From Colouricious, the Talking Threads Christmas Special:
"Fay Maxwell introduces you to a needle felting tool, which is a precursor to the embellishing machine. She has some fun pouring bleach over some velvet, creating an artistic background for embellishing on some felt shapes. Her embellished mirror frame makes the perfect personalised Christmas present."
Colouricious started sending 10th October 2011 a weekly textile project for free.
There will be 8 Christmas Episodes.
You too can be notified whenever a new episode can be watched online. Visit the Colourcious homepage and fill in the box at the bottom of the page to sign up for the newsletter.
From Colouricious, the Talking Threads Christmas Special:
"Join Anne Griffiths as she demonstrates how to create a wonderful Christmas centre piece for your festive dinner table. Anne uses sheer fabrics, soluble fabric and free machine embroidery."
Colouricious started sending 10th October 2011 a weekly textile project for free.
There will be 8 Christmas Episodes.
You too can be notified whenever a new episode can be watched online. Each weekly newsletter includes a link to an episode. Visit the Colourcious homepage and fill in the box at the bottom of the page to sign up for the newsletter.
From Colouricious, the Talking Threads Christmas Special:
"Gilda Baron shares with you the how to create a beautiful Christmas card out of recycled materials."
Colouricious started sending 10th October 2011 a weekly textile project for free.
There will be 8 Christmas Episodes.
You too can be notified whenever a new episode can be watched online. Each weekly newsletter includes a link to an episode. Visit the Colourcious homepage and fill in the box at the bottom of the page to sign up for the newsletter.
From Colouricious, the Talking Threads Christmas Special:
"Di Wells shows you how to make a fabric bauble to deck your christmas tree."
Colouricious started sending 10th October 2011 a weekly textile project for free.
There will be 8 Christmas Episodes.
You too can be notified whenever a new episode can be watched online. Each weekly newsletter includes a link to an episode. Visit the Colourcious homepage and fill in the box at the bottom of the page to sign up for the newsletter.
From Colouricious, the Talking Threads Christmas Special:
"Kim Thittichai shows you how to create a wonderfully festive book cover using bondaweb, glitter and foil."
Colouricious started sending 10th October 2011 a weekly textile project for free.
There will be 8 Christmas Episodes.
You too can be notified whenever a new episode can be watched online. Each weekly newsletter includes a link to an episode. Visit the Colourcious homepage and fill in the box at the bottom of the page to sign up for the newsletter.
From Colouricious, the Talking Threads Christmas Special:
"Myfanwy Hart encourages you to explore the embellishing machine further, with her Christmas stocking."
Colouricious started sending 10th October 2011 a weekly textile project for free.
There will be 8 Christmas Episodes.
You too can be notified whenever a new episode can be watched online. Each weekly newsletter includes a link to an episode. Visit the Colourcious homepage and fill in the box at the bottom of the page to sign up for the newsletter.
From Colouricious, the Talking Threads Christmas Special:
"Holly Pulsford shares with you innovative ways of combining block printing and stitch to create festive placemats, perfect for making the Christmas dinner table extra special."
Colouricious started sending 10th October 2011 a weekly textile project for free.
There will be 8 Christmas Episodes. Please note that each episode of the Talking Threads Christmas Special is available for two weeks only.
You too can be notified whenever a new episode can be watched online. Each weekly newsletter includes a link to an episode. Visit the Colourcious homepage and fill in the box at the bottom of the page to sign up for the newsletter.
"... a wonderful exhibit at the Houston International Quilt Festival, Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts sponsored by Westminster Fibers/Lifestyle Fabrics Division and featuring the Quilts of Kaffe Fassett, Liza Prior Lucy with quilting by Judy Irish ...":
The book "Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts" is for sale at:
Paula Nadelstern leads a tour of her exhibit "Kaleidoscope Quilts" at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City (April 21-September 6, 2009). The videos do not have such good quality, but it's nice to see how excited Paula talks about her beautiful quilts:
For the first time I am participating this year in the Holiday Traditions Quilt Contest of the Quilting Bloggers Directory. It is a nice way to join a worldwide community sharing ideas of Christmas projects. I do not think that I win anything, but it is nice to share my experience with one of the first quilts I made using "applique". My entry for this contest is a quilt I made in 2005.
Being a fan of Laurel Burch's fabrics and books, I decided not to "just" cut into her beautiful Christmas fabrics:
Not yet learned the "raw edge applique" technique, I just began cutting out the figures, attaching them with some washable school glue to the background.
As soon as the glue was dry I used a straight stitch of my sewing machine to make the attachment permanent. My free motion quilting skills were less than mentioning worth, so I used a "funny" stitch on the machine to quilt the three layers together.
The result was a quilt with a tree as a place for the cats and birds to enjoy Christmas in peace together.
If I would make the quilt again, I should use a more playfull, curvy designed tree.
And use something like Steam-A-Seam to fuse the figures to the background.
The learning curve of this quilt was great, though, because I did it my own way.
The quilt measures (b x h) 31 x 33 inch:
Sadly Laurel Burch has passed away on September 13, 2007.
Her bright spirit lives in the art and books she left for us behind to enjoy.
This video tells her story in a nutshell:
Do you love painted silk?
Just watch part of this week free online episode 1 of Talking Threads in which Jill Kennedy teaches us how to create an image and to color it on silk. Regretfully the direct link to this episode went offline.
You can watch part of the episode at YouTube:
In next video from Colouricious Jill Kennedy tells more about her beautiful style of silk art painting. You can learn from her how to get started on this creative ancient textile technique:
Jill Kennedy and Jane Varrall are the authors of the book:
Silk Painting Techniques and Ideas: Create Beautiful and Original Designs on Silk Simply and Effectively
The book Silk Painting Techniques and Ideas is amongst others online available at:
