Make a super-simple landscape art quilt with free-motion thread sketched embellishments, regardless of whether you’re a beginner or advanced.
How to Design a Simple Art Quilt. Create an image and make it into an Art Quilt. Fabric scrap and fusible web will make it simple and quick
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PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR CURRENT TURN AROUND TIMES! "MOONSHINE" Are you looking for that finishing touch? This beautiful wall hanging is just the thing! The Moon shines brightly on the muddled night sky. Loose yourself in the reflections as they seem to dance across the ocean. The moon is reversed appliqued. This quilted wall hanging is made of cotton and ruched polyester/cotton blend. The ruching makes the ripples in the water. It was designed and made by me in my smoke free studio. This quilt is made to order so yours will look similar but not exact. It measures 21x40 inches. Thanks for visiting my shop! Joan
And some of the subjects felt poignantly Japanese, and I was susprised when the artist wasn’t. (“Garden Nasturtium” by Jungsun Jung)
Crossing Oceans is a group of international artists from around the world. The theme for this exhibition was "Nature", each of the artists offered a different perspective on the theme. This exhibition was curated by Jane Rollason from the UK. My favourite quilts from this exhibition are below. I have tried to take at least one photo of each of the artists work. I allocated myself half an hour for this exhibition and had to revise my plans, as the quilts were just stunning and deserved much more of my time. By Frieda Anderson (US) : "Jack in the pulpit" series By Irene McWilliams (Ireland) : 5 Flowers By Bergen Rose (US): Peace in nature The fibre art utilises two digital photos, one photo while travelling and the other of one of the artists paintings. The photos were printed from computer onto fabric - cotton (small appliqué) and silk organza (cow landscape). The cotton bottom layer was hand and machine stitched with batting and backing and embellishments. The top overlay is stitched only to the top and is loose, so flutters when there is a breeze. By Dijanne Cevaal (Australia): Olive trees By Jane Rollason (UK): Autumn leaves Vase of flowers By Ineke Berlin (UK): Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn By Kay D Haerland (Australia): Aspects of the glen: looking down I find it hard to believe that this is a quilt, it is so like a photo, it is only when you get up close that you realise it is a quilt! By Christine Kuhr (Germany): Lost garden:Papaver, Dandelion, Fuchsia By Hilary Beattie (UK): Bull rushes By Charlotte Yde (Denmark): Chaos and Order; passage of time By Elaine Quehl (Canada): Encore series By Pat Archibald (UK-Scotland): Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter By Lin Hsin-Chen (Taiwan): French Impressions: backyard garden in Villefranche sur Saone There were many more quilts by these artists, I have tried to take a photo of the work that I found most interesting, but other pieces were just as worthy of looking at and it is simply not possible to take photos of every quilt. I do hope you enjoy seeing all these quilts through my lens. Hopefully, if you were thinking of going to the EPM, but were not sure, these photos will convince you that this is a show very worthy of a visit!
Landscape quilts were very popular several years ago, and are still fun to try now. Most of these early landscape quilts were made using "strips of fabric" sewn edge to edge arranged by the colors of the sky to the ground. These quilts...
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I don't know if I've told you before, but I learned how to quilt while I lived in Japan in 2002. Japanese housewife culture, including their approach to quilting, has always fascenated me. I should have been an anthropologist and studied that more intensely, I know, but I got caught up in trying to communicate and became an ESL teacher instead. Anyway.. I discovered flickr in 2006 and the quilts I saw there lead me to start blogging about quilting. Tonight I want to share a handful of my favorite quilt photos from the Tokyo International Quilt festivals held each year in January. One year I'll make it there myself, but until then, I will live vicariously through Jennifer and Jan. Be*mused Tokyo Quilt Fest 2011 Set Be*mused Tokyo Quilt Fest 2010 Set Be*mused Tokyo Quilt Fest 2009 Set Movinghands Tokyo Quilt Fest 2008 Set Movinghands Tokyo Quilt Fest 2007 Set Movinghands Tokyo Quilt Fest 2006 Set (one of my all-time favorites is the 9th quilt in the set-- the blue one) All photos in this post were taken by Jan of Be*mused, used with permission. (*I hate to post quilt photos without information about the makers, but sadly most of these pics don't include any. Apparently the quilter info is only printed in Japanese at the show. If you have any information for any of these quilts, please comment and I will give them proper credit.)
