AI and Applique

Good Morning! I wanted a sunflower applique I could use to make a small art project. I found some clipart, but I wanted something a bit more whimsical. Why not ask AI to find me one? I went to Chatgpt and asked, Do you have a sunflower pattern that is organic with pieces I can…

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Creating fabric art from a photo

This is something new to me, and really something I’ve wanted to do for a long time but felt it was way out of my wheel house. That is, creating fabric art using one of my photos. I searched online for quite awhile for tutorials. None of them seemed to help. Then I found Nanette…

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Photo Memory Quilts

I’ve been wanting to make these for quite awhile – photo quilts. I’ve added photos to other pieces of art, but wanted to make a few that were larger and could be bound like regular quilts or even framed.

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Creating Together

With Dave’s renewed interest in woodworking, we decided to create together, marrying his wood skills with my fabric and finishing a project we started over seven years ago!

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Hanging Art

I have several art quilts that I have entered in shows that are sitting in the closet. I needed that space, but also thought it would be nice to be able to see them. They all have sleeves. I researched how to hang them and decided on this solution.

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Morning Tea Art Quilt

In the last post I mentioned a couple projects I needed to complete this month. One of them was for the  “Anything Tea” challenge by the Facebook group, Postcard Fabric Art – Quilt, Applique, FMQ, Paint, Monthly Challenge. If you are interested in joining this group, go over to FB and  check out this group.

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Playing with TAP

In my last post I showed you the Osnabrück Square Challenge. On the back I added my great grandmother and grandfather’s picture. I used Lesley Riley’s TAP (Transfer Artist Paper).

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