Guild Archives

Excerpt from “Advice from a Raindrop”: “Think you’re doomed to disappear, just one small voice among millions? That’s no weakness. That’s your wild card. They won’t see you coming until you’re there, in their faces, shining, just one small part of a storm that changes everything.” – Kim Stafford

Snippets of fabrics dot the sky and ground; wool roving and Angelina were needle felted to the background and free motion long arm quilting holds all fibers in place.

Wool applique using pearl cotton creative stitching on woven cotton background. Wool applique using pearl cotton creative stitching on woven cotton background. Freemotion machine quilted. Sue Spargo Stitch Along

This design began with roving and thread. The roving is needle felted to fabric, along with various yarns and fibers. Next the floral designs were free motion stitched with thread and the design was free motion quilted to hold all the fibers in place. This original design is composed of complimetary colors blue and orangeContinue reading “Deep Ocean Choreography

Kathy Downie

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Hand dyed and discharged focal fabric, machine piecing, ric-rac accent, and free motion machine quilting. This is our side of the wall, I wonder what is on the other side.

Spontaneous hand weaving producing a sense of calm and natural imagery.

Sunset falling into the Pacific horizon. Machine pieced and hand guided long arm quilted.

Needlefelted roving, yarn & angelina. Couched yarn around circles & free motion zig zag to make disc shapes. Inspired by circles, this piece was crated by needle felted roving & yarns and couched yarns around the disc shapes. The name came as inspiration from the result.

Needle felted roving & yarns and thread painted flower. This piece was created by needlefelted roving and yarns, and thread painted fuschia plant against a cloudy blue sky.

Painted tree, needlefelted leaves, free motion quilted background. Looking up through the painted tree canopy, faint moonlight shimmers on the needlefelted leaves & filters down to be viewed by the people on earth below.

Pieced, hand appliqué, free motion quilting. Needle turn appliqué flowers, surrounded by pieced blocks & free motion quilted to resemble diamond shaped mosaic tiles.