Book Review # 4

Journey to Inspired Art Quilting by Jean Wells is another book that was added to my library. This book, like her previous ones, has beautiful coloured photos and is an easy read. Jean provides the reader with more design guidelines through the exploration of line and colour as well as new exercises to try. It is strongly encouraged that we take our cameras everywhere!

My camera goes everywhere as you never know what will spark an idea!



Check out some of these Quilt Artists:

Deb Plestid
Melody Johnson
Carol Bryer Fallert
Frieda Anderson
Bonnie McCaffery
Coreen Zerr
Barbara Olson
Laurie Swim
Renske Helmuth
Sandra Meech

Enjoy!

Eye Candy

It's time to relax a bit and look at some fantastic quilted pieces. Here are a few blogs / web sites to explore:

Suzi Cate's blog
Esterita Austin
Quilts, Cake & Other Fun - photos from La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum
Quilt Gallery of Joann Belling
Melinda Bula Designs Gallery and blog
Susan Carlson Quilts
Skydyes Gallery
Norah McMeeking Quilts
David Taylor Quilts
Art Quilts by Laura Wasilowski
Janet's Fiber Artistry News blog - Minnesota Quilt Show 2010
About Quilts

Enjoy!

In Full Bloom!

Recently, I took the In Full Bloom workshop, with Elaine Quehl. Elaine is a quilt artist, teacher and dyer from Ottawa, Canada. This one-day workshop was very relaxing and enjoyable where everyone worked at their own pace. If you ever get a chance to do one of Elaine's workshops, you won't be disappointed. She does have a trunk show where you get to see many of the quilts shown on her web site. They are spectacular in real life! Check out her blog here.

I have no idea when I'll be able to get back to my piece. Having a baby visit for two weeks does not allow time for anything else.

Quilting Blogs

Since I changed the look of this blog, I have had to learn where all the editing/writing tools are. They aren't in the same easy to see places as before. Anyway, enough of that!
I found this site, Quilt Qua, and thought I'd pass it along for you to check out. There's lots of information for quilters as well as 23 pages of quilting blogs and Show & Tell. Lots of things to see and sites to visit on a cold, wintery day! Now, I just wish I had the time to do that. . .
Enjoy!

Houston Quilt Festival

In 2001, I travelled to Houston with some quilting friends to attend the International Quilt Festival. It was one of the best quilt related experiences of my life. I can still picture the hugh conference center filled with quilts and everything related to quilting that a quilter / quilt artist could desire. Each year in November, I think about that trip. I hope to travel there again sometime in the future. Anyway, I always look for postings of the quilts and other art displayed there. It's not as good as been there but it is the next best thing. Check out the following sites:

• Dyed and Gone to Heaven
• Sue Dennis
• Free Spirit Art Studio
• International Quilt Association: A World of Beauty
• Exhibit Highlights with Luana Rubin - part 1 & part 2
• Walks in the Woods with Freda Anderson 
• Judy Coates Perez
• About Quilts
• Kathy York
• Google Search - Images
• Google Search  - Videos

Enjoy!

Canadian Talent # 1

I've decided to dedicate the next couple of posts to listing some of our Canadian textile/fibre/stitching artists. I think it would be well worth your while to check them out.

• The Needle and Thread Network is hosted in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
• Karen Henry
• Bethany Garner
• Valerie Hearder
• Laurie Swim
• Lynne Heller
• Andrea Graham - feltmaker
• Maggie Vanderweit
• Greta Kristiansen-Jacobs - quiltmaker
• Linda Palaisy - embroidery

More to come.
Enjoy!

Sites to Inspire

Do you need some inspiration to get you kick started into creating new works of art? Check out these quilt artists. All of them have one thing in common - their creative use of colourful dyed fabrics.

Wendy Butler Berns
Terry Waldron
Susan K. Cleveland
Mickey Depre
Frieda Anderson
Ann Fahl
Caryl Bryer Fallert
Laura Wasilowski
Michele Hardy
Melody Johnson
Anne Lullie


Enjoy! 
    
  

Kameleon - Norwegian Web Site

I just came across a Norwegian web site called Kameleon. Eldrid Røyset Førde, the owner, is 'a quilter, teacher, and pattern designer who lives on a small island called Bremanger, on the west coast of Norway.' 
She makes wonderful kameleon quilts which have three-dimensional parts that can be flipped one way or the other thus changing the look of the quilt. Her photography is fantastic! She prints some of her photos on fabric to use in her quilted art.
This technique of transferring photos to fabric, is one that I have been using for quite awhile in my framed landscape pieces (go to gallery). 


You can view her web site here. It is worth a visit - very inspiring! Check out the links page too.

Eye Candy

It's time to have a look at some art quilts for inspiration. I've listed a few quilt artists who do interesting work. Enjoy!

Denise Tallon Havlan
Susan Webb Lee
Rose Rushbrooke
Darcy Falk
Frieda Anderson
Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer
Judith Fredmund McIrvin
Marcia Stein
Michele Hardy