I created this quilt during some slow days at the quilt store. I used subtle fabrics for the background and Asian fabric for the circles. It was actually designed to hang horizontally so if you tip your head to the left, you will see the way I designed it.
Here is a close up of the Asian fabric.
This is one of two quilts that I submitted for a Black and White challenge. Since all of the quilts submitted have been accepted, I decided to post mine. To make this quilt, I drew the different swirls onto freezer paper and then I sewed the pieces to each other, folding back the paper each time so that I was not sewing on the paper - just using it as a guide. After I appliqued the black to the white background, I sewed black cording to all of the raw edges.
You can see the cording on the edge of the black pieced swirl. I don't work in black and white as a rule but I had quite a few tone on tone black fabrics after collecting for 27 years. It was good to be able to use some of them.
Here is another small pear quilt using cottons, silks, scrap booking paper and ribbon. This time I drew a pear into a styrofoam plate, applied paint to the styrofoam and printed onto black fabric. It was quick and easy and I have a 6 year old who is going through styrofoam plates like crazy. He loves drawing into them. Now we have to try his masterpieces with paint. Last week's quilt used the same technique.
A close up of my printed pear.
This is the piece that I began in Sherrill Kahn's class. We painted and stamped on fabric. Then I cut the pieces up and sewed them to a placemat! It saved time when it came to quilting and binding. I embellished with yarns, beads and buttons.
I have a collection of antique buttons which I rarely use so it was nice to find a place for them. I loved the process of making a stamp from a styrofoam plate and printing on fabric. I especially like the effect on black fabric. Sherrill has a wealth of information and I highly recommend taking a class from her.
I scored on hand dyed wool at a garage sale recently so I decided to felt a Toucan-ish bird on the back of a jeans jacket. I enlarged a pattern from a stained glass window book and traced it onto solvy. I pinned the Solvy to the back of the jacket and punched away. I used black yarn to outline the separate sections. It was a good project for my long drive to Los Angeles....but it really didn't take much time at all. When I was finished the Solvy tore away easily. I didn't even have to use water to make it disolve.
I skipped last week! Did you miss me? It was the first Sunday all year that I didn't post anything - too busy in a 3-day workshop with Sherrill Kahn. You should see some good things from that one soon.
My art group got together on Sunday for a wonderful High Tea at Carol's house. We were each to decorate a hat and wear it. I took a wool hat that I found at a garage sale and added tulle and beads.
The flower is made out of soy silk fiber and held on with the beads.
Patty made her hat from scratch by shaping buckram around a bowl and adding lace. She looks like such a lady!
Wendy started with a hat from the dollar store and added the feathers, pom-poms and yo-yos. Talk about bright and colorful!
Maya bought this crown at a garage sale - turns out it was Wendy's garage sale and she had made the crown. They didn't know each other at the time....small world. Maya decorated it with playing cards and all kinds of fun things.
Jayne's hat also came from a garage sale but she cut out the back and added the birds, bees and butterflies. Everything wobbles when she moves.
Denise found the centerpiece for her hat at a yard sale and went wild adding the extras.
Carol decorated corks left over from her husband's wine makingdays. They are painted with glitter and shake all over the place.
