In Good Company Gallery

Results of DeColourant Plus

2012-01-18T12:45:00.000-07:00

Susan used the deColourant Plus in several ways. She used her motif as both a stencil to change the color of the shape and as a mask to change the color of the background. She has embellished with rhinestones, trim, beads, and embroidery.

Jamie stamped three snowflakes on individual blocks and stitched them together. The motif has been trapuntoed for more dimension and the background is heavily stippled.

Results of Cord Dyeing

2011-12-22T16:03:00.000-07:00

Jamie's center fabric was dyed by pulling up the center of a square of white fabric and wrapping it from that center point to the edge with four cords. Starting in the center, a yellow cord was wrapped around the outside of the fabric. An orange cord overlapped the yellow, red overlapped the orange, and finally black overlapped the red. The cords were held in place with thread. When the fabric was dried and pressed, she cut out the irregular circle after applying a fusible web. The "flower" was adhered to the background and she satin stitched the veins and the outside edge. Once layered over batting and backing, the piece was thread painted and the background was tightly quilted.

Susan over dyed a hand dyed piece of cotton with several cords: yellow and red. Once dyed, dried and pressed, she cut her fabric into strips and incorporated it into her random cut blocks. The strips are a combination of commercial, hand dyed and soy wax batiked cottons. She embellished with buttons and beads.

Results of Variations on Handmade Paper

2011-11-17T17:33:00.000-07:00

Jamie's paper was incorporated into the larger piece as part of a collection of knives, forks, and spoons. Using a stamp, she created a reverse design of the image with the foam sheet. The cutlery was colored with water color pencils.

Susan created her paper on a flat surface using colored glue. Just before her final sheets of kleenex, she added three fresh leaves. Their ghostly image is enhanced with watercolor pencil rubbings.

Sue Anne used an enlarged picture of a key charm to build her multi-layered mold. The glue was colored and the inside of the key was painted with gold acrylic paint.

Results of Printing and Stitching

2011-10-20T15:41:00.001-06:00

Sue Anne has used her printed cotton as the background for her collage about birds. The focal bird is a cocktail napkin that has been glued to muslin and attached to the background. The three dimensional flowers have a printed layer and are secured with a buttonhole covered bead. Washers have been covered with perle cotton in a buttonhole stitch and attached.

Jamie cut her printed and stitched cotton into sections and pieced them into this long and narrow piece. Several panels of color were sunprinted. The buttonhole stitches were applied with a variety of threads. Buttonhole covered washers and plastic rings were attached onto the surface after quilting.

Sue Anne had a few washers and rings left over from an evening of buttonholing. Surprisingly, they make a great center for a necklace.

Susan has combined her soy wax batik fabric with her buttonhole embroidery project. In the side panel are printed gold circles combined with lines of embroidery. The sprials in the soy wax batik have been enhanced with stitching and covered ring embellishments.

Results of Spraying Silk

2011-09-25T19:02:00.001-06:00

Susan has combined several techniques into this one fabulous piece. Her silk has been pieced into the smaller quilted piece on the left which the beads run across. The other pieced fabric and the entire background are fabrics that she created using soy wax batik.

Jamie's piece was made using silk habotai that had been sprayed with several colors of green and blue. This piece was inspired by a trip to Tacoma and seeing many Dale Chihuly glass baskets.

Sue Anne created this piece by first masking the large circles with newspaper and spraying the silk with a very pale blue paint. She then masked the blue and sprayed the circles with yellow. The orange was sprayed on using a petal newspaper stencil. The last color - green for the leaves - was sprayed when all but the leaves were masked off. The piece is hand quilted with a running stitch and seed stitch.

Results of Thread Sketching

2011-08-17T21:53:00.000-06:00

Sue took her inspiration from a knitting magazine cover with colorful dishcloths on the line. She used many values of thread to create the dimension in her piece.

Jamie sketched her four grandchildren with thread and mounted the piece in a black frame.

Sue Anne pieced her background before adding the colorful flowers. She used a free motion zig-zag primarily to fill in the flowers. Quilting around the flowers made them pop above the surface.

Results of Dyeing Cheesecloth

2011-07-20T11:19:00.000-06:00

Jamie's Chinese Lantern is fused fabric with thread painting on a quilted background. The dyed cheesecloth which was pulled apart is applied to the surface with diluted Elmer's glue.

Sue Anne uses her dyed cheesecloth to form the skirt for this Victorian girl. The girl has been transfered to white fabric using TAP, cut out and fused with Misty Fuse to the collaged background.

