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I’ve often though about doing more abstract work or big simple shapes because I love to stitch with loopy patterns. It’s not that big, but here’s a simple shapes quilt that I delivered to a friend this week using this stitch in the background.
The simple shapes came from quick pen drawings that I later refined to use in the invitation to this show, then I enlarged them to make a food-inspired quilt. To make the background stitching show up, I used a course variegated blue thread, and then doodled around the kitchen objects. This is a lot of fun, so I hope to do some more of these.
The other day, I happened to run across an article about creating special touches for packaging your handmade items -it said there were a lot of Flickr photos tagged “handmade packaging.” So inspired, before I delivered the quilt to the collector, I hand-wrote a card thanking them for the purchase and wrapped it up with a fabric bow.
This is how a usually wrap my quilts for transport. I used to use white cloth to wrap them, but batiks with colors are just so much more fun.
Occupied with Octopi, part two
Or perhaps I should have said, Preoccupied with Octopi. This is the second of two blog posts about making a big quilt featuring PaMdora and...
Occupied with Octopi, part one
On a street corner outside a noisy concert, a friend pulled out her phone to make a call. I was shocked to see the front...
Fiberart International opening on April 30th
Fiberart International 2010 opens at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY this Friday, and I'm sorry I won't be there. Well, I will, sort...
Art behind the Art
Looks like art, huh? What a lot of people don't realize is there's "art" behind the art. The art of making things work, the art of...
Old Irons, New Fires
Had to get the antique irons out for this one. Some patterns that I draw are either so big, or the dimensions are such...
International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB)
I'm pleased that two of my quilts will be shown soon at the International TECHstyle Art Biennial (ITAB) at the San Jose Quilts &...
