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Hand dyed fabric, machine quilted Fabric was dyed in a gradation from bright yellow to Chinese red.

Printed fabric, machine stitching, hand stitching, printing. I recently did an on-line workshop with Lisa Call, called “Working in a Series”. This is part of that body of work that I created on Hong Kong buildings. Living in Hong Kong part of the year allows me to be able to take some wonderful photos. Jardine’sContinue reading “Jardine House 01

Cindy Kuo

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Printed fabric, machine stitching, hand stitching, printing. I recently did an on-line workshop with Lisa Call, called “Working in a Series”. This is part of that body of work that I created on Hong Kong buildings. Living in Hong Kong part of the year allows me to be able to take some wonderful photos. Jardine’sContinue reading “Jardine House 02

Cindy Kuo

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Printed fabric, machine stitching, hand stitching, printing. I recently did an on-line workshop with Lisa Call, called “Working in a Series”. This is part of that body of work that I created on Hong Kong buildings. Living in Hong Kong part of the year allows me to be able to take some wonderful photos. Jardine’sContinue reading “Jardine House 05

Cindy Kuo

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Hand dyed fabrics, digital print outs, quilting. Until recently, I didn’t realize that what I referred to as the corn cobs was in fact called Marina Tower. To me I have always just called them the Corn Cobs. [Part of the Chicago Icon series]

Hand pieced, quilted. This piece is made to the actual dimensions of the Chicago Flag. It is totally reversible. The front stars are pieced. On the back the stars are fused. [Part of the Chicago Icon series]

Photoshop, digital printing on fabric, hand stitching. Last year I did a piece called Nine Lives. Photos of the 9 cats we have had over the years. This year it was the dogs’ turn. At the start of this project we had 9 dogs spread between my household and the households of my children. WeContinue reading “Nine Loves

Cindy Kuo

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Photoshop, digital printing on fabric, hand stitching. The Chicago Botanic Garden has some wonderful flowers. Each season they change. All these photos were taken of flowers in the Chicago Botanic Garden. I work with them in Photoshop, print them on fabric and then stitch however the flower tells me it wants to be stitched.

Photoshop, digital printing on fabric, hand stitching, quilting, fused fabric, torn strips sewn together to make fabric. My roots play a part in who I am. Although I am an individual, I cannot discount how my ancestors’ hardships and situations in life affect my own life and make up who I am. Whether they wereContinue reading “Rooted By Those Who Came Before

Cindy Kuo

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Layered dryer fabric sheets sewn together and tea dyed; beading, This is a garment that I made and entered into one of the GreenCraft magazines. It is using what you would normally throw away after drying the clothes and turning it into something wearable.

Patchwork, Looking at a colour wheel really puts a big smile on my face. I am working on a series of quilts where I take different patterns from the colour wheel, make 9-patch squares from 2″ squares and then sew those 9-patch squares together. The colour combinations seem to be endless.

Patchwork, Looking at a colour wheel really puts a big smile on my face. I am working on a series of quilts where I take different patterns from the colour wheel, make 9-patch squares from 2″ squares and then sew those 9-patch squares together. The colour combinations seem to be endless.

Piecework, The colours of the Australian outback are extremely vivid. It is a very harsh and unforgiving land but it can also be very beautiful.

Printed fabric, hand stitching, applique, machine quilting From a very young age, red has always been a colour that speaks to me, it makes me happy and just generally good. Marrying into a Chinese family, the colour red came to mean so mcuh more for me. For me it now not only makes me happyContinue reading “Kuo

Cindy Kuo

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Printing on fabric, machine quilting, hand quilting, applique. Viewing the Hong Kong skyline is never complete without a junk floating by.

Patchwork, painting, machine sewing, hand sewing, printing on fabric. This piece was started in a workshop with Valerie Goodwin. I love my time in Hong Kong and walking with my friend and her dogs. Every time I look at this piece I’m reminded of our walks.

Hand knitted using a cotton/linen blend. I loved the colour of this yarn and had to try making some for summer. This is a comfortable top to wear, even when it is hot outside.

Acrylic painting, hand stitching. I painted this piece in a workshop with Shelly Brucar. The colours just screamed at me “landscape” so I went about adding grass and flowers.