Teaching engagements

 


*Faux Bleached Painted Cloth* it's what I am going to teach at the Creative Variety Forum at the Virtual Quilt Festival on June 18th! You can see live this technique from start to finish.

What it's so nice about the Forum is that you will have 5 teachers in total presenting different topics each and at the end you have the opportunity to ask as many questions as you want. I am very excited because I am in very good company.

Talking about teaching, a couple of weeks ago I finished teaching two days with two different groups at the Modern Guild of Memphis. I suggested different topics and they chose the six hours workshop *Printing Bliss*. It was fun since I belong to that guild and gave me the opportunity to get to know better some of the members that sometimes we only greet at the meetings and don't have the time to have a good conversation. 

Here are some photos...





Most of them didn't know anything about silkscreening at the beginning of the day then they went home with a stack of a variety of silkscreened designs, learned how to do the *Surprised Printing*  and also learned how to cut their own screens by hand. This is a very complete workshop. I am grateful for the chance to show my group my love of painting on cloth.

It is Summer where I live...that means that I am outside in my garage painting and this year I am trying something very different, I will share more in my next posts, well if I have time to write HA if I can stop the fun!

*Sheer Paper-Cloth* Ornaments

*Bell Tents*

On the 15th year of the ANNIVERSARY issue of quilting Arts Magazine , under my article entitled *Sheer Paper-Cloth*, I demonstrate how to make a pliable and soft material that is easy to sew by hand or by machine. It was also demonstrated on Quilting Arts TV - episode 2106.
 
This technique is good not only for making art quilts, but also to make ornaments to decorate the house, especially now that we are in the Holiday season.
 
Once you have your paper-cloth ready, follow the next instructions to make a "bell tent":
 
1) Cut one piece from Sheer Paper-Cloth and iron interfacing in the back.



2) Draw and cut the pattern below from copy paper.
3) Trace the pattern on the right side of the Sheer Paper-Cloth (I usually use a mechanical pencil for this task but for this demonstration I used a black marker). Make sure you leave 1/2 inch of bottom border.

4) Cut circles from the contrast color areas of the Sheer Paper-Cloth and paste them with glue as shown
 
5) Select a dark color of 28w Aurifil cotton thread and load your sewing machine. Choose a free motion foot and drop the feed dogs.
 
6) Sew on the 1/2 inch space you left at the bottom of your traced shapes as shown in the picture below to go from shape to shape.
 
7) Select Aurifil Lana 12w thread for your hand embroidery. I love the bold marks these threads leave with simple stitches.
 
8) Once finished, cut around each shape.
 
9) Sew from the top dot to the straight edge. When you are ready to sew the third piece fold the opposite side as shown below (side view).
 
10) (Top view) You can see below the left side already sewn on both sides. It is folded to make room for sewing the right and third side.
 
11) After having finished sewing with your machine, each top side should look like this. Starting and/or stopping at the dots. Leave a small opening.
 
12) Cut a 14 inch long piece of thread. Tie up a jingle bell with a knot in the middle.
 
13) With the help of a tweezer pass both threads from the inside through the middle hole. It helps to rest the jingle bell at the edge, as shown in the picture, to have the right length of the thread.
 
14) Insert a little button on the top. Make a doble knot and apply a drop of rubber cement to the back.
 
15) Now that you know how to make one *Bell Tent*, why not make more and share them with your family and friends to spread some cheer throughout the season?
 

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*Quilting Arts Magazine*...my latest article

 
My newest article appears on page 22 of the latest Quilting Arts magazine February/March 2020 issue. Here I show how to do *cheesecloth skins*, a technique I have been using for years in my work.
 
 
Learn how to work with this translucent overlay. This issue is packed with many ideas on how to use unusual materials in your art quilts.
 

This is the cover photo. Art by Jill Kerttula.
 
 


*NEW Article* and Part Two of the International Quilt Festival

 

 
My latest article is out. I am on page 51in the magazine Quilting Arts December 2019/January 2020. In my article I show you how to make an inexpensive and durable stencil so you can add a new layer of color of a polka dot design to commercial or hand-dyed fabric.
 
Photographs above shows samples of dotted fabrics and the cover of the magazine.
 
Now, as I promised...Eye Candy from the International Quilt Festival:

 
 
Being and Time by Natalia Lashko
 
 
Detail- Edo Spring by Masako Sakagami
 

Texas boy with Fish by Carolyn Skein
 

Last Huntly Aberdeenshire by Kathy Whitby
 
 
Foxgloves at Widnsor by Sandra Mollon
 

Hanok by Mikyung Jang
 

Two Friends by Gabrielle Panquim 
 

Jubilation by Ellen Lindner
 

The Sum of Seasons by Chang Misum
 
 

These two last quilts by my dear friend Vanessa. I am so proud of her! She has a
wonderful BLOG
 

From the exhibit *Quilting as Therapy* Behind the Mask by Glena Gordon

You can read more of Quilt Festival HERE
 
Go and visit Off the Wall links for more eye candy!

Valentine's Card- Thank you

 

 
close up
 
Robbie, a reader sent me this gorgeous card for *Valentine's Day* . She used one of my techniques. This was published in Quilting Arts Magazine

I love how she combined the magazine clippings with the Foil and the beads! Her words written inside touched my heart. Thank you!

You can see more of her art adventures here :blog

Give a hug!

My latest *Article* in Quilting Arts Magazine

My latest article was recently published in Quilting Arts Magazine August/September 2018.
I am on page 84. With this article you will learn how to
make textured embellishments with modeling paste and paint. Now you can match your embellishments, shapes and colors!!



I hope you will try this technique out and have as much fun as I did.