Working on sample of True Triangles I’ve had some wonderful comments on my Salsa blocks, as well as a few questions on how I did certain aspects, including my background of my most recent block, Chili Pepper. Today, I’m going to go over the triangles freemotion quilting design. Practice and notes from my sketchbook […]
Christina’s Salsa quilt (in progress) I don’t know about you, but I generally have too much on my design wall… and sometimes the things that are up aren’t what I’m currently working on! Not only am I working on finishing up my Salsa Quilt, I have my Waterfall colorplay quilt, my little “Waiting” piece, and […]
Years back, I never used a design wall. I might sketch out a design on graph paper or in my sketchbook, but then I pretty much just went with it and constructed as close to what I’d drawn as I could. It certainly is possible to get a good result from that… but it’s kind […]
I’ve decided to open a “Design Wall Weekend” link party each week for Fiber and Mixed Media of all sorts. You might notice a couple new tutorials I just posted to help out anyone who is interested in participating in the link party. “Waiting for Inspiration” by Carolyn Hitter I think that it’s best […]
“Chili Pepper” by Christina Fairley EricksonFreehand machine embroidery with decorative stitching and freemotion quilting Make sure to check out the start of my Design Wall Weekends Blog Link Party coming Saturday April 6! Well, I finally finished up my final 5 x 7″ block for the Salsa Quilt. I had some fun with this and […]
Waiting by Charo Lopez My small art-quilt group, the Fiber Funsters, met yesterday with our every-other month challenge. We take turns choosing a theme. This time, Charo picked “Waiting” for us to interpret. Charo’s piece, left, features her cat gazing out the window at little birds and bugs made from beads, buttons, and embroidery. The […]
Christina standing below hand-dyedembroidery threads I’m back from five days in “stitch heaven” with Gail Harker. The class, “Experimental Hand Stitch” focuses on Procion MX dyeing of embroidery thread and a wool/acrylic felt to stitch on, and then learning some of the basic embroidery stitches and how to use them in a contemporary context. My […]
Wow… another fantastic day of mostly working with Procion MX dyeing at the Gail Harker Center for Creative Studies. To be completely honest, I’m pretty tired… this can be hard work. So, I’m going to keep it short and sweet tonight, and just put up some images and descriptions of the processes and projects we […]
I spent the day literally dyeing to embroider… yes, I am anxiously awaiting getting down to stitching, but I mean “dyeing” with an “e” in it. Rather than using all commercially available embroidery floss, we spent the day making our own threads, for the first of 5 days in “Experimental Hand Stitch” at the Gail […]
I spent a little time this past weekend preparing some more fabrics to sell at Stashfest, as a donation to both the La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum and the Contemporary QuiltArt Association. These pieces were mostly started at our CQA meeting playdate, where we got together to create fabrics for this fun event. This […]
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