Shabby Chic

Kathleen V. Stuart

Wholecloth on silk dupioni quilted with metallic thread and wool batting. I love wholecloth quilts and silk fabric, so this is an example of how to have both! I’m still working out the problems of working with silk and metallic. This quilt won a teacher’s award at MQS in Kansas City, 2009.

The Garden

Janet Sumner

Bead embroidery, embroidery. This is the finished piece from a class by Lisa Binkley “Exploring Embellishment”. With her guidance we developed design ideas and inspiration.

Octopus’ Garden

Linda Tomkow

Octopuses are amazing creatures – this one is “walking” along the ocean floor among seaweed and maybe some dead corals. (Wet felted, hand dyed blue wool, stuffed octopus.)

True Blue

Margie 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

Magic Vine

Ann Wasserman

Vintage hand-appliqued and hand embroidered quilt top, hand-quilted. I purchased this 1930’s quilt top about 30 years ago, along with enough fabric for the back. The appliqué is incredibly well-done. I designed the quilting and finished the quilt in honor of the anonymous artist who started it.

Flower Bed

Ann Wasserman

Folded fabric, tied, bead and button embellishment. This is one of a series I am making called Something From Nothing. All fabrics and embellishments are scraps and odds and ends.

Deer Creek Fen

Ann Wasserman

Machine appliqué, hand embroidery, machine quilting. This quilt depicts the area where a friend of mine does her zoology research. She sent many photos and I reproduced both the flora and fauna she studies in as much detail as possible.

What the Birds See

Ann Wasserman

Machine applique, machine quilting. This quilt is made from samples of decorator fabrics. The design is a bird’s eye view of the English Walled Garden here at the Botanic Garden.