Posted in art, art quilt, craft, embroidery, fabric, fibers, handmade, quilt, sewing on October 30, 2008| 4 Comments »
These two quilts are part of a series and were in the show ‘Pattern of making’ a mixed media fibers show at truspace gallery here in Savannah. This series has also been juried into the American Craft Council Show Baltimore at the end of February. So come and see us in a few months!!!
Posted in art, art quilt, craft, fabric, fabric dyeing, fibers, handmade, machine embroidery, painted quilt, painting, quilt, quilting, quilts, savannah, sewing, trapunto on October 18, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I revisited a mini quilt I did from the “quilts for sleep” series. This one is more than twice the originals size and I hand painted it with fabric dyes. 15×14″; Raw silk, Wool, cotton , dyes, ink and a variety of threads.
I am working on finishing up a series of all tonal white quilts heres a shot of some of them waiting to be worked on.
Posted in art, art quilt, craft, fabric, fibers, quilt, quilting, quilts, savannah, sewing, textiles on September 17, 2008| 4 Comments »
these quilts I made in the colors of the “national terror alert system” which is supposed to help us understand the state of risk we are in. to me this was the most ridiculous thing I had heard. I made these awkward sized quilts of different weight fabrics and batting equipped with different supplies one might need during the appropriate color of terror. 
Posted in art, art quilt, craft, craft project, embroidery, fabric, fibers, handmade, machine embroidery, painted quilt, quilt, quilting, quilts, science quilt, sewing, textiles on September 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here are some photos of the embroidery process I used to create the fleas. I am changing the way I do this because I feel that these lose the feeling of hand made with how sewn they are. its very difficult to see the stitches in photo but its also difficult to see them in life since they are pretty dense, the next batch will be looser and have more of a hand quality.
Posted in art, art quilt, craft, fabric, fabric dyeing, fibers, handmade, painted quilt, quilt, quilting, quilts, savannah, scad, sewing, textiles on August 15, 2008| 2 Comments »
I have been working on some new techniques. The last post of my work I showed some drawings that I had been working on using different types of inks and application techniques. I incorporated that into quilting. The first image is of a quilt made of cotton papers, it is hand sewn and has cotton batting in between the layers of paper.
These next few images are of a series I am now getting into which is the same “ink” process but on fabric. I have been working on ways to achieve the same outcome as the paper paintings/drawings.
machine embroidered on printed cotton
the next is on raw silk. (in progress-front)
and the reverse side (in progress)
I have several more hours of embroidery left and I need to think more about display issues. but I would love to hear some feedback. I will be working on other harbingers of disease in the coming weeks.
Posted in art, art quilt, craft, fabric, fibers, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, studio on July 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I am not a big drawer but I am trying to be. This class I am taking requires quite a bit of drawing so I have been working on my own form of drawing using inks, paper and some fabric. on one sample I sewed a bit lets call it free motion thread drawing. I took mainly close-ups. I think that they are reall interesting as bits. Somehow I am going to work that angle.. I think.
these are studies for possible quilt ideas. just a way to explore different compositions, color and texture. I’ll keep posting them as I fine tune and then finally get to the quilt.
Posted in art quilt, craft, fabric, fibers, handmade, quilt, quilting, quilts, savannah, sewing, textiles, weaving on June 2, 2008| 3 Comments »
I realized that There are a few works that I finished up and never posted. so here they are.
string quilt, hand dyed cotton. machine pieced and quilted.
hand woven scarf. Bamboo yarns.
As soon as I get my camera back I will be posting the scarf since I overdyed it as well as a small series of quilts I did entitles “Quilts for the American People During Terror” a sarcastic series of five mixed media quilts. I will also be posting about a new series I am struggling with. Its in the very beginning stages and needs lots more thought, research and feedback.
I am heading to Florida to enjoy a quick vacation: take in art at Ringling Museum and get some work by artist Tomas Garcia. I’ll be back here in a few days!
