Open Studios - Houston Quilt Show Photos

The highlight of the Houston Quilt Show 2008 for me was to be able to participate in Open Studios. I met so many wonderful artists including Patricia (Pokey) Bolton Editor-in-Chief of Cloth, Paper, Scissors and Quilting Arts Magazine.

When an artist participates in open studios they set up some samples at a table and work on a project. Then quilt show attendees come up to visit. I learned so much from all the ladies that came by and visited. Each had something to share about their creative process and the art they create. It was an amazing opportunity to talk with people from all over the world. I am so grateful for being able to participate.



Open Studios Sign- my mom insisted that I take a photo since it had my name on it. Of course you can't see in in the photo...but never argue with mom..right?


Deborah Boschert a Dallas Area Fiber Artists Member and wonderful artist! It was great to see Deborah at the Houston Quilt Show.

Beaded Pin From Houston Quilt Show

I bought this pin kit last year at the houston quilt show. This was my first attempt at making beaded pins. I was pretty easy to make.

Fabric ATC made to trade at Houston Quilt Show

Red Felted ATC "Art Girl" Left Over


Holiday Wreath ATC


Silly Halloween ATC

Could not resist making a few fabric ATC to trade at the Houston Quilt Show. They are more whimsical that I usually make but you have to go with what the muse dictates.

Open Studios in Make It University Houston Quilt Show

It would be impossible to be any more excited than I am. You would have thought that I won the lottery by the excitement after reading "THE" email!

You- the royal you- after submitting articles, art, etc...to every publication that will allow you to. Get so used to opening up very polite decline letters and emails that when "THE" email comes in and you are accepted..well the thought of all the million No's to get a yes blow away like a nice fall breeze.

My YES email came yesterday. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to Barbara Delaney, Assistant Editor, QUILTING ARTS MAGAZINE® and CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS®

I will be one of the artists sharing their fiber arts in the Open Studios as part of the Make It University at the Houston International Quilt Show. Please stop by and visit me on Sunday November 2, 2008, from 1:30 to 3:30

See you in Houston!

Make It U- Houston Quilt Show 2008

OHH Cloth, Paper, Scissors Magazine just posted all the classes for Make It U at the Houston Quilt Show. They all look so interesting! Being the OCD list maker that I am, I've already begun to check and double check the Make I U classes with my other classes to see where I can run down to sign up for the lottery and sneak in.

This year Make it U is having the following classes- don't you just want to take them all! I LOVE Cloth, Paper, Scissors Magazine they are so awesome to set this program up at the Houston Quilt Show.

Wednesday, October 29
Funky, Festive Fabric Book
Fun with Fabric Ink
Make It University!™ Mixed-media Raffle

Thursday, October 30
3-D Painted Nature ATC (Artist Trading Card)
Bamboo Bracelet
Mixed-media Canvas
Victorian Pincushion
Mixed-media Mosaic
Funky, Festive Fabric Book

Friday, October 31
Surface Design Sampler
Stampmaking for Quilt Artists
Day of the Dead Shrines
Felted & Stitched Ornaments
Resin Jewelry
Fun and Funky Collage

Saturday, November 1
Felted & Stitched Ornaments
Mixed-media Mosaic
Altered Journal
Magical, Mixed-media Postcards
Fun and Funky Collage
Mixed Media Bash and Door Prize Giveaway!

Sunday, November 2
Beaded Velvet/Silk Strawberry Ornament
Bamboo Bracelet

To read all about Make It U at the Houston Quilt Show Click Here - (Official info from the magazine posted on their website.)

Fiber Fusion Postcards

Silk fiber fusion postcards made to exchange with group #52.

I purchased several different color and a small Silk Fusion Started Kit from a Canadian company that was at the Houston Quilt Show.

Antique Postcard Quilt Challenge - Quilters Connection

Thanks to my friend Vicki the "Wish You Were Here...A vintage postcard quilt" was born. Vicki, who always knows everything that is going on the quilt community told me about Quilters Connection Challenge.

Quilters Connection of Dallas issued a challenge to make a quilt that was a minimum on 36" X 36", using any technique, with at least half of the top made from a black toile fabric from the fabric line Traditions by Sentimental Studios for Moda Fabrics. We could pick up the fabric and entry forms the first week in August first and it has to be turned in by August 30th. The quilt show will be in their shop from Sept 1-6 and viewers choice will determine the winners.

