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Hand-stitched fabric landscape with embroidered detail. Sky fabric is handpainted cotton, layered with a mix of new and recycled textiles. Details added with embroidery and beadwork. Finished with custom mat, frame and glass.
This beautiful textured piece is based in a regular walk I do in the Yorkshire village where I live. This mixed media landscape shows a country lane with Baildon Moor in the distance. It’s a wet felting base, needle felted and then embellished with free motion embroidery. It’s measures approx. 28cm by 39cm and comes unframed. It’s signed at the back. It will be posted with tracking to the UK and abroad. Whilst I have done my best to photograph this piece colours may vary due to monitor settings. Read more
Gotta Dance! I finished my quilt and shipped it off to Colorado for photography yesterday. (Scary!) Lori from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine saw a pic of my quilt on facebook and wanted me to ship it to her for possibly putting it in their magazine. Soooo, within a day of finishing the faced binding, I was removing all the cat hair and fashioning a shipping tube. Then I filled out the entry form for the National Quilt Museum's New Quilts from Old Favorites contest and saw the date I'll get my quilt back if it is accepted into the exhibition. Gasp - the date is the end of 2017. I miss my baby already, lol. On the other hand, this expresses my feelings as I walk away from it. Wait for it... There is some relief in knowing that the quilt is out of my hands now. I can't fix it up anymore; I can't spend hours looking at all the imperfections in the stitches and I can't obsess about it anymore! Maybe now I'll sleep at night. On to other things. Fun things! Last month we celebrated another great quilt show here in Wisconsin, the Quilt Expo. I took a bunch of pictures, surprise surprise. Here are some of my favorite landscape quilts. I'll be posting more quilts from the show in later blogs, never fear. Barbara's Barn by Shirley Gisi I love her quilts. I love her colors. I was so happy to see another one of her works here in Wisconsin. And a perfect season for it, too! Here is a closeup of her marvelous tree. Stargazers by Mary Alice Hart I have these growing in my garden, They are so pretty and smell so sweet. Mary used both turned edge and raw edge applique to create her flowers and leaves. And here is a detail shot - From fall to spring and then back to fall again - how quickly the seasons can change on my blog, lol. Come Walk With Me by yours truly. (Cathy Geier) No ribbons for me alas. I do like my quilt though and the Wisconsin Public Television peoples interviewed me on camera so I was able to share my quilty story. (A mushy lovey dovey story about walking hand and hand in the woods with my husband...) So that was fun. I was hot and sweaty after teaching and probably looked a fright, but we'll see when the video comes out next year. ~ Now for a quilting Tour de Force ~ On This Winter's Day by Nancy Prince 2000 hours, 7 years of work and 45 different colors of silk thread! This quilt was truly breathtaking to see. I took lots of pictures including another full image one down below a ways here, but there was never a time when someone wasn't in front of this quilt. Enjoy all the detail shots of the embroidery/thread painting and the quilting. What an incredible work of art! The coats were all 3 dimensionally built up with thread - you just wanted to pet them. The white glove ladies were standing watch very closely! Extraordinary detail on the buildings. Beautiful color and shading in the snow, on the water, under the bridge. And the best I could do with getting the whole thing without bodies in the way! What a quilt this is! Field of Flowers by Renelle Kunau This colorful garden was made of silk. Carpathian Mountain Sunset by Cathy Geier - Me! No ribbon for me here either. I admit to being somewhat disappointed but oh well. Look at this cute chickadee - Something to Sing About by Janet Besadny Isn't this a cutie? Janet created her quilt using techniques she learned from David Taylor. Here is a closeup. Trish and Tweety by Wendy Butler Berns Wendy was inspired by some baby cows she saw while riding her bike and decided to create them in a whimsical way. Popcorn by Jan Soules Fused and painted, this is a concession stand Jan loves to see every year. She learned her techniques from a class by Lenore Crawford. The Riverfront by Barbara Strobel Lardon I'm friends with Barbara on facebook and I think this is one of the first times she entered a quilt in a show. She sells her art on etsy and she has a great blog showing you some of the steps she takes when she creates her quilts. She used tulle to create the fog and paintsticks to create the reflections in the water. Garden of Grace by Chris Lynn Kirsch and Wendy Rieves They took pictures of Grace Church while in Paducah and decided to make a 'slice' quilt together. It was a quilting adventure working together and Chris writes that 'by God's grace we are quilting friends." Radiant Roots by Susan Jackan Painted, fused and quilted with variegated threads, Susan drew her root veggies and took photos of the real leaves to create her pattern. The quilting is terrific! (And can I take a second to say that I'm really getting sick of seeing feathers on everything?! How impolitic of me - I know, but there are no feathers around her roots!!!) Never Say Never by Eileen Daniels Eileen used wool from old clothing and beads to create her undersea landscape. Transcontinental by Kathleen Hughes Kathleen lives by railroad tracks and likes watching the trains go by everyday. View of the Arles with Iris by The Fab 5 Who are the Fab 5? They are a fun group in California. They decided to do a rendition of Van Gogh's painting and do it in a slice form. Pretty fun, yes!? Ok, I admit to being to lazy to write down their names. Google them, lol. (Some of them have LONG names!) Well that is it for me this week. Next week I'll be up north teaching and the week after that I'll be on vacation. (I won't tell you where I'm going because you might come after me with a rotary cutter.) In the meantime, I have a question. I would like to get one of my quilts in the AQS show circuit this winter and spring. I have 2 choices; Carpathian Mountain Sunset or Come Walk With Me. Both are pictured above in my blog here. Which one do you think is better? I like Carpathian, hubby likes Come Walk... if you have any strong opinions, please feel free to comment. Thanks for reading and happy quilting!
