The wonderful Lynne, who bought my donation piece to the FFAC fund raiser last week, http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/FFACThe100Fundraiser.html, has sent me a photo of it in it’s new home. It is called Colorado Pines a 9″ x 11″ fused collage art quilt. I think it looks very happy there, and it’s new owner will see it often…
Laughing Leaves is another new pattern, debuting next week. This pattern is a class I have been teaching for years. I teach this as a design class. Students are not given a pattern but are given a series of examples on how to create a collage style quilt. This style of quilt is one that I…
Here is the newest of my patterns - Whispering Pines - it will be ready to purchase by the end of this week. Please let me know what you think? It measures 22″ x 24″ and is a raw edged fused collage that is machine quilted.
Laura W. and I always have a booth in Paducah KY at the AQS quilt show in April. We will be there again this year. If you are coming to Paducah for the quilt show be sure and come by our booth. We have lots of fabric, thread and patterns, plus we are fun and…
I just came home from teaching in O’Fallon IL, down by St Louis. The Hearts and Hands quilt guild was wonderful, with fun ladies who had warm hearts and hands. Our workshop was my pattern Duluth Trees. While there is a pattern with this class, it really is a design class and every students piece…
I am honored to be an invited artist for “The 100″ to be held on Wednesday, February 4, 2015. The goal for this fiber fundraiser for the American Cancer Society is to raise $10,000 in one day. How? All the details are here: http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/FFACThe100Fundraiser.html I’m sure you will want to be one of the very exclusive…
My new little quilt Silk Leaves, which is on it’s way to it’s new home in Norway, is machine quilted and then pillow-cased finished. It has TimTex inserted between the two layers to complete the small wall art. The TimTex makes the small art stiff and allows it to hang beautifully on the wall. Once I…
As part of the Round the World blog hop I invite you to visit some of my arty friends blogs today and see the fantastic work that they make using fiber art. My friends, I think, feel the same way about their work and working as I do. I meet each of these woman because I am a…
It is fun, fast and gratifying to make small art. Here are a few new pieces I managed to make this week while getting all my boxes ready to ship to Houston. My work-space is a mess, but I was happy packing and creating. Green Pines is a lovely combination of teal, burnt orange and…
I am a PAM, a professional member of the art group SAQA. Our regional group WI/IL has had a traveling exhibit for about a year now. The current venue is at the Drury Gallery at Portage Center for the Arts in Portage WI. The opening reception will be on September 5, that’s Friday night from 4-6.…
I head out tomorrow to teach at the Common Threads Quilt Guild in Columbus OH. I will give my Fun Fast Fusies lecture on Tuesday night at the Olde Gahanna Sactuary in Gahanna OH. This looks like a lovely place to be tomorrow evening. If you live close I hope you will stop in and…
Recently I taught down in hot, dry OKLAHOMA. For the class I did, they choose to make Duluth Trees. EVERYONE did such a tremendous job creating their designs and almost everyone went home with their quilt tops ready for the next step of quilting and finishing them up. My quilt Duluth Trees was designed after…