I made my transition from Fashion into Theater in 1998 when I first moved to Toronto. At first it was supposed to be only a two-week stint. Well, twelve years later I am still here. I found costumes to be so much more interesting and exciting than contemporary fashion. Considering also my love of history – having the chance to work on all the different period costumes, researching and learning all the timelines and cultures was also an unexpected bonus. Quite often the show I was working on, a particular costume, piece of material or new technique we were using was the inspiration I needed for my next artwork. There are so many left over scraps from all the shows I’ve worked on in all of my collages. Another influence I found in this line of work was all the incredibly talented people I’ve met here. Communicating with them on a daily basis and observing the development and completion of their own projects has often provided the inspiration I needed to get me back to my studio and begin a new piece, or the idea I was looking for in order to complete an old, left aside, “don’t know what to do with” project. Besides working together, we all like to get together from time to time and create something different, but equally as beautiful as the costumes we make on a daily basis. We embrace opportunities to play with all the different and exciting mediums and exercise our designer’s chops. That’s how our tradition of making baby quilts was born. Who wouldn’t embrace the idea of a beautiful hand made present, where all those long learned and well practiced skills can be applied, versus the standard, store bought item labeled “made in China”? Definitely not any of us. So, every time one of our own gives us the good news that there is a baby on the way, a small committee is pulled together and the work begins. The committee usually includes people from the team the girl is working on, or her closest friends. They pick the theme, size and the color scheme, then prepare the pattern or size chart and distribute the pieces among everybody who wants to contribute. Depending on the style and the size of the quilt there have been between 10 and 40 people involved in making each one. Once the pieces are distributed, every participant is free to create their own design and choose the techniques they like best for it. It is time for fierce, but very friendly competition. Everyone rises to the challenge and tries to come up with the most fascinating and unique ideas, resulting in some really striking quilts after all. When all the single pieces are done a couple of people usually volunteer to put the whole quilt together, while someone else prepare a small accompanying booklet, containing the initial sketch, pictures and a list with the names of everyone involved. I can’t even describe the overwhelming joy and excitement that is easy to read on the faces of the expectant mothers when they are presented with such a special and amazing keepsake, usually at a baby shower, thrown in their honor. There was unfortunately one occasion when the idea of the quilt wasn’t born with a happy announcement. One of our friends was diagnosed with cancer and embarked on the grueling spiral of surgeries, treatments, diets and therapies, which usually completely takes over the patient’s life. It was hard for us to watch how this wonderful, vibrant woman, who was the heart and soul of every party, our Robyn, who was everyone’s favorite best friend, being eaten from within by this cruel disease. Unfortunately, we were incapable to help her much, except maybe lessen her financial burden, which is usually never talked about when a disease like this strikes, but is always one of the greatest side effects for a person of modest means. Besides all the donations and fund-raising drives, we decided to contribute with the thing we do best – with our skills. We organized a raffle in which the grand prize was to be one of our quilts. I was granted the honor of designing and organizing the whole project. The word spread fast and we got 39 people wishing to participate from all the costume shops in Toronto, Stratford and Shaw Theater Festivals, even couple of former colleagues from Vancouver. After the quilt was completed, everyone got involved in the sales of the lottery tickets to friends, family members, co-workers and everyone they could reach. It was breathtaking to witness the immense energy, devotion and enthusiasm everybody invested in the realization of the whole endeavor. At the end we managed to collect for over $8 000 which were donated to Robyn and her family to help them in those difficult times. Unfortunately, a few months later we lost her, but we still keep her in our hearts. The winner of the raffle was immensely happy to receive this precious quilt – proof that talent and devotion to your craft can go quite a long way to touch so many people in so many different ways. I dedicate this post to my dear friend Robyn Kelly 1953 – 2003.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
From our "Live from South Africa" Video Workshops: Continue your journey with Rosalie in her third lecture as she helps you bring out your inner artist by Learning to Look! See with new eyes as other artists have done, understand, interpret and then make. Find your own Inner Artist in this slide lecture designed especially for quiltmakers and other fibre artists. A visual feast of paintings, drawings and other art works from celebrated artists, shows us how we all use the same elements of design in our various works, be they paintings, traditional or contemporary quilts. Discover how artists' eyes interpret and present their work, and enjoy a new view of the work of numerous artists including Klee, Kandinsky, Matisse, Klimt, Hunderwasser, and several Old Masters along with many exciting fabric works. Please Note: This is a pre-recorded video. Upon purchase, you will be sent a link to download a pdf with the video's YouTube information & link. Please DOWNLOAD & KEEP the PDF in order to be able to reference the link at a later time. Video is approximately 2 hours long, and with the link, you can watch it as many times as you'd like. ==========
