Guild Archives

Open Leaf

Linda Tomkow

This piece was made with multiple resists (patterns) that were cut a certain way to reveal the inside layers of wool which became three dimensional.

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

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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.

Cathedral

Ann Wasserman

Machine appliqued, machine quilted. This quilt is one of a series called Something From Nothing, made of decorator fabric samples. The designs of these quilts are all inspired by the prints of the fabrics.

Gas Giant

Ann Wasserman

Machine appliqué. Hand embellishing/tying. Made with decorator fabric samples and odd bits of metal.

Bag Ladies

Bobbye Weisgerber

Crocheted box cover is out of plastic yarn made from plastic bags. Bag ladies are sewn fabric dolls. Faces are needle sculpted then finished using Micron pens and colored pencils.

House on Fire

Maggie Weiss

Hand dyed and deconstructed silk screened 100% cotton using both dyes and paints. Machine pieced and quilted. Background fabric portrayed a close look at smoke and flames in the aftermath of a relative’s house fire. Fire changes everything.

Crocus

Maggie Weiss

Hand dyed background silk fabrics overlaid with commercial black silk fabrics, hand cut and fused, machine quilted. “Crocus” represents my continued explorations in using sheer fabrics to portray shadows and depth on a 2-dimensional surface while celebrating nature.