How to Design a Simple Art Quilt. Create an image and make it into an Art Quilt. Fabric scrap and fusible web will make it simple and quick
Several people have asked me for a pattern for Lily the Dragon quilt and I replied that it is an improvisational technique that does not re...
As the fall arrives and summer winds down, I find myself thinking about images that relax me. I just finished this art quilt in early September. It transports me back to quiet afternoons at Long Beach Island in NJ with my family or visits to the Outer Banks in NC. Beaches are universal. After creating Read the full article...
Acrylic on deep-edge canvas. 6x4" © Natasha Newton 2008. SOLD
I thought I'd post a few pictures I took along the way making Blue Ridge Mtn. (This is the quilt they chose to be the cover of my book!)...
I haven’t had much of a chance to make art quilts recently..I’ve been trying to put more bags and journals into my madeit store. I decided that I just had to do one today. It is named &…
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Volare is the Italian for 'to fly' (or soar) and is the name of the current European Space Agency mission being conducted by Luca Parmitano on the International Space Station. And now it's the name of my latest quilt: It's now in the possession of the young boy I made it for, so here are a lot of photos... (closest to the sun, Mercury, then Venus) I explained in earlier posts about piecing the background. It came together really well, and with a bit of care at the sandwiching and quilting stages, laid beautifully flat, especially given all the free-form curves. The planets were all made from fabrics which I painted myself after researching the colours and textures required for each. One (Mars) was an over-pained commercial print, but the others were all plain white when I started. (Mars, with two Martians and an approaching Space Shuttle) Each of the planets is fused with a narrow (roughly 1/4in) ring of fusible web to a matching solid print, and then with another ring both layers were fused to the background and appliqued in place with a blanket stitch in matching thread on my machine. The double layer was used to enhance the colours in some cases, and avoid the background showing through. I only fused around the edges to keep them soft. Before sandwiching, I pinned cut-to-size circles of scrap batting under each planet (and the comet and moon) in a simple trapunto technique to add extra dimension and fullness. (Saturn, with rings added by machine and an astronaut on a spacewalk) Obviously it wasn't possible to make them all to scale - or keep the distances to scale; I applied a liberal dose of artistic licence to make the layout visually pleasing. With the exception of Earth, they're sized in order, and the planets were initially placed in order of their position from the sun, but somehow Saturn shifted a bit closer than intended and here appears about as close as Jupiter. (Jupiter; my favourite of my hand-painted planet fabrics) Most of the details were free-motion stitched prior to sandwiching (e.g. the Martians, plane, ISS and Saturn's rings) but near Jupiter is something I added during the quilting. It's visible in the image above, below and to the left of the planet, but here's more detail below: Rotated here to its more familiar orientation is the Southern Cross, a constellation always visible in the southern hemisphere, and depicted on the Australian flag (as well as others). On the Australian flag, all but the smallest star are shown with seven points, one for each of the six states, and another for the two territories. So I chose to quilt the larger of the two pointer stars (bottom left of the photo above) with seven points (the others were really too small for such detail). Uranus is a pale greeny-blue, but I'm still not used to how much lighter the painted fabrics are once dry, and it's a bit paler than intended: Furthest out is Neptune, among the darkest background fabrics: I remember the passing of Halley's Comet in 1986, so I decided to add it into the quilt as well. Some of the tail was added prior to sandwiching, but I added a little more yellow at the quilting stage, and if you look closely at the main image of the quilt (open it to view it larger), you'll see I quilted a subtle extended tail in navy thread round underneath and up past the left-hand side of Saturn. I used a pale yellow fairy frost fabric for the body of the comet, which gives it a but of luminescence. The greatest detail went into Earth. I over-emphasised its size to be able to include more detail - although it was still hard at 7in across. I used a commercial leaf-print batik for most of the land appliques on Earth - and a pearlescent snowy-white fairy