Here we have a review of Jennifer Chiaverini’s work Harriet’s Journey from Elm Creek Quilts. This book provides patterns for 100 6 inch quilt blocks inspired by one of the author’s novels.
This Felter Skelter column highlights three artists who all use needle felting as a method to create fantasy felted characters. All are inspired by nature and animal life. The three artists chosen all have their own websites or shops to visit for further information or to purchase one of the pieces.
Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator whose woven fibre work comes from her personal life, struggles with daily occurrences, the ultimate strive for comfort, and trying to figure out life one step at a time.
Every year, Hand & Lock organizes a competition for the prestigious Prize for Embroidery to promote the use of hand embroidery and to discover emerging
Australian artist Maggie Hensel-Brown is taking the painstaking art of needle lace out of the past and using this language to document her daily life in all its quirky details.
Cats made of needle felt are very popular and in this post we’ve got a selection of needle felt artists who take their cat creations in unusual directions!
Our columnist Alicja Kozlowska talks us through how textiles and bathrooms can come together! ‘This month I’m bringing you some bathroom accessories. I think that bathroom gadgets are very underrated and often forgotten by artists.’. Check it out in this issue of stitching it real.
Julie explores a book for us this time in Quilty Pleasures….Ready for a super fun book review? I was sent this quilt book and think it is just wonderful! It is all about making quilts, as well as other things, from a child’s artwork. It is not a book about how to make a quilt but rather how to take a child’s artwork and turn it into something utilizing fabric. The book is Creating Children’s Artwork Quilts by Shannon Gingrich Shirley.
Using food colouring to dye fabric is a relatively easy process and a simple way to try dyeing for beginners. It is particularly useful if you only want to apply dye to part of a fabric, and because it uses familiar household objects, it’s quite cost effective as well.
Kim Lieberman explores themes of human connection through her contemporary lacework and this has led her to include materials such as postage stamp paper, puzzles, and money in her pieces. Find out more at Mr X Stitch!
Dani Ives of Be Good Natured creates beautiful felt portraits of animals, people and other natural subjects. Her technical skill is remarkable and her artworks are packed with detail and character.
Franziska Ebner and Romana Hasenoehrl take you on a detailed visual and texted based journey through the chapter and verse of the natural dyeing world. Prepare to rethink the items around you; from red cabbage to bark – what will you try to dye with?
