Just browsing through my drafts, and found that I wrote this and never posted it in October of 2011. It’s still not quilted – maybe it will take less than four-and-a-half years to achieve that!First, here’s the photo that inspired me. I’m not sure it’s the best example of negative space, but I was inspired. …
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A Good Week
Last week was a good week. Finished the layout on the ten-year-old quilt and started assembling the top (more below.) The progress on the Kickstarter campaign, or experiment, has been gratifying – I’m halfway there and have 11 days to go. So, if you can, please use this as an opportunity to add to your …
New this week
Got the other halves of these two samples in the mail yesterday. They’re for a wedding dress, or gown may be a better term. The upper set is screened, painted and stamped paint, the lower set is dye with the same techniques. In this case wash-fast acid dye; both samples are on silk organza. I …
My ‘300 Words’ Essay–Update
Almost two years ago, in July, 2012, I submitted an essay to Quilters’ Newsletter for their 300 Words About Quilting column. It was published in the February/March 2013 issue of the magazine, available here. At the time I wrote, I had made 172 blocks, with 84 to go. Now I have just 27 to go, …
Can you mail an elephant?
That was the subject line of an email I sent when I needed to get this quilt back. It’s part of “Celebrate the Day with Quilts – An Art Quilt Challenge” by Shannon Shirley. My quilt is one of 72 in the book – six quilts per month celebrating some of the well- and lesser-known …
Home again, and some news
Last night I spoke at the meeting of the Berry Basket Quilters in Medford, NJ. My usual speaking engagement is a trunk show, starting with some early quilts, and ending with the latest quilt in the works, with lots of hand-dyed fabric in between. It was fun, because I can always talk dyeing! My friend …
Thinking about Intent
This is probably my first completed art quilt. It was made for a guild challenge in 2002, and won a prize for best original design, I think. The challenge, as you may guess, was to work with the Shoo-Fly pattern. I had also learned a little by that point about transparency and wanted to try …
A show catalog in the mail
I went to the PO box today, hoping to pick up a check. That wasn’t there, but I got something even better – a catalog for a solo show by Kate Stiassni at The White Gallery. (She has pictures of most of the quilts on her Portfolio page.) When I dye solid fabrics, it almost …
Deadlines are past
Well, I did my usual last-minute work last week, and got work submitted before the deadline – barely. One was a submission of photos of my quilts for inclusion in Mary Kerr’s upcoming book about art quilts. Of course, I didn’t pay for professional photography, and when I realized I hadn’t taken sufficiently high resolution …
Wrong-color quilt
I was reading Kay Sorensen’s blog post on color: http://quiltspluscolor.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-have-ocd-think-color.html and had to post these pictures: Is this wrong? I still like it. Below is a picture of it under construction converted to black and white. That really shows how important value is! Kay, I do know what you’re talking about, but from both sides. When …