Martha Sielman is not only the amazing leader of SAQA, but she is also the editor of many amazing art quilt books. You can find a complete list here.This past winter, Martha’s latest book Art Quilt…
Spotlight at 40 Quilt
Here are some of the art quilts (wallhangings) I have made over the years: Dancing in the Wind, 2018: machine piecing, 3D appliqué,hand embroidery, FMQ Pink Beauty, 2018: machine pieced, FMQ The Sail, 2018: machine-piecing and appliqué, FMQ Indian Elephant, 2018: machine piecing, FMQ Nordic Christmas, 2017: machine piecing, FMQ "Linger On", 2017, 146x95 cm, machine piecing, FMQ "A Binary opposition", 2017, 42x58 cm. Hand quilting, hand embroidery, fusible appliqué Scraps of Summer, 2017: 16'' by 35'', raw edge appliqué, FMQ We and I, 2017: 36''x64'', machine piecing, felting, FMQ Lily the Dragon, 2017: 31'' by 50'', ticker tape (machine appliqué), FMQ Dance of the Goddess, 2017 - 90x100 cm, FMQ appliqué The Meadow Quilt, 2017 - EPP, applique, FMQ Sunflower, 2016 - curve piecing, FMQ Christmas Wreath, 2016 - crafted appliqué, FMQ, 50x50 cm Winter Forest Friends, 2016 - machine pieced, machine quilted Poinsettia - 2016, curve piercing, FMQ, 85x107 cm Natural History - 2016, QAYG, FMQ, curve piecing, fabric crayons, 73x109 cm Fly Up, Fly Down - curve piecing, 30x30 in, 2016 A Study in Scarlet and Bordeaux, 2016 - ice dyed fabric, FMQ, fabric crayons Magnolias, 2016 - machine pieced, FMQ Little Kitty Village, 2016 - machine pieced, machine quilted Goldfish, 2016 - machine pieced, FMQ "Beach Extravaganza", 2016 - hand appliqué, FMQ "Color of Lightness, Color of Joy", 2016 - EPP, hand appliqué, hand quilting Road without End, 2016 curve piecing, FMQ Fallen by the Wayside, 2016 - raw edge appliqué, FMQ "Baikal", stained glass quilt "Little Lady's Wardrobe", wall quilt with pockets, hand appliqué "Pasque flower", machine pieced, FMQ "Waltz of the Flowers", hand appliqué, machine- and hand-pieced, FMQ Firebird, 2015 - raw edge appliqué, FMQ "Bonfire", one-block-wonder quilt, machine pieced, FMQ "Fall Forest", confetti (or"pizza") quilt "Silent Night", machine pieced, machine quilted "Violets", machine-pieced, hand applique, ribbon embroidery, FMQ You can find more of my quilts on my Pinterest board. Please drop by, have a look and follow! СохранитьСохранитьСохранитьСохранитьСохранитьСохранить
Abstract Art Quilts intrigue me... I admire the work of Pat Pauly (shown here) I purchased her DVD Abstract Art Quilt Design from Start to Finish I invited my Art Sisters over today... We all brought our fabric scraps an open mind and a willingness to try something new... We are employing Pat Pauly's index card technique. It gives you a jump start to abstract designing! In a round robin method, we stitched a scrap onto a card then handed it off to the next person to add to. This continued until the cards were filled up. This was liberating! Also challenging! Very Relaxing! These are not finished pieces of art work... just a jumping off point... an inspiration. After a few hours... the completed cards were piling up.....yum! I think it helped to have input from all of us... If I had done these all by my lonesome... I think they all would have looked the same. I tend to stick to the same colors and my own style of design. Many hands make interesting work! At the end of the day, we took turns choosing the cards that inspired us: These are the cards I chose... These are the cards Kathi chose. Nancy and Carmen got out the door before I could snap a photo of their cards. Rather than stare at an empty design wall and try to design an abstract art quilt... We now have these inspiration cards to get those creative juices flowing... We have decided on a 20 x 32 inch format for our first Abstract Art Quilt. We will meet in one month and discuss our progress. I left my work table looking like this: Makes me want to sit down and make more cards! Our hay fields here @ home are ripening... we are getting the hay equipment ready to go... rather than the hum of a sewing machine, I will be listening to the roar of tractor. I will sneak time whenever I can to work on my first Abstract Art Quilt... I will share my progress as I go along. More to Come! CLICK HERE to check out the fabrics I created for this project. CLICK HERE to view more index cards CLICK HERE: to see My Quilts May Your Bobbin Always Be Full, LuAnn Kessi
the raspberry rabbits, michelle may, sallieann harrison, wool applique, valdani, houston quilt festival 2017
52 of my favorite modern quilts from QuiltCon 2024.