Results of Transfer Art Paper

2011-06-22T17:00:00.000-06:00

Sue Anne found a copyright free photo on the Internet, printed it onto the TAP and transferred it to a piece of rough canvas, which she then used as the centerpiece for her collaged paper fabric background. She created the background with old envelopes, fabric and other papers as well as stamps, stencils, lace and beads.

Jamie's postcard commemorates a trip to Maui. The map is printed onto cotton with the turtle transferred onto Lutradur and cut out. The small piece of mica overlays the island of Maui. All is adhered with Misty Fuse and tulle and machine quilted.

Sue's photo of herself has been transferred with TAP to a printed cotton and used as the focal point of her piece. Notice the wonderful bead work and driftwood in the right corner.

Results of the Soy Wax Batik Tart Kit

2011-05-19T12:54:00.000-06:00

Sue's soy wax batik became the central motif of this piece. She started with white PFD on which she first stamped a circle in wax. The fabric was dyed with a light green and then overstamped with the leaf shape. She then overdyed the piece with blue dye. It is layered, quilted, and bound. The larger background was quilted with straight lines, meandering and the fern motif and bound. The batik layer is sewn to the top of the backgound which was colored with a Micron pen and embellished with beads.

Jamie's piece makes use of two batiked pieces: the large contrasting print on the right and the multicolored blue fabric behind the flower. The quilt top is pieced with additonal commericial fabrics and the Hawaiian hibiscus is needle-turned appliqued on the pre-quilted surface.

Sue Anne's piece started with the 1958 Bon Marche ad she found on the internet. She has used her batik fabric as the frame around the bathing suits and as the binding. The enlarged ad has been transfered using

Transfer Artists Paper and she has chosen complimentary fabrics and embellishments to support the year 1958.

Results of the Earth Day Art Tart Kit

2011-04-24T21:31:00.000-06:00

Susan has created multiple layers of recycled items: the base is a 15 year old seminole pieced top on which she placed a paper towel colored with seta color, and a lime green shopping bag. She machine stitched the paper towel's printed design and embellished with cording from a gift wrap bag. The binding is a saved satin ribbon and the piece is hung from a branch that was pruned from her yard.

Sue Anne has blended patches from old shirts and plastic bags in the background piecing of her Earth Day Art. Over the surface hangs the applique motifs from a summer blouse she no longer wears. The quilt has been machine quilted and bound in curvy edges.

Sue Anne's second piece started with a rejected screen print. She layered lightly colored yellow plastic bags over the top and pressed with her iron which brought out an irridescent shine. The border fabric is a piece of snow dyed fabric that was overdyed with spray paint using a aluminum roasting pan as the stencil. The quilt is machine quilted.

Jamie's piece is inspired by Jeanelle McCall's article in the April/May issue of Quilting Arts. Instead of fabric, she used plastic bags selectively for the complementary color scheme. Before thread painting, all the plastic is fused together. The top layer is mounted over a onion bag and then is stitched to the front of another bag, handle and all.

Sue's Earth Day Art reflects her artist's influence as she chose the theme. The background strips come from her left over fabric basket. The palette is fused plastic bags with circles cut from paint chip sample sheets. She has added used paint brushes as embellishment.

Results of the Quilting and Painting Tart Kit

2011-03-16T19:03:00.001-06:00

Sue Anne used a machine quilting practice piece and rolled on a pink Lumiere paint to use as the background for this small quilt. The woman in the center is a picture that has been copied and sealed with an acrylic spray. She used watercolor pencils to lightly tint the face, arms, and hair. The polka dot dress is tissue paper that has been put into place with gel medium. She has embellished the piece with scrapbook flowers, ribbon, and punched shapes. The piece is bordered on two sides with found lace.

Jamie's painted piece started as an unfinished hand quilting project. There are several layers of paint rolled onto the piece as well as area painting with a brush. The center feather is beaded and highlighted with a Shiva paintstik. It has been stretched over stretcher bars for hanging.

Sue used tulips as inspiration for these art pieces. The quilts are only free motion quilting and paint. Sue painted with Lumiere to give color to the flowers and highlight the leaves. The backgrounds are also Lumiere which was rolled on.

Results of the Artfelt Paper Felting Tarts Kit

2011-02-17T10:39:00.001-07:00

Jamie used the felted roving for the zucchini blossoms in her final piece of her alphabetical array of fruits and vegetables. The design was lightly drawn on the Artfelt paper and roving laid within the design. After felting, the blossom unit was attached to the zucchinis and background with machine stitching. Thread work was added for additional details. A light layer of roving was needle felted in several places.

