and long-arm quilter Krista. This quilt really needed a quilting professional to work with all that negative space. The opposing triangles Krista quilted in from the edges was such an amazing surprise. I love how they break up the organic free-motion quilting throughout the rest of...Read More »
