Moon Gate Garden Quilt

I have been working on this little quilt for a few days. I made it to donate to SAQA ( Studio Art Quilt Associates). I love gardens and while I was looking at some garden photos online I ran across gardens that had moon gates for the entrance. I think they are so beautiful.
I used reverse appliqué to make this moon gate. I had several beautiful floral fabrics on hand so I decided to cut out my garden plants from them.After I cut them out, I used a tiny bit of fabric glue to attach them to the surface then I stitched everything down by machine. I think it makes a beautiful small quilt and it is not at all hard to do.
This quilt is 12" x 12" and I was able to complete it in a couple of days.  I am very pleased how it turned out. I love SAQA. You can learn more about them on www.SAQA.com.  For any artist who yearns to be more professional or to have better exhibit potentials, this is definitely the right organization. I am very grateful to them for helping me to continue to be a member, and this auction of these little quilts will help raise money to help SAQA help artists like me and many others with many things to make help us get good exposure for our artwork, and to become known for the art we do make.

Veterans First Patriotic Quilt

This is a picture of the Veteran's First quilt I made for one of our wounded soldiers who is coming home and will be living in a Veterans First group home in Garden Grove that is being redecorated by Furnishing Hope. Each room will have one of these 12" x 16" house quilts. I made the quilt and my friend, Jamie Fingal of Cut-Loose Quilters added the American flag which is on each quilt.

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Community Project News

I got a card today notifying me that the scarf I made for Fiberarts Connection's "Enduring Earth" challenge to raise money for The Nature Conservancy was purchased by the Wilson Community Collage, the site of the venue in North Carolina for their collection. It was an honor and I was happy to help.

Since I really don't have extra money for fund raisers, I have decided to use my sewing skills, among other things, to help worthwhile causes and organizations raise funds for good causes.

Finished Scarf

I finished the scarf for Fiberarts Connection challenge, "Enduring Earth." The challenge is a fund raiser to benefit The Nature Conservancy and the scarves will be sold at Wilsonville Community College, Wilsonville, NC.  Some of the fabric I hand-dyed myself and some a friend gave me. The surface was finished with free motion stitching.
I will be starting two new projects tomorrow. One will be a shopping bag that folds up to wallet size and the other will be a small bag for a friend to use for carrying her tarot cards.
I will be working on the designs in the morning and will post pictures the day after tomorrow.

A Scarf to Dye For

I have been working on my scarf project for the last few days. Using my pattern I cut out all of the fabric pieces.I used my printer to make the world fabric in the center bottom of the scarf.Some of the fabric I used was given to me by a friend and it was just right for this piece.I cut the whales out of a sea fabric. The yellow fabric in the center I dyed using Pebeo Setacolor fabric paint. I also used the yellow fabric I made for the rays. The tiny goddesses I made from another fabric. The birds and butterflies were cut from store-bought fabric.The sky fabric under the butterflies I made last night . It was also made using Pebeo Setacolor fabric paint. I mixed ultramarine and cobalt blue in two separate containers. In one I mixed two parts ultramarine and one part cobalt blue. In the other container I mixed two parts cobalt blue and one part ultramarine.In a third container I mixed some ultramarine and violet.I added water to the paint in the containers before applying it to the fabric with foam brushes. I lightly misted the fabric before applying the paint and once it was dry I ironed the fabric to heat set the paint.
Everything is pinned in place and today I will be using fabric glue to glue the birds, butterflies and sea weed in place. Once I finish gluing all the elements in place I will be ready to do surface stitching.

My Egyptian Garden Quilt

The right photo is a picture of the quilt I just finished. The hanging sleeve that I put on is working and the top part of the quilt is not falling forward. The method I used to keep it up is working YAY!!!!!!!

The left picture is the pattern of the scarf I am making for a Fiberarts Connection fund raiser scarf challenge to raise money for The Nature Conservancy. The scarves will be sold at Wilsonville Community College in Wilsonville, NC. We have children participating in this one. The scarf is going to be a quick project.

Goddess art

This is an example of one of my goddess art pieces. I made it for a friend to raise money for a worthy cause. The fabric is hand dyed scraps I had on hand. I embroidered runes on her gown and added glass beads to the bottom and on the tree. I will post picture of some of my goddess art pieces.