My quilt “Z is For Zinnia, C is For Cosmos” is featured on The Quilt Show.com today. For the past few days, The Quilt Show has been showing the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place quilts in First Entry in Paducah–Small Wall Quilts. Third place was Friday, second place was Saturday, and my first place quilt […]
Master Art Series Challenge–It’s On!
During last year’s workshop, one of the exercises was to choose two pieces of painted fabric that complemented one another in style or color. Then we were to interpret the fabrics through quilting, while changing the character of the design. We started in class, and I just finished the quilting this week. Now the really […]
More on Hollis Chatelain’s Master Art Series
Yes, we are up to our eighth workshop. On the last day, I said I could not believe we had been meeting for seven years. (We did two workshops in the same year back in year three). It’s hard to believe we have just two years to go to fulfill our ten-year commitment. Although we […]
Master Art Series # 8–Hollis Chatelain and New International Quilt Challenge: World Heritage Sites
This latest workshop with Hollis Chatelain focused on working with hand-dyed fabrics and how stitching can change them through thread color and value. As usual we spent the first few days completing samples. But the last three days were something quite different. Each of us chose two fabrics united through color or gesture. To quilt […]
More Native Fashion Now
I returned from my Master Art Series Friday night. We spent the week exploring how the value of thread affects the fabric it’s stitched onto. One concept everyone quickly understood: to make a fabric recede into the background, stitch over it in a lighter value of its same color. Another technique: to dull a fabric […]
Native Fashion Now–Fabulous Native American designer wear and accessories
The Portland Art Museum just opened its latest show, which has been traveling the country. The show titled Native American Now was recently profiled in Fiber Art Now magazine. The work ranges from traditional American Indian clothing to high fashion meant for the runway, as well as jewelry, accessories, and even t-shirts and skateboards. I […]
Hollis Chatelain–Master Art Series
I recently returned from a five-day workshop with Hollis Chatelain entitled Understanding Threads. This was the seventh workshop in a ten-part series begun six years ago. We meet once a year in Silverton, Oregon at The Oregon Garden. For the first three years we drew with pencil, the third year concentrating on portraiture. Since then […]
