I took part in an Art Market sponsored by Parks & Recreation Department of the City of Hattiesburg yesterday. It was a day of fun spent with other artists and craftspeople and plant lovers. There was also a plant swap and I brought home three interesting pots.
The venue was the Hattiesburg Community Arts Center, a donated building which formerly housed the local Hattiesburg American newspaper. The building is being upgraded, updated, and remodeled to provide space for drama, art classes, and a variety of other events. It is definitely a work in progress.
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| My display |
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| Thread painting |
I got to visit with people and acquaint them with fiber art and explain how it evolved from traditional quiltmaking to using these skills to make "quilts for the walls." I showed the difference between piecing (sewing small pieces together) and quilting (stitching the top, batting/middle, and backing together). I showed straight stitching on a regular sewing machine and free-motion quilting and "thread-painting" where I use threads as my paints to add to a surface. Then there was Interleave, twisted trees, ghost quilting as well as improvisational pieced strips to fabric collage to create a scene or my cat Elizabeth.
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| Persimmon leaves inspired by photo in my yard |
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| Color Blocks with quilting |
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| Detail of thread painting with Elizabeth supervising |
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| Color Bars |
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| Interleave technique |
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| Ghost quilting |
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| Ghost quilting |
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| Improvisational piecing, mounted on gallery-wrapped canvas |
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| Twisted Tree |
I bought these handmade clay earrings from a group of talented women whose label is Eighteen-Six, based on the scripture Jeremiah 18:6.
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| The Eighteen-Six crew |
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| Amazingly lightweight clay earrings |
2 comments:
Look at your table display! You look great and I bet you inspired people with your amazing art. Love the earrings from that group. :-)
Tierney, it was definitely a fun day--getting to talk about art quilting! Thanks for commenting.
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