Another "trend" that was quite apparent at Quilt National has been building for a while, the spectacular use of hand stitching, both as quilting and as design. I'll start with the winner of the Lynn Goodwin Borgman Award for Surface Design. This award has always gone to some fabulous dye job, and I was a little taken aback to find it given this year to a quilt where almost the entire design was made by hand stitching. But after some thought I decided that stitching can be surface design too (I guess...). Barbara Watler, Red Sun at Night (detail below) The red sun is a piece of fabric laid over the background fabric, under the stitching; everything else is perle cotton! I particularly liked the not-immediately-apparent motif of the three sails and the water reflecting the sunset: simple and elegant. Olga Norris, Crowded (detail below) Tiny hand quilting stitches outline the printed figures and add texture to a loosely sketched motif. Susann Heymann, One Way or Another (detail below) Quilting stitches in different sizes add design lines as well as texture. Helen Geglio, Femoral Fracture: A Fall (detail below) This started with a pair of pants, taken apart, then embellished with dense hand embroidery. Judy Langille, Nocturnus IV (detail below) A change from the screenprinted quilts that Langille made for many years, this one is a fabric collage in which tiny white french knots hold the layers together. I love the minimalism -- even the knots are small and unassuming instead of fat and assertive. Rosalie Dace, Here and Now (detail below) Probably the most exuberant and spontaneous hand stitching was done by one of the jurors; Dace's quilt features a wild variety of stitches and threads holding down and enhancing her pieced and appliqued fabrics, It made me want to jump around and dance!
Are we There Yet? South African quilter Rosalie Dace is a studio artist who has been working in the fibre art, quilt and embroidery world since the '70's. With a background in art and education, she finds exhibiting, teaching, and judging combine her interests admirably. Her work, which reflects her passion for colour, design and texture, is characterized by its wild mix of fabrics. She has had a lifelong interest in textiles and embroidery and has a degree in Art and English. While she values the traditions from which quilt making has come, she believes that a quilt should say something about its time and place in history. This and her awareness of being a South African artist give her work its particular character. Almost Forgotten, Never Told Baghdad Rosalie has been described as a cultural anthropologist whose work defines the collective human experience. Her work is emotional and highly subjective, reflecting feelings of place and referring to memories and personal experiences, telling stories with which we can all identify. One quilt, a homage to her deceased father, a gardener, evokes the colours and shapes of his favourite environment, another of a local market. Another yet, recalling her excitement in returning home to South Africa, depicts an aerial view of the ocean over which she flew. She uses a variety of fabrics upon which to work, such as silk, African cloth and burlap. At times she decorates her quilts with beads, buttons, string, safety pins and other embellishments traditional to South African clothing and textiles. Night Flight Her work has been widely exhibited, and she has won several awards including Best of Show at the South African National Quilt Festival in 1988 and 1998, her quilts are to be found in private collections and in the Durban Art Gallery, and has appeared in national and international publications. Phoenix Apart from her native South Africa, she has taught and exhibited internationally in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada and the US, and was nominated for the Professional Quilter magazine’s “Teacher of the Year” Award in 2007. Apart from her normal art and teaching commitments she has been involved in programs aimed at training Zulu women embroidery skills for the Durban Manufacturing Advisory Centre and for a trust operating in rural KwaZulu-Natal. She is also involved in teaching patchwork and quilting to a group at an old age home in Durban. Word for Word Dace lives in Durban, South Africa but she also spends time each year working in the United States and is a much sought after teacher and speaker. She has been included in exhibitions in the US, Europe, New Zealand and Africa including the Houston International Quilt Festival; the Fresno Art Museum in Fresno, California; Galerie im Stadhaus in Bad Homburg, Germany; Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead, United Kingdom; and the Jabulisa Exhibition, which toured South Africa from 2001 to 2003. She also co-developed the South African Quilters' Guild training program for judges and has judged art quilts all over the world. Durban Dreams Gypsy Summer Awake my Soul Spice Route Finding the Way Watching and Waiting
