Green

On November 7 I will participate in the Nationale Kunstdag. I'm the only Textile artist among painters and sculptors. I was selected  on the Regionale Kunstdag in Utrecht.

Here are some pictures of my coat Green, one of the art pieces I will exhibit.

Here my coat is being judged in Birmingham for the Quilt festival.

Come and see me and my Art on November 7 in the Posthoornkerk in Amsterdam.

www.kunstdagen.nl

TEXTILEARTAND...: so much to share (TAA part 3)

TEXTILEARTAND...: so much to share (TAA part 3): "One of the following workshops was Textile Poetry with the Embroidered Squares from Afghanistan presented by Swiss artist Judith Mundwiler...."

Art quilts and musings!

Hello.....I'm Marty of Marty's Fiber Musings. I'm in love with art. But I think art is a mindset...it can be anything we view - whether it's a quilt, stitched cloth, paint on fabric or stretched canvas, sketches on paper or fabric: well, you get the (art) picture! You see, I often quilt, draw, take pictures and muse. That's why I started my blog where I can post about anything I create.

I enjoy being invited to share my work and today it's all about art quilts.....
Please click to enlarge each picture to get the full impact!

"Callie" is free-motion thread-sketched on fabric. I take pictures of my originals and reprint the images on fabric. I like doing it this way to preserve the original. I can then make any number of art quilts by reproducing images and setting them with different border fabrics. You can see more of my thread-sketching on my website.

Here is another way I like to have fun. I surround interesting tidbits of fabric with white, then come back with a patch of color in the binding. They are usually small pieces of art that can be hung in a group or used individually as table toppers. Either way, I find they are great conversation pieces!

A most delicious way to use thread extraordinaire is to take a floral print and enhance it. I used a gold metallic thread to outline the sunflowers and fill the centers with heavy stitching. It worked wonders on this sunflower scrap that was left from another quilt. Add a fun binding and voila, you have an art quilt!

Oh and the holidays! I can keep the Christmas spirit all year long while working on raw-edge applique trees. This little red and black and white one is named "surround sound."







And my favorite background for an art quilt is to collage fabric scraps, then embellish the collage with pretty thread and yarn.


My latest mantra goes something like this - "When life gives you scraps, just sew them together."

The Art Quilt Blog: art2wear

The Art Quilt Blog: art2wear

art2wear

Hi, my name is Marijke van Welzen, I live in the Netherlands.
I love working with Textiles, I usually make unique garments, using all sorts of fabrics, my sewing machine and Embellisher.I also do some quilting and felting

Here's an example: this is my contribution to the Hoffman Challenge 2010,
a coat which is currently travelling in trunk c throughout the United States.


You can see other work on my website www.art2wear.info
or http://art2wear.kunstzinnig.nl
My next big venture will be on November 7 in Amsterdam, I'm a participant  the "Nationale Kunstdag", I'm the only Textile artist of 80 participants, and quite proud of it. see; www.kunstdagen.nl

Introducing Karen Silvers

Flora Checks In

Promised Land

I play around with all kinds of mediums, but my main muse and mentor is color.  I love dyes, paints, and inks.  I enjoy putting color on fabric so much that sometimes I forget I'm supposed to actually do something with it. 

Pieceful Tigers

I mostly make art quilts, but love all quilts and generally make one or two more traditional quilts each year.  Always though, I add some twist.  With color or careful placement of some commercial print, I make it different: a pattern is a suggestion in my little world.  I love the challenge of intricate piecing that traditional quilts can provide.

Bamboo Tiger

Heart Like a Wheel -- work in progress

I am driven to create and started my blog, A Creative K, because I was having trouble finding the time to be creative.  Not being creative makes me a little crazy -- and not in a good way.  Joining the ranks of bloggers has given me new friends and a new outlet for my need for creativity.  I also include the occasional poem on my blog, which is a nod to my degree in creative writing.  Otherwise I try to focus on visual art and its processes.  My web page, karensilvers.com, is still under construction, but I have grand plans for it.  Someday.


I am a member of Madison Contemporary Fiber Artists in Wisconsin.  Included in this group are quilters, dyers, weavers, felters, and other stitchers.  The diversity is exciting and inspiring.

As I was editing the photos for this, I noticed that they mostly feature animals -- this is not by design, but just a happy coincidence.  I do love animals and they make great subject matter.  This is a detail of my latest quilt.  In a day or two, I will post the whole thing and all the information on my blog.  

Linda Robertus, Quilts

Balance 1 and 2 (2010), 28 x 28 cm / 11 x 11 inch

My name is Linda Robertus. I am Dutch, but I have been living in Brisbane, Australia with my family since March 2007.

