International Quilt Festival 2109- Part ONE


This is my 5th year teaching in Houston! What an intense experience this last meeting was.  I met wonderful students, quilters and artists. I also reconnected with friends. I am grateful for the opportunity to teach at this show.

The photograph you see above is my quilt *BLUE* which was a finalist in the contest *The World of Beauty*.

I will share some photographs of the people I met. With early mornings and late nights to prepare for my workshops, I had little time to socialize.


Here I am with Vanessa (first on the left, my traveling pal and dear friend), me, Felice and Mary Ann (new friends I met in Cyber space).

 
I am glad I spent some time with Kate Colleran, who always comes for Market but this time stayed extra days that happened to coincide with my stay.

 
I had the opportunity to meet Ricky Tims, who interviewed me. He has a great personality.


I met sweet Jo Avery. We had great laughs together.

 
Every year I stop at the  French - Quiltmania booth to say hello to Carole (the owner). This time I remembered to take a picture with her. I can't believe it has been 5 consecutive years working with her publishing articles since the release of her magazine Simply Moderne. Currently I am working on next year's article!

 
This is my donation quilt for this year's silent auction, since Quilt Festival celebrated its 45 year Anniversary, I decided to write the word *sapphire* and the number 45 on the background . Of course it is a paper and fabric quilt. It has been made with the technique I developed and named INC (Infused Newsprint Cloth)

 
A picture taken from the second floor to give you an idea how big this show is. It basically occupies the entire Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston..



Some of the Blue and White Exhibit. These quilts look wonderful together!

It is a beautiful feeling when many people show interest to learn from my ideas. I work hard to create projects based on new techniques. My heart smiles when my students immerse themselves and realized they can also create in a different way.

Here are some photographs of my students.






















Houston celebrated *Dias de los Muertos* on November 1. I was lucky enough to pass through the park returning to my hotel and participate for a while in the festivities. The music was fantastic and the show phenomenal. All was in Spanish so I felt right at home !


My heart is content!

I did have time to take photographs of magnificent quilts which I will share in my next post.

International Quilt Festival *CLASSES*

 
 
#713 Cold Foil and Tulle?- International Quilt Festival
Saturday, November 2nd 9-5 pm 
 
CLASS PROJECT 
 
I will teach you how to add metallic color to your fiber art with this unique Cold Foil technique. Combining Deco foil sheet with tulle, make delicate designs for an unusual fish quilt top. Complete your project by adding simple embroidery stitching.
 
(another sample)
 
 
Hand-dyed fabric, tulle, foils, Aurifil threads, mistyfuse and  foil pen is included in your kit.
 
 

#520 Hand Appliqué with Paper and Fabric - International Quilt Festival
Friday, November 1st 9-5pm

 

 
CLASS PROJECT
 
Magazine clippings meet fabric to create this unique fiber art. Learn to stitch on paper as you design, cut, and hand stitch pieces in place. As a bonus, see how to laminate and foil the magazine clippings.


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Magazine clippings ready to laminate and stitch!


 
Hand dyed, silkscreened fabrics, laminated magazine clippings, foils, mixed media sheets and Aurifil thread is included in your kit.
 
 
 #470 Mixed Media Forum * Modeling paste for Art Quilts* International Quilt Festival  Thursday, October 31st  2-5pm
 
 
 
 
I will demonstrate how to apply  light modeling paste to create dimensional accents for your next art quilt as the samples shown above.
 
In this forum five other wonderful mixed media artists will participate: Esterita Austin,Cindy Lohbeck, Nancy Roelfsema, Cecile Whatman and Lori Triplett.
 
I hope you will join me and have fun in my classes. 

Valentine's Card- Thank you

 

 
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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!

*Paper and Fabric Collage*

Hoja
 
This is a paper and fabric mixed media art. I used This technique to appliqué the recycled paper.
 
 
It all started with hand-dyed and hand-printed fabrics. Purple, red and green color dyes has been used for the solid color cloth.

After I designed my own silk-screen, grey was used to imprint the white fabric with lettering. Then, magazine clippings were laminated, cut in the leaf shape and sewn in place by hand.
 

Close up.
I will offer this as a *NEW* workshop.

*My Latest Article with Paper and Fabric* in Quilting Arts Magazine

*Gossip Birds*
a paper and fabric quilt
 
My latest article is out! I am on page 26 in QUILTING ARTS MAGAZINE -April/May 2018- Issue 92.
 
This article is entitled "A Way With Words", and shows on how to incorporate magazine clippings into an art quilt and on how to foil and sew paper on fabric successfully.
 
I had fun using DECO FOIL SHEETS
The best thread to use with paper and fabric quilts is LANA AURIFIL since it is delicate and strong and at the same time leaves bold marks of color and texture. 
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and here it is the article with my quilt!
I hope you try this technique and have as much fun as I did.