Sue shaped roving onto the Artfelt paper in a leaf shape and felted it. She thread painted the veins and placed it onto the corner of her art piece. The other techniques include stamping, embossing, bead and metal embellishing and quilting.

Results of the Paper Leather Tart Kit

2011-01-21T15:13:00.001-07:00

Using paper leather for the skin on Jamie's Yam give this quilt a touch of realism. The paper was colored with the brown paint from the kit as well as chalks to give the orange highlights. The grungeboard is used underneath the paper for dimension and the ink is used as shadow. The quilt was quilted and mounted on a canvas covered with fabric.

Susan's sons are the Dryrock Gang! Their photo was transfered to osnaburg with transfer art paper. The paper leather is the piece of "hide" behind the poster. Susan used paint, Misty Fuse, and ink to create the leather. Painted grungeboard is the poster. Susan first painted the board black and then placed vinyl letters on the board before overpainting with an off-white paint. She then pulled the vinyl off leaving the black reverse stencil. These components were then attached to a pieced and quilted background. The paper leather is used to bind the quilt.

Sue Anne used her leather paper to make cowboy boots. The grunge board has been painted red to add the detail to the boots. The poster is a scaled down version of a poster that belongs to her mother.

Results of Shrink Plastic

2010-12-21T17:12:00.000-07:00

Susan added her shrink plastic embellishment to this piece that was made earlier. The colored buttons were printed onto inkjet plastic, cut out and shrunk. She had punched a hole for easy attachment with beads.

This Tic-Tac-Toe game is Jamie's piece in her alphabetical series for "X" - Xigua. Xigua is Chinese for watermelon. She has printed the watermelons on the inkjet plastic, using a full sheet. Once shrunk, they are attached to the red blocks. The blocks with the X's and O's are attached to the background quilt with velcro - the extra X is attached on the back.

Results of Positive/Negative Stenciling

2010-11-17T20:02:00.000-07:00

Sue created her positive/negative stencil from actual oak leaves and they provide the focal point of this art piece. Her strip piecing, beading and machine quilting add a great deal of detail and interest.

Susan separated her positive/negative circles to form strips within a scrappy pieced unit. She has named this art piece "Hugs and Kisses" because of the combination of O's created with Paintstiks and X's created with the machine stitching.

Jamie designed a positive/negative stencil and painted a piece of fabric which was then cut up and used as the skin of the Winter Squash. Thread painting blends the prints and adds texture to the squash. Watercolor pencils were used to give dimension.

Sue Anne has created a beautiful fall scene and has used a number of techniques to color her fabrics. The blue background is her positive/negative stencil. In order to create a subtle background, several areas were left unpainted. The side border leaves have been printed and stamped. The dimensional leaves were cut from a commercial fabric, lined and sewn with invisible thread which puckered slightly when steamed.

Results of White on White

2010-10-20T17:13:00.000-06:00

Jamie's piece using texture features her next vegetable in the alphabetical series - V for Vates Kale. The background muslin was machine quilted first. Embroidery stitches were added. The clamshell section was painted with acrylic paint. The photo of the Vates Kale was printed in black and white onto Extravorganza and mounted on a piece of fabric which was then placed on the background. The white edging was hand-crotcheted.

Susan's textured piece is simple in design. She machine quilted the background Osnaburg in straight lines. Placed over the top is a weaving which she made from all the threads and yarns in the kit.

Results of Sun Printing with a Grid

2010-09-22T12:26:00.000-06:00

Sue Anne used her orange fencing sun print as the center of her composition. She then embellished the quilt with applique, an old house number,ovals cut from the Folger's metal foil seal, and beads.

Sue must have had the most fun of all! Her three distinctly different designs used a sun printed background that was integrated into each composition.

Jamie's gridded composition uses the ugli fruit as its center motif. The background blue was sun printed with a diagonally gridded screen with the center block cut away. Laying a foam sheet cut-out of the ugli in the center while the fabric dried left its sillouhette almost white. The fruit was then sponged with watercolor paints.

Susan experimented with sun printing organza. While there isn't a great deal of contrast left by the squares on the organza, there is enough to add interest and pattern to her composition. Her addition of resin beads and a layered focal point complement the sillouhetted squares.

Results of Fused Collage Kit

2010-08-18T20:15:00.002-06:00

Susan has created an attic window variation for her composition of a mother and child. She has fused hand-dyed cheesecloth and the cut out picture to a hand-painted background. Individual flower motifs are added for interest. The one in the foreground has been fused to felted wool and placed over the tulle which covers the entire piece.

