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| "Flight of Beauty" Lorna Tiller |
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| Broderie Perse technique Ardy Tobin |
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| "River of Gold" Jo Hathcock |
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| "Bargello Bay" Lorna Straka |
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| "Lighted Mountains" Rita Stevens |
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| "Serenity Sings the Moon over the Mississippi" Karel Hendee |
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| "Resilience of McCarthy Creek" Karel Hendee |
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| "Kool in Ketchikan" Fabric collage technique Ingrid Cattaneo |
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| Challenge Name: City Scapes "Genesis" Ruth Robinson There is a hidden braille message in the crystal lights that light up the building, Genesis 31:49 21" x 16 1/2" This will be donated to a school for the blind in Loomis, CA |
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| "Los Angeles" Michelle Peerson View of Los Angeles from the east looking west, with the Los Angeles river in the foreground and the city scape in the background. The new downtown LA is an urban center that burns brightly with new energy. 17" x 20" |
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| "Deco City" Ardy Tobin This piece grew from an online Quilt University class called "Good Bye to the Grid" taught by Dena Crain. Started with 5 pieces of tracing paper, drawing horizontal lines on one, vertical lines, diagonal lines, circles and squiggles on the other four. Then layered them to see what kind of design emerged, turning the tracing paper in different directions. 19 1/2" x 21 1/2" |
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| "Cinq Motifs des Rues a Lyon" Kate Grant While on a walking tour of the historic section of Lyon, France, I was struck by the design of the manhole and drain covers in the streets. Each design inspired me to use a different construction technique or embellishment--weaving fabric strips, stenciling onto the fabric, couching braid, embroidering and piecing by making templates of a design. 22" x 30" |
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| "Sydney Harbor" Norma Keeley Inspired by my photograph of the Sydney Opera House, my challenge was to replicate the photo in a quilt. 28" x 18" |
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| Challenge Name: Shiny Shit "Iron Galaxy I" Linda Waddle A large stash of iron paraphernalia in our garage made for an interesting "rusting" technique for this piece. This quilt borrowed gears & washers which were rusted to fabric and used as stamps. The background is rusted grills & paintstick rubbings. 34" x 29" |
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| "Singapore Sling Bling" Ingrid Cattaneo This piece was inspired by the silk fabrics purchased in Singapore. Fabrics from the Bahamas and Hawaii are also included. Beading, hot-fix crystals, beaded woolly elements add texture and shiny bling. 19 1/2" x 34" |
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| "Shadows & Shine" Patricia Porter Silk gold fabric, satin silver fabric, blue ribbon, printed gray, gold & white cotton fabric and handmade white paper made for a fun mixture of different textures. 38" x 24" |
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| "Miracle Grow" Lorna Straka Inspiration for this piece came from Valerie Hearder's book, Landscape Quilts. After making 7 shiny hills, I decided that one hill needed an out house. This is the hill where all the shiny flowers grow, hence "Miracle Grow" Along the side is shiny sewage spewing (made with hundreds, and hundreds of beads). 24" x 18" |
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"Eclipse"
Heidi Emmett
12 1/2" x 12 1/2"
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"Butterfly Effect"
Lin Schiffner
Butterflies were constructed using Inn-spire which gave the butterflies 3-dimensional viewing. "If the flutter of a butterfly's wings can change the weather on the other side of the world, just imagine what you can do to make the world a better place. The sky's the limit!"
12 1/2 " x 25 1/2”
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| "Shiny Things" Edith V. Gregersen I didn't think I had many shiny things until I looked in my special fabric drawer. I found a lot! It was fun to create a base and build it up with shiny materials. (the "shit" part came when I broke 4 needles trying to sew it to the back ground! 29" x 22" |
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| Challenge Name: Underwater "Mermaid's Retreat" Cathy Stone "Fibreart Montage" by Judith Baker Montano was the inspiration for this piece. Using batik background, tulle, hand-dyed cheesecloth, beads, shells, ribbons, hand embroidery, and anything I could find that would work. Also used was Susan Carlson's method of mounting onto a stretched canvas frame. 15" x 19" |
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| "Undersea Secrets" Patti Henderson Hand-dyed velour, cotton-dyed and stamped silks and netting. Also used were metallic threads and needle felting technique. Favorite material used was luscious Black Magic Persian yarn. 36 1/2" x 24 1/2" |
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| "Lost Reef" Gloria Fickle 21" x 17" |
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| "Underwater Kelp Forrest" Robin Hart A trip years ago to the Monterey Bay Aquarium was the inspiration for this piece. Cotton batiks, wool batting, metallic threads and yarn, and jewel embellishments were used for the fish eyes. In my challenge project, I have tried to capture the feeling of an underwater kelp forest with its gentle swaying kelp plants and the marine life that coexists within it. 26 1/2" x 50" |
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| "Big Star Maiden" Sandra Bruce Alexander Calder's "Star Maiden" statue at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, CA was the inspiration for this underwater challenge. After photographing the statue with my cell phone, I spent the most time of all creating the art in Adobe Illustrator using quite a few layers and transparencies. 35" x 62" |
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| "Gentleness and Grace" Karla Rogers A Susan Carlson's collage technique inspiration. Seahorses exude a grace and gentleness in motion. "Hippo Campus" became my friends while studying them in college. This quilt is a reminder of those days of joyfully observing their species and also to remind me to "Let your Gentleness be evident to all" (Philippians 4:5) 16" x 24" |
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"The 12 x 12's"
ARTful Women Contemporary Fabric Artist
Pam Berry, Jo Hathcock, Joan Dyer, Sandra Poteet, Ann Sanderson, Lin Schiffner,
Gail Sims
Group Challenge "Things That Come in Fours"
Thirty-three 12 x 12 blocks represents this group challenge. The goal was to create a compilation work that can be hung in a myriad of configurations according to the space it's in and the inspiration of the artist hanging it.
