When making these art quilts, I had an idea,”Why not make several differentĀ framed art quilts,Ā each one unique, yet designed to be hung together as a grouping?”. Sold together as a group, it would make an attractive display on the wall.Ā
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A Look Over My Shoulder, Work Continues On My Latest Commission.
I’m posting a few pictures along the way,Ā as I work on my latest art quilt commission. Feel free to look over my shoulderĀ if you’dĀ likeĀ toĀ follow my progress Ā along the way. AsĀ I mentioned in my last post,Ā this art quilt was commissioned by a psychologist in Australia. The subject she chose was an exotic tree called theContinue reading “A Look Over My Shoulder, Work Continues On My Latest Commission.”
I Never Knew, So Many Wonderful Things Waiting To Be Discovered
If youāve noticed I havenāt been around much, lately. Iāve been keeping mighty busy working on a new commission from an Australian psychologist. To She has given me a very interesting project. My client wants a large art quilt with a beautiful Australian tree called a royal poinciana as the subject. Ā I’d never heard ofContinue reading “I Never Knew, So Many Wonderful Things Waiting To Be Discovered”
New quilts? Bring em on!!
I need to strap myself to my machine and make quilts, lots and lots of quilts,Here is the beginning of #1 , The colors are just wonderful. Wish I took time to write down my color formulas but no, it’s always a little bit of this and a bit of that
Fast Foward
The hollyhocks are are coming right along, Here’s my progress report for my time lapse quilt for 2/16/2014. I’ll Ā give a few photos leading up to today’s progress., if anyone is just seeing this for the first time. It will make it a time lapse. Progress 2/16/2014 I have finished most of flowers and andContinue reading “Fast Foward”
Time Lapse Art Quilt Begins
An editor stops by my empty Etsy shop. I’m mortified she sees it in such an empty state. Must make quilts, make quilts-no Facebook for you Barbara! Here’s one I’ve just started, if you want to follow it from beginning to end. So why not make a game of it? Time me, let’s see howContinue reading “Time Lapse Art Quilt Begins”
One More Try
It really is pretty, and you can’t tell. I have taken a few more photos and done a few tweaks.
It has such dazzling glittery threads, that just don’t show up in photos. To illustrate the differences
between the actual quilt and the picture of the quilt, I made a list
On being photogenic and other things. Is this what I really look like?
Quilts can be like people, Sometimes quilts just don’t photograph well. Me either, take 100 photos, you won’t get a good one I guarantee. I’m beginning to wonder is this what I really look like?
Cherry Blossoms time, the theme of my new art quilt
I love cherry trees, it’s breath taking to see each new tree as it is in full bloom. I love the romance of the pink “snow” which covers the ground after the blossoms fall. I love that glorious spectacle that occurs every year. The fact that it lasts Ā for only a brief Ā time, makes theContinue reading “Cherry Blossoms time, the theme of my new art quilt”
NEWS NEWS NEWS! I’m Excited But I Have News!
NEWS,NEWS, NEWS I have a few upcoming events. which I hope you’ll look for. It’s NEWS! One is about myself and the other is concerning Rachel Biel. Ā Read on to find out. The first one is a real thrill for me. I was contacted by Janome, they are starting a new series on Janome.com theirContinue reading “NEWS NEWS NEWS! I’m Excited But I Have News!”
Whoa Nelly and Alphonse Mucha
I must apologize for an attempt last night [a really, really late night attempt] to post these two quilts. Somehow I posted a rejected draft, which was jumbled, incoherent, misspelled and unintelligible. To answer your obvious question, No, I had not been drinking heavily at the time nor was I having a psychotic break withContinue reading “Whoa Nelly and Alphonse Mucha”
Two Down, One Scraped? Who Rah!!
, there is so much beautiful fabric available, it’s hard to control the urge to start a new project with every new wonderful fabric you see or buy. It reminds me of a 2 year old running from one toy to the next until he has emptied his whole toy box. I always feel that I’m 4 or 5 projects behind.
Barbara Harms Fiber Art 