I started quilting in 2006, when I was expecting our third son. After a year of making quilts for my children I slowly moved into the 'art quilt scene'. An online screen printing class in 2009 (with Lyric Kinard at Quilt University) has heavily influenced my work, as has the fact that my oldest son joined a gymnastics club around the same time. My series of gymnastics quilts is still not finished!


MAGnificence (2009), 85 x 76 cm /33 x 30 inch

Recently I have started using cyclists in my quilts. I am currently working on a second cycling quilt.


Speed (2010), 21 x 30 cm/ 8 x 12 inch

I like to try other techniques and materials from time to time, such as lutradur:


Grrr Argh (2010), 21 x 30 cm/ 8 x 12 inch

Lino printing:


Ernst (2010), 25 x 33 cm / 10 x 13 inch

Making a quilt based on a photo (photography is another passion, and I keep a daily photo blog):


Monstera deliciosa (2010) , 50 x 50 cm / 20 x 20 inch

I love optical illusions:


Op Art Quilt (2010), 50 x 50 cm / 20 x 20 inch

In 2008 I founded Art Quilts Around the World; an international group where each member makes a quilt to a designated theme four times a year. I made this quilt for the Mandala challenge in 2009:


MAGnificent Mandala (2009), diameter 30 cm / 12 inch

I am also a member of SAQA, QuiltArt and the Australian and New Zealand Art Quilters. With the last group I made a series of journal quilts in 2009. For one of them I used a X-ray of a tuberculosis patient. I am a public health physician currently working as a data manager/researcher and doing a PhD on tuberculosis control in the indigenous population in Queensland. I am passionate about this subject and hope to further explore it in my artwork some day.


Journal Quilt April 2009, 30 x 21 cm (12 x 8 inch)

I have a quilt blog, a photo blog and a store on the Australian MadeIt website where I sell small handmade items. I also design and sell fabric on Spoonflower.

Best wishes from Brisbane,

Margeeth from the Netherlands

 Hi, I am Margeeth and I live in the Netherlands. I seriousely began quilting 13 years ago and started making traditional quilts. I am quite fond of scrapquilts, and made a lot of them using simple shapes like this quilt (which was donated to charity):

but I also made quilts like this one:

After a while, I wanted more, so I began making modern quilts. At first I used commercial fabrics,

but soon I was dyeing my own fabrics and doing surface design on them:

This is me:

I am a member of several groups that sparkle my creativitity, like abstract challenge,

the dutch journalquiltgroup Afier, ARTfor12, ArtQuiltsAroundTheWorld, De Uitdaging, the dutch fibermailgroup: 

 and I also have my own blog.

I hope I will develop my artquilting, but I am also still making more traditional work, like scrapquilts, but also a Dear Jane.

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Another Judy Joins the Group

Hi! I live in upstate New York and began this phase in my quilting life about seven years ago. (I handquilted a piece for our queen size bed about twenty-five years ago and swore never again!) I have been involved in fiber arts in one way or another most of my life. This is definitely the first time I have accepted the title of artist. You can find more about me and a gallery of my work on my website. I also have a blog, Explorations in Quilting and Life, that I am really enjoying maintaining.

I am a member of SAQA and the Genesee Valley Quilt Club. It was through the Visioning Project of SAQA that I really began to develop as a fabric artist. My greatest accomplishment to date was having one of my quilts accepted into the No Place to Call Home exhibit of SAQA.

Homeless

Art quilts are really my latest means of expressing myself in this world. I have done many things in my lifetime and volunteered in many capacities in various organizations. I find it fascinating that, diverse as these activities are, in many ways, they all tie together. These days I find I am finding more and more time in my days to create quilts and I am totally enjoying being part of the greater world quilting community.

I am really looking forward to participating in this blog in the coming months. Thanks for inviting me!

Hi from Carol B in NH

I am a textile/fiber artist living and creating fabric art in southern New Hampshire. I have recently taken up my needle again after a 13 year hiatus during which I made and taught others to make metal clay jewelry.
Camera in hand, I began to explore my world and then reproduce those photos into fabric art.
With the new direction came fabric dyeing and I am now thoroughly immersed (pun intended) in this world of fiber, color and texture.
I am a member of two art groups, Dunstable Artisans in Massachusetts and the League of NH Craftsmen in New Hampshire, both inspirational and exciting to belong to.

Photo of Yellow Asiatic Lily

My interpretation of the lily in fabric. I  post this as an example of my work. More can be seen and my progress can be followed at my blog.

