Art Quilts and quilts: How do you make them? Tutorials/tips Part 6

My sister-in-law Barb did this little sketch of a horse..not surprising, she comes from Montana.

So, we are back into it! Since we sort of left off with some more digital ends of things, I think I'll pick up that that as well.  Holly Knott has tutorials on how to take close-up photographs as well as the more pedantic "how to make a double fold binding" on her blog.http://www.fingerlakesart.blogspot.com/  But!  If you've ever needed to know how to take photographs for submittal to exhibitions (or whatever)  at the top of her website/blog in the navbar, “Shoot That Quilt” is a multi-page tutorial on how to photograph your quilts.

Carole Grant has information on making "hair" on quilts and instructions for making a chatelaine (the stole like variety, not the little etui kind of ones (with chains and such).  Look on her website at the top navigation bar and you'll see "Tutorials."

Janice Paine-Dawes has a tutorial on using glue resist (kind of like batik) here.  Her ATC blog has several tutorials on  wet felting, bleeding tissue paper fabric, Tyvek beads and stitching on watercolor paper.  Her regular blog is "The Distoriated Quilter." It is an odd sort of a name for a blog, but she explains that that was what was written on her judging sheet at a show once.  It took me quite some time to figure out that the person who wrote it was saying her quilt or quilting was distorted!  You probably got it right away.

Please God, just let us save this one until next winter...but, Karen Fridy has a tutorial on snow-dying.  Love to snow-dye...just not now, please.  

Katherine Sands also has information on dyeing and other fun stuff.  Scroll down the right side of her blog and you'll see a bar which says "Good Reading Material."  There, you'll find information on soda soaking cloth, making paper cloth, using unusual materials and one on breakdown printing. 

Ann Ruthsdottir shared some fun ideas on her blog. Here they are:

 

http://designerann.blogspot.com/2010/12/strip-pieced-purse.html

http://designerann.blogspot.com/2011/01/small-quilt-made-smaller.html

http://designerann.blogspot.com/2010/06/tsunami-copy-cat-tutorial.html

These two are for purses she made...

http://designerann.blogspot.com/2009/08/airline-qualifying-crazy-quilt-purse.html

http://designerann.blogspot.com/2009/11/art-deco-women-in-crazy-quilt-purse.html

Margaret Cooter has another type of bag on her website! It's for shipping or storing a quilt:

http://www.margaretcooter.co.uk/bag-that-quilt.html 

Now, Joanne Kourtz supplied me with a HUGE list of links....so I'm cutting and pasting them. :)

Vicki Welsh had a listing of her favorite tutorials which I have included below.  You HAVE to go to her website as it is a wonder!

 Some of My Favorite Tutorials

 This week I thought I'd share some of my favorite tutorials from the first 100 issues of Field Tripping the Web.

For Appliquers and Piecers:

• Erin has a detailed multi-part tutorial for peicing a Feathered Star block, this is part one. Read later posts for the remaining parts of the tutorial.
• Karen's circle applique tutorial
• Caron's tutorial for making mitered corners
• Janet's curved piecing tutorial, part 1 and part 2
• LuAnn's scalloped binding tutorial
• Sonya's fusible applique tutorial
• Deb's tutorial for adding shirring to your quilt
• Gloria's tutorial for making a hanging sleeve
• Rian's applique technique, part 1, part 2 and part 3

For Quilters:

• Karen's tutorial for attaching zippers to your longarm leaders
• Kim's video tutorial for pumpkin seed quilting
• Randi's video tutorial for quilting feathers in a DWR
• Judy's longarm feather video tutorial
• Leah's blog is dedicated to developing 365 different free motion quilting designs
• Theresa's tutorial for attaching binding on the longarm
• Sally's embellished feather quilting motif

For Art Quilters:

• Terry has a great tutorial for creating sea foam in an art quilt
• Fannie's fabric beads
• Vivian shares her process for creating art quilts. Part 1 and Part 2
• Margaret's tutorial for painting lutrador
• Judy shows how she sews metal to fabric

Vicki Welsh
Three Creative Studios

Joanne also gave me the information on Lyric Kinard's tutorial...and I couldn't believe that I hadn't included it already!  She also links to the full list of "Artspark."  So...go here!

Sometimes, I just have egg on my face...Joanne also gave me a whole big listing on Gwendolyn Magee's "Textile Arts Resource."  Since 2008, she has been listing tutorials and information which quilters, particularly ART quilters have shared on the web.  So, go check it out...Some of them I have already mentioned here, but other's I haven't.  Go now...grasshopper and subscribe!!!!  She's got 11 installments.  They include basic information useful to all as well as more specifically arty quilting tutorials.

Last, but not least, Carol Miller of Quilt University has Quilt Terms section in the QU  Library which is free to all and includes many mini-tutorials.  This link takes you directly to the index page.

http://www.quiltuniversity.com/quilt_terms.htm

Carol Miller
dean@quiltuniversity.com
http://www.quiltuniversity.com
Take quilt classes online!

