cyber fyber

This is the fibercard I received from Susan Lenz's cyber fyber swap. I forgot to take a picture of the card I am sending to Susan. If you want to join in this swap, there are still a few cards available.

research and quiltswap

No picture today. For my c&g course I have to do research on the last 200 years of quiltmaking in the Netherlands. There is only one author who has written two books on this subject:
An Moonen. Both her books have been out of print for years. I tried to find them second hand, but had no luck. She is working on a third one which is expected to be published in September this year. I managed to borrow the two books through the library system and am now in the middle of copying/scanning these books so that I have a copy on my harddisk.
Another thing - of which I cannot show you a picture yet - I am working on is a quilt I am making for the coming quiltswap. This is a yahoogroup of which I am a member. Twice a year we have a quiltswap on this group. Everybody who participates in this swap sends a picture of the quilt to the listowner who places the pictures on the groupsite. This way it is not known who the artists are. When all the pictures are there, every participant send a list of her/his favourites to the listowner who than starts to match everything. After this matching you send your quilt to the new owner and you receive another quilt in return.

art quiz

You Are Impressionism

You think the world is quite beautiful, especially if you look at it in new and interesting ways.You tend to focus on color and movement in art.For you, seeing the big picture is much more important than recording every little detail.You can find inspiration anywhere... especially from nature.

What Art Movement Are You?

This is a little art quiz I came across today. I know that most of these quizes are just fun, but in this case the results is true for me.

different styles

For my c&g course I had to make samples in the style of 4 different quilt artist. I blogged about that earlier. This journal quilt is inspired by Pam Rubert . If you pick petals from the flower long enough, you will get the answer you are looking for :-)

assessment piece

Nelleke asked whether Montezuma would be at the national show in Arnhem. I could not answer by email as there was no email address of Nelleke mentioned so I do it with this message. The answer is yes, all the quilts made for this Quilten Speciaal course will hang at the exhibition.

assessment piece

For the Quilten Speciaal course I took here in the Netherlands, I had to make a final assessment quilt. In my case I should work with lines and structure. The picture shows the result. It is a wholecloth quilt. I handdyed the fabric and than stamped on it using Lumiere paint. The white and the black rectangulars at the left are made from lutrador on which I used my heatgun. For the quilting I used my favourite design which comes from Dijanne Cevaal's book. When everything was quilted I wanted to adjust the columns in such a way that they stood out more so I decided to add paint to them. For two of them I used copper Lumiere for the other ones black Setacolor transparant. And to complete it, I attached lots of different shaped white buttons on it. Chosing a title was the most difficult part. Friends mentioned words like ruins, Indiana Jones and tracks. This helped a lot. Out of this came the title: 'Montezuma's Mystery Trails'.

color families

Last year I took dyeing classes with Carol Soderlund in wich we created colorfamilies using only 3 pure procion mx dyes to create more than 300 different colors. How we did that is something I am not going to reveal. You have to take classes with Carol or wait for her book. Anyway a small group of former students decided to create more colorfamilies and swap them amongst each other. The picture shows the results of the first step: 6 different colors of yellow. In this case Tangerine from ProChem.

They have now all been sorted and are ready for the next step.