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Christina Flores
Jacksonville, Florida
Unknown

32” x 24”

The Webb Telescope has opened a new view of the the unknown universe.

Techniques:    Applique

Materials:         Hand dyed fabric, tulle

@ChristinaFloresFiberArtist

 

Beth Frisbie Wallace
S. Palm Beach, Florida
Wish You Were Here


36.5 x 27

My husband was an avid photographer. Flipping through over forty years of his photos brings back special memories of locations, trips, and events that we shared together and as a family. Since his passing, our family has expanded and we continue to make special memories while feeling his presence.

Techniques:    Raw edge applique, hand painting and inking, over painting, hand
embroidery, machine quilting

Materials:         Textile paints, intense blocks and textile inks, commercial print fabrics,
poly and rayon threads, embroidery threads, wool-rayon felt, Pellon 830

Peg Green
Sarasota, Florida
Who Am I? / Who I Am

28” x 25”

Quilting Arts demonstrates a wide variety of advanced and unusual techniques. I am encouraged to expand my skills and combine techniques to amplify the impact of my fabric art. This quilt expresses the audacity to discover and affirm an authentic personal identity in the modern culture of chaotic diatribes about righteousness and propriety. Pink, blue, and white are the colors of the Transgender Flag.

Techniques:   I use fusing and piecing with both turned and raw edge techniques. I use exclusively curved edges, from gentle to sharp turnings. I quilt on a domestic sewing machine

Materials:       Commercial cotton fabrics.

www.peacepeg.com

 Janice W. Hillmer
Tampa, Florida
A Fire Burns Outside Our House

26” x 17.25”

This art plays improvisationally with a unique block, stretching and distorting each section.

The orange suggests fire and change; the moss suggests constancy.

Moss growing on tree bark is a primary inspiration for Tina Rae, featured artist of “In the Spotlight,” Quilting Arts, Winter

Techniques:   Improvisational piecing, machine quilting, embroidery, beadwork.

Materials:       Commercial fabrics, embroidery floss, beads

Doris Hulse
The Villages, Florida
Somewhere in Paradise

43.5 x 34

Somewhere in Paradise is an imaginary image of dense flora you might see in Hawaii or some other tropical location. It started as an ice dyed piece of fabric enhanced with watercolor pencils and blocks to develop the interesting flora patterns.

Techniques:    ice dyed fabric, Inktense pencils and blocks free motion quilting.

Materials:         White cotton fabric, felt batting and polyester thread. 3.5 x 34

Angie Knowles
Fort Campbell, Kentucky
Wings of Time

14” x 11”

Wings of Time reflects the delicate balance between nature’s fleeting beauty and the inevitable passage of time. The feather, printed in fine detail, stands as a symbol of flight, freedom, and the transient nature of life. Paired with a rust-dyed background, the earthy tones ground the piece in the processes of decay and transformation, echoing the quiet march of time.


Techniques:    rust dyed and screen printed

Materials:         cotton, rust, acrylic paint

https://angieeknowles.com/

Janice Kreuzinger
Lutz, Florida
Saving the Elephants

17” x 11”

A wooden tjap of an Indian elephant was found among in my brother’s treasures from world travels. Intending to make a commemorative quilt, I made a rubbing of the tjap using a turquoise paint stick. But in the heat of inspiration, I didn’t give much thought to the orange paper background. Though properly complementary, these colors & the paper were concept stoppers for me - until I saw Heidi Zielenski’s work on Quilting Arts. Her variety of fabric scraps in horizontal layouts inspired me to promptly pull fabrics from my stash. This SAQA Florida Call for Submissions prompted me to put the commemorative quilt together & explore Heidi’s idea of bead dangle embellishments.

Techniques:   Deconstructed silk screening, Shiva paint stick rubbings, stamping, markers, fabric paints, couching, hand & machine embroidery, beading dangles.

Materials:       My own hand dyed, painted, silk screened, batiks & commercial cottons, paper interfacing, glass beads

Ellen Lindner
Melbourne, Florida
Magnetic Attraction

37 x 35.5

When some brightly colored scraps landed on my worktable next to some recently dyed blue fabrics, they had an immediate attraction. It was almost like they were magnetic and moved to attach themselves to one another! When that happened everything suddenly popped!

Techniques:    Machine piecing, and quilting, fusing.

Materials:         Artist-dyed and commercial cotton fabric, fusible web

AdventureQuilter.com

Phyllis Petrillo
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Balance

33 x 32.5

Balance explores the visual Language of abstraction through color, geometry, and texture. Circles, triangles and rectangular forms are arranged as interconnected spaces, suggesting moments of thought, movement and transformation.

Vibrant greens, purples, blues, and warm tones create energy and balance across the surface, while layered fabrics and lace introduce softness and depth. Hand stitching and quilting lines act as quiet pathways, guiding the viewer's eye and reinforcing a sense of structure within freedom.

Techniques:    Piecing, applique, machine and hand stitching

Materials: 100% silk (from Paris, France, copper mesh, skinny lines, lace, and various textural fabrics.

Susan Redhead
Mount Dora, Florida
Red Tide


30 x 32”x2.5”

A red tide, or harmful algal bloom which is the scientific term, occurs when certain algae accumulate densely and rapidly in fresh or salt water and turn the water red. The harmful toxins they produce kill fish and make shellfish dangerous to eat, and even make the surrounding air difficult to breathe. A red tide can be triggered by warm temperatures and excess nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen from runoff.

One of the ‘best’ red tides occurs along Florida’s Gulf Coast nearly every summer, and they have been reported in every coastal US state.

Techniques:    Shannon Conley uses traditional smocking in non traditional ways and demonstrated this on Quilting Arts TV episode 3108. I used that technique to transform my two dimensional quilt.

Materials:   vintage quilt as base, reclaimed synthetic blouse fabrics, tulle, perle cotton for smocking.

Natalie Larsen Rockley
Hendersonville, NC
Home to Birds

23.25 x 17.25

My backyard is Home to Birds. The bird feeder brings them to my window year-round. They bring me joy. Why not make a small quilt inspired by Lisa Thorpe's article "From gelatin print to Art Quilt" printed in Quilting Arts Magazine in 2018.

Techniques: printing with a gel plate; fused and appliquéd; quilted on a domestic machine.

Materials: Commercial gel plate, acrylic paints; white muslin; batting; commercial fabric for the backing.

Natalierockley@gmail.com

Meena Schaldenbrand
Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
Tropical Pollinators

24” x 24”

By removing the literal colors of the tropics, the blue-and-white cyanotype silhouettes focus on the interdependence of the flora and fauna.

Techniques:  Cyanotype sun exposure with stencils. Hand embroidery and hand quilting,
beading

Materials:  Jacquard Cyanotype solutions A and B, cotton fabric, Jacquard cyanotype
fabric sheets, pebble sink mat, stencils, beads, sequins

meenas456@gmail.com

Ellen Simon
Parrish, Florida
Hirshhorn III

24” x 19”

This is an abstract image of the Hirshhorn Museum of Art in Washington DC, third in a series. The design is inspired by the work of Lisa Flowers Ross whose quilts I have seen in the pages of Quilting Arts Magazine.

The fabrics were purchased in 1996 and I finally found the right project for them.

Techniques:   raw edge applique, pieced and quilted

Materials:   cotton fabrics, batting