Tag: Art quilts

  • Sunlight through a quilt in progress

    Recently I mentioned, I have a large quilt in progress in the quilting stage. Today my son went under the table to plug something in and called out to me that my quilt looked really cool with sunlight glowing through it and I should come and see. This is what it looked like. This is…

  • Hanging with the Chicago School of Fusing

    Today the Chicago School of Fusing hung a show at the Bloomingdale Park District Museum that will coincide with an exhibit from Quilt National. It was a fun morning with lots of laughter, gorgeous quilts and flying hammers. Followed by lunch chatting about blogging, teaching and traveling in this new economy where airlines are unstable…

  • Playing with tea bags and more

    The paper on the top left with letters is a kimwipe, the one on the right is a large black tea bag for making iced tea. The white paper below is a tea bag from hibiscus tea, the bottom two dark tea bags I left the tea dry in the bag for several days before…

  • Mixed Media Paper Quilt

    I thought I would play around with making a mixed media paper quilt. I painted a piece of fabric to use as a base. The drawings were done on tea bags. I drink a lot of tea, and I love the patina that used tea bags get from the tanins as they dry. So I…

  • Tote

    I made this tote from some collaged and painted fabric that I made. It is the same technique I used for making the fabric for the houses. There will be an article on making this fabric in the April/May Cloth Paper Scissors.

  • Seaweed

    This painting is 5″ x 10″ and will be used for a different project than the other little paintings. I will reveal more about them in a couple days. I was asked to contribute a postcard size quilt representative of my work for someones project. I spent most of my life living near the ocean…

  • Pressing Matters Exhibit at the Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition

    Earlier this year I was extremely honored to join the talented faculty of the prestigious Chicago School of Fusing as an adjunct professor of special studies. As a member of the faculty I will have the privilege of joining them in a special exhibit at the Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition Thursday November 8 – Sunday…

  • Fiesta of Ornaments

    Now that you have all rushed out to pick up your copies of Quilting Arts gifts, I can show you all the ornaments that I made that did not fit in the magazine. These were so fun to make. I made 19 while I was designing them to be used with the article, I kept…

  • Painted Batting

    I wrote an article for the upcoming December issue of Quilting Arts magazine on painted batting. The Warm Company wanted to do an ad tying in to the article and wanted to use some of my artwork for the ad. Unfortunately the only painted batting pieces I had were used in the article. I felt…

  • Painting Fabric

    This is my preliminary sketch for the piece that I will paint in Houston at Make it U’s open studios. After I get the pencil drawing worked out to my satisfaction, I draw over the lines with a fine point pen and then erase the pencil. It is very easy to see the lines through…

  • The Cicada House

    My inspiration for the theme of this house came from an experience I had this summer.The house is finished. It is 22 1/2″ tall, 9″ wide and 4″ deep.To construct it I made one inch wide strips with fusible web on the back. I used left over strips from my last painted project for the…

  • Quilting Arts TV taping day

    Here I am on set, getting ready for my segment. The set looks fabulous, but hey would you expect anything less from Quilting Arts.Before rolling tape we went through the segment with the producer and talked about what the sequence would be. My segment was scheduled to take 3 minutes. It is amazing how little…

  • Quilting Arts TV

    Around the end of December our favorite quilting magazine Quilting Arts will also be a tv show on PBS. Taping starts later this week. I have been asked to do a three minute spot on an episode with pictorial quilts as the theme. Pam Rupert will be the main guest of this show. I am…

  • IQF Silent Auction

    This is going to be this years contribution to the silent auction in Houston. I started painting this at the Quilting Arts virtual studios during the IQA Chicago show.I pulled it out yesterday and started the quilting by outlining all the images. After quilting all of the black area I will trim it and finish…

  • Flora and Fauna

    Flora detailFlora and Second Nature are our two group quilts that came before Fauna. They can be seen on the Quilting Arts Website here. If you havn’t seen Fauna yet, you need to go pick up a copy of Quilting Arts magazine (April May issue). I will be painting a sample based on my latest…

  • Fauna Makes the Cover of Quilting Arts!

    Fauna Makes the Cover of Quilting Arts!

    Here is what Pokey had to say about it on her blog: “Here’s a sneak peak of our next cover of Quilting Arts. (I just got my advanced copy yesterday). This is a detail of “Fauna”, a collaborative quilt by Kathy York, Vicki Hallmark, Frances Holliday Alford, Judy Coates Perez, and Julie John Upshaw. Never…

  • Design and Painting Process

    Design and Painting Process

    I started this piece with the idea of making a Mexican tree of life quilt. I knew it should be bright, colorful and graphic in style. For several weeks I carried my sketchbook with me as I went about our home schooling classes and activities and when I had some time I sat and drew…

  • Yippee, Woo Hoo!!!!!!

    Yippee, Woo Hoo!!!!!!

    Oh my god, I totally forgot to look at the website for Pacific International Quilt Festival today. A friend just emailed me to tell me congratulations for winning FIRST PLACE Innovative for Primordial Sea!