Art quilt
Stitching at virtual conference
SAQA 2020 MOSaiQA Virtual Conference I had the perfect opportunity to work on my series in that last three days whilst participating in SAQA’s virtual conference. What an experience! Read my earlier post http://SAQA 2020 MoSAiQA Conference (Toronto) Nature’s Palette Series I am continuing on my current series Nature’s Palette. My current work focuses on materiality. …
Read MoreThreads
I started the year with a bang by going to summer school in Bathurst run by Fibre Arts Australia to do a workshop with Dionne Swift. After an amazing informative and instructive workshop I came home thinking a lot about threads. There is so much to learn about threads. There is so much variety and…
Read MoreIMPROVISATION #2: Tranquility
I decided to make a piece for the 2017 SAQA Trunk Show. I refer to this abstract piece as an improvisational study. The guidelines stipulated the size of 10”x7”. I had no idea what I wanted to create so again I decided to let the fabric speak to me and guide me. I took out…
Read MoreSAQA Benefit Auction and Monaro Art Group Exhibition.
This week I have been on tenterhook as the 1st section of the SAQA Benefit auction got underway. My piece: Lost in the Mist was in this section. I blogged about it earlier. It sold today. I let out a big tepee. I’m so glad that it spoke to someone else as well and that…
Read MoreSAQA Oceania Blog Hop 2016: Improvisation – Lost in the Mist
Welcome to the ongoing SAQA Oceania Blog Hop 2016 featuring 16 of the 12″x 12″ art quilts created by members from the Oceania region – Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Hong Kong and expats. This year 36 Oceania members contributed a piece that can be seen here in the Oceania Dream Collection. SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates)…
Read MoreWinter #5 quilt
This year an online quilting group called Australian and New Zealand Art Quilters celebrated 10 years of existence and had a call for entries 10″x10″ that were to be shown at AQC (Australian Quilting Quilting Convention). For a long while I have been pondering the ‘what if’ I tried to create a mist effect in…
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