Sue used her picture in its entirety and placed it over her other elements: hand-painted background, hand-dyed cheesecloth, and Angelina. A layer of tulle covers the entire piece which is machine quilted and hand-embroidered. A silk flower and bead have been added as embellishments.

Sue Anne used her picture on the background in the upper right corner. To enlarge the image area, she fused snippets of fabric to match the picture and thread and silk ribbon to cover the bottom. An Angelina cloud masks the left hand seam. She then bordered the piece on two sides with printed fabric and beads.

Jamie used a piece of fabric that had been screen printed with turnips, leaves, and diagonal shapes as her background. The hand-dyed cheesecloth is laid over the Misty Fuse, with the other elements placed on top. The leaves were cut from several silk philodendron leaves and thread painted before Misty Fuse and black tulle were laid over the entire piece. Minimal machine quilting has been added.

Stacked Silk Results

2010-07-20T20:44:00.002-06:00

Jamie used the four different silks in this piece call "Illuminated Snowpeas". The center is the painted raw silk which was stitched by machine and then shaded with watercolor crayons. The other silks form the patchwork around the perimeter of the piece. A seed stitch has been added in the areas between the snowpeas to provide the quilting.

Sue Anne has used the raw silk piece for the background of her quilt. In order to subdue the bright colors of her original plaid, she over-dyed the silk with a light version of the orange Dyn-a-Flow. It is now a more muted and subtle background. The silk used for the side panel and the flower petals is an hand-dyed charmeuse silk.

Sue cut her stacked and painted silk into strips for the wall that her frog is climbing. The piece is embellished with beads.

Molding Paste Results

2010-06-23T22:38:00.001-06:00

Sue has used the molding paste to create her poppy petals. Each petal was shaped onto a piece of coordinating fabric, allowed to dry and cut out to become an applique. Each petel was applied individually to the pre-quilted background. Because of the multi-layers, she was unable to sew through the center to apply the beads. They were sewn to a black piece of fabric and then appliqued on. The single bugle beads were hand sewn to the petal directly. See the following photo for a closeup view.

Susan has combined two tart lessons into one quilt. She applied each section in a quilt-as-you-go manner, starting with a previously quilted piece made with flour resist. Each section is individual in its style. The molding paste was shaped to resemble river rocks or stepping stones. The grey squares at the bottom are raw edged applique. The narrow gold piping connects each section. She embellished the stones with gold foil and the piping with beads. See the following close-up.

Jamie completed her next alphabetical fruit/vegetable using the molding paste for the raspberries. She cut a stencil in the shape of the raspberries and applied the molding paste directly to the background fabric which is a photo ink jet printed onto cotton. Paint and machine stitching were added around each cell of the raspberry. Adding the blue strips and squares for contrast, the quilt was then machine quilted.

Sue Anne spread the white molding paste over the surface of a large piece of muslin and let it dry. With gel medium she glued bits of paper and fabric to the molding paste and when that was dry, she added a wash of color. Stitching and embellishments were added lastly to finish the piece. The bird is molding paste applied to a separate piece of fabric.

Sue Anne's second piece was made to improve her collage process, but generally it was constructed as described above.

Metal Tags Results

2010-05-20T15:41:00.001-06:00

Susan had alot of fun making tag after tag! Each one is different and Susan used a variety of materials and techniques. See the following photo for a close-up of a portion of her quilt. Her presentation of the tags on her gridded quilt gives the viewer a slight optical illusion.

Sue Anne's metal tags fill a small booklet. She has incorporated text, charms, paper in creating little works of art.

Jamie used her tiles to spell out Quince - her latest in the ABC's of Fruits and Vegetables. Each were painted with silver paint and rubbed with Lumiere paint. Painted and glittered cardboard letters were glued to the tiles. The quinces were paper-pieced.

Results of Pantry Dyeing

2010-04-21T12:26:00.000-06:00

Jamie's piece this month uses a pomegranate as a motif as well as the "dye" for some of the elements. She used a pomegranate tea for dyeing cheesecloth and embroidery floss; the light background fabric was simmered in pomegranate juice; and the halo around the fruit has been painted with cold pomegranate juice after the piece was quilted.

Sue says her kitchen was a regular chemistry lab as she tried to find just the right red for some of her leaves. She has dyed used dryer sheets and wool as well as using commercial fabrics overlayed with organza. The yellow wool is a combination of tumeric and dry mustard. The dark red is a combination of paprika, chili pepper and other red spices. All the leaves have been machined stitched prior to being placed on the background which was created by spritzing a bleach and water solution over a maple leaf stencil. Sue has achieved her dimensional piece by also using her heat tool to melt the organza and dryer sheets.

