This little quilt is finished now. I've just sat it on the pinned large quilt. I"ve left spaces to allow the background fabric show through. The small strip is part of the quilt when I sqared it up…. it's off the side of the quilt so I zig zagged it down. The back. Now I…

An Audition – is the fish under the water?

  Do you Audition your quilts.? Most of my quilts need an audition… and in this sample I wanted to see if I could create a feeling of fish in water, behind the '"Big Fish" I have layered pieces of hand dyed muslin over the top of a fish…. and quilted over it. I've manipulated…

working on my fish.

I'm working on my fish quilt. i have this darn big fish and I'm auditioning it on how to set it in a quilt. I love mckenna ryan fabric and this is the last piece I have of this color. I'm auditioning creating a school of fish around my illustrated fish, but they need to…

My big fish.

It's a darn big fish…. 36" long….. Drawn with Pigment ink on a Maywood Shadow Play. I used Tsukineko Pigment ink pens. I quite like it… I love the process and I really like the fact that I begin with a design and I never know if I can do it…. by that I mean…

A few things

I have another 4 days of attending film festival and then I can get back to normality. I've been studying documentary making for some time….. and other then the Bayeux documentary which I'm making with my Son Jamie…I want to make my own. I  have an outline for the documentary and it will be concept…

Woven Watercolors No 4

  I've been able to stay home all day today and I feel like I've achieved quite a bit. I finished this quilt. I really like the effect. Woven watercolors…. is dyed cheesecloth or we call it muslin creating the forms of the image. At first I was going to contour quilt it… (following the…

Dancing Quilt Blocks.

    This is a film you might like to see as you sip your coffee this morning. The makers have taken traditional quilt blocks and made them dance to music.!!!!   Quilt Fever.