I hope you explore all of these blogs and websites as they are just full of eye candy...of course, it WILL eat into your quilting time, but it might inspire you to do some really great work.

Thanks so much to everyone who contacted me and shared their information....AND put it up on line for everyone's benefit.  

Art Quilts: What are they and How do you make them? Tutorials/tips Part 5

Isn't this tree just great? It's another Batty Binder's "Twisted Stitcher's" play with water soluable oil pastels. I think Becky Goodwin did this one.

Are you sick of tutorials yet? There's still a ton and they are multiplying...well....like rabbits!  Lyric Kinard just posted about Artspark's tutorials.  She invites you to  to Artspark's Spring Tutorial Fling! "lots of fun tutorials to get you creative sap flowing
today:
Incised Fun Foam Stamping: Melanie Testa
Recycled Slip cover for a small book : Gwen Diehn
MP3 case: Kelli Nina Perkins

Liz Kettle has a bunch on her Fiber Explorations forum.  You'll have to sign into the forum in order to be able to read it but it is well worth it.  In addition, you can peruse the great activities/classes that they have available at their retreat center.  download them.

Topics are:

Quilt as you go table runner

Printing on ribbon (inkjet printer)

ATCs

Thread painted flower embellishments

Reverse appliqué journal cover

Weaving fabric for a base and project ideas

Making a memory book-printing on fabric

Silvia Dell'Aere is an Italian art quilt maker and she has quite a few tutorials on her blog.  Some of them are general quilt making information:

How to make a hole in a quilt:
http://www.orkaloca.com/post/tutoral-il-quilt-col-buco.aspx

How to hide threads at the end of seams
http://www.orkaloca.com/post/Tutorial-nascondere-i-fili.aspx

 
How to print on fabric:
http://www.orkaloca.com/post/Come-stampare-su-stoffa.aspx

 
How to make a quilt sleeve:
http://www.orkaloca.com/post/Come-fare-il-manicotto-ai-quilt.aspx

 
How I did my naked men (for a prize winning quilt):
http://www.orkaloca.com/post/La-nascita-del-grande-giudice.aspx

 
How to do japanese style socks:
http://www.orkaloca.com/post/Tutorial-calzini-giapponesini.aspx

These tutorials are both in Italian and English, if you see Italian text you can change language with the link on the side. Sometimes I just see if I can read it in Italian for fun. :)


Sue Andrus won some Derwent Inktense blocks on Facebook and it didn't take her too long to put up a tutorial on using them. "I just finished a blog post showing what I have done so far with a new set of Derwent Inktense Blocks that I won from a Facebook Promo.... I have had the set of 36 of their Inktense Pencils that I got as a splurge for myself, and the blocks are the same pigment in block form, much like a pastel.  I also found that some blender pens for using with water soluble pastels for scrapbooking have been working very well with the pencils and blocks..".
http://www.andrusgardensquilts.com/blog/playing-with-inktense-blocks-part-1

http://www.andrusgardensquilts.com/blog/playing-with-inktense-blocks-part-2 

She also has some on sunprinting, photo transfer, and preserving leaves for printing on her other blog here.  

Wen Redmond who does a lot with surface design and image transfer...some very lovely things has some tutorials on her blog as well as a You-Tube channel with tutorials.   

Gloria Hansen, who wrote Digital Essentials  shared this:  I  have several tutorials on my website and blog.
Understanding lens aperture;
pre-coats for inkjet printing
how to make a repeating pattern
how to make a quilt sleeve
how to create a panoramic image
info on color management
I've a free chapter from my book regarding image protection on the web
and other stuff.  :)

Gloria Hansen
<http://www.gloriahansen.com>
blog: <http://www.gloriahansen.com/weblog>
author: Digital Essentials,
<http://www.gloriahansen.com/DigitalEssBook.php>

Judy Ferguson shared her work on her main blog called, "Gallery Hanging Tutorial." It covers mounting fiber art onto foam board and using a hanging device with wire. Also, Frame It Yourself, using the float mount method on foam board.

                    http://judysfiberart.blogspot.com/p/gallery-hanging-tutorial.html

I probably should be listing these by type, but I found that there were so many and I didn't want to split each person's up. Bear with me!  More is yet to come!

 

Art Quilts: What are they and How do you make them? Tutorials/tips Part 3

Tonight's post has information which are not necessarily just for art quilts...but any quilt!

(Della) Alice Cruz has posted two tutorials on her blog, one of which is that illusive creature I had heard of, but never figured out…the machine applied BINDING…no hand sewing. J

Alice's Fast All-Machine Binding:
http://dellajanehanddyes.blogspot.com/2007/07/alices-fast-all-machine-binding.html

And…another fun one:  A way to use those scraps that are
Too Small To Keep, Too Big To Throw Away:
http://dellajanehanddyes.blogspot.com/2006/12/too-small-to-keep-too-big-to-throw-away.html

Helen Anne Lemke offers two tutorials on her blog which are useful to art quilters as well as traditional quilters…..one on color and value and another, how to baste a quilt on a WALL!  Wow…my knees thank her already.

