Today we have a special guest here at Quilts & Creativity: Elizabeth House, student and designer of the newly-released LizzyDish from Andover fabrics. I’ve always wondered how a fabric starts from an idea to actually making it onto the printing press, and Elizabeth shares her thoughts on design, color, and how she envisions using LizzyDish [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Color Mastery Now Available for Pre-Order!
It’s a big day in the Willow Ridge Press studio. Color Mastery is now listed on my distributor’s website at AtlasBooks.com. You can pre-order your own copy and be one of the first to hold it in your own hands. I decided to use a distributor for book sales and fulfillment so I can concentrate [...]
Get Some Perspective in Your Quilting
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In class this week, Patsy wasn’t sure if she had enough contrast between her bird and the background elements. So I shared one of my favorite and easy tips: take a photo of your work and look at it with your digital camera. You get distance from your work, [...]
The Aha Moment for Fiber Artists
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My favorite insights as an instructor are when I see the actual moments my students really get it: that singular moment when they realize they’ll never see color, fiber art, or quilting quite the same way.
We had lots of those moments in my Color for Fiber Artists workshop at [...]
Noticing the Beauty in the Everyday
It’s apple-picking time in north Georgia. Aren’t these apples gorgeous on a sunny day? Imagine these colors worked into a quilt. There’s so much light on the red that they look orange, like peaches.
I took these photos with my camera phone, and they turned out much better than I imagined. In reality, these apples [...]
New Monthly Email Newsletter
You can now sign up for my brand new monthly email newsletter and have it delivered directly to your Inbox. Each month I’ll be covering quilting techniques, news, and opening up the world of creativity and color to my subscribers. Note this is different than subscribing to this blog: the blog I update several times [...]
Machine Quilting Podcast
Here’s the Quilts & Creativity podcast, Episode Two: Machine Quilting. I share my top five tips for better machine quilting, stitch regulator not required!
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Making a Mark: Gold medal art – lessons from the Olympics for Artists
Over at Making a Mark, Katherine Tyrrell has seven pointers for getting to the gold medal standard in your art – her steps are a thought-provoking way to get to the next level in your quilts. Here’s the link:
Making a Mark: Gold medal art – lessons from the Olympics for Artists
Avoiding “The Wave” in Machine Quilting
If you ever get wavy quilts after machine quilting them, you’ve probably got some really dense quilting designs that aren’t balanced throughout the quilt. My latest quilt is almost done: I’ve densely quilted the interior, but not the frame, thus the rolls and waves you see here. Once I quilt the frame portion the entire [...]
