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Digital Printed Fabric on Off the Wall Friday from Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever by Nina-Marie Sayre

So it's gettin' to be that time of year when my family asks me to fill in my Giftster list on what I want for Christmas. This year it's harder than most since I really don't need anything. I started looking through my studio and noticed how much digital fabric I bought this year. Something about the vibrant colors and the funky abstract designs really appealed to me. In the last 5 years, I haven't bought much commercial fabric since #1 It's so Godawful expensive and #2 that midcentury "modern" design is not my ...

added by Nina Marie 1 month ago. under fabric , likedislike , off the wall fri , surface design

File, Act, Toss from The Snarky Quilter

One of the few staff development seminars I recall was F.A.T, or file, act, toss. The idea was to clear your overflowing desk by going through all the paperwork on it and decide whether to keep it (file,) respond to … Continue reading →

added by snarkyquilter 2 months ago. under fabric printing , fabric surface design experiments , in process , surface design , techniques (Comments)

Portrait Quilts.....A Blast from the Past from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Let's go back 10 years...

I was having lots of FUN creating

PORTRAIT QUILTS

Image of Lilly

Close Up View......Lilly

The fabric surrounding this portrait is

my hand dyed fabric that I screen printed on.

Machine quilted.

My Favorite Cow and her calf...

Finished Quilt

I use Neocolor II Crayons on cotton fabric

Ram

I took a photo at the Oregon State Fair.

It made a great subject for this portrait quilt.

Kindra

Lilly

A herd of Wild Horses

This is yet to be quilted.

Captain America and Devn

This is yet to be quilted.

The Cowboy unloading ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under free motion quilting , machine quilting , portrait , surface design

a second embroidered background from Karen Ann Ruane

an embroidered background, a page for an embroidered sample.

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added by karen ruane 6 months, 3 weeks ago. under embroidered background , embroidery , sewing circle , surface design

Machine Quilting a MedallionA simple 9-patch comes alive with a... from Living Water Quilter

Machine Quilting a Medallion

A simple 9-patch comes alive with a medallion of circles, feathers and free-motion quilting.

It may look complicated, but it’s not. Do you want to know how it was quilted?

In the last episode of Quilt Conversations LIVE! We talked about the process of quilting to showcase a medallion.

Watch and learn some tips and techniques

The episode includes detailed photos, the step-by-step process and more. Watch Quilt Conversations LIVE! episode 12

Westalee Design rulers - 12-inch Arc, Circles on Quilts and Spin e Fex Feather are the featured ruler templates in the design.

I ...

added 6 months, 3 weeks ago. under free motion quilting , living water quilter , machine quilting , quilting , ruler quilting , surface design , youtube

seventeen by fifteen inches from Karen Ann Ruane

seventeen inches by fifteeen inches, embroidered silk

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added by karen ruane 7 months, 1 week ago. under embroidery , embroidery design , online learning , sewing circle , surface design

Ready to travel? Come to Japan with me! from Art and Quilting in Camden

I am beyond elated to share that I will be your US host on a 10-day trip to Japan March 2-11, 2022! Here’s a link to the complete PDF Brochure which you can download or print, but I’ll post each page here in the photos. Originally, this trip was to have been in January 2021 but was cancelled due to COVID. It was rescheduled to January 2022 to coincide with the Tokyo Quilt Festival, but that looks like it won’t happen either so we are now in March 2022. BUT, I think the March itinerary is EVEN ...

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more patterning and an accidental border from Karen Ann Ruane

embroidery, pattern, hand work

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added by karen ruane 8 months ago. under big cartel , embroidery , learn to embroider , online learning , sewing circle , surface design

Every little thing equals progress from Sew Sunshine

I made 5 mini quilts! Yes I did...slow and steady like. These came about because my BEE mate Jen asked for quilted cards. I loved this idea though thought it would be daunting to make something so small.

I am only supposed to tackle sewing projects in little bits of time, mainly because the posture (as you all know) in sewing can be very muscle fatiguing.

I would guess about 5 minutes at a time I worked my way through the minis. They are all about 4.25" x 5ish"

Of course I had a black and white theme ...

added by Kris 11 months ago. under 5 minute sewing , bee blocks , holidays , inktense , mini quilts , sewing machine sketching , surface design

Sarah’s Machine Quilting Forum II video–ends Dec. 12 from Art and Quilting in Camden

Now Registered participants ONLY can SEE it … CLEARLY!

If you were enrolled in the Virtual Quilt Festival’s second Machine Quilting Forum on Saturday, you know there were serious transmission issues with my presentation that made the video just yucky. TOTAL BUMMERS, but now TOTAL JOY! Thanks to the hard working folks in the Education Department (who should have been taking today off) you can SEE the video through December 12th. After that, like Cinderella’s pumpkin, it disappears. To access it, follow the following steps:

Registered participants ONLY can follow these instructions –

—Go to My Schedule (be sure to ...

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mini design explorations from Karen Ann Ruane

mini design explorations, embroidery.

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added by karen ruane 1 year ago. under alchemy 2020 , design , design sheet , embroidery , surface design

a small design collection from Karen Ann Ruane

a small embroidered design collection

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added by karen ruane 1 year ago. under design , embroidery , gingham , online learning , samples , surface design

lace and pattern, extending design from Karen Ann Ruane

lace and pattern, extending design

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added by karen ruane 1 year, 1 month ago. under design , embroidery , lace , lace cloth , ledger , paper , pattern , surface design

design sheets from Karen Ann Ruane

embroidery, design sheets

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added by karen ruane 1 year, 1 month ago. under alchemy 2020 , design , design sheets , embroidery , online learning , surface design

exploring lace, interpretation 2. from Karen Ann Ruane

lace as a focus for design

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added by karen ruane 1 year, 1 month ago. under alchemy 2020 , design , lace , lace cloth , online learning , surface design

exploring lace, interpretation..... from Karen Ann Ruane

exploring lace, interpretation...

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added by karen ruane 1 year, 1 month ago. under alchemy 2020 , lace , lace cloth , online learning , surface design

getting the cogs turning from Karen Ann Ruane

playing around with surface design

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added by karen ruane 1 year, 2 months ago. under artist books , august 2020 lace cloth , embroidery , lace cloth , online learning , surface design

Cinderella from Karen Ann Ruane

beaded and embroidered artist book

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added by karen ruane 1 year, 3 months ago. under artist book , artist books , beads , embroidery , surface design

An embroiderers cloth from Karen Ann Ruane

a hand embroidered wrapping cloth

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added by karen ruane 1 year, 4 months ago. under an embroiderers cloth , embroidery , online learning , surface design , wrapping cloth

Screen Printed Garments! from Art and Quilting in Camden

My new Queen Anne’s Lace top. I screen printed my custom designs onto Cotton Couture solids (courtesy of Michael Miller Fabrics), this color is “Luna.”

In the summer of 2020 I saw **Print Pattern Sew** by Jen Hewitt somewhere online and ordered it immediately. It’s FAB! is available many places including Amazon . DO check out Jen’s site, here. Of course it took until April to start playing and until now to post. For the workshop and this post I wanted to use a pattern currently available that is similar to two vintage (circa mid 1980s) patterns that ...

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