Paula Kovarik had her own creative agency specializing in corporate and employee communications and is now a full-time textile artist.
Journey to Inspired Art Quilting Book by Jean Wells Softcover, 112 pages, color, from C&T Publishing. Discover your artistic voice - Expand your creative horizons and embrace the process of developing your design skills using your own intuition. Jean provides you with more design guidelines and new exercises to hone your natural intuitive skills, then she encourages you to go out there and express yourself! Packed with inspiring quilt images, this book walks you through effective approaches to art quilting from journaling your ideas to unifying your design. Continue your art quilting journey with Jean in this follow up to Intuitive Color & Design Learn how to recognize those "big ideas" that become inspirational starting points for your art 9 classroom-tested design assignments help you trust your creative instincts and develop distinctive work UPC: 9781607055808 ISBN: 978-1-60705-580-8
52 of my favorite modern quilts from QuiltCon 2024.
This is wall art quilt. Size is 18" by 24" ( inches) It is a piece I designed and created for a local interior designer. Last picture shows the work on framing. Just convo me how you wish to add it to your room. If you want me to add loops or sleeve to it. The listing is without frame. You can frame it on receiving. You can customise size and ask for colour variations. The price will differ according. I can customize it for you if you message me. Feel free to contact me. Thank you for your love for handmade. :)
Big Stitch quilting has gotten to be a big deal in the past few years, so I was thrilled when Jo Glover, who published the original directions for BigStitch Quilting, spoke to our guild last year. …
peggydolane: Carol Taylor, Moonglow
Spotlight at 40 Quilt
from my Quilt Festival class with Jean Wells Keenan - Intuitive Color and Design.
Color, by and far, is one of the most important elements of a visual art form, whether it is a painting or a quilt. Learn about how color influences the perception of your quilt.
The binding on the baby quilt is done, it's washed and ready to be sent to the new owner. Here are the finished pictures before washing and after. After washing Before washing Quilt Stats: Size: 41" x 53" Before quilting 39" x 50.5" After washing Top: 100% cotton Bating: Kyoto Bamboo Blend by Moda Backing: 100% cotton Flannel Working with bamboo batting in this project has been a delight. I love the smoothness and how everything lay flat nicely. There is no batting poking through the needle holes at all. The quilt drapes nicely and has a little weight to it. I think this is great for a baby or small children. I will ask for feedback from the baby's family to see how they like the quilt. The only thing that I don't like, in the slightest degree, is wrinkles after washing. The quilt looks a little puffy as if I used a thicker batting. Now it's time to pull some fabric for a new project. Remember the denim quilt I was making some months ago before I had to put everything aside to work on the baby quilt? You can read about it here. I have been working on quilting it along side the baby quilt. When I was stuck, couldn't decide what to do next with the baby quilt, I went back to work on quilting the denim quilt. Here is the sneak peek. While I'm working on quilting this quilt, I thought I would pull out some more fabric for the second denim quilt. Here they are.... What can I say; the fun continues...... Thanks for visiting and have a great week. Margo In addition to the linky parties on the sidebar, I also link up to: Link to To Do Tuesday hosted by Carol at Quilt Schmilt Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese (Thursday) Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty (Friday) Peacock Party at Wendy’s Quilts and More (Friday)
Elaine Quehl is an award-winning Canadian quilt artist, teacher, and dyer who specializes in intricately-stitched pieced and appliquéd art q...
