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one thing leads to another

leads to another…

a day spent experimenting with watercolors…

leads to…

“one things leads to another” hand dyed sandwashed cotton,machine quilted 20″x45″

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new studio,new work...new studio,new work…

Well I’m just about all moved and settled into the new studio although there is still lots to be done in here with trim work and finishing touches. We’re hoping to have it all ready for final photographing for my last article in Cloth Paper Scissors Studio by the end of April. The plaster veneer [...]

Horton's quiltHorton’s quilt

it’s reveal day for the Fiberactions group. The word for this challenge was environment and good grief did I have trouble with this one. I really liked the word and had several (6!) different ideas but when I tried to put them into form they all failed miserably. I was going to just give up [...]

transformationtransformation

The challenge word for the Fiberactions group was transformation and here’s mine:

hand dyed,Stamped,screen printed,raw edge Mistyfuse applique,machine pieced &quilted 16″x20″

See the rest of the quilts on the Fiberactions blog here.

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mixed media collage...mixed media collage…

I put the finishing touches on this fiber collage yesterday:

Mixed media collage –hand painted silk,lokta paper,silk wrapped washers,hand stitched 19"x30"

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screenprinting on silkscreenprinting on silk

Ever since my class with Jane Dunnewold at ProChem earlier this year I’ve become enamored with screen printing. Unfortunately I don’t have a thermofax machine but that’s okay because the Photoez sheets work perfectly for creating your screens from your own designs using the sun. Last week we had a nice sunny day so I [...]

SAQA auction begins today!SAQA auction begins today!

The annual 12″square SAQA auction begins today. All the quilts on pages 1A and 1B are up for auction this week and you can details on how the auction works and how to place your bid here. I donated this quilt for the auction this year:

Centrifugal Force

and Terri donated [...]

brown paper bag quilt

It’s been a while since I worked with brown paper bags or paper of any kind for that matter. Last week I got the urge to break out the Mistyfuse,paint and foil and started building layers of foil and paint on a brown paper bag…

(click for detail view)

This was [...]

Convergence

This past weekend was the day for the reveal for the Convergence themed quilts in the Fiberactions group:

"convergence"16"x20"

I had big plans for this challenge and originally had a bright colorful quilt in mind for it but a few weeks after the word was announced my dog Gertie got very ill and [...]

collaborative quilt gift

For those of you who read Vicki’s blog you know she announced her retirement a few weeks ago. Well Terri and I wanted to do something special for her to mark the occasion so we decided to surprise her with a collaborative quilt. We chose a black/red/white color palette and we each made six 12″[...]