OUR SHIP IS SELLING OUT! Are you considering traveling with me in May on the quilting cruise to Alaska? If so, please do not delay your registration any longer. Many categories for rooms on the ship are already wait listed and I would not want you to be disappointed because the category you want is gone. Through…
I need your input. If you could take any of my classes which one would it be? Check out my workshop page and also look at my patterns page and tell me which class you would like to take or pattern to make in class. On Sunday I will send one lucky winner picked from…
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…
Do you live in or near Longmont CO? Do you want to go away from drudgery of home for awhile? Call your quilting friends and head on out to Longmont, CO. I will be teaching three fabulous classes there this summer at Quilt Colorado. My fusing classes are fun and fast and you go home with…
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…
The great thing about fusing art quilts is that you can use your fused scraps right up to the very last little bit. I am currently working on making a few Tiny Landscapes. Here is my drawing of this little landscape, Trees on the Hill. I drew it up so that I could keep my…
It was a challenge to do this class in the space that we were provided with but I was so proud of everyone for getting their tops done and working nicely along side each other in a very tight room. We had 22 in this class, two to a table top. This is a design…
Are you starting to think about Valentine’s Day? IT will be here before we know it. Here is a little inspiration for you. You can download a pdf of this fused heart collage, or of the pieced versions at the bottom of the page. Make yourself or someone you love a heart quilt for Valentine’s…
I am getting ready to teach at Road to California at the end of this month. One of my classes is Little Landscapes. I am always “tweaking” my classes and I decided to change the fabric supply list for the class so……….. I must make a new sample to show the class the possibilities of…
OK gals you can’t beat this reason for getting the 1/4 yard of fabric. It was Betty Hahn’s BD yesterday so she got to win. Happy BD Betty your fabric will be on it’s way as soon as you send me your snail mail address to – frieda@friestyle.com I know you all know that I am…
I hand dye two basic multi-colored fabrics. One is rainbow bright and the other one is blackened rainbow. They are each made with 14 different colors. Starting with yellow and working through the color wheel to green. Rainbow bright uses all “clear” colors. Blackened rainbow uses the same 14 clear colors only I add black…
I love working with my multi-colored gradated fabric. I feel like I am working with a watercolors palette. One color blends into the next and gives the appearance of depth and dimension to my work that would otherwise look flat and I think a bit less lively. Let me share with you how I often…