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Hand dyed and commercial fabrics, machine embroidered, machine quilted and hand beaded. The petals on the beaded sunflowers were cut out one at a time and hand dyed by the artist. The background fabric was hand dyed, by I believe Robbi Ecklow. It has “mellowed” in my stash for so long, I can’t remember anyContinue reading “Jezebel and her Sunflowers

Virginia Cruz Carlson

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Machine & hand fabric manipulation, including yarns; machine quilted & hand beaded. I ran across a writing that touched me deeply – it did not indicate who the author was…not even anonymous. “Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.” I had toContinue reading “Season of Singing

Virginia Cruz Carlson

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Commercial fabrics raw edge appliqué, couching yarns, metallic threads; and miscellaneous objects. This piece was the epitome of “when life hands you scraps, make a quilt.” Even the frog button I used is a bit less than perfect, but then do we always get “perfect” scraps from life? Yet, you can see that each bitContinue reading “Complexity—Life on Many Levels

Virginia Cruz Carlson

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Commercial fabrics, batik & hand dyed velvet by the artist. Machine quilted & appliquéd, couched yarn for bottom side of binding & hand beading. This was my first thought of how life gives you “Ups and Downs” and how fantastic the process seems when you are on the Up side!

Commercial fabrics, fabric paint embellishment. Machine appliquéd, couched yarn, ribbon & hand beading. Coming home from work on a warm day, I saw a storm approaching as I was nearing my home. I was in awe of how ominous it looked and how it made me feel. I wanted to express that with motion ofContinue reading “Storm

Virginia Cruz Carlson

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Free motion Machine sketching & paint & color pencil. When looking at architecture – wouldn’t it be great if we could see the light in the grayest of places?

Mixed Media: fiber, glass beads, paint, wire metallic thread; machine quilted and hand beaded Sunflowers are such happy things. Even when you portray them in abstract, they still seem to smile at you.

Hand painted on muslin, gold foiled, thread painted, hand applied yarn, copper wire and hand beaded ceramic beads; original poetry by daughter I am always fascinated by how different the sky looks at different times of day and on different days! I always feel the awesomeness of God and feel the Love He has forContinue reading “Seasons of the Day

Virginia Cruz Carlson

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Mixed Media: handpainted on canvas and hand thread painted; hand quilted “Twighlight” has so many cool values. Created in paint and thread was the best way I found to interpret the feelings. An oxymoron, twilight may not be clear, but the feelings it evokes are—hence the original spelling.