How could I not enter a quilt...moda has awesome fabrics, the fabric is a black toile POSTCARD and have another opportunity to use up some more of the goodies that came from the Houston Quilt Show. The Houston Quilt Show basket is getting smaller by the week.

This quilt was really fun to work on. From far away it looks like an appliqe Christmas quilt but when you are closer you can see stamped and tea stained "vintage" postcards with actual 1cent stamps. Little Debbie Mum postage stamps were sewn into the corners of the postcards, and Tsukineko inks were used to color in all the berries. Vintage photos behind plastic with little buttons, beads and trims. Vintage lace, rick rack and buttons also adorn the quilt. My favorite photo is on the bottom right. It is of a baby in a little carrage under the plastic are some tiny, tiny buttons and tiny, tiny pins that were given to me by mom that were in Nana's sewing box.

Houston Quilt Show- Lots of Awesome Creative Arts Classes

I am so excited I can't stand it!!! My registration for the Houston International Quilt show arrived today....You would have thought it was Christmas. Mom and I started the tradition of going to the Houston Quilt show last year. It is so hard to book reasonable hotel rooms we booked last year for this year. My mission at the quilt show is easy...take classes that are not available locally and buy fabric, embellishments etc that are also not available locally. The focus is usually on purchasing "basic" kits to make one of something. Figure after making one if I wanted more it can always be ordered later online.

Okay so here are my 2008 Houston Quilt Show Classes...so excited that typing is hard..

Unabashed Free-Motion Quilting and Use of Specialty Threads by Wendy Butler Berns http://www.wendybutlerberns.com/

Everything You Wanted To Know About Needle Felting by Barbara Crawford.

The Emotion of Color by Hollis Chatelain

Creative Photography for Quilt Composition by Esterita Austin

Mixed Media Miscellany #1- this class I am most excited about. You go into a huge room and each artist has a table set up and talks about their topic.
Christina Adams- Pattern & Paint Play
Esteria Austin - Ramp Up Your Creativity with Fusible Magic
Patt Blair - Drawing and Painting for People who do not Draw or Paint!
Jackie Clark & Tamara Gonzales - Timeless Texture with Crochet Applique
Dena Crain "Spirit Works" Painted Art Quilts
Barbara Crawford A Hands On Mish Mosh of Needlefelting Techniques
Lenore Crawford - Fusing, Appliqueing and Fabric Painting to Create a Masterpiece
Noriko Endo - Confetti Naturescapes
Lisa Engelbrecht - Cool Marks on Fabric with Cool Tools
Marlene Glickman - Fine Line Foils
Valerie Hearder - Guilding the Lily
Marilyn Huskamp - Fiber Fusion Frenzy
Tracy Lyn Huskamp - Painted Fabrics of Nature
Katie Kendrick - Collage Painted Pages
Lyric Kinard - Carvin it Up
Carole Lane Saber - Ribbon Origami Diamonds
Janet Lasher - Encaustic Collage on Paper
Billie Lauder - Luggage Tags
Susie Monday - Inspiration Deck
Diane Ricks - Art Felting Making with Water Soluble Stabilizer
Janet Stauffacher - Antiquing Velvet Ribbon
Maggie Weiss - Painting Luscious Layers
Kristal Wick - Leather Eyelet Beads

Going Au Naturel with the Naked Quilter by Rachele Fisher

Contemporary, Avant-Garde, Classic Wearables! by Starr Hagenbring

Mixed Media Miscellany #2- Wicked excited about this one too!
Christine Adams—Discover Lazertran Silk
Esterita Austin—Mixed Media Fusion
Brett Barker—Zooming In: I’m Ready for MyClose-up!
Traci Bautista—Graffiti Bouquet
Karen Carruthers—Candy Making at Home
June Colburn—Hand Beaded Embellishment onSilk Screened Designs
Dena Crain—“Spirit Works” Painted Art Quilts
Ginny Eckley—Silk-Screening
Marlene Glickman—Funky Fiber Friends
Diane Herbort—Vintage-Look Photocopy Transfer Using Disperse Dye
Pam Holland—Quilted Cards to Warm the Heart
Marylin Huskamp—Fiber Fusion Frenzy
Tracie Lyn Huskamp—Painted Fabrics ofNature (Flora and Fauna Inspired)
Katie Kendrick—Collaged and Painted Pages
Lyric M. Kinard—Carvin’ It Up
Janet A. Lasher—Caustic Collage on Paper
Susie Monday—Mapping Your Creative Journey
Jenny Raymond—Confetti Fabric
Tricia Quirk Spitzmueller—Button Up!
Katrina Walker—Fabric Creation ThroughNeedle Felting
Beth Wheeler—Mixed Media Bookmark

