Tag: Art quilts

  • Making textile paint and fiber friendly acrylic ink

    Making textile paint and fiber friendly acrylic ink

    After having a bit of trouble quilting Polychromatic Predilection, painted with acrylic inks on my new-ish Bernina 750, I decided I wanted to see if it was possible to make a more fiber-friendly acrylic ink. In the past, I never had problems with stitch tension when quilting painted textiles… until I got a new sewing…

  • Unraveled: 7 threads

    Unraveled: 7 threads

    This Friday, July 13th is the opening reception for a group exhibit I have work in at the Artery in Davis, California with Martha Wolfe, Marjan Kluepfel, Bernita Dodge, Louise Schiele, Debra Hosler, and Marjorie McWilliams. The exhibit will be up through the month of July. Phil helped me prepare by building 11 gorgeous floater…

  • Judy’s European adventure- part 2, Nadelweldt

    Judy’s European adventure- part 2, Nadelweldt

    We returned from Strasbourg to the lovely village of Ettlingen, where our hotel was located for the duration of the Nadelweldt convention to began organizing for my exhibit and teaching. I have to give a huge thank you to my friend Birgit Schueller, who recommended me to the organizers of this show, and I can’t…

  • 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks workshop in Sacramento

    10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks workshop in Sacramento

    As much as I love traveling to fun places to teach, there’s nothing better than teaching close to home! This weekend I taught a 2 day class at Meissner’s Sewing in Sacramento. This is my second time teaching at Meissner’s, it’s such a great place for workshops. They have a nice big classroom with a…

  • A call for entries in a time of political upheaval

    A call for entries in a time of political upheaval

    If you’re on Facebook you’ve probably already heard about a new exhibit opportunity called Threads of Resistance organized by a group I belong to called the Artists Circle. This is an opportunity to create textile art that will go on tour throughout the US over the next 2 years, with 12 venues already on the…

  • Blue vase painted with acrylic inks

    Blue vase painted with acrylic inks

    Back in April I taught an acrylic inks workshop at the Focus on Fiber Florida retreat in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and I had the opportunity to extend my stay by 3 days to paint and spend time on my own work. I made the sketch on the left as an idea for overpainting a…

  • I finally did it, I wrote a book!

    I finally did it, I wrote a book!

    I wrote, designed and self-published  Creative Alchemy, 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks, as a supplement to my Acrylic Inks class, with the intention of eventually writing other books in a series on the different painting media and techniques I teach, under the Creative Alchemy title. 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks, covers all the various demos I do in my…

  • Discovering the hidden perks of a truckload of dung

    Discovering the hidden perks of a truckload of dung

    Update: I was very excited to learn my quilt ‘8 of Cups’ won a blue ribbon for Best Use of Color at Pacific International Quilt Festival while I was at Arrowmont! 🙂     Believe it or not, ‘Discovering the Hidden Perks of a Truckload of Dung’ is the title of the quilt I just sent off…

  • Spend a week immersed in the ultimate creative exploration using Acrylic Inks with me!

    Spend a week immersed in the ultimate creative exploration using Acrylic Inks with me!

    Oh my gosh, what could be more wonderful than crisp cool mornings, fall colors, and uninterrupted creative time in the Great Smoky Mountains for a whole week! Sounds like heaven to me and it’s coming up soon! October 12-18, I will be teaching an  Acrylic Ink Textile Adventure at Arrowmont, and I keep thinking of new techniques to…

  • STATE of the ART quilt 13

    I was so lucky to have a great view of this exhibit from my booth at the Townsville Stitches and Craft Show and then to meet several of the artists while on my trip in Brisbane. It was really a fantastic exhibit, here are a few of the wonderful quilts that were on view. x…

  • But Where Are All The Martians?

    But Where Are All The Martians?

    Well, it’s very exciting that the Mars rover Curiosity has landed with newer high tech equipment ready to beam us back some new pics of the Martian landscape, but my guess is it’s still going to look a bit stark. I made this quilt after the first rover landed on Mars in 2004 and all…

  • Making Black and Bloom all Over

    Making Black and Bloom all Over

    I love getting really focused and tightly rendering a representational image while painting, but recently I have been trying to get looser and more gestural with my painting, kind of like the direction I take with some of my mixed media work, but pushing it even further. For my latest quilt, which represents my present emotional state of…

  • Hectic days, an old artquilt gets a face lift and spring fever.

    I’ve had so much going on the last couple weeks it’s been hard to sit down and write. Between my recent travels, I sold two quilts to a friend/collector who’s moving to England and sent my daughter Indigo off on a last minute month long trip to help her get set up in her new…

  • 8 of Cups – finished

    After the quilting was finished, I marked out the finished size: 24″ x 60″, sewed a tight straight stitch just inside the marked line, then trimmed it to size. To finish the edge, I chose 3 different cords that picked up the colors in the quilt and used them to make a couched twisted cord binding.…

  • Woo hoo! Just got notice

    Oh Deer, Look What’s Become of me! will be heading to Houston for International Quilt Festival! Tweet

  • Summer long artquilt exhibit at the National Quilt Museum, Opening Today!

    I am very excited to announce that 5 of my quilts will be in an exhibit at The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY with the Chicago School of Fusing gals; Laura Wasilowski, Frieda Anderson, Melody Johnson, Emily Parson, Anne Lulle and Jane Sassaman opening July 15 and running through October 4, also exhibiting with us is…

  • Have you always wanted to paint but don’t know where to start?

    Oh Deer, Look What’s Become of Me!   detail In August I am teaching one of my favorite classes Painting Imagery for Art Quilts at the Create Retreat in Lisle, Illinois, just outside Chicago. I love to teach this class not only because I love to paint, but also because I love seeing peoples amazement when…

  • A quilt of love and healing for Melly

    The day Melly Testa told a small group of us that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, we started a massive email exchange brainstorming and designing a quilt that she could wrap herself in while going through chemo. We wanted a way to show Melly how much we loved her and no matter how…