frost for Antarctica. I used a combination of straight-stitch and blanket-stitch to applique the fused pieces in matching threads. I'll tell you a little secret. Australia is sufficiently symmetrical in shape that when traced in reverse on the fusible web, I forgot it was flipped. I carefully positioned it on the fabric with a brown section to represent the drier desert areas of the central outback and northern Western Australia - and ended up with it towards the lusher rainforests of far-north Queensland instead, and didn't realise until it was permanently fused in place - oops! The larger land areas and islands are appliqued (I especially like the peek of Antarctica down the bottom) and I added a few more in thread-only, but naturally had to simplify considerably. I took special care to make sure the Philippine archipelago was recognisable. This tiny little plane over China was also thread-sketched (by machine of course). And of course, one of my favourite details, the International Space Station (also rather simplified, at about 1 1/4in across) passing by New Zealand. I had the perfect fabric for the crescent moon, then had to find a section of sky that was both suitably close and suitable dark to place it! I mentioned several posts back about our plan to go and see the ISS. Well, we had a perfect viewing, as it passed right over Adelaide on a clear evening, and was easily visibly for over 5 minutes. James was the first to spot it. I set up my DLSR on the tripod and took a number of 4-second exposures. Without a remote-shutter, even the most careful depression of the button moved the camera a fraction, and my small tripod isn't the most steady, so the path looks rather jagged in my photos, but I was pleased with the results from so little effort. I especially liked the image below, which was towards the end of when it was visible (moving away from us, 'down') and shows a change in colour as the angle of the sun's reflection on it changed. (Several stars are also visible.)
The modern quilt craze has hit Japan ! Here are some spectacular results from Japanese quilt artists. When the Sunset Crowns Mt. Fuji in ...
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We were really excited to see this piece by artist Leslie Gabriëlse at the 2014 AQS show . Featured in the SAQA Masters II exhibit , Woma...
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I started quilting the first of the 3 little confetti type wall art. I am using a variegated rayon embroidery thread for the quilting. ...
Quilters, feast your eyes on a gallery of stunning quilts from the 2017 Pacific International Quilt Festival. #PIQF2017, #quiltshow
This quilt by Terry of And Sew It Goes–first it made my jaw drop; then it made me itch to run to my studio and applique and embroider like crazy. The 15″ x 35″ fire quilt is an en…
Photo by Larry Sefton I'm pretty sure this is the photo they used but I don't have a copy of the magazine yet. Two people have sent me photos of the page in the magazine. The back story on this quilt: I made the quilt top in 2007. In 2010 Julie Sefton contacted me and wondered if it was for sale. We agreed on a price and I sent it to her. She had it quilted beautifully by Chris Ballard. In March this year I was contacted by Joen Wolfrom to see if she could use a photo of it in an article she was writing for "The Quilt Life", the magazine created by Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson and published by Meredith Schroeder (AQS). I contacted Julie and asked if she could take some photos since the only one I had was before it was quilted. Her husband Larry has quite a set up for taking photos so he was up for the task. They sent me copies of all of the photos that they submitted. Here is a photo of the page in the magazine that Julie took with her phone so I could see it. If you don't know who Joen Wolfrom is, she is the ultimate expert on color and design and using it in quilts. I have used her books in my classes many times as a reference for use of color, value, etc. I have most of Joen's books and actually met her many years ago at our quilt guild. One of my books (Landscapes & Illusions 1990) is autographed. Joen's newest book was released this year. I'll do a review of the new book tomorrow so this post won't get too long.
When I think of crafts, I picture these weird-looking items floating on Etsy like eternal shipwrecks that rise to the surface every time you genuinely need something. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with pursuing your hobby, but it’s a whole different story if you’re trying to make money out of something you wouldn’t buy yourself. Hence, there’s an entire craft-shaming movement that humorously mocks such instances.