Look here for her “how to” sections. http://imhalca.blogspot.com/p/how-to.html

Brenda Gael Smith is just chock full of information.  Here’s what she has in her words:

I have numerous tutorials for quilt finishing techniques of my blog
and link to others that I have found useful.  You can view a complete
listing at: http://www.serendipitypatchwork.com.au/alternatives.html

Also I am the 3 Creative Studios guest artist for March and have
prepared a series of mini-tutorials on shibori for their "Technique of
the Month" program.  The first tutorial is on Karamatsu (Japanese
larch) which is a radiating stitch resist design. See:
http://3creativestudios.com/blog/2011/03/17/technique-of-the-month-serendipity-shibori/

The other introductory tutorials cover folding resists; pole wrapping
and clamp resists.

Brenda @ Copacbana: Serendipity & the Art of the Quilt
Website/Blog: http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au
Facebook:  http://facebook.com/SerendipityPatchworkQuilting
Co-author of Twelve by Twelve: The International Art Quilt Challenge
http://tinyurl.com/12x12book

Now, just to leave you on a dangling note…Lisa Walton has a tutorial on using dangling fringe or beads on her blog:  http://www.fibreinspirations.blogspot.com/

The tutorial is listed on the side, but you’ll be sidetracked in all the other fun and informative areas.  Have fun!

Art Quilts: What are they and How do you make them? Tutorials/tips Part 2

Ok...for this installment, I've decided to go in no particular order....so bear with me. :)  The brain isn't just working like it used to.

Ellen Lindner has several possibilities for you to explore on her website.  Under "Learn with Ellen"  you can look at some of her articles, watch a video on making a mixed media book, or you can look over her gallery and on-line and regular classes.  In addition, her blog has some good information and examples on it as well.Some of her posts include how to block a quilt, putting on facings, and MORE. 

Bonnie McCaffery has lots of vidcasts on her website which often include mini-demonstrations by her guest artists.  Some of them are just downright fun, even if you have no interest in EVER making an art quilt.  Look here for the vidcasts.

Kathy Loomis has lots of tutorials on her blog.  Just scroll down the side of the blog, then look on "Labels."  There, in alphabetical order you'll find "tutorials."  She has  the following subjects currently up and she adds to this when the muse moves her. :)

sewed cords for jewelry

piecing curved seams

piecing very fine lines

foundation piecing

machine quilting very large quilts

"designer mending"

perfect facings.

Like Kathy, Terry Grant puts up tutorials periodically as well. Check out her fusing method which uses liquid thread rather than a fusible web which allows the hand to stay very soft and it doesn't gunk up your needles.  She also has one on edge finishing a small piece, really cool if you want to stay away from bindings or facings....She has a little trick which makes it really stand out. She, like several of the others, also has a little gallery of her work on the top of the blog.

Ok...just in case you might have your head blow up too quickly...I'm going to let you think about these and continue tomorrow. :)

Art Quilts: What are they and How do you make them? Tutorials/tips Part I

Since life has been going at warp speed lately, I've decided to put up my posts on where to find information on art quilts as well as quilting tips in segments...if I wait to write one long post, I'll take too long and you'll give up....or at least you might give up.


For over a year, I've been trying to come up with categories of art quilts...and I've struggled.  Some, since they were so closely related to traditional quilts, I was sort of calling them contemporary.  I was quite pleased when Jane Dunnewold delivered a lecture which she later turned into a blog post.  It is cogent and thoughtful.  Take a look here to start thinking about them.

Now, Jane also has wonderful tutorials (which are FREE and downloadable as PDFs) and has most recently written a great book called Art Cloth (ISBN: 978-1596681958).  I also own Complex Cloth: A Comprehensive Guide to Surface Design (ISBN: 9781564771490) and Finding Your Own Visual Language: A Practical Guide to Design and Composition by Claire Benn, Jane Dunnewold and Leslie Morgan (May 24, 2007, ISBN:  978-0955164927-- cheaper at Interweave Press's bookstore.   I admit, I use the Complex Cloth as a reference tool (i.e. I look up what I am working on and haven't read it cover to cover) and I intend to sit down (yeah, when???) and do all the exercises in Finding your own Visual Language.  Jane's specialty is surface design (i.e. painting, stamping, etc. cloth--which is often a work of art in itself rather than something to stitch/distort/cut up).

I asked the members of the Quiltart message list to tell me if they have tutorials and/or tips on their blogs or to share what they found useful or knew of.  I had 48 responses with more than one citation per email.  I want to group them together in a logical way....so stay tuned!  I'm not sure what order I'll put them in....or if I'll just dive in and they will come as they come.  So, in that same vein, in addition to the places to look for information I put in on the February 12, 2011 "Breakfast with Pokey" blog.....Take a look at the Laughing Cat Designs new e-zine.  Yes, she has items she's selling, but in addition she has tips and tutorials.  So, in other ways, she's very much like Leah Day. ; )  Subscribe and you'll get her latest (without a bunch of spam) in your email box.

Sew, stay tuned guys and gals! More's on the way!