Quiltart Musings

Website

2007-07-11T19:02:00.000-07:00

Please check out my website at www.christinepredd.com.
A lot more to see! Thanks,
Chris

Postcard Backs

2007-06-15T11:27:00.000-07:00

I like to use watercolor postcards for the back of my fiber postcards. Here's how they look when done. Chris

Postcard Backs

2007-06-15T11:19:00.001-07:00

Good News!

2007-06-08T11:49:00.001-07:00

Happy to hear I've had my piece "Secrets" accepted into the Images quilt show in Lowell, Mass this year. Also, three of my other art quilts have been accepted to hang at Minnetrista, a cultural center in Muncie Indiana, for a month this summer. These were juried into a competition sponsored by the Quilter's Hall of Fame in Marion, Indiana, in conjunction with Minnetrista.

The Painted Bench

2007-05-28T17:51:00.000-07:00

Time for a new look on my front porch. Decided the dark green bench would look more alive if I painted it the color of the geraniums in the pot, so I did! Love it, adds a lot of spark to the porch.

Chris

Mothers and Sons

2007-05-25T11:57:00.000-07:00

Today I made this piece, the figures are made with watercolor pencils.

This was a fun technique which I expect to use again. The piece measures about a foot square. It is not quilted yet.

Chris

Quilt Books for Sale

2007-05-24T18:37:00.000-07:00

Time to reduce some of my inventory of books. All of these are in like new condition. Price includes shipping. This will be first come, first served.
Email me at fpredd@comcast.net. Thanks.

Round Two: Log Cabin in the Round Designs 9.00 (80 pages)
Toppers: Patterns for quilts for back of couches and over pillows, many
seasonal. 11.00 (79 pages)
Flower Garden Quilts: 12 applique patterns 6.50 (48 pages)
The Easy Art of Applique: Techniques for hand, machine, and fusible
applique and patterns. 7.50 (63 pages)
Bittersweet Threads: Many folkart wool quilt projects 9.00 (44 pages)
Sunbonnet Sue by Ellen Burns 7.50 (48 pages)
Quilts from the Heartland 13 traditional patterns 10.00 (90 pages)

Escape

2007-05-15T16:01:00.000-07:00

Here's my May Art Quilt for the SAQA group. It's called Escape. I had the circles left over from another project, and then embellished with heavy gold thread circles, by filling the bobbin with the thread and sewing from the wrong side of the piece. The circles seem to be coming out from under the left side batik, hence the name escape. One circle has already made it to freedom! The piece is one foot square.

Spring on Anna Maria Island

2007-05-02T15:58:00.000-07:00

Couldn't resist making this piece to reflect all the wonderful colors of spring on Anna Maria Island. Flowering oleander, bougainvilla,plummeria, hibiscus, and many other shrubs and trees are everywhere! This piece gives a sense of the sights of all that color and the bright green foliage too. Chris

Pointless

2007-04-26T15:08:00.000-07:00

This piece was done in response to some

continuing personal sagas which, frankly, are pointless. Here's a way to get those frustrating thoughts out of your head and onto the "paper", so to speak. After I finished, I noticed that my columns are also "marching" along, which is also the way I sometime feel as subjects are discussed over and over again. Repetitive, and pointless, and now expressed in fabric.

Chris

Bougainvilla on Porch Stairs

2007-04-19T14:44:00.000-07:00

This is the first year I am seeing my bougainvilla blooming as it begins twining about my front porch stairs.

For three years I have been trying to find a spot that it would like here in Florida. Last spring before we headed north I transplanted it near the front porch, and was elated when we returned in the fall to find it growing profusely and out of control in this new location. Now, I am blessed with these lovely spring blooms. It's gorgeous.

Chris

A New Studio Pal

2007-04-14T16:19:00.000-07:00

Today I brought home a new addition to my studio. I found this doll, whose tag said "Miss Smiley", at one my local junk shop/antique haunts, and she made me smile. Now I knew I had to have her sitting in my studio for those days when I needed a little cheering up or help out of a creative slump. Wouldn't you have bought her too?

New Link for article

2007-04-09T16:36:00.000-07:00

Sorry, but the link I posted is no longer operational. You can click on it and when there, search for Material World, and you should be able to access the article. If not, try clicking on Entertainment, and maybe you'll find it that way. If not, sorry you missed it!
Chris

I'm in the Newspaper!

2007-04-08T10:21:00.000-07:00

This is an exciting day, I am in an article in the Northwest Indiana Times
about my participation in the Journal Quilt project. You can see the article at www.nwitimes.com/articles/2007/04/08/entertainment. Click on the first article, It's a Material World. This was a lucky happenstance, the paper was looking for a local angle on the quilt show coming to Chicago, and found me! Unfortunately, you cannot see the photos of myself and five journal quilt projects online. I'm anxious to see the actual newspaper so I can see them too!
Chris

Glimpses

2007-04-07T05:18:00.000-07:00

Glimpses is the next piece I've put together from my handpainted fabrics. Not quilted yet, I think the thread will add another dimension.
All the small sections of lightness popping out around the piece reminded me of glimpses into something bigger and better underneath the image.

More painted fabric pieces

2007-04-05T09:08:00.000-07:00

Here's more pieces I painted and sunprinted the other day. The bottom one started with an overpainted commercial fabric, sunprinted with strings of beads. The top one was also a commercial fabric,painted and sunprinted with circular shapes, then stamped with black circles. The long pieces with sunprinted leaves were painted on white fabric, using oleander leaves as the mask. These should be interesting to use in my fabric art.

Fabric Painting Fun

2007-04-05T09:04:00.000-07:00

Summer Song is a 12 by 12 inches piece I recently made using all handpainted fabrics. I do this from time to time, but finally decided to use some of the fabrics and make an art quilt. The strips in the middle were made with sunprinting tissue paper triangles on painted cloth.
Easy and rewarding technique.

New Year, New Blog

2007-04-05T07:02:00.000-07:00

Hello again! I've started a new blog and am looking forward to
keeping my quiltart posted and my thoughts journalled. Thanks for checking it out, and look for more postings soon!