Machine pieced and quilted, embellished with beads and buttons. This was a challenging IQI challenge! The busy fabric reminded me of meandering journeys.
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True BlueMargie Trembley
This silk scarf was designed with Gutta Resist in a random flower pattern that I created. I used French silk dyes as my painting medium and painted four times to get the desired color. Silk painting with dyes is a very intriguing process. This silk scarf was “finished” many times but I kept pushing theContinue reading “True Blue
Margie Trembley
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Daiwabo PineMary Wahle
Machine pieced and quilted. English paper piecing and hand appliqué
House on FireMaggie Weiss
Hand dyed and deconstructed silk screened 100% cotton using both dyes and paints. Machine pieced and quilted. Background fabric portrayed a close look at smoke and flames in the aftermath of a relative’s house fire. Fire changes everything.
CrocusMaggie Weiss
Hand dyed background silk fabrics overlaid with commercial black silk fabrics, hand cut and fused, machine quilted. “Crocus” represents my continued explorations in using sheer fabrics to portray shadows and depth on a 2-dimensional surface while celebrating nature.
IrisMaggie Weiss
Hand dyed, stamped and silk screened silk background fabrics overlaid with commercial black silk fabrics, hand cut and fused. Machine quilted “Iris” is a celebration of the vibrant colors of early summer using sheer, hand dyed, and commercial fabrics with hand cutting, fusing and machine quilting.
GoldleafGale Wessel
Fused sheer silks, machine quilting. This piece was created in a Maggie Weiss workshop (“Sheer Bliss”). Winner Choice Award.
Matt’s & Katie’s Wedding QuiltGale WesselGale Wessel
Fused applique, quilt as you go. From the collection of Matt and Katie Wessel.
Earth, Wind & FireGale Wessel
Fused, machine quilted. This piece was created for the NSNG Annual Project: “Earth, Wind and Fire.”
Sunbonnet SistersBarbara Wetzel
Hand embroidered, hand and machine quilted. “Sunbonnet Babies” were first published in the late 1890’s by Bertha L. Corbett and have been widely adapted and varied over the years. These pictures of the “Sunbonnet Sisters” are my adaptation and additions to a 1929 alphabet quilt pattern by Bertha Corbett in a 1989 copy of QuiltContinue reading “Sunbonnet Sisters
Barbara Wetzel
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Nebula Series – #2Luan Wold
Hand painting, turned appliqué, machine quilted, hand-embellished with netting, chenille yarn, sequins and beads. When my daughter showed me some “cool” internet photos of various nebulae and dead stars, I became fascinated with the beauty of the colors and shapes out there in the cosmos.
Evening at BirchwoldLuan Wold
Hand painted fabric, machine embroidered, machine quilted. My husband’s grandfather built two log cabins in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the 1930’s. This is the view from them that is enjoyed every summer evening as the sun gets lower in the sky.