NSNG – Page 86 – Fine Art of Fiber

Crewel Garden
Gale Wessel

Hand stitching, couching, crewel embroidery, few beads. I made this piece of crewel embroidery back in the 1970s from a kit. For forty years I’ve been trying to think of what to do with it until this challenge forced me to make it work.

Happy Quilts
Hedy Wessel

Machine pieced, machine quilted, all 100% cotton. When I saw a photo of a quilt with similar diamond shaped pieces on the internet, I decided to make one myself and used left-over pieces of fabric from other projects and picked out colors that would make a ‘happy’ quilt. I added the side pieces as aContinue reading “Happy Quilts

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Birds of Film
Hedy Wessel

Machine pieced, machine quilted, all 100% cotton. My son’s trip to Alaska inspired these two ‘birds on film’ hangings. He saw a large quilt on display at a quilt shop there and was impressed with the black and white borders (35 mm film strips) around the pictures. He took a photo of that quilt andContinue reading “Birds of Film

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Intersection
Gale Wessel

Machine pieced and quilted. This quilt is dedicated to the memory of Gale Wessel. Gale’s leadership qualities and calm demeanor as co-chair of this show (FAOF) were admired and appreciated by all those involved in the show. This was her favorite quilt and was an original pattern. Her love and use of color is veryContinue reading “Intersection

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BIG
Gale Wessel

Pieced, fused, quilted. Whether you call it Sears or Willis, it’s just BIG [Part of the Chicago Icon series]

Urban Landscape
Gale Wessel

Machine quilted. This quilt was made for my “city niece”, Beth, and her significant other, Nathan, for their wedding. The strips in the middle represent buildings reflected in the lake and the squares on the edge represent city windows.

Madeline Island
Gale Wessel

Fused & machine quilted. I went to a class on abstract design at Madeline Island School of the Arts and this was the result. It represented the island and the windows of our cottage.

After the Harvest
Gale Wessel

Fused & machine quilted. After the farmers mow and bale the hay, the fields glow in shades of gold.

Grandson’s First Five Years
Hedy Wessel

Handmade, machine quilted on a simple Singer machine on my own. Description of the wall hanging: 16 snapshots and photos were prepared (cropped, etc.) to fit into center of each “Ohio Star” pattern, using “Printed Treasures” printable fabric. The colors of stars are matching clothes or toys of my grandson, Sean, in each picture. ItContinue reading “Grandson’s First Five Years

Hedy Wessel

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Nebula Series – #2
Luan Wold

Hand painting, turned appliqué, machine quilted, hand-embellished with netting, chenille yarn, sequins and beads. When my daughter showed me some “cool” internet photos of various nebulae and dead stars, I became fascinated with the beauty of the colors and shapes out there in the cosmos.

Evening at Birchwold
Luan Wold

Hand painted fabric, machine embroidered, machine quilted. My husband’s grandfather built two log cabins in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the 1930’s. This is the view from them that is enjoyed every summer evening as the sun gets lower in the sky.

The Rising
Luan Wold

Machine pieced; hand embroidered, embellished with beads. This was made during the 2017 “Women’s March” and reflects the changing role of women over time; women giving women “a hand up” and the struggle against gender discrimination. It is unfinished along the top edge because “the work” is…unfinished. Design Source – Original design.