From our "Live from South Africa" Video Workshops: Continue your journey with Rosalie as she answers "Where do you start? How do you sort through your ideas? How do you know what to do?" in Lecture #2. How does an artist, in any medium, but particularly using our chosen medium of quilt making, find a starting point, know how to focus and edit their work, choose suitable techniques and bring the work to completion? Join us for this talk that offers a variety of approaches to the age old questions of How Do You Do It? How do I know where to begin and what to leave out? What do I do when I simply loathe what I have done? Enjoy looking at a variety of works, and see different individual solutions and possibilities to making original work. Please Note: This is a pre-recorded video. Upon purchase, you will be sent a link to download a pdf with the video's YouTube information & link. Please DOWNLOAD & KEEP the PDF in order to be able to reference the link at a later time. Video is approximately 2 hours long, and with the link, you can watch it as many times as you'd like. (Video length: 1.75 hours)
I made my transition from Fashion into Theater in 1998 when I first moved to Toronto. At first it was supposed to be only a two-week stint. Well, twelve years later I am still here. I found costumes to be so much more interesting and exciting than contemporary fashion. Considering also my love of history – having the chance to work on all the different period costumes, researching and learning all the timelines and cultures was also an unexpected bonus. Quite often the show I was working on, a particular costume, piece of material or new technique we were using was the inspiration I needed for my next artwork. There are so many left over scraps from all the shows I’ve worked on in all of my collages. Another influence I found in this line of work was all the incredibly talented people I’ve met here. Communicating with them on a daily basis and observing the development and completion of their own projects has often provided the inspiration I needed to get me back to my studio and begin a new piece, or the idea I was looking for in order to complete an old, left aside, “don’t know what to do with” project. Besides working together, we all like to get together from time to time and create something different, but equally as beautiful as the costumes we make on a daily basis. We embrace opportunities to play with all the different and exciting mediums and exercise our designer’s chops. That’s how our tradition of making baby quilts was born. Who wouldn’t embrace the idea of a beautiful hand made present, where all those long learned and well practiced skills can be applied, versus the standard, store bought item labeled “made in China”? Definitely not any of us. So, every time one of our own gives us the good news that there is a baby on the way, a small committee is pulled together and the work begins. The committee usually includes people from the team the girl is working on, or her closest friends. They pick the theme, size and the color scheme, then prepare the pattern or size chart and distribute the pieces among everybody who wants to contribute. Depending on the style and the size of the quilt there have been between 10 and 40 people involved in making each one. Once the pieces are distributed, every participant is free to create their own design and choose the techniques they like best for it. It is time for fierce, but very friendly competition. Everyone rises to the challenge and tries to come up with the most fascinating and unique ideas, resulting in some really striking quilts after all. When all the single pieces are done a couple of people usually volunteer to put the whole quilt together, while someone else prepare a small accompanying booklet, containing the initial sketch, pictures and a list with the names of everyone involved. I can’t even describe the overwhelming joy and excitement that is easy to read on the faces of the expectant mothers when they are presented with such a special and amazing keepsake, usually at a baby shower, thrown in their honor. There was unfortunately one occasion when the idea of the quilt wasn’t born with a happy announcement. One of our friends was diagnosed with cancer and embarked on the grueling spiral of surgeries, treatments, diets and therapies, which usually completely takes over the patient’s life. It was hard for us to watch how this wonderful, vibrant woman, who was the heart and soul of every party, our Robyn, who was everyone’s favorite best friend, being eaten from within by this cruel disease. Unfortunately, we were incapable to help her much, except maybe lessen her financial burden, which is usually never talked about when a disease like this strikes, but is always one of the greatest side effects for a person of modest means. Besides all the donations and fund-raising drives, we decided to contribute with the thing we do best – with our skills. We organized a raffle in which the grand prize was to be one of our quilts. I was granted the honor of designing and organizing the whole project. The word spread fast and we got 39 people wishing to participate from all the costume shops in Toronto, Stratford and Shaw Theater Festivals, even couple of former colleagues from Vancouver. After the quilt was completed, everyone got involved in the sales of the lottery tickets to friends, family members, co-workers and everyone they could reach. It was breathtaking to witness the immense energy, devotion and enthusiasm everybody invested in the realization of the whole endeavor. At the end we managed to collect for over $8 000 which were donated to Robyn and her family to help them in those difficult times. Unfortunately, a few months later we lost her, but we still keep her in our hearts. The winner of the raffle was immensely happy to receive this precious quilt – proof that talent and devotion to your craft can go quite a long way to touch so many people in so many different ways. I dedicate this post to my dear friend Robyn Kelly 1953 – 2003.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
