Working title: Weathered and Worn. The quilt is 30 x 50cms and will be my entry in One Red Thread 2018, an exhibition held in August as part of the Berry Quilting Retreat in Berry NSW. The others photos show the piece in progress. It’s made from old tea towels that were very worn & […]
My exhibition finishes next Sunday so I thought I’d show a few pieces from it. These are all done with heat transfer dyes, one of my favourite print techniques, and machine stitching. the 1st 2 are framed pieces & are now sold. The long quilted wall hanging might end up on my wall. Now that […]
I wanted to get another piece done for our exhibition – they have to be submitted by Saturday, but I’ve decided not to. It has to be 2 metres x 40cm, double sided, in eucalyptus colours. I have some silk I printed but I’m not mad on the colours and I think the size is […]
A couple of new pages – above is done with water soluble crayons – below left: print, stencil, paint etc. Right: tissue and other papers collaged in, painted and drawn over, metallic wax added. I finished and entered my quilt for ‘Living Colour’ – whether it will be chosen is another thing all together! At […]
I finished piecing this quilt today. It’s a mixture of scraps of my own printed/dyed fabrics and some commercial quilt fabrics. The only ones I bought were some of the dark border fabrics. Now I’ll put it away while I decide how to quilt it but at least it’s not in pieces on my studio floor – […]
Some of my demo pieces from the heat transfer workshop – above was a fairly random arrangement of torn painted papers and resists (fern leaves & yarn) which were heat transferred onto delustred satin – came out surprisingly well! In this sample, a lace doyley was used as the resist. The paper (right) was painted, glad […]
Blue and Green Should Never be Seen… 45cms x 75cms. Strictly speaking, this isn’t really new – it was pieced more than a year ago but yesterday I finished the quilting and binding. I had a small collection of hand printed and dyed scraps left over from a series of work on the theme of […]
Well, we did the draw for my giveaway tonight. I wrote all the names on pieces of paper put them in a container and my husband drew out Joy V‘s name – congratulations Joy. The fabric below was printed with the thermofax screen design which is part of the prize package. Thank you to everyone […]
I’ve got to get 4 12″ x 12″ quilts finished very soon for the Aust/NZ Art Quilt Yahoo group. The theme is other countries – this one is New Zealand, inspired by it’s greenness and lush ferns. I’ve finished Japan, Brazil and well on the way to getting Morocco done. The group is having an […]
My blog has been a little neglected recently. There have been a few things happening – first, I’ve finally started the blog for Designing Women (a textile group I’m a member of). Its early days but I hope it will have regular posts, member profiles, lots of pics and information to share. It is a […]