Houston International Quilt Festival 2016

Oh I’m happy packing for Houston and finishing the kits for my classes.

 This is a detail of my *Blue Dodo*quilt. It is a finalist in the World of Beauty Contest at the International Festival! For those who don't already know, this is a juried show. I hope to see you there.

*Hand-Embroidered Hug Stitch* WORKSHOP at the International Quilt Festival

Add the *wow* factor to your hand-embroidery with the *Hug Stitch* by using thick chunky threads stitched by hand. This is made almost entirely on top of a previously machine-stitched line with bold wonderful results.
 
*Hand-Embroidered "Hug" stitch* is one of my new workshops that will debut at the International Quilt Festival this coming fall 2016 in Houston.

This workshop will be held on Thursday November 3rd. from 9 to noon.CLASS 447
Each student will create one of the butterflies from the picture shown above. 
I hope you will join me. I would love to meet you. Let me know if you have any questions.
You can read HERE the other workshop I'm offering also at the Festival.

*String Painting on Fabric* WAX PASTELS ON FABRIC WORKSHOP at the International Quilt Festival

Have you ever wanted to imprint lines randomly on fabric? Use *wax pastels* and learn how to set this versatile medium.
 
*String Painting on Fabric* is one of my new workshops that will debut at the International Quilt Festival this coming fall 2016 in Houston.

This workshop will be held on Thursday November 3rd from 2 to 5pm. CLASS 487
Each student will create this simpler version of the first figure shown above. 
After the painting is finished, we will add simple and yet dramatic hand-embroidery stitches.
 
I hope you will join me. I would love to meet you. Let me know if you have any questions.
You can read HERE the other workshop I'm offering also at the Festival.

Creating Texture on a Paper and Fabric Quilt with Aurifil Threads

 
*Flowers for Sophia*- a newsprint infused paper and fabric quilt (32 inches by 30 inches)
 
From the picture below you can see how the quilt started. The flowers where painted over an infused newsprint fabric. It looked nice but flat, so I decided to go to my drawer where I keep my threads and..
 ..chose Aurifil 28w thread for machine stitching....
..and12w thread for hand embroidery. Then I applied some seed beads.

I love how the different thickness of threads with a combination of simple stitches made the quilt *sing* creating texture and dimension.


 I'd love to spark your creativity at one of my *Workshops: Painting and learning how to work with paper and fabric*

And you can watch the videos on how I made one of my paper and fabric quilts with the links below:

  How I did my Quilt *Orange Blossoms* 

                    How I did my quilt *Orange Blossoms* 2