Мастера создают из лоскутков ткани настоящие картины — геометрические, абстрактные, сюжетные… В подборке — 30 примеров, которые не могут не вдохновлять.
I get excited about the California State Fair! I love state fairs and think I’ve been to Fairs in 6 states. It’s perhaps a cheesy, expensive and dying event, but how can you resist frie…
The best of Modern Improv Quilting was on display at Quiltcon in Atlanta. These are the quilts that fed my soul at this particular Quiltcon, and here's why.
Warm sunny weather greeted us upon our desert adventure to Quilt Arizona!, the new name for the 2016 annual show of the Arizona Quilters Gui...
Permission to play? Granted. Learn to use simple design principles to create unique improvisational quilts. Without using patterns, learn 5 easy piecing techniques to add to your improvisational toolbox”angled stripes, circles, blocks, curved strips, and inset strips”and watch the art unfold before your eyes. Focus on color combos and negative space to discover your personal style, and then add dazzling texture with free-motion stitching. With finished art quilts as unique as you are, youll want to hang one in every room!¢ Embrace your creative spirit! Practice improv quilting using 5 easy blocks, circles, and strip sets ¢ Design with negative space, color recipes, and even irregular edges¢ Finish quilts with free-motion texture and sleeve-free wall hanging techniques
In this art quilt the viewer looks at a desert sunset with 3 layered windows in the center.. 42" x 23". A long piece of silk ikat hangs on the left with tassels remaining.
Close up of a lucky lizard in Jungle flowers quilt by Karen Eckmeier of The Quilted Lizard.
Click to see this big list of free paper piecing patterns, links to paper piecing tutorials, quilting tips, and paper pieced quilt patterns.
Colour Blocking is a design of mine intended to be used with the 7 half-yard bundles that I feature on my personal website (www.quiltersdreamfabrics.com). To make this quilt, just choose a background of your choice (2 yd)... then choose any of the bundles I sell with 7 half-yard cuts. This throw sized quilt is a doable project for a careful beginner quilter, or it can be the "need it soon" project for a more experienced quilter. The large half-circles (12 1/2" cut, 12" finished) are easy to sew (and quick also!) Templates are provided for the half-circles and the half-circle holes, although you can use your own ruler if you have one that cuts 12 1/2" diameter half-circles and 11 1/2" half-circles. The technique described in the pattern avoids any significant wasted fabric and ensures your half-circles are properly shaped half-circles. The design has a bit of a mid-century modern vibe... brought to you by this mid-century modern lady. Instructions are included for two optional layouts. The nature of this design makes it easy for you to personalize the layout and create your own unique design. This is also a great stash-buster design. The quilt finishes at 60" x 72". It is a great size for use as a throw on a couch or chair, or as an accent piece in a bedroom. The clean lines create a quilt that fits comfortably in a contemporary decor.
I made this improv quilt in 2012. Here’s how I made it: How to make the blocks improv / free form quilt block number 1 improv / free form quilt block number 2 improv / free form quilt block n…
Today's post features improvisational quilts. Much as a painter would use a brush, improvisational piecing is a creative approach to generat...
I'm back from my retreat up north with Gwen Marston. This year we used Gwen's 37 Sketches as inspiration for our liberated projects. Gwen's self published book, 37 Sketches is beautiful and inspirational. Each quilt has a full page photo...
I’ve been working for the last several months on a new set of quilts with a very different aesthetic than I’ve used in the past. Sometimes these experiments don’t really turn into…
This hanging art quilt is part of my "Rising" series; about the structures we build, and what comes back in return - whether from nature, or from human interaction with the natural environment. This piece considers the combination of sunset and glittering lights of buildings in the urban landscape.
There was so much to take in as I walked through the quilts at QuiltCon, I did notice three things. 1) Curves 2) Hand-quilting 3)U pcycled materials.
Winners The Festival of Quilts 2018: Winner Handi Quilter Best In Show sponsored by Winner Fine Art Quilt Masters sponsored by Vlieseline Winner The Quilters’ Guild Challenge sponsored by Bernina First Prize Second Prize Third Prize…Read more ›