This quilt was made for an exhibition organised by Irish, German and South African quilting societies. The theme was Interchange Threads Connect, and one of my first thoughts was about the Silk Route, after all, it has the interchange, it has the threads, and it has the connect, too. I was thinking of making an appliqué of camels and oriental patterns, but then opted for a more abstracted interpretation that played on the interconnection of land and sea trade routes. The main thing here is the colour - the contrast between the teals and the golds and the nuances of the various shades. I machine-pieced the top and started playing with the textures. As you can probably see, I had a great time playing - there's machine quilting, hand quilting, embroidery, beads... Our International Rep Paula took the Irish part of the exhibition to South Africa and she has some photos in her instagram and the exhibition looks really great, I'm looking forward to seeing it when it's brought to Ireland. Linking up to Off the Wall Friday at Creations by Nina Marie Can I Get A Whoop Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
I was lucky enough to attend the AQS show in Chattanooga last week, so I’m sharing some of my favorites with you. These are not meant to be representative of the show and they certainly do n…
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Das Europäische Patchwork Meeting (EPM) fand nach der pandemiebedingten Unterbrechung im letzten Jahr – wie bereits hier angekündigt – vom […]
I have just had four incredible days at the NEC in Birmingham with so many adventures! Lots of coffee breaks and lunches and dinners every day with lots of different friends, as well as some very interesting night time escapades, with friends car's locked up behind barriers in the NEC carpark, boy racers and crashes on the road around the NEC and very little sleep! Coming to the festival is not just about seeing all the lovely quilts and shopping, but also a big social event, and as I have discovered, unexpected adventures too! As there will be lots of photos of the category winners on the internet, I thought I would just post a few photos of my absolute favourite quilts. If you do not see your quilt here, it is not that I did not like it, there were many more that were absolutely stunning, but I cannot possibly post them all here. In no particular order.... "Subtle Differences" by Kay Bell "Juno" by Sandie Chandler "Cappuccino - Perfect Bliss" by Lynda Jackson ""Jacobean Wonder" by Margaret Ede "Slow Growing Hybrids" by Ellen Seward and Sandie Chandler "Mandala" by Anna Williams "Purple Nights" by Marleen Jonkers "Fireglow" by Gillian Arkley - I loved her use of colour Philippa Naylor - The difference between 12" and 30cm meant this one was disqualified I have not been able to get a decent photo of the whole quilt, but here are some close ups of "Turtle Bay" by Claudia Pfeil: "Cordoba" by Claudia Pfeil "Celestial Fireworks" by Hilde van Schaardenburg and Sandra Marcum "Time" by Sue de Vanny "Dream Catcher" by Adriana Briones Calleja "Taking a new path" by Jane Falls - wonderful use of pattern in fabric "Harley" by Adrienne Quinlan - such a jolly fellow "Beyond the black hole" by Natalia Manley "Flight" by Margaret Fetterhoff "That scent!" (Que aroma!)" by Angelines Artero "Silence" by Jean McLean "Spring" by Zsofia Atkins "Blue Spring" by Zsofia Atkins "Eclipsed" by Brenda Wroe "Gold and silver waltz" by Nancy Smith "Zipped Zingy Blocks" by Sheena Norquay "Spin" by Diane Dixon "Alice Dreams" by Angelines Artero "Swift Moons" by Maggie Barber "Time waits for no onee" by Sue Reid "Merrill Hall, Asilomar, California" by Gloria Loughman "The Opera House, Vivid Festival" by Gloria Loughman "Australia My Way" by Cathy Jack Coupland "City by the sea" by Pauline Barnes "Ptolemy's Challenge" by Raita Sawyer "My lady of the grapes" by Laura Di Cera And this was my quilt for FoQ 2015: "The Awakening" by Annelize Littlefair The back of "The Awakening" by Annelize Littlefair British Patchwork and Quilting Magazine September issue Off course I knew that I will be featured in the "Meet a Quilter" feature of the magazine, Judi Mendelssohn came to do the interview in my studio and we had a lovely day. It just went by too quickly and we could have chatted for a lot longer. I was not expecting the September issue to be out yet, so was pleasantly surprised when it was on the stand at Traplet's booth. Then when I got home, another copy was waiting for me. This is the front cover and the page featuring me: It has been a very exciting week this week, I now have a few days at home to organise all my shopping from Festival, maybe even get a bit of sewing done, then, I am booked in to do a class with Angela Walters in Birmingham next week, but I should have a little bit longer to do some quilting before I go to Houston.
