Exhibition Year Archives

Give and Take

Bill Keller

Machine pieced, machine quilted (longarm). Created as part of the ‘color collective’. Improvisationally pieced using long verticalcolumns of different widths. Gives a feel of viewing a shady creek.BillKellerQuilts@gmail.com

Bermuda Neopolitan

Bill Keller

Machine pieced, machine quilted (longarm). Started in a virtual class by Brenda GaelSmith. Improvisationally pieced gentlecurves in a limited color palette.BillKellerQuilts@gmail.com

Three Navy Squares

Bill Keller

Machine pieced, machine quilted on domestic machine. This quilt started in class with Cindy Grisdela. I had fun making this. See if you can find the three navy squares.     BillKellerQuilts@gmail.com

Alabama Chanin Do-Over

Valerie Koppenhaver

Dip dying, hand-stitching, fabric paint. This dress, purchased off the internet, featured an electric yellow skirt that was terrible. I dip-dyed the skirt part ONLY and embellished the hem and shoulders with Alabama Chanin techniques inspired from NSNG’s class with our own Bill Keller, using a variety of black and white knits.

Ice-Dyed Chromatic

Valerie Koppenhaver

Ice dying, sewing, machine embroidery 100% cotton sweatshirt fabric was ice-dyed with fiber reactive dyes. Using a freepattern available at Mood Fabrics website, the fabric was converted to wearable art! Machine embroidered leaves that hide in the swatches of color were added for textural interest.

Prairie View

Pat Kroth

Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics, hand-cut, torn, collage. Machine stitched. Hiking on the Ice Age Trail has provided many hours of quiet, colorful inspiration.  

Fiber Optics

Pat Kroth

Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics. Improvisational composition, machine stitched. Fabric, thread, silk, plastic, spools of electrical wire and cable…it’s all fiber to me.

Short Circuit

Pat Kroth

Hand-dyed and commercial fabric, improvisational composition, machine stitched. Working in a fairly improvisational manner, I cut or tear fabric, stitch and celebrate the energy of color and texture.

Source Material

Pat Kroth

Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics. Improvisational composition, machine stitched. I like to reclaim and repurpose cast-off materials. The inspiration for this piece came from my stash of tiny bits. Hence the title Source Material. The commercial upholstery backing pays homage to textile workers.

Downtime

Pat Kroth

Hand-dyed and commercial fabrics. Improvisational composition, machine stitched. Quiet time allows for creative sparks to percolate and ignite.

Summer: Fulfillment

Jana Vander Lee

Tapestry, handwoven. From Hal Borland’s “Twelve Moons of the Year”, a collection of his nature essays from the “New York Times” – “The solstice comes, and all about us is the sense of summer’s foreverness…”

Winter: Duration

Jana Vander Lee

Tapestry, handwoven. “When the night has been too lonely, the path too long – remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow lies a seed that with the sun’s love becomes a blooming rose”, popular song.   

View From Above – Home Sweet Home

Ronna Leibach

Fused and pieced on crinoline, enhanced by machine quilting and luminere paint. Cotton, silk and organza. This was a project from Valerie Goodwin’s class – Favorite Places. Valerie inspired us to use architectural maps and an “aerial” perspective. My home is on the right – the golf course out my window.     

Jumping off Rock, North Carolina

Ronna Leibach

Fused with Steam-a-Seam II. Cotton fabric fused to fabric sandwich. Free-motion quilting over design. After visiting Laurel, NC (near Hendersonville), the beauty of the Smokies and Blue Ridge mountains are inspiring. The protective fencing was art work itself – a sculpture of the mountains.

Moon Over Midnight Garden

Ronna Leibach

Printed fabric, beading over Veltex. Vintage buttons. This was from a beading class taught by Lisa Binkley. The beading was challengingand the “moon” is a vintage button from my mother.