Category: Art Quilts
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Collage: Fabric and Paper
Paper Collage Collage has long been a part of my art practice. It has evolved over the years. This is partly due to taking classes and partly due to style changes over the years. Online Classes This past winter, I took a free class from Catherine Rains called Collage Kickstart. The two photos above are…
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Creating a Monochromatic Quilt: My Charseuss Journey
95 % Chartreuse A guild challenge was to make a monochromatic quilt using one color, with the option of adding up to 5% of the complementary color. The required measurements are 15″ x 45″. It seemed like a great introduction to making a ‘challenge’ quilt. And it was challenging! Hand-dyed, Commercial Fabrics, and Repurposing The…
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Using Text With Quilts
Applique Including text on art quilts is very easy to do. There are many options from which to choose. As none of these pieces are to be laundered, all of them will hold up well. If adding text to a utility quilt, I would recommed using appliqued lettering because the fabric and stitching can withstand…
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Burning a Quilt
Complete A Quilt The small disappearing pinwheel quilt in the center of this piece was started in January as a supply item for Laura Hartrich’s Thread Rays: a Unique Quilting Treatment class at QuiltCon. At the time, I felt the USA was holding on as a people united by our country, – but just barely,…
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“Message From the Sun” Quilt
The theme challenge for the Portland Modern Quilt Guild’s Improv Group in August was sun/sunshine. I wasn’t really sure where this was headed but wanted to work in surface design and Tyvek. The pile of materials, pictured above, shows the materials with which I started. After sewing and melting and sewing, I created a Message…
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Improvisational Surface Design
Very rarely do I abandon other projects to work on something new. Recently, an opportunity presented itself that caused me to work on something unexpected. This recently happened because of a challenge posed by the Improv group of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild. The July prompt was ‘Surface Design’. My piece incorporated both improvisational quilting…
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Cat Hand Tree Collage Quilt
You may be saying, “What in the world is a Cat Hand Tree Collage Quilt?” or possibly, “Why would anyone want one?” I wanted to make an original collage quilt. It started as a tree. I feel like there is some powerful symbolism in hands and like to incorporate them in my work when I…