Another lovely day yesterday spent at Busy Bees teaching Striped Pieced Landscapes.
Hand-stitched fabric landscape with embroidered detail. Sky fabric is handpainted cotton, layered with a mix of new and recycled textiles. Details added with perle cotton and embroidery thread with custom mat, frame and glass.
My adults really enjoyed the Shelli Walters Mixed-Media Flowers project we did, so I decided we could continue to explore her amazing collage art by focussing on her landscapes. This was a whole new challenge! Getting a landscape to look like a landscape, solely with collage papers, is much trickier than creating getting flowers to look like flowers. But we dived head-first into this project anyhow! Shelli Walters landscape Shelli Walters landscape We looked at Shelli's Oregon landscape collages, which depict craggy rock cliffs, winding streams, and mountains. Much of her inspiration comes from the wild landscapes of Oregon's Fort Rock State Park and the Oregon high desert. I wanted my adults to create an original piece in Shelli's style so I printed out photos of landscapes from these areas. What to think about when collaging a landscape: A. Collaging a landscape is tricky. I decided the important this was to ensure that our landscape had a defined foreground, middle ground and background, some kind of obvious rock cliffs or mountain, an area of water, and a defined sky. If all these elements are place, it would likely be unmistakable that we are depicting a landscape. B. Additionally, each area would have its defined color scheme, to separate it from the other areas: the sky would be cool color, the mountains and cliffs would be warm colors, the water would again be cools, and any tree or grassy area would be greens. This devision through color helps the eye wander through the picture and understand that we are looking at. C. The other important tip to consider when collaging a landscape, is to paste the papers in such a way that they mimic the direction, flow and shape of what's being represented. So the cliffs are pasted with vertical strips of roughly torn paper, and water is pasted in horizontal pieces of unevenly torn paper. D. No hard edge or corners should be uses. For a more organic shape, paper should be torn, not cut. F. Another key factor is to match the values in the landscape. This helps us separate and define the contours and the dimension of the different elements. Collage papers: We used a wide range of collage papers in every color and tone including book paper, grid paper, atlas paper, painted paper, plain colored paper and patterned decoupage paper. I also painted paper in warms tones (particularly, reds, oranges and browns) and in cool tones, as options for our rocks, grassy and water. We use acrylic gel medium for pasting, but mod podge would work too. The rule is 'paste under the collage paper, then over top again'. As a final touch, we used a tiny touch of diluted white acrylic paint to soften our sky, and a tiny bit of diluted brown, dark green or blue (or some other dark color) to enhance the dimension around some of our elements. We used acrylic gel medium to dilute our paint. Our goal was just to soften, push back, or deepen some areas with the paint, not to paint over the paper, so strongly diluted the paint was important. These turned out fabulously! My adults were seriously proud. It took us one 3-hour class.
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This quilted wallhanging, demonstrates how careful choice of colour and applying the rules followed in photography can produced a work of art, which many would be happy to capture as a photography. Very slight cropping to straighten the lopsided hanging, and enhancement of hue and saturation to recreate the colours which were slightly washed out under the lighting. Not made by me, but unfortunately did not think to make of note of who did make it.
by Misik Kim I saw the image of Lin's challenge, that comes to mind first was gray color. I felt comfortable, like the landscape of t...
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