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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.

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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!!! :)

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*New* Year, *New* challenges

It's a New Year! This time of the year always makes me reflect and think where I am in my life and how this influences my art.

It is always part of a story in progress. I try to use materials in a different way, a way that stretches me in different directions.

I love to challenge myself. And this year will be no different. With all that is happening in the world my need for art has substantially increased.

Currently I am working on a *pieced* quilt, yes it is my first time working with little pieces of fabric. The next picture  shows one third of the quilt. It still is a work in progress. It is composed of 365 little squares. If you do a search online about *Temperature quilts* you will see hundreds of beautiful designs; mine is made from paper, paint and cloth!

The picture above shows a finished pillow based on my workshop *Surprise Printing on the Go* -a portable painting technique.

Do you feel the need to do more art as well?

Temperature Quilt with *Paper + Cloth + Paint*

 I made this short video to show how I started a temperature quilt. I was going to do it from November 2020 until November 2021 but then decided to include only this year. 

I am using: paper (INC infused newsprint cloth-washable paper-cloth), cloth and paint.

Luckily, you can easily find online the temperature records from any city and or year. It's a challenge since I usually don't do piecing in my work; each block is 2 1/2 inches square but It's exciting at the same time because nature decides which colors to use. At the end it will be a nice surprise when the 365 squares are going to be sewn together.

I am enjoying the slow process.

Have you ever done a temperature quilt? 

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