So here we have another bunch of hearts. Top right was done with hot glue sticks and a powder, top left was twisted yarns that were couched. Bottom left is foil on glue and the hearts on the right were down by ironing painted tyvek. That is my favorite piece.
My critique group did an exercise where we looked at a masterpiece and reduced it down to darks, mediums and lights and put those shapes into fabric.
I am working on squares that will be turned into a fiber book or an art quilt eventually. There will be 16 hearts for one piece and 16 gingkos for another. Each block involves a different product or technique and I will be teaching all of these block in a class next year. The top left hearts are made from Angelina fibers, top right are felted.
We just put up our latest show at the Key of C coffeehouse here in Ashland. The theme was coffee or music and we all used a piece of fabric called Dimples that came in many colors to tie the quilts together. Tina Somerset took a photo of coffee beans and manipulated it on her computer with the Kaleidoscope Maker program. Then she printed it onto fabric and embellished with beads and beautiful dyed fabrics. Be sure to click on the photos for a close up look.
Her beading is gorgeous.
Suzanne McBride also used photo transfer with a picture of her daughter. The guitar and the woman are very 3-dimensional.
Shirley Snowden made her own coffee beans out of a light weight clay so that she could sew them to her quilt. I thought they were real!
Rona Barnes created her first Crazy quilt using lots of lace and beads and tea dyeing fabric to get that antique look.
I had fun embroidering coffee cups onto felt. Shayna came up with "Mug Shots" and since I love play on words, it was the perfect name.
Elaine Turcke went with the music theme embellishing with hand quilting.
Carolyn Wolf also connected with music and used the opportunity to embellish with home made beads and pieced circles.
Carol Stocking did a wonderful job with her free-hand quilting in the background of her quilt.
The quilts will only be up for a month so tell all your friends to check them out.
This is Shayna's quilt for Mila.
The Rogue Art Quilters are hanging a new show at the Key of C tomorrow. This is just a taste of the quilt that I am hanging. I will post all of them next week. I embroidered black felt using rayon thread - love the sheen, hate the way it twists!
I wanted to do a sample with a new glue that we carry at Quiltz. It comes out white but when it has dried clear, it is ready to use. I dipped the tip of my finger into glitter and it stuck to the glue immediately. I used foil in the same way.
Hopefully the picture will enlarge so you can see the details better. It really added sparkle to the piece.
I have been playing with a soft clay that I bought in the kids section at Joannes. It is easy to work with and feels like soft paper. I smoothed it onto a piece of felt and pressed a foam stamp into it. When it dried, I painted the clay with lumiere paint and when that dried, I rubbed Pearlex powder on top to give it some sparkle. First I sewed the felt to the background piece and then I sewed the yarn around the clay to cover up the felt.
I want to play with this technique some more.
I am still playing with that curved template and loving it. ....and of course, I can never resist batiks. This one went together quickly.
