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…
I am assuming, and you know what happens when you assume, that when I get to Colorado there will tons of pine trees and it will smell very piney. So I was inspired to create this two new small sale quilts. Lonely Pines 9″ x 12″ And Pine Forest 14″ x 10″ What do you…
Are you an art collector? It doesn’t take a whole lot of money to collect art. I do it as often as I can. I admire so many of the people working in the quilting industry and I want to have a little piece of their work in my home to enjoy year round. I have…
For all you local quilters in the west suburbs of Chicago land, I will be teaching this Saturday at Sew Generously in St Charles, IL. I will be the featured artist at Sew Generously in St Charles IL on May 10, 2014. In the morning I will give my lecture on Machine Quilting and in…
“For me, the art process is not complete without the viewer.” James Christiansen Sunset Afternoon
I love to make and use gradated fabrics. I love doing gradations from one color to another to create beautiful multi colored fabrics and then using them to create my art quilts. Blue Sunset Pines is a perfect example of just that. I started with my Blue Sunset gradated fabric, this fabric starts out yellow…
I used to grow Sunflowers in my garden. Now I grow them in my flower box next to the garage. Ya gotta just love Sunflowers, always so bright and pretty and BIG. 40″ x 50″ Sunflowers I designed this quilt pattern, Petite Sunflowers, after making and selling a much larger version of this design. I…