While
visiting my friend Vikki, she taught me her very fun technique for
designing and sewing curves.
I made
these two fun pieces to practice. She also showed me how to make
these pleated borders.
Fire
Dance
Fire
Dance shows the spirit of God in waves of energy, moving
over the earth during creation. In the earth’s initial
stages, God’s spirit, represented by fire (coral), the
waters and air (teal), and the earth (black) are all
inter-mingled while the spirit creates their form and
they become distinct entities.
This piece is a part of the
on-line gallery called
One of the quilt groups I
attend is called Playing Outside of the Block. Its a
wonderful mix of traditional and art quilters. A
challenge was issued to make an 18" x 18" piece on the
theme of cool or hot. I chose to make a cool piece.
Check out all the 18" x 18" pieces on the
On
Simply Quilts,
I caught an
episode with Kim Deneault. She has developed a technique called
Raggedy Reverse Applique which she uses for working with kids. I
decided to give it a try for making art quilt abstracts.
Canyon
Night Sky
Tide Pools
Making Art from My Own Art
This series is based on using a
digital photograph of one of my pieces to make new quilts.
Almost Winter II for Candy
This was a commission piece I did for the Windrush
Gallery. I experimented using the digital image of the
piece to create new art quilts
I manipulated the digital image with photo editing
software and printed the transform images onto fabric.
Two of the images are negatives. I then added paint and
quilting to enhance the images.