From our "Live from South Africa" Video Workshops: Continue your journey with Rosalie as she answers "Where do you start? How do you sort through your ideas? How do you know what to do?" in Lecture #2. How does an artist, in any medium, but particularly using our chosen medium of quilt making, find a starting point, know how to focus and edit their work, choose suitable techniques and bring the work to completion? Join us for this talk that offers a variety of approaches to the age old questions of How Do You Do It? How do I know where to begin and what to leave out? What do I do when I simply loathe what I have done? Enjoy looking at a variety of works, and see different individual solutions and possibilities to making original work. Please Note: This is a pre-recorded video. Upon purchase, you will be sent a link to download a pdf with the video's YouTube information & link. Please DOWNLOAD & KEEP the PDF in order to be able to reference the link at a later time. Video is approximately 2 hours long, and with the link, you can watch it as many times as you'd like. (Video length: 1.75 hours)
Are we There Yet? South African quilter Rosalie Dace is a studio artist who has been working in the fibre art, quilt and embroidery world since the '70's. With a background in art and education, she finds exhibiting, teaching, and judging combine her interests admirably. Her work, which reflects her passion for colour, design and texture, is characterized by its wild mix of fabrics. She has had a lifelong interest in textiles and embroidery and has a degree in Art and English. While she values the traditions from which quilt making has come, she believes that a quilt should say something about its time and place in history. This and her awareness of being a South African artist give her work its particular character. Almost Forgotten, Never Told Baghdad Rosalie has been described as a cultural anthropologist whose work defines the collective human experience. Her work is emotional and highly subjective, reflecting feelings of place and referring to memories and personal experiences, telling stories with which we can all identify. One quilt, a homage to her deceased father, a gardener, evokes the colours and shapes of his favourite environment, another of a local market. Another yet, recalling her excitement in returning home to South Africa, depicts an aerial view of the ocean over which she flew. She uses a variety of fabrics upon which to work, such as silk, African cloth and burlap. At times she decorates her quilts with beads, buttons, string, safety pins and other embellishments traditional to South African clothing and textiles. Night Flight Her work has been widely exhibited, and she has won several awards including Best of Show at the South African National Quilt Festival in 1988 and 1998, her quilts are to be found in private collections and in the Durban Art Gallery, and has appeared in national and international publications. Phoenix Apart from her native South Africa, she has taught and exhibited internationally in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Canada and the US, and was nominated for the Professional Quilter magazine’s “Teacher of the Year” Award in 2007. Apart from her normal art and teaching commitments she has been involved in programs aimed at training Zulu women embroidery skills for the Durban Manufacturing Advisory Centre and for a trust operating in rural KwaZulu-Natal. She is also involved in teaching patchwork and quilting to a group at an old age home in Durban. Word for Word Dace lives in Durban, South Africa but she also spends time each year working in the United States and is a much sought after teacher and speaker. She has been included in exhibitions in the US, Europe, New Zealand and Africa including the Houston International Quilt Festival; the Fresno Art Museum in Fresno, California; Galerie im Stadhaus in Bad Homburg, Germany; Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead, United Kingdom; and the Jabulisa Exhibition, which toured South Africa from 2001 to 2003. She also co-developed the South African Quilters' Guild training program for judges and has judged art quilts all over the world. Durban Dreams Gypsy Summer Awake my Soul Spice Route Finding the Way Watching and Waiting
This is a raw edge applique landscape quilt based on a photograph of Notchtop Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
From our "Live from South Africa" Video Workshops: Continue your journey with Rosalie in her fourth lecture as she helps us look at the "what if and why not" questions that can bring our work to life. Each session is a stand-alone lecture. Where can you go with some of those heaps of ideas, small sketches or even stitched fabric units you have, and what can you do with them? This talk takes an in-depth look at the possibilities of putting them together into a composition and the arrangement and organization of visual elements that make a successful composition or design. We look at the raw elements of design, and see how they can be put to use in the process of a textile composition. Please Note: This is a pre-recorded video. Upon purchase, you will be sent a link to download a pdf with the video's YouTube information & link. Please DOWNLOAD & KEEP the PDF in order to be able to reference the link at a later time. Video is approximately 2 hours long, and with the link, you can watch it as many times as you'd like.
