*International Quilt Festival -Houston- Classes*
*Improv Half Square Triangle*
is the class I will teach this year at
Houston Quilt Festival
.
Do you want to try something different? Do you want to play outside the box?
With just a few materials you can easily add a POP of color to your quilt blocks. This is an ideal way to use up leftover fabric from other projects and create an entire new quilt. The design possibilities are endless. It’s a perfect technique for working in small spaces.
We will paint a detail on a white piece of cloth and combine it with a colorful fabric to create our block. Basic instructions will be given and each student can create their own design. Lots of fun!
One of the materials required for class is a a small set of paints. It costs $8.50 and if you call the store 800-228-9393 they will not charge you shipping and you pick it at their booth at Festival. Ask for MKINKKIT or tell them is for my class; they will know :)
Here are other design possibilities:
Let me know if you have any questions. I hope to see you there!
My latest Article in *Quilting Arts Magazine*
*Vibrant and Bold*
My latest article is out in Quilting Arts Magazine Fall 2021. It's in there where I show you how to use Infusible Ink to color polyester sheets.
I am on page 112. It is a neat technique to achieve vibrant colors.
Just recently, after this article was wrote, sadly the company discontinued the production of the light mixed media sheets. Don't despair, I found alternatives, please read below:
for an opaque effect I used Medium Weight Interfacing
Just followed the same instructions written on the article and you will achieve wonderful bold colors.
Let me know if you have any questions and I hope you will try this new technique and have as much fun as I did.
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Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild Workshops
I had the pleasure to spent the last three days with the Quilt Guild from Ann Arbor.
It is always fun to find quilters that are willing to think outside the box and explore different materials to be included in their art other than fabric.
They chose two workshops: Instant Paper-Cloth and Applique with Paper and Fabric. Also my Lecture *The Odd Couple-Paper and Fabric in Quilts*
Even though this was a virtual event we felt the good energy, working all together from the comfort of our own home.
I am grateful for this experience.
Temperature Quilt with *Paper + Paint and Cloth*
After 365 blocks each sized 2 1/2 inches, my temperature quilt is finally done! Finished size 33" by 62".
Here are the details.
When I read about the call from Modern Guild to create an exhibit of temperature quilts for QuiltCon 2022 I started to investigate. After reading and seeing beautiful quilts I decided to make one. Of course I had to put a twist on it. I challenged myself on doing a pieced quilt with paper + paint and cloth.
I found this chart and began mixing my paints to match the colors. I didn't use all and modify some.
After the paint was ready I cut out the little squares of white fabric and INC (infused newsprint cloth). I purposefully omitted newspapers from the year 2020. Needless to say we've all had a rough past year and I simply did not want to include negative news.
I then drew the screens to complete each block. It took me about a week to come up with the final designs.
I worked with 14 blocks at a time to be organized and not get confused.
The blocks were trimmed and sewn together. Because the blocks were painted I couldn't put pins to aid me in my task. Pins would have left a nice hole mark on the fabric. Instead I used clips shown below - they worked wonderful.
After sewing 14 blocks I started to assemble the quilt by putting the rows together until the quilt top was done.
For the backing fabric I wanted to record the city and the year of this temperature quilt. Tiles were painted with the letters of my city which is Collierville and the year 2020.
The three layers were put together and quilted in my home sewing machine. I had to be careful and go very, very slow since the quilt had been painted and infused with newspaper. Mistakes couldn't be made. Talk about pressure!!
After the three layers were sewn together it was time to finish with a binding. I love stripes so I painted stripes using the same paint colors I used on the blocks.
Here is a close-up of the binding in place.
A few other close-ups...
We are at the end of January, it's winter time where I live. Because the paper-cloth is washable and pliable I can use my new quilt to keep me warm!
I am glad I challenged myself to create something outside of my comfort zone. And do you want to know something I discovered along the way? I love piecing!!! :)