Simply Moderne Magazine Spring 2024

You can learn an easy foolproof technique to add slivers of a contrast color to a curved edge with my latest article published in the French Magazine Simply Moderne. You can find it here.

Detailed photographs for each step will make it easier to follow along.This is an Improv Quilting technique Let me know if you try it :)

Wired Accents for 3-D FUN -Quilting Arts Magazine Spring 2024

Woven metal fabric mesh has been used to add dimension to my work. It’s fun and easy and best of all you can use the sewing machine to attach it! Once you start playing with this new technique it’s difficult to stop. In the photo above the metal mesh has been used inside the flowers. Imagining moving the petals every time you touch it. I am already planning more quilts with butterflies, bees, fish, oh so many ideas :) You can find it here

Visions Museum of Textile Arts →

These are just a few photographs that capture the exciting time we had in San Diego, while participating at the opening events of the exhibit Interpretations. I am honored that one of my quilts was accepted.

I met new friends and saw artists I already knew. It was such a treat to talk only ART for the whole weekend.

They organized it very well. You could feel the warmth from all the ladies in charge and volunteers.

I also met a wonderful artist Gabriela Domville, her work is fantastic. She also likes to work with paper and cloth so we connected immediately. Loved her solo exhibit called Journey through Motherhood.

Just for fun, I applied my washable paper cloth technique to the white linen blouse I wore for the dinner event. Comic strips were used with oval shapes. It was certainly a conversation piece :)

I just finished a sample for a NEW class I am offering. It’s called Portal. It’s a mixed media project where we will play with different kind of papers, markers, cheesecloth and cloth.

Thank you for stopping by.and visiting my site.

Inka Trails *NEW* pattern in the French magazine Simply Moderne

Inka Trails, my latest pattern is out! It has been published in the French magazine Simply Moderne.

The pattern is based on 4 color combinations and a background. For the fisrt block you will need a light and a medium color fabric and for the second block you will need a dark and a medium color fabric. It’s a fun and easy to put together.

This is the cover of the magazine where my quilt pattern appears.

I hope you will try it and please share it #margaritakoriothpattern so I can admire your creations.

Thank you for visiting. Happy creating!

My First Quilt pattern *Midnight Jungle*

This is my first quilt pattern and has been published in the French Magazine Simply Moderne/ Spring Issue 32. You can find all the instructions and step by step starting on page 70. It is an easy design based on half square triangles.

It was also selected to be hang at the show Pour L'Amour du Fil which took place in Nantes-France this past April.

I just came back from Stitch Fest a new quilting and sewing event. I taught a workshop to a wonderful group.

It was fun! I love to teach and travel :)

This is the cover of the magazine where my quilt pattern appears. I hope you will try it and please share it #margaritakoriothpattern so I can admire your creations.

Thank you for visiting. Happy creating!

A Celebration of Earth on Cloth

Let’s celebrate EARTH DAY by using natural earth pigments on cloth

You can learn all about it in my latest article published in the Spring issue of the American magazine Quilting Arts/ Spring Issue.

It’s in there where I show you how to use earth pigments with stencils. It’s easy and very gratifying. On the above photo the eco printed image was applique over earth pigment painted cloth.

This is another example.

silkscreened fat quarters

I couldn’t resist and chose to paint these bottles…. it is a celebration after all!!

A *RED* study quilt

Red is one of my favorite colors. It was a joy to work on this quilt.

It all started with two pieces of art cloth. The one you see above with washable paper-cloth made from recycled newspapers and 4 different color reds: salmon, orange, pink, dark red and light red. And a greenish, white and pale pink colored cloth.

Because I wanted more lettering in my design pieces of laminated magazine clippings were applique in some areas.

Embroidery stitches were applied all over the surface following the shapes originated by the dye. Different color red threads were used.

Only in one area white thread was used.

After all the textured embroidery stitching was done was time to sew the three layers together with the help of the sewing machine. I followed the square shapes and used 100 weight thread.

I love the texture created by the different weight of threads applied by hand and machine and the different texture created by the recycled newspaper, magazine clippings and paint.

Featured Workshops

*Washable Paper cloth* THE WORKSHOP

Let’s recycle paper and create art.

Would you like to learn how to make *washable* paper-cloth with recycled newspapers? This is my original technique to obtain a seamless integration of paper on cloth that you can iron, paint and sew by hand or by machine.
I will be teaching it next year in 2023  at Arrowmont’s School of Arts and Crafts https://www.arrowmont.org/workshops-classes/
It will be held from June 18th to 23rd yup one whole week with me, so you can learn the *nitty gritty* of this technique. The class will be small for only for 10 students. That’s why I am announcing it here, since many of you were interested. You can take advantage of the early registration that opens on December 1st . You can call # 865-436-5860.

What else we will learn?

We will also learn how to create our own fabric paint. It will be formulated for the exact

 color we want. This paint formula can then be used for matching future color project. We will work with our own resist, do repeats and add colored backgrounds. How to cut silkscreens by hand. Then we will learn how to prepare magazine clippings to easily applique by hand on to cloth. The last day we will design a small collage with the paper-cloths we made and sew accented details by hand.

Let me know if you have any questions!