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From our "Live from South Africa" Video Workshops: Continue your journey with Rosalie as she answers "Where do you start? How do you sort through your ideas? How do you know what to do?" in Lecture #2. How does an artist, in any medium, but particularly using our chosen medium of quilt making, find a starting point, know how to focus and edit their work, choose suitable techniques and bring the work to completion? Join us for this talk that offers a variety of approaches to the age old questions of How Do You Do It? How do I know where to begin and what to leave out? What do I do when I simply loathe what I have done? Enjoy looking at a variety of works, and see different individual solutions and possibilities to making original work. Please Note: This is a pre-recorded video. Upon purchase, you will be sent a link to download a pdf with the video's YouTube information & link. Please DOWNLOAD & KEEP the PDF in order to be able to reference the link at a later time. Video is approximately 2 hours long, and with the link, you can watch it as many times as you'd like. (Video length: 1.75 hours)
Another "trend" that was quite apparent at Quilt National has been building for a while, the spectacular use of hand stitching, both as quilting and as design. I'll start with the winner of the Lynn Goodwin Borgman Award for Surface Design. This award has always gone to some fabulous dye job, and I was a little taken aback to find it given this year to a quilt where almost the entire design was made by hand stitching. But after some thought I decided that stitching can be surface design too (I guess...). Barbara Watler, Red Sun at Night (detail below) The red sun is a piece of fabric laid over the background fabric, under the stitching; everything else is perle cotton! I particularly liked the not-immediately-apparent motif of the three sails and the water reflecting the sunset: simple and elegant. Olga Norris, Crowded (detail below) Tiny hand quilting stitches outline the printed figures and add texture to a loosely sketched motif. Susann Heymann, One Way or Another (detail below) Quilting stitches in different sizes add design lines as well as texture. Helen Geglio, Femoral Fracture: A Fall (detail below) This started with a pair of pants, taken apart, then embellished with dense hand embroidery. Judy Langille, Nocturnus IV (detail below) A change from the screenprinted quilts that Langille made for many years, this one is a fabric collage in which tiny white french knots hold the layers together. I love the minimalism -- even the knots are small and unassuming instead of fat and assertive. Rosalie Dace, Here and Now (detail below) Probably the most exuberant and spontaneous hand stitching was done by one of the jurors; Dace's quilt features a wild variety of stitches and threads holding down and enhancing her pieced and appliqued fabrics, It made me want to jump around and dance!
