Northern Lights quilts published

I have just received my copy of the Summer 2015 Art Quilting Studio magazine ... with a five-page article on my Northern Lights art quilts.  It is such a delight to see my work in print in such a beautiful magazine.

I was approached by Stampington and Company last year about submitting an article on one of my purses and subsequent to that, about an article on the Northern Lights art quilts.  For this article I sent the art quilts to them in California so that they could photograph them for the magazine.

These are from my Northen Lights series of art quilts that have the sky needle felted to quilt batting and the silhouette of foreground trees is created from cotton batik. They are free motion machine quilted.

Here is a look at the cover of this magazine ...look for it at your specialty magazine shop or quilt shop.

Silk Fusion Art Quilt

You already know how much I like silk fusion and this is a piece that I created some time ago but never got around to using until now.  It is some of the silk that I dyed using blue and grape Kool-aid as the dye. 

The silk fusion, which I made quite textural with some lumpy areas and feathery edges, has been free motion quilted to a background of black dupioni silk.  I stitched the word "Trust" into the background before quilting the black silk and I painted the word with turquoise metallic textile paint after everything else was finished (did I hold my breath when taking the paint brush to the totally finished quilt ... you bet!).

This is quite a small art quilt (14" wide by 9.25" high) but it is finished with a hanging sleeve just like the big quilts and is all labelled and ready to ship from my Etsy shop (kathykinsella.etsy.com). I enjoyed working on this so much that I have already started on another with the word "Grace" that is in shades of purple :)

Quilt Show Display

I spent the last two days at the Salmon Arm Quilt Show and I was SO impressed with the quality of this show.  The 300 quilts were beautifully displayed in the arena ... with nice wide aisles so that the quilts could be viewed without congestion. As well as the guild's quilts they had invited vendors and related "fibre" groups such as the needlework guild and the spinners and weavers guild to display at the event. I was invited to be the "featured fibre artist" and I was given a wonderful 8' x 16' space to display my fibre art.

I have never had that much space before so I spent quite a bit of time thinking about how I would set it up and came up with the idea that I would like to have part of it set up as an old parlour ... but displaying my contemporary fibre art. 

Here are a couple of photos of the set up, complete with my antique rocking chair, tea wagon and parson's table. I even included two antique handmade quilts that belonged to my husband's grandmother. I don't do that kind of quilting, but it is where fibre art originated, too, so I was pleased to be able to include them. The gridded frames where I hung some of my purses were originally the frames for screen windows at our hundred year old church before they replaced the windows.