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This year I was delighted to be part of the Irish Guild of Embroiderers exhibition at the Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire Co Dublin. The theme was ‘Marine’ and the selection of embroidery and textiles by members was fantastic. The exhibition from 10th September until 5th November 2016 (so still on while I write this blog post). Here are some photos of parts of the process. Whenever I complete a complex large piece of textile art that has lived so long on my work table, on my sewing machine and on my lap . . . it feels strange to stitch the last stitch and cut the last thread. I do love making small portable pieces but every now and then it is lovely to get absorbed in planning and making a large one. But I never think about just how much time it will take at the start ! The theme was ‘Marine’ and immediately I had the idea to make a sea lady with a dress made of a shoal of fish. I eco dyed silk with flowers and rust and added this to indigo dyed silk and did a rough layout of the fabrics onto black felt. The black felt deepened the colours of the silk and gave me a nice base to stitch to. Next came the sketching and layout of my figure (which at this stage I had upgraded her to a queen). I wanted her to be at the centre of a deep underwater sea cliff. I drew my figure onto some natural flat felt (using black biro actually!) and then painted shadow and tone with watercolour. I choose a palate of threads and started to build up her face and arms with hand stitching. I think this was my favourite part of the work and a total experiment as I had not embroidered a face before. I realised that for this piece less was more and did not fill in everywhere. The watercolour shading was a huge help. For her hair I used dyed wool fleece attached with tiny hand stitches ! I used some lovely blue tulle for her dress and stitched this flat before adding the fish. I am lucky to have a friend who designs curtains and soft furnishing for period homes and who kindly gives me pieces of delicious high end silks from sample books and discontinued collections. My shoal of fish were born in this way and after making some basic traced shapes I spent a few days cutting out fish. I them machine embroidered the edges, scales and details. I could then add them one by one to make the dress. One of my passions is antique lace and it features in most pieces I make. So here and there I added some, softening the whiter pieces with tea stain. The main lace (Edwardian and Victorian) is in the crown and through her hair. After all the main elements were finally in place I had fun with the other hand embroidered details. I made an anchor with some silk I had rust dyed - and ‘aged’ it with stitched marks. Then I ‘grew’ lots of underwater plants and algae to decorate the queen’s garden. Rocks made with cut felt shapes, seaweed made with silk strips, embroidered shell fossils on the cliff sides . . . and then an octopus cloak ! Each addition made the piece heavier and heavier to twist and turn ! I worked on my textile Sea Queen for quite awhile and the very last part I added was the antique lace crown !! She is stretched and wrapped on 50cm x 100cm canvas.
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On ne peut que se laisser charmer par les portraits textiles de Katherine Roumanoff .Avec les chutes de tissus des costumes qu'elle crée pour le théatre, elle réalise des portraits. Elle associe avec talent les formes, les couleurs, les dessins des...
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Hollis Chatelain Statement: Blue Men is the nickname given to the nomadic Tuaregs who roam the Sahara desert on their camels. They wear indigo blue turbans which gives their skin a blue tint. This quilt is a tribute to the many Tuareg men I befriended while living in Africa. This is a whole cloth quilt, painted only with blue dye. The many colors of thread in the quilting give it a touch of reality. I have been in awe when I saw this quilt some years ago at an International quilt festival in Houston, Texas. This is a scan of a photograph. Awesome when Viewed Large On Black
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I have freehand machine embroidered the family of the customer commissioning this piece as birds (Robins) and now need to embroider their chest fronts and faces with coloured thread and the hand embroidered text is now completed. I'm posting these work-in-progress shots to help motivate and encourage myself to complete the piece. Where the threads are piled up in readiness there will be an embroidered nest, and there is another line of text to go under the "Petit a Petit". The embroidered and appliqued background is meant to resemble the sky and faded landscape. My fabulous mother kindly helped me get all the stitching done on the background and so now I'm finishing all the involved stitching. More images soon and constructive comments welcome. Dimensions: 40 x 80cm approx. Photo: The Artist Collection: Private, Australia www.paristasmania.com
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I am delighted to report that Jamie Fingal has won the Grand Prize for her quilt in the Alliance For American Quilts contest. Jamie is my close friend and teaching partner, the other half of "Dinner@8 Artists", the umbrella under which we co-curate art quilt exhibitions. Jamie and I frequently have email "coffee breaks". This little quilt sums up the joy of our virtual exchanges, and in a more general sense it celebrates the deep connection of women to their friends. Congratulations, Jamie! The following is an excerpt from her blog: "Soul Sisters" Grand Prize Winner!! "Soul Sisters" is the Grand Prize Winner for the Alliance of American Quilts!!! Second Year in a Row to win! I didn't think it could happen! I am so honored and completely overwhelmed by this award! Thank you to everyone who voted for my art quilt. I am over the moon about it! "Soul Sisters" is all about the friendship of two women who enjoy a 'coffee break' from time to time via e-mail. There is nothing like good friends to pour your heart out to. I am celebrating my good friend, and teaching partner, co-curator, foodie, and maven of joy and laughter -Leslie Tucker Jenison! Here's to women friends! 16" Square; made with Commercial cottons, Hoffman Batiks and Mistyfused onto blended wool felt, hand painted, stenciled, free motion machine quilted , with a variety of colorful buttons hand sewn on, and the edge was finished with a hand sewn blanket stitch. Rebel Quilter - no batting, no binding, no fabric backing Detail of Red Detail of me My Inspiration was this photograph of Leslie Tucker Jenison and me -all ready for MIU's Surviving the Runway at the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach 2010. We have fun wherever we go!
