I just learned that my Yellow Shoes art quilt was selected to be part of the permanent collection of the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University. As I indicated in an earlier blog post, this little 9″ x 9″ quilt will be part of SAQA‘s 2011-2013 This is a Quilt traveling trunk show. The goal of … More Yellow Shoes selected for Kresge Art Museum
This weekend I created a new set of fabric postcards using materials created a while back in a class by Valerie S. Goodwin, an architect and artist whose art is inspired by imagery from maps. In her class, I created a small composition – a street map based on the letter “E”, but never finished it. … More Series-o-matic
My Twig Salad art quilt will be at the Cinema Place Gallery, Hayward California Sept 21 – Nov 12, 2011 Reception Sept 28, 2011 5 -7 pm Gallery Hours: Sunday and Wednesday: Noon – 4 pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday: Noon – 8 pm I’ll be giving a demo of how I make my fabric … More Twig Salad at The QuiltEssential Event
My Marimekko House Quilt will be at the Diablo Valley Quilters Quilt Show September 24-25, 2011 Tice Valley Community Gymnasium 2055 Tice Valley Boulevard, Walnut Creek, California. Click here for directions and information about the venue. Open to the Public Admission is $8.00 Hours: Saturday, September 24th, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Sunday, September 25th, … More Diablo Valley Quilters Quilt Show
Here’s another analogous collage, this time with blues and greens. My process was similar to the red ones I posted earlier today. Some painting, then some collaging, then some stepping back and adjusting. I used some of the painted papers I created in Jane Davies’ online class Unlocking the Secrets of Color in the final stages.
I’m on the home stretch with the Marimekko House Quilt. The top is almost finished. I just need to sew a few more seams in the body of the quilt and add the border with the on-point squares. Here’s a photo of the components pinned to my design wall. As per my usual practice, I’ve … More Marimekko House Quilt – continued
With a little help from my friends. . . I made a few more houses over the last couple days, then started thinking about setting ideas – sashing and borders – to show the blocks to their best advantage. And of course, my cats like to hang out with me while I’m working in my … More More Marimekko Blocks
I created these collages in class last month at East Bay Heritage Quilter’s workshop with Judi Warren Bladen. Judi’s class was based on her new book collage+cloth=quilt The first collage was a quick exercise using copies of photographs provided by Judi. We were asked to create a composition quickly to get warmed up before making … More Collage inspirations
Twig Salad I started this quilt as part of a challenge by The Modern Quilt Guild to create a monochromatic quilt. I played with various options and decided to also add one further challenge for myself: to see if the quilt could meet requirements for the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Sense of Adventure traveling … More Sense of Adventure
I started making fabric postcards several years ago when the Art2Mail fabric swap was first organized through the Quiltart mailing list. I participated in the swap a couple times, then had to drop out due to time constraints. Since then I’ve made fabric postcards off and on as time allowed and whenever the spirit moved … More Art to Mail
Priscilla Read - Art Journey 