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.
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Shabby Chic
The GardenJanet 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’ GardenLinda 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 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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Magic VineAnn 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 BedAnn 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.
Cleopatra’s FanAnn Wasserman
/ IQI Machine applique and machine quilting.
Deer Creek FenAnn 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 SeeAnn 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.