Sue Anne dyed her family memory quilt with tea and coffee. By letting the coffee-dyed crotcheted dry in a warm place, she was able to get a very dark color. The background is an old huck towel with its own stains plus some that Sue Anne added by spritzing with coffee and tea. The floral applique is from old drapes. A piece of mica covers the photo in the center. Trims and threads used for embellishment have also been dyed with coffee and tea.

Susan combined two Tart techniques in this piece. After quilting the striped background, she added two used dryer sheets: one dyed with black cherry Kool-aid and the other with paprika. The two-toned circles have been cut from her painted and embossed bamboo batting. Bead embellishment highlights the entire piece.

Results of Embossing Bamboo Batting

2010-03-17T07:27:00.000-06:00

Sue Anne used her embossed batting to make appliques for this bright and springy piece. The batting was embossed before she colored it. After cutting out the shapes, she painted the edges to eliminate the uncolored batting. The background uses raw-edge applique, quilting and stamping to add layers of interest. Sue Anne used a number of embroidery stitches and beading to attach her appliques.

Jamie's piece is a combination of textures: pieced and quilted background, embossed and painted batting, thread painted olives and leaves, and smooth wallpaper bottles. The bamboo batting was embossed lightly and misted with several colors of paint.

Sue's batting was embossed purposely with a tree shape. She built her texture plate using old silk flower stems and cording. The background around the trees was painted with a golden brown paint and set into the blue background. Believe it or not, the tree looks like it was made to fit the background branches, but wasn't! The beading represents leaves and bluebirds.

Gelatin Plate Printing Results

2010-02-17T13:10:00.001-07:00

This is Jamie's finished piece using gelatin plate printing and reverse applique. Squares of white fabric were printed with paint sponged onto the gelatin plate. Amounts of orange and yellow paint were used in varying amounts. The black fabric was backed with fusible interfacing before cutting out the shape of the nectarine. After fusing the black fabric over the printed fabric, the squares were skewed and sewn together with the green background strips. The entire piece was machine quilted. Jamie then added watercolor crayon and Shiva paintstiks highlights.

Sue's piece was very well planned and sketched out before starting in order to combine the gelatin plate printing and the reverse applique. The orange and green colored areas were printed on the gelatin plate. But before printing, Sue ironed a freezer paper pattern to the white fabric so that the trunks were masked to prevent being painted. The black fabric was fused to the painted background after removing the three large areas. She then "connected" her tree trunks by painting the black fabric white. By using the brown thread painting she tied it all together so that it appears that the birches are appliqued over the entire piece.

Results of Bedazzling Beads

2010-01-20T11:33:00.000-07:00

Susan added her beads as an icicle embellishment to her snowflake scene. After piecing the background, she used a Cedar Canyon stencil and a silver Paintstik to add snowflakes to lower part of the piece and the upper right corner. The sky area is covered with an embroidered organza that she embellished with silver thread by machine. The white snowflakes were made by her mother though Susan added glitter and a few glass beads. Her silver icicles in the upper left corner were made with netting and organza and melted. In the photo you don't see the last snowflake which hangs below the quilted piece.

Sue has altered gold netting for her little piece. The background squares behind the beads are red netting that she painted and embossed with gold powder, giving them a metallic look. The same red netting has been rolled and melted to make the beads. She also used red organza to make additional beads, which have been coordinated with glass beads for the background texture.

Sue Anne created a grid of squares, text, and beads over a hand-painted background to make a quilt describing marriage. She has used lutradure and Tyvek to make the narrow beads and Kunin felt for the larger ones. All have been embossed with gold or copper embossing powder. Many of the beads have been embellished with small commercial beads. The text was taken from an old book and adhered with matte gel medium. The quilting was done as the last step.

Jamie's quilt is the "M" in her series of Fruits and Vegetables; although Morel Mushrooms are neither, nor did she use beads! Instead of rolling the Kunin felt and organza, she sewed these fabrics to a background of black felt in a random pattern. She then melted the felt and organza between the stitching to give the illusion of depth. The mushrooms were attached once the background was quilted.

Painted fusible web results:

2009-12-17T15:03:00.000-07:00

Sue Anne's piece uses many different layers and materials. She started with a rejected sunprint which she painted. On it she layered the velvet squares and rectangles. Several have been embossed, others covered with decorative thread. A piece of fusible web was painted and then fused over the entire top. Before the web cooled, she pulled it off, leaving pieces adhering unevenly. A small amount of foil was fused to the web. Finally a piece of an old chiffon scarf was laid over the previous layers. With a heat gun, she melt away portions of the scarf, leaving a multi-dimensional piece that is very interesting. You see something new each time you look at it.