Paste Paper Colors and Patterns on Fabric by Lisa Englbrecht

Rick- Rack Bouquet Yo Yo Pin

Rick-Rack Bouquet pattern by Moda U. The kit was all moda fabrics and rick rack. The little bouquet was easy to make. You used the three fabric swatches to make the yo yo's and stitch with button in the middle. Then you gather up the moda rick rack to form an outer flower that is then stitched down to the yoyo. Once all three Yo Yo flowers are made you add a few felt leaves and finish it off by stitching it onto a circle that is covered with moda fabrics. Special note- when you attache the flowers to the circle make sure the fabric side is NOT facing the flowers. I did not notice until after I had sewn them on that the back of my pin is the paper side not the pretty finished floral fabric. Live and learn...right.

We are having a tea party meeting for the Garland Guild tomorrow night. I plan to bring this little pin to suggest as a party favor for the tea party attendees. No offense to moda but I would love to make another with bright fabrics and some tulle.

Secret Garden Mini Quilt with Fusible Film

Secret Garden Quilt was made from the most beautiful fat quarter ever!  My secret pal in the Garland Quilt Guild gave it to me a few months ago and I have been trying to figure out how I would use it.  It was just too pretty to cut! 

 

The answer came to me when I read the article in the June/July issue of Quilting Arts Magazine "Lost in the Stash".  (Not only could I use the fat quarter, but also the packages fusible film from Houston Quilt Show.)  The article gave directions to make a small quilt from a fabric with an image on it that is layered with Angelina fusible film and then embellished.  Since the fusible film comes in 4" rolls I cut my mini quilt base 12" square to minimize waste.  The quilt in the magazine had many more details too but I wanted to keep mine more simple so that the fabric would still be the highlighted feature of the quilt.

The back side of the secret garden quilt is a beautiful piece of hand dyed fabric that I purchased last year at the Garland Guild garage sale for .25.

Melted Vinyl and Angelina Beads- Houston Quilt Show

Three beads that I made from the starter kit.  

While in Houston at the quilt show, there was a lady who had the most exquisite necklace on.  A real conversation piece.  She told me that a woman a few booths down taught her how to make them at another show that they both had booths at a few months prior.  She said that if I asked the vendor nice she might also teach me how to make them.  

The beads are not as pretty in the photo as they are in person.  The bead kit had the supplies to make lots of beads, but unfortunately the smell of the melting vinyl was a little to much for me.  I am the kind of person who is really sensitive to smells though so it may not bother someone else.  To make the beads you wrap the angelina sheets around the vinyl and heat it with a heat gun in a VERY well ventilated area.  You can use either black vinyl as I did in the photo or clear vinyl.

I am going to use the clear piece of vinyl to make a new badge holder and will use the extra sheets of angelina in some ATC.  

Houston International Quilt Show Kits

OHHH the 2008 Houston International Quilt Show brochure arrived yesterday...Yay! After reading it cover to cover many times, mom and I registered for our classes. Very Exciting- we went last year and had soooo much fun. Even though we live just outside of Dallas, this area of North Texas does not really have any shops that specialize in mixed-media or art quilting. The closest shop is in Lewisville (about a hour away each way). So I am embarrassed to say that I went a little crazy buying art quilting kits and supplies that I had NEVER seen before and was afraid I would not see again in my area.

BUT I still have a basket of "kits" and projects that I just HAD to have last year. Herein lies the challenge. For each kit/project that I finish before October 29th (when we leave for the quilt show this year) I can buy another project. But I am going to hold myself to the fact that if I do not finish any that I bought last year...I can't buy any new ones this year.

I'll post photos as I finished the kits (must get right one this can't imagine going to the Houston International Quilt Show and not be able to buy anything)