Squares come with four corners. With a couple of exceptions, each 12 x 12 is a large square with a smaller square anchored in a corner.
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| "Fire Dance" 2nd. place at the Pine Tree Quilt Guild 2012 Show: Art-Innovative Intermediate Linda Taylor |
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| Ruth Robinson: Samples from classes. |
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| Dee Jones' Mini Group Samples: Experimenting new techniques. |
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| Janene Powell: Original design (in progress) baby quilt. |
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| Ingrid Cattaneo: "Maui Sunshine" Fabric collage pattern from Susan Carlson. |
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| Lorna Tiller "Japanese Treasure Dragon" 33"x44.5" Challenge Name: No Straight Lines "Using the collage technique for the first time in a class, I opened up to a whole new world of using tiny pieces of a multitude of different fabrics. Almost everything on the quilt was a first to me including the tulle and beading." |
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| Karel Hendee "Garden Blessing" Winner of My Favorite Interpretation of the Theme and Outstanding Use of Color. Size: Triptych. Challenge Name: How Does Your Garden Grow? "I tried to vary my quilting stitches from what I learned in Cathy Stone's machine quilting class. Hand-painted silk, cotton fabrics, cotton batting and decorative threads were used." |
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| Patricia Porter "Spinning a Rose" 22" x 30.5" "I cut out graphic shapes from hand-dyed cotton to create the large rose. I satin stitched each shape to the background fabric creating abstract rose petals. I attached colorful wool yarns in a circular pattern on top of the rose petals. Wool batting, hand-dyed cotton and commercial Shot cotton fabrics, multicolored cotton threads, wool and polyester yarns were use. |
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| Sandra Bruce "My Imaginary Garden" 39" x 53" "I wanted to try using Spoonflower to print my artwork on fabric, so I created this image from flowers that I created with brush and ink. I do not have a green thumb but these flowers will last! Cotton fabric from Spoonflower, Dream cotton batting and muslin back. Thread is all Perma Core" |
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| Jeanie Ferguson "Orthoptera Caelifera" 7.75" x 14" "My daughter studied entomology and taught it in 4-H. Cotton fabrics, Thermore batting, Mettler and DMC threads were used. Techniques used were needle-turn applique, hand quilting, hand embroidery and Tsukineko inks for shading. Creative Opportunities: framing and padding the quilt for a different effect. |
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| Lorna Straka "Weeds" 11" x 17" "A weed is simply a flower that hasn't reached it's full potential" My beautiful garden has been neglected and turned to weeds. I like to see the potential that hides within. I used scraps of trim purchased at Fab Mo to create a garden scene. |
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| Maureen Garrison "My Rose Bushes" 12" x 12" "When I lived in Alta Sierra, I grew 48 rose bushes and trees. One spring I decided to see how many rose buds were being produced, so I started counting. I was about 2/3rd. of the way through when I stopped counting, I had reached 640 rosebuds. Cotton fabric/cotton threads/cotton-silk batting/canvas backing and Fast Grab Tacky glue were used." |
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| Edith Gregerson "Great Grandmother's Flower Garden" "I started making paper pieced colored fabric hexagons several years ago. After making a hundred of them I changed my idea and drew a design because I like the flowers I had created. Soon I realized I needed more interest and added a fence to the design. Cotton fabrics, threads in a variety of colors and batting were used." |
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| Karel Hendee "Working Hands" "I quilted some with first layer of batting then quilted more with a second layer of batting to create a more uniform look. Hand-painted silk, cotton fabric, cotton batting and decorative threads were used." |
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| Linda Waddle "Dahlias in My Garden" "This began as white fabric-stamped in black with a large dahlia stamp. Dyed painted grasses and sponge painted sky. Stamped, stenciled, screen printed flowers with dyes and paints. Hand painted into stamps. Fabric markers, threads, dimensional paint. Pimatex cotton, Procion dyes, opaque and transparent fabric paints. Rayon and trilobal polyester threads were used." |
