Snow-dyed and then stenciled using oil paint-sticks A couple of friends and fellow CQA members met at my home today to do some surface design on fabrics to be donated to Stashfest, a fundraising event to benefit the La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum. Patricia Belyea, on the organizing committee for Stashfest, spoke at our […]
Great news! Today at our Contemporary QuiltArt Association board meeting, I presented the information and ideas for the Mighty Tieton show coming up in May. The board was very excited about the show and potential of concurrent events, and voted to accept Art-Cloth as entries, as well as quilts. Next, I’m going to need to […]
Here in the Northwest, beautiful trees and greenery surround us. Having such a lush environment sometimes makes me a little unaware of the splendor of the amazing foliage I see each day. However, the Pacific Madrona (or Madrone) stands up and screams “Look at me!” The distinctive red-rust bark is noticeable from afar, yet gets even more interesting as you […]
WA State Convention Center I’m spending the day at a Photoshop for Photographers workshop, held in a giant ballroom at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle. I’ve been coming to these specialized training a in Adobe Photoshop for about 12 years now… Generally one happens each per year in Seattle. Some are geared […]
Do you shudder with fear or turn away with disdain when you see a show that has a theme? It seems that many calls to artists request the artwork to meet an aspect of a theme, and some jurors are stricter than others about how closely a piece meets that criteria or not. Moulin Rouge Deux (on […]
Piece I purchased by artist Gwen Lowery Last Friday, a new favorite of mine, fiber artist Gwen Lowery, had a special showing of her work at Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts in La Conner, WA. I became aware of Gwen’s work lately, when I purchased a piece she had made from an auction to support […]
Last night I worked on finishing up the machine embroidered piece I started for my small art-quilt group, the Fiber Funsters. This is the first piece in a series of challenges our group is doing, based on the book Twelve by Twelve: The International Art Quilt Challenge. Each of us in the group will have […]
I promised I’d post pictures of my Viking Apron dress when finished, so here’s the whole costume, as well as my elder son Ryan and younger, Coleman, in their gear. The golden apron dress is made of linen, which I hand-dyed. I purchased the two Turtle brooches from Raymond’s Quiet Press, who makes historical recreations […]
OK, I know this has been done before, in fact it’s been done in a much bigger way that I’m going to suggest. But you have to start somewhere and I know personally what my bandwidth might be able to withstand. I’m so hesitant to type this out… I feel a tightness in my belly… […]
OK, I’m going to be sitting down on Sunday with my Eastside SDA (Surface Design Associates) group, which was formed out of our Washington State SDA symposium which I helped plan last year. This month, our topic is “The Business of Doing Art” and will include goal setting. So, I’ve prepared some questions for us […]
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