This jacket is a favorite and I love wearing it!  The initial ‘fabric’ was created in a ‘stack and whack’ workshop at Quilt Canada in Ottawa previously and incorporates four batiks.  I created a jacket pattern (my design) and determined that I would use black fabric as a foil for the patterned fabrics.  Once the surface was pieced it was layered with a light batting and the jacket is lined with another batik.  Each...

Name Summer Holidays Medium Quilt Art/ Fibre Art Description This is one of a fibre art/ quilt art series entitled ‘Story Pictures’ prepared for a solo exhibition in 2008.  It’s amazing the inspiration one can find in everyday life!  This piece was created as the neighbourhood children played outside.  Texture was important in my  fabric selection. I really enjoyed creating this series that was aimed at bridging the...

Name Serenity Medium Quilted fibre and Mixed Media Description This is one of a series entitled ‘Story Pictures’ prepared for a solo exhibition in 2008.  In this series I combined my background in quilt art with my love of texture.  In each of the pieces in this series I have used new techniques to capture the mood.  In this one, shiva has been used to create the fabric designs. Circa 2008 Size 15″ x 12″ Exhibitions 2008...

    This was a month for experimentation, adding new people and organizations to my network and to time to get serious about some artwork.  One of my project this month was to explore the possibilities offered by paper fabric and to get ready to lead a workshop on the technique early next month. One of my samples is featured in my October journal quilt. This journal quilt incorporates paper cloth – a technique that has been on...

  The technique I chose for this month’s journal quilt can be found in the book Layered Textures: New Surfaces with heat tools, machine and hand stitch by Kim Thittichai.  I think I will be dipping back into this book again for techniques to try.  Faux Chenille is one of the Recycled Layers ideas that I was drawn to while browsing the pages.  I’m also working on a series featuring recycled… materials but more on that to...

A Collage of the Painted Fabric – (Later Incorporated as a layer in ‘paper cloth’) Just did the heat set and thought I would publish the results.   The Fabric Before Painting   I’m going to challenge myself to use each of the pieces someway over the next few days.  I’m doing a series of small and ‘quicks’ so it may work out okay. Thought I would throw in a shot of this morning’s...

I do have a lot of activities on the go – I just haven’t blogged about them.  There is a smocked dress, a pair of socks, samples of free motion quilting based on Leah Day’s work, a challenge piece posted to Dale Anne Potter’s facebook fan page …..  All this and now I have my days to myself so there will be lots more.  Let’s hope the weather continues to be fair!  The combines will run!!!! A little personal...

  Earlier this spring I had the opportunity to buy an embellisher but had little time to play with it. Now that the exhibition work is completed, I was able to use one of the recent rainy days to play and here is one of the first pieces I completed. Because this was strictly experimental I just used materials that were easy to access – quilt batt trimmed from the edges of the T-shirt quilt, some odds and ends of wool and scraps from...