The Daily Reviewer | Textile Art Quilts by Lynn In California

Thread Painting

Feb 13, 2010 9:39pm

I made this thread painting for Kelly as a page for her traveling sketchbook for the blog called Artshine. The art there is a mix of mixed media, watercolors, and textile art.This piece is a mere 8" X 8" square...fun to do too.Simply rayon and polyester threads...

Seeds of Hope One and Two

Jan 12, 2010 11:33pm

I made these two art quilts in October 2009. How I neglected to post them here I do not know.The larger of the two is 31" X 31.5"I enjoyed using my embellishling machine to felt the wooly bits that make up the flower heads and stems. The sky and fence...

Mixed Media Quilted Wall Hanging

Jan 5, 2010 8:41pm

Click to see details and colors:A long weekend of paper bead and wire making, followed by a day of collagraph plate creating, another day of sewing beads to paper and fabric, cutting up painted c. plate, positioning them all on a rose cotton fabric; hand embroidering around it all..machine and...

Mandala Challenge Met for Quilts Around The World Blog

Dec 31, 2009 3:04pm

The group Quilts Around The World is a group of women art quilters from around the globe, (Australia, The Netherlands, Europe, USA)...who take up a challenge every three months to make a small art quilt and post it on our blog. http://aroundtheworldin20quilts.blogspot.com/Go there to see ALL the quilts as they...

Simply Dreadful

Dec 4, 2009 7:19pm

I made this portrait art quilt for my 19 yr old grandson for Chanukah. He does wear his hair in dread locks, and leads a hippie-like life style. I took artistic licence to color them brightly. The dreadlocks are made from rolled up hand dyed repurposed dryer sheets. The face...

Solo Art Show A Huge Success!

Nov 19, 2009 9:01am

On November 13th, I had the honor and excitement of seeing my art hung for the 2nd Friday Art About at the Paint Chip in Davis, CA. We had a nice reception and a very good turn out.Maia, the owner of the store, said I'd had by far the...

Earth, Water, Air and Fire

Sep 28, 2009 11:26am

I recently made four art quilts using hand dyed paper towels and dryer sheets. I then stitched the small paper quilts to painted canvas. These represent the four elements of Earth, Water, Air and this one is FIRE.Click on photos to see details.EarthWaterAirThese are for sale in my ETSY...

How Does Your Garden Grow? Sold on ETSY Today

Sep 15, 2009 11:45am

The woman who purchased this art quilt from my ETSY store left me this thank you:"oh my gosh, this piece is such a BEAUTY, i can't stop holding/looking at it. it is bringing me joy!!!!thank you so much!!!!"Well, what a joy it was for me to find this feedback. There...

"!"

Aug 11, 2009 2:08pm

This is my latest art creation and for now I am calling it: "!"This is two three day weekends of mono print painting, cutting, sandwiching, sewing around each piece, top sewing each piece, then painstakingly sewing each to the other to get this wall hanging. I'd guess I put...

3-D stuffed Fish Quilted Wall Hanging

Aug 1, 2009 5:14pm

This fish has been "caught" by Sylvain in my recent blog Give Away on Lynn-Getting My Feet Wet Blog.I had great fun yesterday constructing this 18" stuffed fish! I used cotton fabrics left over from my Gold Mountain Wall Hanging Quilt seen below(some hand dyed) and ribbons with lots of...

Gold Mountain Art Quilt FOR SALE IN ETSY SHOP

Jul 28, 2009 8:37am

This colorful art quilt wall hanging is made from hand dyed fabrics, some other cotton fabrics, and hand dyed ribbons which I bought from another artists ETSY store! It is embellished with Chinese coins from the era when gold was discovered in California. This group of coins includes one with...

Sun Flower Art Quilt Finished and SOLD!!!

May 25, 2009 11:10am

I will be entering this art quilt in the NAMI-Yolo Seeds of Hope Sunflower Art Show & Competition this Friday in Davis, CA. Nami-Yolo is a chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness. As a mental health counselor (MFT) I have a special place in my heart for this...

Juried Art Show 2009

May 3, 2009 8:51am

Last night was my night to shine! Three of my pieces had been selected by judges for the 32nd annual juried art show in our local art gallery. And all three brought home awards: Best of Show, First and Second! Needless to say, I feel very overwhelmed, proud and very...

Hard Times Art Quilt: Fabric Paper Collage and Fabric Portrait

Apr 7, 2009 9:20am

Currently hanging at the Vacaville Art Gallery Annual Juried Art Show April 25-May 20 2009I belong to a group called Art Quilts Around The World (formerly Around The World In 20 Quilts) The theme for the latest challenge quilt there was Brave New World.My “Brave New World” idea struck me...

African Tree

Mar 25, 2009 9:10am

I have no idea if there is a tree growing in Africa that looks like mine, but when I added the zebra I decided that is where it had to be. Artists' creative license! The top of the tree is the result of sitting at my felting machine...

Cactus ATCs and Cactus Quiltlet

Mar 16, 2009 9:42am

These cactus ATCs and Quiltlet were inspired by another bloggers art: Studio Lolo, who gifted me with a drawing of a cactus on an ATC. We also "celebrate" Cactus Monday on the other blogs and so I have been in a cactus mode of late, both drawing and quilting them....

Living Green Art Quilt

Mar 11, 2009 10:43am

Hanging at the Vacaville Art League and Gallery32nd Annual Juried Art Show April 25-May 20, 2009 Now in the P. Atana Collection This piece came from a desire to weave fabrics together and use recycled materials. As the woven central piece evolved a city of buildings grew. A wind blew...

Dancing Buttons Bangles and Beads

Feb 15, 2009 11:37am

Click on photos to enlarge them. My friends from near and far came up with many possible names for this piece, all wonderful suggestions, so I took a few words from some and combined them with my own ideas for the title "Dancing Buttons, Bangles, and Beads". It's free motion...

A designed Grandmother's Bag for a new Grandie

Feb 5, 2009 7:42pm

My friend, Soulbrush became a Grandmother this past month. Many of you now know her as Grandie now. Being a happy Grandma myself I got caught up in the waiting for her "Baby Bean" to be born...she had a count down on her blog marking off the days.I appointed myself...

Quiltlet for Suki

Feb 3, 2009 6:08am

Sukipoet is a blogland friend for whom I made this quiltlet after her mother died. It's a tribute to Suki's love for her mom, made from fabrics that had belonged to her mother who was a seamstress. Suki had a give away and I was fortunate enough to win these...

Curly Haired Girl

Jan 14, 2009 8:01pm

Little Curly Haired GirlColors her worldCreativelyThis is #4 in a series of fabric portraits.(Maria Elkin's directions showed me the way!)Fabrics are from 2 fat quarters; and wavey scraps from a found stash somewhere(yard sale probably)Threads are all 100% cottons in red, yellow, green, light and dark blues...

The Boy With Red Lips

Jan 12, 2009 10:20pm

Boy with Red Lips is hanging in the Vacaville Art Gallery for the month of February! He enjoys the wall he is on along with Hard Times. His head was full of thoughts...

Portraits in Fabric

Jan 12, 2009 8:02am

I love learning new techniques. I've been impressed with others turning out fabric portraits and was amazed that although it is a tedious process that took a lot of time (part of Saturday and all day Sunday) to complete these two 4" X 6" portraits of my best friend and...

Erika's World

Dec 11, 2008 9:59am

My sister in law asked me this summer if I would make her an art quilt wall hanging for her den. She asked that it be about her mom. Thus Erika's World was born. Erika is my ma-in-law, and she has been in my life for 30+ years now. We...

A Star is Born

Nov 30, 2008 12:29pm

Update: "A Star is Born" is hanging in a show at the Vacaville Art Gallery until Jan. 24, 2009. I put her in a black shadow box and with the light shining on her and reflecting of the Angelia fibers she stands out and shines beautifully!I belong to an art...