True confession: I love handmade quilts, but I’m terrible at making them. Likely that’s one reason I was drawn to Cait Sherwood’s stunning quilt-inspired art journal pages, featured in the May/June issue of Cloth Paper Scissors. Talk about having your cake and eating it too—this very cool mixed-media technique combines painting, drawing, and creating quilt…
A mixed-media stitched Trapunto sampler inspired by the Japonaiserie style that captures Koi fish and water lilies. The mixture of media include an original ink pointillism drawing on cotton, embroidery, bead work, Trapunto quilting and silver wire embellishments of the Koi. Finished size: 215mm x 410mm. My name is Cherry Barlowe (aka Qershi), I was…
I first started with a zendoodle drawing incorporating the stencil into the design. I then "zendoodled" the still life and water-colored the drawing. It was then transferred to fabric with an ink jet printer onto cotton cloth, where I free motion stitched over the surface. Buttons were sewn on for added dimension.
A mixed media quilt, though heavily leaning on traditional quilting techniques. It is all fabric – 366 fabrics (365 for days of the year and 1 background color). The fabric is fashioned into jars (4 jars for each month). Labels for the jars were created on the PC using CorelDraw – Buttons (192 of them) were used to…
A 4" x 6" book with a quilted cover. The pages are made from page protectors (12" x 12", scrapbook ones), they are cut down to fit in the book. Folded strips of paper or fabric were sewn over the open edges to make clear pocket pages. This idea is from Mary Ann Moss from her Remains…
A mini art quilt made with scraps from my scrap box, including: painted/dyed paper towels, cheesecloth, fabric scraps, scrapbook papers, mesh produce bags, etc. This mini quilt is around 3" x 4".
Silk flowers were arranged in a "vase" made from fabric and quilted onto a watercolor cotton fabric background. Shreds of tinsel, buttons, glass beads, crochet flowers, rhinestones and netting were used to embellish this cheery little art quilt. Free-form machine quilting adds further interest and dimension to this piece.