Jamie's lemons were a perfect fit for painted fusible web. The lemon slices are a white on white fabric fused with a yellow Pearl Ex powder-colored Misty Fuse, giving the slice a translucent feel. The rinds are painted fusible over the wrong side of a yellow fabric.

Susan painted Wonder Under a silver color and when it had dried, removed the paper backing and tore it into strips. These strips were fused to a painted canvas background, giving the illusion of a plaid fabric. The other design elements are sewn over the colored background.

Covered Cording Results

2009-11-20T16:33:00.001-07:00

Jamie used fabric strips, twisted and zigzagged, to form the stems on her kohlrabi. The cords are attached to the bulb and caught in the border seam and so give a dimensional texture to the quilt.

Susan has combined a past project into this one featuring ribbon cords. The smaller quilt in the foreground was made for her shibori project. She knew that it wasn't finished yet and this larger piece was just the right combination. Decorative ribbon is crotcheted and couched on the left side, alternated with the same ribbon strung with beads at regular intervals. The beaded ribbon has been also added to the diagonal strips in the smaller quilt. The gold circles are painted washers surrounded with beads, a design element that repeats the print in the background fabric.

Sue's small piece takes its inspiration from a tree in her backyard. The tree trunk is beaded cording to look like a birch tree. The leaves are a dyed pellon product that she has handstitched to the background. Detailing has been provided by machine stitching. A closeup of the beaded cording is shown below.

Sue Anne has transformed a curtain fabric into a most colorful background. The original circle fabric did not have blue circles. She used blue glue gel to edge a gray circle in order to paint it with blue dynaflow. A beaded cord rests on a silk hanky which was machine felted to a piece of hand-dyed wool. She has embellished the piece with emboidery floss, letters, painted leaves, and beads. A closeup of her beaded cording follows below.

Silk Paper Results

2009-10-19T21:56:00.001-06:00

Susan used her silk paper as an abstract background over a fabric woven quilt. It is layered over hand dyed felted wool with black tulle. Susan sewed a variety of beaded elements to add interest to the surface.
Sue created her silk paper with leaves in mind, incorporating many different types of texture into the paper. She then cut out the leaves and appliqued them to her pieced background. The shadows behind the leaves are painted dryer sheets. Thread embroidery adds texture and highlights to the branch.

Sue Anne's silk paper has been used to add texture and shape to her journal cover. She has embellished the silk paper with beads and painted paper squares finished with charms.

Jamie's silk paper sheet has been hand-stitched to a quilted background with the jalapeno pepper appliqued on top. Sequins glued in the corners add sparkle.

Texted Collage Results

2009-09-16T15:15:00.000-06:00

Sue used old sheet music, musical notes, and writing in and around her happy flowers to create this collage. The background was dyed and texted. The flower edges were painted with Dyn-a-flo, and she carved her musical note stamps. The musical staffs in the background were free-motioned quilted.

Sue Anne painted the canvas behind the spool of thread with dye, wrote a thesis on thread and decoupaged tissue paper over the top. The "wooden" spool is used shopping bags with the top oval covered with an old pattern tissue. Once the spool was appliqued to the background, she thread painted the flower. The canvas is stitched to a piece of dyed cotton batting. The piece has been embellished with buttons and a card of floss.

Jamie's quilt is a collage relating to Iceberg lettuce. The text is a description of iceberg lettuce and the collage includes magazine cutouts as well as printed Extravorganza, all of which have been decoupaged with diluted Elmer's glue. The entire quilt was machine quilted. The half head of lettuce is a photo printed on inkjet cotton and appliqued to the top.

Blue Glue Batik Results

2009-08-18T18:48:00.001-06:00

Jamie used the blue glue to outline the leaves of the huckleberry branch. She started with the rust fabric and once the glue dried, she applied a wash of green paint from the branch outward. She then painted the leaves specifically with a brighter green paint. When the glue was washed out and the piece dry, she thread painted the leaves and branch. The huckleberries are fused fabric.

Sue Anne's batik is the background harlequin print over which she stamped, glued and stitched. The blue glue was used to separate the diamonds and up close, one can see the white fabric between the two colors of paint.

Block Results

2009-07-20T21:54:00.001-06:00

Jamie carved the eraser into an asterisk in order to define the garlic blossom which is represented by the blue squares along the two sides. The motif was colored with the blue fabric marker and stamped onto a machine quilted circle. The center was sun printed with Setacolor and the entire garlic plant.

