Quilt contemporary

Illustration: Marlene Cohen. Healing. Marlene Cohen is a British textile artist that has taken her own strong and contemporary attitude towards her chosen medium, and created a distinctive style of composition and layering that is entirely her own. Cohen uses both printmaking and fine art disciplines, along with the usual aspects of textile work such as layering and stitching, to produce work that although technically part of the quilt medium, has managed to stretch that medium farther than…

Hi, all! Wow! Can you believe it's Friday again? And you know what that means - it's time to get our whoop whoop on!! I hope you're ready - I've been working hard this week, but unfortunately I've been working on some projects I can't show you yet! So here are some of my favorite links from last week's party... Emily from Em's Scrap Bag finished this beautiful quilt, despite some roadblocks that you really should read about! And check out this fabulous mini by Janet at Simply Pieced! My…

Art Pieces — Anna Westerlund

I kept meaning to write about this sooner but today is the first meeting of the Oahu Modern Quilt Guild! Anyone is welcome to join us - we have a Facebook page here and are having an informal meeting/sew-in today...

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Guys, I made it to the end! 100-days of creating and I’m still standing. AND – I still have lots of creative mojo left! There have been many lessons I’ve learned throughout this creative challenge. Some are obvious, or at least more obvious now. But others are really quite subtle. But first, let me bring […]

You might remember this block and its siblings, which I sent out to a bunch of you who wanted the challenge of reinventing it. Three have not come back and I hope that they will at some point (ahem) so I can post them. One block never arrived at its destination, sadly. (who would steal a piece of mail with this in the envelope??) And seven of them came back by the deadline. Here, in order of their arrival, are the blocks, which have been made into finished pieces. Wow! Isn't it fascinating…

from my Quilt Festival class with Jean Wells Keenan - Intuitive Color and Design.

Attentive readers may have noticed I am on a roll. This is the third Saturday I have positioned myself in front the computer and typed out a blog post. It’s taken many years, but I just might have …