Greetings from Judy

Hi, fellow fiber artists! My name is Judy Sall, and I have been making things most of my life, although I only began making Art and Landscape quilts in earnest back in 2007. Prior to that, I made a few for my own collection after I started tie-dyeing clothing, and decided to try my hand at fabric dyeing. Naturally, I had to use the fabric for something, and I began by making some hand-stitched pieces I could take with me to craft shows for something to do to pass the time. Here is a picture of one of my first:

Fast forward to 2007, when I took a 5-day course from Melly Testa in surface design techniques: thickened dye painting, monoprinting, screen printing, soy wax batik, stamping, discharge dyeing... I was totally blown away, and needed to use some of these wonderful tools, so I created my first post-Melly art quilt to meet a challenge she gave us to cut into two pieces of fabric we had created using our new tools:

This was another hand-stitched piece, and employed discharge dyeing, stamping, and included embellishments.
After that, I was hooked, and have made a number of art and landscape quilts in the past 3 years. I especially like to use photographs of landscapes as my inspiration, and I'm very drawn to scenes with rock formations. Here is one I created, along with the photos I used for my inspiration:

Obviously, I used a little creative license on the colors, but I was so smitten with the composition and shapes, I just had to do something with it!
Here is another example where I used a photo:

In this case, the photo had a tall palm tree on the right side that didn't add to the composition, so I ignored it when I created my picture. For this piece, I hand dyed all the fabric, including 'dirt dyeing' the fabric I used for the wall behind the cactus. And I used beading and hand stitching to enhance the cactus, but used free-motion stitching to quilt the rest of the piece.
You can see more of my work on my website, or on my blog .
I am looking forward to getting to know you all, and hopefully learning and sharing different techniques and styles as well! Thanks to Chris for inviting me to participate!

Introducing Corryna

I was asked to join The Art Quilt Blog by Chris Daly. It is a wonderful initiative and I am glad to be part of this new community. Above you can see a collage of my work. This is what you'll see on the top of my blog http://corryna.blogspot.com. I hope you will come there to see what I have been up to too.

Postcard for Emmy

I began quilting in august 2007. First I joined a beginners course, that I did not finish. It did not bring me what I was looking for. Then I went to Ireland for a week, with a friend. I met a wonderful lady, that inspired and coached me: Pauline. Pauline also taught me what I needed to know for the next steps. I started to make the quilts I wanted. And I am still grateful for her support and tips. In the last few years I attend workshops from various artists. And I will continue with that, because I still feel like a beginner. There is so much more to learn. That is also why I like blogs so much. We all show and tell. We share, we give. And this enriches my life and inspires me to go on making art quilts.

Little bag made of felt, hand and machine stitches and buttons

Introducing Mel

Hi my name is Mel and I live in Brisbane, Australia. I enjoy many aspects of art with most roads usually leading back to textiles. In addition to my textile interests I also enjoy photography, collage (both paper and mixed media), altered and handmade books. Often my pieces feature aspects from the different mediums I enjoy. My formal training lies in the area of garment construction with all other areas of creativity being developed through lots and lots of wonderful workshops, reading and an ongoing desire/need to play and experiment.

I'm currently working on two series: "Surroundings" - which is inspired from photographs taken of the Australian Bush all photos so far have been taken within a 6 hour driving circumference from where I live in Brisbane. The second series is called "Human Response" - which was initially inspired by the phrase 'The Writing s on the Wall' set as a challenge with one of the creative groups I'm in. As I worked through the creative block I initially felt I've ended up with a series. 

surrounding #1  - digital images, fabric, brown paper, acrylic paint & ink

Writings on the Wall - fabrics, digital images, acrylic paints, oil stick and sharpie pen.

I consider myself an emerging artists and have just created my first blog to document my journey visit mels blog   I've also just started a gallery shop through redbubble where a selection of my photographs and images of my work can be viewed and can be printed onto cards, prints, canvasses, t-shirts and calenders visits mels gallery

Pleased to Introduce Myself - quilthexle!

"My draft of space"

My name is Frauke Schramm aka quilthexle, and I blog at quilthexle's world. That's my virtual log, where I record my creative journey. I'm a textile artist and a quilter and I blog about my creative work - when everything goes smoothly or not, when I feel the journey becomes more difficult. Occasionally I add tidbits of my personal life and my real-life surroundings. Or some pictures - for inspiration or just for the fun of it. I find it especially important to write in an uplifting, positive and humourous style. I want my readers to leave my blog smiling ;-)) And I want to encourage my readers to jump into action - asking "what if?" takes us to the heart of our creative journey!

"Winter Puzzle"

I consider myself an "emerging artist". This year, I had two quilts at the "Festival of Quilts" in Birmingham, UK - these are the two I'm showing off in this blogpost. In the summer of 2011 I registered for a class with Nancy Crow - which scares me to no ends, but gives me a lot of excitement, too. There are sooo many artists out there who all say - "I took a class with Nancy Crow and EVERYTHING changed" - I'm looking forward to this experience.
And I'm looking forward to become a part of "The Art Quilt Blog" - to get to know more artists from all over the world. So, to a pleasant journey for all of us together! If you want to know more about my quilts, my workstyle, me ... I'll be happy to answer almost every question ;-))
Happy quilting,
Frauke aka quilthexle