Circle Theme Results

2009-06-25T18:00:00.000-06:00

Jamie used the circle theme to try a pointillist type painting. The acrylic paint has been applied in small circles only. Each fig was painted separately and appliqued to a background. The background then was quilted in small circles.

Sue's Circle piece used a variety of circle shapes: the flower itself, beads, circle fabrics. The flowers are painted with Dynaflow over a textured surface.

Glitter Results

2009-05-21T17:23:00.000-06:00

In Jamie's series of fruit and vegetables, she used the eggplant as the basis for this lesson with glitter and it is entitled "Eggplant Belagio". The glitter pen was used to add sparkles to the body of the eggplant; the art glitter and glue were used to add the highlight of white down the center and an edge of black along one side of the eggplant. The Fashion Beadz were used as the footlights along the edge of the stage. The curtain fabric has been pleated along the top for a dimensional touch.

Sue Anne has created two companion pillows. She used the glitter to highlight the flower petals and the Fashion Beadz to outline the center circle. The pillows will give her couch a bright spring time feel!

Starch Crackle Results

2009-04-22T14:17:00.000-06:00

Susan quilted her small piece using the lines and circles as guides. The circles were imprinted by laying a sink protector into the wet flour paste and removing before the paste dried. Once crackled and painted, the circles become apparent.

Sue Anne used a potato masher to create the multiple grids in her crackled fabric. She then incorporated the "new" fabric into her piece.

Jamie's gridded piece started with the elephant batik as the center. Her black and white crackled fabric is used as accompaniment.

In Jamie's second piece, the crackled fabric is pieced into the daikon radishes to create shadows along the sides of the vegetable.

Air Dry Clay Results

2009-03-18T18:51:00.001-06:00

Sue used the air dry clay to form two embellishments. She used a mold to form a sun and a molding mat to impress a rectangle of spirals. Both are painted gold and antiqued. It is mounted onto a composition with a musical theme.

Sue Anne has made a collage from her collection of bright fabrics. The air dry clay is used in the hearts at the top of the piece. She imprinted a rolled sheet of clay with a stamp, cut them with a heart cutter, painted them with acrylic paint and "rub n'buffed" them with gold. They are glued to the piece.

Jamie created a Corn Queen and used the air dry clay for the face. A sun mold made the face and once it was dried, it was painted with yellow acrylic. A purple paintstik was brushed on and wiped off to highlight the features. It was glued on and surrounded by beads.

Fabric Texture Results

2009-02-20T12:44:00.001-07:00

Sue used three different fabric textures from last month's Tart kit: The foreground was stitched to the diaper flannel and washed in hot water to shrink it to get the puckers in the field. The fence posts were cut from fabric that had been twisted and pleated and dried in a nylon stocking. And the mountains were "scrunched" onto fusible interfacing before being cut into their shapes.

Jamie's piece used the bubbling. She pushed cotton through the hardware cloth openings to create the blueberries in the basket in front of her granddaughter, Jillian, who absolutely loves blueberries! Jillian's photo has been printed on inkjet cotton after editing in Photoshop Elements.

MagicStamp Results

2009-01-22T12:07:00.001-07:00

Susan used the rubber stripping to create her own stamp with a tree design. She added small circles for ornaments and several stars. The background behind the trees is beaded heavily.

Sue Anne has created a piece entitled "Instant Ancestors" - they're not hers! She has combined old napkins and the ink jet printed photos with her stamped fabric. She used an old piece of lace to imprint the design into the mold and then stamped with pink paint onto setacolored fabric.

Jamie used half of an apple to mold the stamp for the accents to this large apple applique which was painted in a class with Velda Newman.

Angelina Results

2008-12-21T21:48:00.001-07:00

Sue Anne used Angelina fiber and film to make a variety of Christmas balls.

Jamie pressed loose Angelina fibers into a large shape and cut it into a circle which has been sewn to the background of this quilt.

Jamie combined Angelina fibers and film to create a color block in this quilt collage and the one following.

Weaving Results

2008-11-19T12:12:00.001-07:00

Jamie wove this piece with a heavy jute macrame yarn, adding in fabric strips and yarns. The small weaving that is placed in the center of the piece is from another project. Strips were cut and woven together over fusible interfacing and then attached to the jute weave. The background is cotton which has been quilted.

This small piece was woven with fabric strips that were fused to the background and quilted.

Sue painted the leaf on a used dryer sheet before weaving a shape that frames it. The finished weaving has been sewed onto the background before the entire piece was quilted.

