Yesterday was my “day off” I was supposed to do nothing but clean and decompress. the day itself was great very low key good cooking for a good lunch and some quality outdoors time after some desperately needed house cleaning. I even made two little coffe cup sleeves so I dont [...]
Archive for March, 2008
losing power
Posted in DIY, craft project, handmade on March 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
installation progression part 2
Posted in art, art quilt, fabric, fabric dyeing, fibers, installation, quilt, quilted nooses, quilting, quilts, textiles on March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
here is where I am today with this. I am still not happy with it, but for now I am out of time.
heirloom death devices. An exploration of tradition by Ashleigh Spurlock.
Passing down traditions through generation is something that we have been taught to cherish and cultivate. In this piece I brought [...]
installation progression
Posted in art, art quilt, craft, fabric, fabric dyeing, fibers, knitting, painted quilt, printing, quilt, quilted nooses, quilting, quilts, sculpture, sewing, studio, suicide art, suicide quilt, textiles on March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have been sitting on a concept for an installation touching on handmade devices for suicide; namely nooses. I decided that this idea has spent way too much time in theory. So I am trying to pull it off as a ‘final project’ for my images on fabric class. Initially I saw this as being [...]
screen printing with dyes
Posted in DIY, art, art quilt, craft, craft project, fabric, fabric dyeing, fibers, handmade, painted quilt, printing, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, studio, textiles on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am just starting a project using an H dye and sodium alginate mixture for printing. I made screens by rubbing an item with wax in this case I used doilies my grandmother made.to simplify it greatly all you have to do is….. 1. build a screen 2. find [...]
hand dyed string quilt
Posted in art, art quilt, craft, fabric, fabric dyeing, fibers, handmade, quilting, quilts, sewing, shibori, textiles on March 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
this is a quilt I made for my history of fabric class. I used unbleached cotton muslin and mx dyes to create a variety of color that still looked somewhat related. As required by the class I did utilize a couple shibori techniques (tritik, clamp and crinkle)
I still havent bound it yet… that will be [...]
the collaborative quilt project
Posted in DIY, art quilt, craft, craft project, creative inspiration, fabric, fibers, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, textiles on March 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Collaborative quilt on a mission
Photo by Charlie RibbensPublished: Friday, February 8, 2008A collaborative quilt made by fibers students is displayed in shopSCAD. Tickets for a drawing, in which the quilt will be given away, can be purchased for $1 or with a donation of art supplies. Tickets can be purchased at shopSCAD or at [...]
my non journaly “journal quilts”
Posted in art, art quilt, craft project, fabric, fabric dyeing, handmade, natural fabric dyes, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, textiles on March 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have been really pressed for time and My friend Karin and I promised each other that we would do weekly journal quilts. I have been quilting for other projects and found it difficult to take the minimal time to make a couple of these. so here are two small quilted projects [...]
no internet…. writing to you from the dye lab
Posted in art, craft, creative inspiration on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am researching for my next installation and I came across this article on artist Milan Kohout. its a must read.I have worked on a couple mini quilts for the quilt journal project Karin and I are doing. They are practical, not so much journals but with the workload I have right now I was lucky [...]
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