Tag: International Quilt Festival

  • Busy with not much to show for it.

    Isn’t summer supposed to be that time when we pull out those lazy days “summer reading” books and lounge around sipping iced tea? Here in Chicago it is overcast and rainy, a little cool, and I have had too much to do. My son is taking a really great cultural anthropology class that has had…

  • Painting Whole Cloth Fabric Class at Quilt Festival

    Friday I was thrilled to have a full class of 25 wonderful painting students, what a great class. Everyone worked enthusiastically applying paint to fabric while learning to control the flow of the paint, make smooth gradations of color, work with paint mediums for glazing among many other things.So many beautiful paintings…I would like to…

  • Make It University

    This year, I will be doing two MIU workshops during International Quilt Festival called Metal Magic, the first workshop will be Saturday at 4pm, right before Project Runway at 5:30 and the second one will be Sunday at 12:00. This project will give participants the opportunity to try out Lesley Riley’s transfer paper TAP (I…

  • One month until Quilt Festival

    Just a reminder that I will be teaching two classes at the International Quilt Festival Chicago in April. On Thursday April 16th, I am teaching a three hour class on Tsukineko Inks. I will demonstrate two different methods for working with the inks; the dry brush method using the fantastix foam applicators, blending colors on…

  • International Quilt Festival Chicago

    Are you going to quilt festival this spring? I will be teaching two classes at IQF Chicago in April. On Thursday April 16th, I am teaching a three hour class on Tsukineko Inks. I will demonstrate two different methods for working with the inks; the dry brush method using the fantastix foam applicators, blending colors…

  • Surviving the Runway

    The highlight of Make it U has got to be Pokeys version of Project Runway that happens saturday at 5 pm. This is an event not to be missed. This time the theme was music of the 80’s. Pokey handed out old albums to participants to use as the major component in a wearable item.…

  • More quilt show fun: Halloween

    How cool to start my friday by meeting mixed media artist Katie Kendricks. Not only a wonderful artist but obviously an incredible teacher when you see the student work coming out of her classes. Katie was just finishing up her time in open studios when I came to setup for my session. My next thrill…

  • IQF Day 2

    IQF Day 2

    After wandering the show floor a bit we wandered over to the sea of vendors making our way to the Quilting Arts booth. This is located next to the Make it University class area which is surrounded by all the arty mixed media fun vendors in the show. I asked Barb from QA if they…

  • International Quilt Festival

    What a trip, Houston was a blast! I have to warn you I do not have any quilt pictures, I barely saw the show. I know there are lots of people who have taken pictures and have posted them in their flicker accounts, so if I come across a good showing I will post a…

  • International Quilt Festival

    I voted early today to avoid the potential lines on November 4th and my daughter got to vote for the first time today too. What an exciting time to vote. Lets hope we see none of the antics of the last election. I am leaving for Houston in the morning and will be back on…

  • Make it University Houston

    I think we will all be making a lot more gifts this year with the present state of our economy. I don’t know about you, but our budget’s pretty tight these days. These felted and stitched wool ornaments are a fun economical gift to make. You can find the directions in the new Quilting Arts…

  • Fun Festival Pics

    Fun Festival Pics

    Frieda and Tracy. The sisters: Tracy, Deb (my sister), Me and Allison (Tracy’s sister). Helen in the Quilting Arts booth. I love it, my daughter Nina went through a phase when she was a toddler making that same expression in every photo we took. Here’s one of our pictures of Nina making “the face” when…

  • Surviving the Runway

    Surviving the Runway

    If you have never seen Surviving the Runway at one of the IQA shows you are really missing something wild. This time there was a 70’s disco theme, using authentic 70’s albums to create wearable pieces of art. Here is Pokey with her editors Helen and Barb posing before the class started. Aren’t they cute!…

  • Open Studios

    Open Studios

    Open Studios was filled with so many people doing cool stuff. I wish I had gotten pictures of everybody. Here are just a few of the wonderful artists at work. The darling Lynn Krawczyk incorporates all kinds of interesting objects and images in her art quilts. Here’s Beryl Taylor working on an embellisher making her…

  • Make It University

    Make It University

    10:30 this morning, just after the show opened, I taught my first class in Make it University on mixed media painted fabric. I condensed a 3 hour class down to one hour, thank goodness there were heat guns available to help dry paint. My fabulous students were troopers keeping up with the fast paced collage…

  • Back from Houston

    What a blast, I look forward to going to festival in Houston every year. Not only to see the quilts in the show, get some good stash from vendors, but most importantly connect with friends, old and new.from the left Paula Chung, Rachel Perris, Frances Holliday Alford, Leslie Jenison, Jamie Fingal and Me. Kathy York…