Innholdsfortegnelse for Fall 2024 i Quilting Arts Magazine

While I was in Melbourne, Australia, for a lecture at the Australasian Quilt Convention this spring, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting Gloria Loughman in her home. She lives by the sea, on the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria. She served up a lunch fit for a foodie, with great conversation. Her husband Tony was a gem about the intrusion of a visitor. The highlight of the afternoon was her studio. I was in heaven. After poring over her storage, processes, fabrics, room layout, and daily habits, we settled on discussing early quilts that made her feel like she got her start in the quilting world. Here’s how it went. BRANDY: Gloria, please tell me how your quilting story began. GLORIA: In the early 1990s, after making some traditional…

THE CUMULATIVE CLOTH: DRY TECHNIQUES SUSAN BRANDEIS Subtitled “A guide to fabric color, pattern, construction, and embellishment,” this is a companion book to Susan Brandeis’ Wet Techniques, which we reviewed in the Winter 2024 issue. This book, from the Schiffer Craft imprint, focuses on what quilters can do with the dry techniques of cutting, sewing, layering, and more to build rich textile surfaces and forms. Each chapter teaches a specific technique and readers—if they choose to—will apply each lesson to one piece of ‘cumulative cloth’ that will receive subsequent layers and additions, ending with a single, multi-layered textile incorporating all of the lessons and reflecting their accrual of skills. “Think of the topics in this book as a collection of present and future possibilities,” says Susan. As in Wet Techniques,…

WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOMETHING or someone with your full attention, you notice details that you might not have seen before or you may see an object in an entirely different way. What is it that makes you want to get up close? What do you see/hear/feel when you look at something up close? Whether it is detail, nearness, or connection, up close is a unique and individual perspective. The small format of “Up Close” allows the group to be loaned to quilt guilds and small venues such as libraries. FAN also creates a larger exhibit each year designed for art galleries. The Fibre Art Network (FAN) is a co-operative of self-defined artists based in Western Canada. The group is committed to promoting fiber as an art form and supporting…

In my work with the Quilt Alliance, I often meet people who have large and impressive collections of family quilts. While at community quilt documentation days, I’ve oohed and ahhed at large bins overflowing with quilts made by multiple generations of their family to document. It’s fascinating to hear the bits of family and community history that flow out when the owner begins telling their quilt stories. In my own home, the family quilt collection could fit in a cigar box—and it did at one point. The “collection” consisted of ten Grandmother’s Flower Garden hexagon blocks pieced by my great-aunt Stella in the 1930s or ’40s, never assembled and mostly forgotten. There were no finished quilts—not even a quilt top—passed down on either side of my family. Quilts weren’t really…

Our Readers Respond! In the last issue, we asked our readers to respond to the prompt “Get Back to It!” and to show us how they adjust to the changing season into fall, whether it inspires their creativity or makes them wistful for other times. Thank you to our readers for sharing their work and inspiring us all. Dear QUILTING ARTS, I love the fall but my Oriental poppies bloom in the spring and I want to continue seeing them. I decided to create a wall hanging so I could enjoy looking at them throughout the fall and winter. For the background I used ideas from Radiant Landscapes by Gloria Loughman and batiks from my stash. The 3-D flowers, stems, and leaves are my own creation with no pattern. I…

around 1998, when I first learned there was such a thing as a computerized longarm machine, I thought quilters were on the verge of a wild revolution and that everyone would understand instantly that we could now easily quilt literally anything we could conceive—sneakers, viruses, orbit paths, wave patterns from ham radios, voiceprints, jeans, genes, long blocks of text, and so on. What I failed to understand was how few people would want to quilt any of those things. Still, a custom motif adds another layer of meaning to the finished piece so I figured it was up to me to demonstrate to the world just what could be done with this technology. Get Going For my first attempt, I used a photograph I had taken of a fairly fancy…

i love photography and experimenting with ways to add photographs to my fiber and mixed-media work is a personal passion. Lately, I’ve been creating practically invisible image transfers with inexpensive white gift tissue paper. Unlike other transfers that work best on flat or non-textured surfaces, this technique is perfect for textured surfaces, fabric collages, and stitched surfaces, providing a unique advantage over other transfer methods. You can sew or quilt on it too! This amazing technique will astonish you with its simple yet beautiful results. You’ll begin by printing an image on a non-absorbent surface and then flipping and pressing it onto white gift tissue with a brayer. Once dry, the image can be transformed into its own work of art or added to surfaces that are otherwise difficult to…

THERE ARE FEW THINGS AS TRULY DELIGHTFUL—and a little frivolous—than a lush bouquet of flowers! Humans are captivated by the beauty of flowers and their fragrance. Almost everyone loves them—who can resist smiling when presented with an armful of them? And to many beings, they are absolutely delicious! Using our artist’s eye, quilters can also see the structure, shading, color, complexity, and rapture in them. To study this is to love them even more. For this challenge, use your favorite everything—techniques, materials, colors, etc.—and show us your love of flowers. Each quilt must measure 8"w × 10"h. Whether you portray a single flower, an opulent bouquet, a field full of blossoms, or your own charming garden, let your love rain down on your chosen blooms. As always, we value your…

this past winter we had cold spells and the temperature dropped so low that we lost many plants. To prepare ourselves for next year, we decided to buy a blanket-like plant cover. Once it arrived, I noticed it was a white, delicate, semi-translucent fabric. Ever the fabric whisperer, I just had to cut off a small piece to experiment on it with paint. That was just the beginning, as I discovered this non-woven breathable fabric was an excellent material to work with. And, yes, I bought more for my artwork! Because of the almost transparent nature of this material, I found I could print or paint separate designs on pieces of it and then layer them on top of one another to create a pleasing design with the look of…

Laura Kemshall is an artist working in Shropshire, UK. Inspired by landscape and daily life, her work often begins in sketchbooks before evolving into quilts, prints, or paintings. With a love of drawing as the foundation, her work often has a strong figurative element combined with pattern and abstract fields of color and visual texture. When stitch is used, it is intensely worked and often layered with multiple applications of hand and machine quilting. designmatters.thinkific.com Amy E. Milne has been the executive director of the Quilt Alliance since 2006. She has over two decades of experience as a nonprofit administrator, educator, and artist. Amy has overseen the expansion of the Quilt Alliance’s oral history projects, including the creation of the Go Tell It! project, as well as Quilt Alliance events…

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Now that you’ve played with the basics of this technique, here are some additional ways I’ve used the technique in other works and compositions. You almost can’t make just one! IDEA #1 Transfers provide a wonderful opportunity to add focus on any already finished collage or project. This is a collage created from painted cotton duck with raveled edges and an image of a wishing well. Holes were poked through the well area from back. Diluted paint was applied from the back to seep through the holes to front. IDEA #2 BEFORE: Apply more than one transfer to create a base and add stitching. AFTER: Finally, apply transfers to complete the composition. IDEA #3 In this composition, fabric was sewn to a base and painted before the tissue transfer was…

100 Ladies kits AVAILABLE AT BROOKLYN HABERDASHERY We’re not the only ones smitten by these charming Ladies—our friends at Brooklyn Haberdashery say they fly out of their store but they do their very best to keep well stocked to please all shoppers! There are many kits and packaged items in this line; we are showing only four here. Created by artist Kazue Nakajimi of Quilts 1989, all are from Lecien—the Japanese maker of adorable things, excellent thread, and more—and all of them celebrate handwork. Each kit consists of at least thread and a printed canvas in black-and-white of a row or many rows of charming tiny women awaiting your stitchery to clothe them, style their hair, and accessorize them. This is the ultimate in fun, fast, imaginative stitch play—even with…