Results of the Lutradur Lesson

2008-10-15T17:59:00.001-06:00

Susan used her printer to make an inkject image onto cotton of Rosie the Rivetor and printed the caption onto Lutradur. The narrow blue strips next to the picture are painted Lutradur.

Jamie used the Lutrdur as the background for the copy of the DeGrazia painting. The picture was colored with watercolor crayons.

Sue Anne colored the Lutradur and heated it into light curves to resemble rose petals and then put them together to form the flower.

This photo shows a closeup of Sue Anne's rose.

Sue used acrylic paints to color the Lutradur pears. Sue used a heat gun to give them a lacy appearance.

Results of the Sheer Sensation Lesson

2008-09-20T09:23:00.000-06:00

Sue's piece uses silk leaves from an arrangement in her sewing room! She used fluorescent green and orange thread to quilt the leaves and the background.

Jamie used several different colored organza overlays together in one quilt. The ribbon hides the line where the blocks meet on the batting and backing.

For this quilt, Jamie used the contents of the kit. The background with the flowers is heavily quilted. This little quilt was then "buttoned" to the gridded background quilt after it was quilted.

Sue Anne placed the silk flowers on a background of In Good Company's handdyed fabrics. The quilt has a yarn binding.

Susan's autumn piece uses the fall colors of leaves which were placed underneath the organza. She "fused" the two colors of organza with a textile tool so there were no raw edges.

Results of the Bleach Discharging Kit

2008-08-18T23:56:00.000-06:00

Sue made two postcard fronts with bleach. She "painted" an In Good Company hand-dyed cotton with a very small brush and stylus using straight bleach and a bleach pen.

Jamie experimented with different bleach applications on black fabric and incorporated the "new" fabric into this quilt. The top and bottom borders were drawn with a foam brush dipped in bleach.

Results from Shaving Cream Marbling

2008-07-15T18:48:00.001-06:00

Sue Anne "fussy cut" her marbled fabric to make leaves. Related marbled fabric was used in the piecing around the inkjet photo print on the right.

Sue cut her marbled fabric into strips and pieced this small quilt.

Susan cut and pieced the background of marbled fabric and appliqued the pink flowers over the top.

Jamie pieced several marbled fabrics together with a commercial fabric to blend them all together. It was quilted with the seed stitch and embellished with beads.

Results of the Inkjet printing lesson

2008-06-15T22:11:00.001-06:00

Jamie used Photoshop Elements to change one picture. The resulting photos were pieced as panels to create a small, folding screen.

Results of the melting lesson.

2008-05-20T18:24:00.001-06:00

Sue Anne melted away the circles in a piece of polyester fabric to reveal the hand-dyed fabric behind it. She finished with straight lines of quilting. Sue Anne used a base of fabric paper for her lilac. The organza leaves and flowers were added over the painted motifs after cutting the shapes with her textile tool.
Susan fashioned a stained glass window by melting many layers of felt and organza and polyester and layering it over the green organza. The frame is made by fusing fancy fabrics to a timtex base and couching black perle cotton over the raw edges. The center is suspended within the frame with beads.

Jamie layed a piece of white organza over this quilt top, topstitched around the shapes, and removed the organza by melting along the inside edge with a textile tool. Jamie layered several colors of organza over a piece of woven fusible interfacing. The textile tool was used to fuse the layers together. It was stitched, quilted and beaded before being folded into a small clutch purse.
Sue pieced several pieces of hand-dyed fabric with a batik and overlayed it with a piece of organza. After quilting with many different motifs, she melted away the organza. In some areas she took out the organza from the background and in others, she removed the inside of the motif.
Sue stitched this piece with several decorative threads. She used an old chiffon scarf over the leaf motif, stitched a double line of stitching and melted the outside and the inside, leaving a thin line of blue inside the leaf.

Results of the Needle Felting Lesson

2008-04-15T18:52:00.000-06:00

Sue used wet felting and needle felting to create this landscape.

Sue Anne created a reverse appliqued needle felted stylized piece.

Jamie used both wet felting and needle felting for the abstract center of her piece.

Results of the Image Transfer Lesson

2008-03-13T16:05:00.000-06:00

Sue Anne transfered copies of old pattern fronts.

Jamie transfered a b/w photocopy and used watercolor pencils to color it.

Sue transfered color copies of old doors.

Sue transferred catalog images.

Results from the Tyvek Tart Kit

2008-02-21T17:24:00.000-07:00

Jamie's Quilt:
Sue's Quilts:

Sue Anne's Quilt:

Results from the Bound Resist Tart Kit

2008-02-21T17:11:00.000-07:00

Susan's quilt:

Jamie's Quilts: Sue Anne's quilt: