Exhibit

I heard today that the quilt I made for the theme Hot will be included in the permanent 12x12 exhibit website that will go online in 2013. This exhibit is organized by the Todd Art Gallery of the Department of Art Middle Tennesse State University USA.

 

Hot politics

Anne is moving house from France to England and has forwarded me the picture of her quilt. I have to admit I forgot to post it to the blog when she did this, but better late than never. For more information about this quilt you have to wait till Anne is online again as I don't have this.

hot

My 'Hot' piece is completed just in time. Well completed, that is to say, the binding, sleeve and label still has to be attached but for the picture that does not make any difference. This piece started out as a plain black Kona on which I used metallic Lumiere paint with a textured gel print. I quilted flames on it and the words hot using a variegated red thread. Hmmm, not impressive enough so I added lots and lots of  beads in gold, yellow, orange and reds to finish it. The stitching of the beads followed the quilting lines. This proved to be more time consuming as I had expected/hoped.  But anyway, I managed to complete it just in time.

Red Hot Gibson

Ann Beech is having problems logging in on the blog, so I am posting the picture for her. Inspiration for this quilt was her son's guitar. I cannot say more about this piece, simply because I do not know more :-). Ann will post later more information.

October challenge HOT

Here is the second attempt at this challenge.

We recently had Edwina McKinnon to the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild and among her pieces she showed one where she had joined pieces by zig zag stitch and then turned and cut, stitched and turned and cut. It struck me this would be a quick way to get lots of hot coloured pieces quickly assembled for the background to my piece.

I then came up with the idea of hot springs. I downloaded a tiny image of springs and spent an evening copying it, I kept getting lost in all the coils. When I had my drawing I stitched the outline of the springs and the letters and then filled them with old silver paint by Hobbytex. It must be about 20 years old. I have never used either gold or silver paint in my work so it was wonderful to finally use it. Of course it has evaporated somewhat but was fine. I liked the way it did not totally cover the area so makes the springs look a bit aged.
Irene MacWilliam

Hot

Our present theme is HOT. There are lots of things you can connect with this theme. Are you thinking of the HOT centre of the earth with magma or lava? Are you wishing that the temperature was higher, you are fed up with the cold and the rain and wishing for HOT and dry weather? You love HOT, spicy food? Or do you hate those HOT flashes you get at inconvenient moments? I did not check a dictionary or Wikipedia, but no doubt there are other connections to make as well.