I made my transition from Fashion into Theater in 1998 when I first moved to Toronto. At first it was supposed to be only a two-week stint. Well, twelve years later I am still here. I found costumes to be so much more interesting and exciting than contemporary fashion. Considering also my love of history – having the chance to work on all the different period costumes, researching and learning all the timelines and cultures was also an unexpected bonus. Quite often the show I was working on, a particular costume, piece of material or new technique we were using was the inspiration I needed for my next artwork. There are so many left over scraps from all the shows I’ve worked on in all of my collages. Another influence I found in this line of work was all the incredibly talented people I’ve met here. Communicating with them on a daily basis and observing the development and completion of their own projects has often provided the inspiration I needed to get me back to my studio and begin a new piece, or the idea I was looking for in order to complete an old, left aside, “don’t know what to do with” project. Besides working together, we all like to get together from time to time and create something different, but equally as beautiful as the costumes we make on a daily basis. We embrace opportunities to play with all the different and exciting mediums and exercise our designer’s chops. That’s how our tradition of making baby quilts was born. Who wouldn’t embrace the idea of a beautiful hand made present, where all those long learned and well practiced skills can be applied, versus the standard, store bought item labeled “made in China”? Definitely not any of us. So, every time one of our own gives us the good news that there is a baby on the way, a small committee is pulled together and the work begins. The committee usually includes people from the team the girl is working on, or her closest friends. They pick the theme, size and the color scheme, then prepare the pattern or size chart and distribute the pieces among everybody who wants to contribute. Depending on the style and the size of the quilt there have been between 10 and 40 people involved in making each one. Once the pieces are distributed, every participant is free to create their own design and choose the techniques they like best for it. It is time for fierce, but very friendly competition. Everyone rises to the challenge and tries to come up with the most fascinating and unique ideas, resulting in some really striking quilts after all. When all the single pieces are done a couple of people usually volunteer to put the whole quilt together, while someone else prepare a small accompanying booklet, containing the initial sketch, pictures and a list with the names of everyone involved. I can’t even describe the overwhelming joy and excitement that is easy to read on the faces of the expectant mothers when they are presented with such a special and amazing keepsake, usually at a baby shower, thrown in their honor. There was unfortunately one occasion when the idea of the quilt wasn’t born with a happy announcement. One of our friends was diagnosed with cancer and embarked on the grueling spiral of surgeries, treatments, diets and therapies, which usually completely takes over the patient’s life. It was hard for us to watch how this wonderful, vibrant woman, who was the heart and soul of every party, our Robyn, who was everyone’s favorite best friend, being eaten from within by this cruel disease. Unfortunately, we were incapable to help her much, except maybe lessen her financial burden, which is usually never talked about when a disease like this strikes, but is always one of the greatest side effects for a person of modest means. Besides all the donations and fund-raising drives, we decided to contribute with the thing we do best – with our skills. We organized a raffle in which the grand prize was to be one of our quilts. I was granted the honor of designing and organizing the whole project. The word spread fast and we got 39 people wishing to participate from all the costume shops in Toronto, Stratford and Shaw Theater Festivals, even couple of former colleagues from Vancouver. After the quilt was completed, everyone got involved in the sales of the lottery tickets to friends, family members, co-workers and everyone they could reach. It was breathtaking to witness the immense energy, devotion and enthusiasm everybody invested in the realization of the whole endeavor. At the end we managed to collect for over $8 000 which were donated to Robyn and her family to help them in those difficult times. Unfortunately, a few months later we lost her, but we still keep her in our hearts. The winner of the raffle was immensely happy to receive this precious quilt – proof that talent and devotion to your craft can go quite a long way to touch so many people in so many different ways. I dedicate this post to my dear friend Robyn Kelly 1953 – 2003.
From our "Live from South Africa" Video Workshops: Continue your journey with Rosalie in her third lecture as she helps you bring out your inner artist by Learning to Look! See with new eyes as other artists have done, understand, interpret and then make. Find your own Inner Artist in this slide lecture designed especially for quiltmakers and other fibre artists. A visual feast of paintings, drawings and other art works from celebrated artists, shows us how we all use the same elements of design in our various works, be they paintings, traditional or contemporary quilts. Discover how artists' eyes interpret and present their work, and enjoy a new view of the work of numerous artists including Klee, Kandinsky, Matisse, Klimt, Hunderwasser, and several Old Masters along with many exciting fabric works. Please Note: This is a pre-recorded video. Upon purchase, you will be sent a link to download a pdf with the video's YouTube information & link. Please DOWNLOAD & KEEP the PDF in order to be able to reference the link at a later time. Video is approximately 2 hours long, and with the link, you can watch it as many times as you'd like. ==========
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
Creative Arts Blogger Michele Bilyeu shares her sewing, quilting, and crafting journey from Alaska to Oregon and back again.
Some of you might remember this quilt that I started last summer in the Rosalie Dace class in Sisters. Ahhhh, Sisters. I love that place! Anyway, I got most of it done, and was adding some vertical…