The quilts listed below are now offered for sale. Please email if you are interested to buy or have questions about shipping. I am happy to provide close up details of any of the quilts - just ask! Paintbox 2 29"wide x 51" long Digital print of an acrylic painting of my favourite paintbox. Free motion quilted. £320 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Detail of Paintbox 2 Detail of Paintbox 2 Birdwing Butterfly This is a digital collage of a sketchbook painted page and a butterfly image created on an iPad. The image has been digitally printed onto cotton fabric, free motion quilted and hand painted.26" wide x 18"long 46cm x 66cm £150 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Detail of Birdwing Butterfly Wolf Moon This quilt is machine pieced using hand dyed, printed and indigo dyed fabrics. It has been free motion quilted and features hand embroidered embellishments. The haloes of pale moonlight have been applied to the quilted surface using paint. 46"wide x 25" long 117cm x 64cm £320Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Detail of Wolf Moon Detail of Wolf Moon How Fragile We Are I never thought when I made this quilt that the words would have such significance in a pandemic! Screenprint with monoprint, discharged fabrics and hand dyes. Stamped text. Hand and machine quilting. 45"w x 31"h £250 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Hurt No Living Thing Screenprint with monoprint. Discharged fabrics with hand dyes. Machine pieced. Stamped text with fabric painting. Hand and machine quilting.42"w x 31"h £250 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Pearl Fox Screenprint, monoprint and linoprint with discharged and hand dyed fabrics. Stamped text. Hand and machine quilting. 41"w x 30.5" h £250 Includes postage and packing within the UK. please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Ragged and Black This quilt is a digital print of one of my gouache and indian ink paintings. It is free motion quilted with hand painted detail and digitally embroidered text. 53in wide x 69.5ins high £825 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Ragged and Black (detail). Ragged and Black (detail). The Messenger This quilt was inspired by the crows, rooks and jackdaws that live all around my house. The Messenger (detail). The Messenger was digitally printed from my original gouache and Indian ink painting. 58in wide x 39ins high £500 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Some Day I'll Fly Away 39.5ins wide x 58.5ins high £650 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Some Day I'll Fly Away (detail). Some Day I'll Fly Away (detail). This is another digitally printed whole cloth quilt. The printing process is really faithful to the original painting, showing even the woven texture of the painted canvas. Edge of a Feather This is a piece my daughter Laura and I worked on together. It combines my hand painted garden birds with an image of a wonderful old tree in her garden. The design was digitally printed onto cotton poplin fabric. We free motion quilted the the whole thing voiding low-key text in the background. 32.5ins wide x 54.5ins high £650 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Edge of a Feather Greater Spotted Woodpecker detail. Edge of a Feather Green Woodpecker detail Edge of a Feather Chaffinch detail Edge of a Feather Wren detail And In His Dreams He Heard the Surf Roar Digital print layered with block printing, appliquéd text, hand stitching and free motion quilting. 28"wide x 35" long £350 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire for shipping costs to other countries. Detail of applied text on 'And in His dreams He Heard the Surf Roar' Big Wave 2 In this quilt I combined the traditional Storm at Sea design with free motion and hand quilting. The crest of the wave was hand painted while the rest of the design was block printed using acrylic paints. 23.5" wide x 42.5" long £250 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire shipping costs to other countries. Big Wave 2 detail Blue Moon Rising Blue Moon Rising was inspired by my local landscape in winter. The trees and moon were discharged from black linen and the foreground simply pieced using cotton fabrics. 31ins wide x 41 ins high £375 Includes postage and packing within the UK. Please enquire about shipping costs to other countries.
Helloooooooooooooo! Did you have a fun weekend? I sure did! The Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival was such a blast! I will show you photos of the quilts starting next Monday. Today I am delighted to introduce you to my friend and fellow fiber artist, Laurie Ceesay. I met Laurie when we were taping for Series 1300 of Quilting Arts TV. I knew right away she was a FUN lady. Just look at this quilt she calls Mad as a March Hare. This quilt was created for a challenge on homonyms, which she chose hare/hair and carrot/carat. The eyes were inspired by Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland and well, of course, you know I looooooooooove the gray hares! This quilt one a blue ribbon in a regional show and was juried into the 2012 Road to California show. I am truly honored to be featured in this series with soooooooooo many talented women. I still get goosebumps! Laurie's work is focused on portrait quilts. She is also a hairdresser who is fascinated with hairstyles, makeup and replicating the human form into fiber. Helloooooooooooooo Tina Turner! Isn't this magnificent? I think her quilts are happy and fun! She likes working with bright colors, large scale prints and batiks. Laurie also makes self portrait quilts. Love her glasses! So many wonderful details. Laurie will be teaching at the Houston International Quilt Festival this coming October! If you are attending the festival, be sure and sign up for her classes. I know you will enjoy every minute with this talented lady. Now hop on over and visit her blog HERE. Tell her me and the bunnies said hi! Finally, I want to leave you with this little thing circulating around Facebook. Honestly, this is the truth to how I feel every single day. I know Laurie does too. See ya Wednesday! xx, Michelle and the Bunnies
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Attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (c1561-1635) - Anne of Denmark. Rex Harris / Flickr There is bling, and then there is ye olde embroidery. Seventeenth century needlework was to the rich what, say, Alexander McQueen was for contemporary fashion. An injection of fairytale whimsy into ev
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