After finishing the remember piece, I took the doodling a step further and stitched leaves on this girl’s face after stitching ‘bloom’ across the face. The background uses two different fabrics, both with butterflies, one with additional text elements. I colored the hair, leaves and shirt with pigment pens. Bloom (8.5†x 13â€) I really […]
Remember
I saw this fabric at a local quilt shop and my first thought went to painting it. I found it shortly after watching Lidija’s STITCHED 2015 class ‘Stitching Doodles’. Thinking we were moving within a week, I had packed away my paints, but wanted to create. With this fabric, felt, pigment pens and my sewing […]
New Low Volume Text Prints
I originally designed my text prints to go with my art quilts so I wanted creamy and tan color, but I’ve noticed that my black and white prints are popular. So I converted 4 of my cream and tan text prints to have a white background with either black or dark brown text. Here you […]
Play
Selvages and fused scraps make a colorful background for a doodle stitched blonde in pigtails. Her shirt is has wavy lines and I used decorative stitches from my machine to add ‘tattoos’ to her arms. The scallops on her neck and neckline were done with free-motion stitching. The color was added with pigment ink pens. […]
Make More Fun
After finishing my articles for Sew Somerset, I continued to make pieces similar to the ‘Glad Girls,’ but have been waiting to post them. These are all free motion stitched – me drawing with thread – no pattern – nothing to trace. They are lots of fun for me. Make more fun (10.5†x 11â€) […]
Kite Happy Day
Yesterday was windy and I wished for a kite. Near my childhood home, there was a large empty lot a block away that was perfect for playing kickball and flying kites. Kite + wind = happy day (8†x 10â€)
Welcomes Joy
Hello happy – blue skies and sunny A skirt embellished with decorative stitches and I finally found a pice for this tiny scrap of elephant print fabric She welcomes joy (6†x 12â€)
Sew Somerset
The latest issue of Sew Somerset is out and you’ll find a few of my projects inside. My favorite part about new magazine articles being published is that I can finally share the art inside them. It’s hard to not share the projects when I create them and it takes 6 months or a year […]
MQG Riley Blake Challenge
The Modern Quilt Guild Riley Blake challenge has 4 rules: – Make something fantastic that is quilted – Make something you have never done before – Challenge yourself to learn something new – Use only the Cottage Garden fabric line and Riley Blake solids I decided to play with improvisational curved piecing as my something […]
Fabric Friday 6
A few weeks ago I visited quilt shops in nearby cities, when shopping for stash building/inspriation, I first look for fabrics that could be used in art quilts – small scale prints for backgrounds or dresses. The greens, blues, yellow and pink will work well and the gray with the lines and dandelion like puffs […]