DreamWeaver's Quilts Quilt Epiphany Weblog

There is going to be a great art quilt show in the Southern California area of Temecula from Oct 2 to Nov 29th. Some very unusual materials are used (in the past, kevlar and fiberglass) and this year’s quilts are going to be even better than last year’s. It is is a gallery setting. Visit [...]

Are you tired of stippling, grids, pebbles and wavy lines as background filler patterns? If you’re looking for something different and need a little inspiration, follow along as Quilter Leah Day takes us on a year-long free motion quilting adventure on her new blog, 365 Days of Free Motion Quilting Filler Designs. With designs like [...]

Jill Buckley brings new meaning to the word “embellishment” with her textile art pieces. Jill challenges herself frequently and steps outside the box of even contemporary embellishment techniques when she designs. She has actually used rocks and paper in her textile art pieces with great success. Her latest piece, entitled Reality Show, contains preserved maple [...]

It’s not too early to make plans to attend the 2009 Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta on Memorial Day weekend, May 21-23, 2009. This year, the juried show and fiber arts exhibit moves to a new location with bigger and better quarters, and will offer classes for the first time. Featured New Mexico artist Dorothy Bunny [...]

Scott Hagan may not think of himself as a quilter, but he knows quite a bit about how quilt blocks and patterns go together. A painter by trade, he sometimes works with quilt blocks on a very large scale, transferring traditional quilt block patterns to his chosen canvas, and painting in the patchwork pieces. And [...]

At first glance, Fraser Smith’s quilts are finely quilted, richly colored textile art pieces that beg to be touched. They hang in graceful folds from casually strung rope lines. You look both ways to make sure no one’s watching, and against all quilt-show etiquette, you reach out to touch the quilt and unexpectedly encounter not [...]

Caryl Bryer Fallert’s quilt Corona #2: Solar Eclipse won the $10,000 Best of Show award at the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah, Kentucky in 1989. It was the first time a completely machine stitched quilt won this prestigious award. At that time, traditionalists often rejected machine quilting, and the award caused quite a furor! Today, [...]