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| Darlynn Evans "Fruit of the Vine" 35" x 42" "This is the second quilt I made using the radiating picture technique inspired by Katie Pasquini Masopust's book. I dyed my fabric except for the purple on the grapes and border and the multicolor orange used on some leaves. I used an orange gradation dyeing technique to get the orange backgrounds and used the darkest in the front. Mostly my own hand-dyed cotton fabrics, wool batting, Madeira poly-neon quilting threads were used" |
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| Lindsay Ostrom "Mary, Mary" "I drew her with PITT pens onto the muslin, then colored with Prismacolor pencils and heat set. I wanted to attempt beading, so I added flowers to the grass in beads. Another technique was wire and fabric wrapping from Jennifer Swift's book "Creative Bloom". This was my first try and I will say my fingers got poked a lot and I'm not sure I would do it again. Muslin, Faber Castel PITT pens, colored pencils, glitter, rusty wire, embroidery floss, bamboo batting, class beads, mushroom birds and pink vintage hanger were used." |
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| Jo Hathcock "Springs First" 12" x 12" "I used an old original tulip painting to make a printed fabric design. Loved the way it turned out. Scraps, fusing, colored pencils, painted fusing, original photography print were used." |
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| Sandra Bruce "Big Buddha" 40" x 50" Challenge Name: Layers and Shadows "This is an image I created some time ago and has been a favorite of mine as I love Buddhas. It was a challenge deciding how to handle quilting the face without it being too distracting. I did all the quilting on my long-arm except the black outline which I did on my Bernina for purposes of precision. I like the idea of creating shadows and layers with the image and not necessarily literally with layers of fabric. Cotton fabric, Spoonflower, Dream cotton batting. Permacore and monopoly threads and glass beads were used." |
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| Pat Gillings "Reflections of Things Past" Winner of Best Original Design 21"x 23.5" "I have wanted to create a blend of photographs & sheers to create a unique meld. I have always loved architecture and the ethereal feeling that old buildings possess. Public Domain photos by Vera Kratochvil and Jon Sullivan were manipulated in Photoshop along with a public domain architectural drawings provided by phenom1859 and Karen Whimsey. A commercial chiffon print was also used. These items were combined with painted tissue paper, fabric, vintage lace and trim as well as stitching and beads to create the quilt. |
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| Carol Walsh "Green Man" 19" x 19" "Protector of the green world & symbolic reminder of the cycle of life, death and rebirth. The sacred tree is the male principle growing out of the earth. The ancient correlation of the tree (male) and the Holy Well (female) symbolizes the unity of these Divine polarities. There is a riddle that went along with the Green Man at the Roslyn Chapel in Scotland. "First I am green, Then I am brown, When the wind blows, I fall down, What am I ? " Hand-dyed wool and sold black backing. Thermore batting and poly deco threads. Embellishment: dyed wool roving and dyed finger weight yarn scraps were used. |
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| Pam Berry "Elsa's Sister 10" x 10" "Working with silk was a pain! Original design was four times as large so reducing was tricky. The face is several layers of chiffon;outline is pearl cotton, hair is various fabrics from upholstery to curtain sheers from Triads'. Pieced work is silk over a layer of silk. Designer Elsa liked to use beads and beaded applique. Inspiration for the quilt came from clothing designer Elsa Schiaparelli." |
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| Claudia Martinez-Sinsel "El Bombin" 37.5" x 33.5" "I have always been fascinated by the hats worn by the indigenous women of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes mountains. The "bombin", as it is called in Spanish, is fashioned after the bowler hats worn by the English railroad workers in the 1920's. It is worn by women and passed down from mother to daughter as a family heirloom. Before I started quilting, I painted portraits and wanted to transfer this to quilting. This is my first face in acrylics. The face was done with a mix of liquid & heavy body acrylic paints on PDF cotton and the sky & background were done with a "wash" technique, also on PDF. I used a dry brush technique with black & white heavy body acrylics for the hat. The mountains, hat, hair, shawl, agave plant and water are rough edge applique stitched down with Wonder invisible thread and quilted with polyester and cotton quilting threads." |
