Art Quilting
#2
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
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fusing, embellishing, beading, collage, ...list goes on & on.....were you looking for some sort of specific information?
check out ThreadArts magazine for information/inspiration...check their links, resources for more places to look...
check out ThreadArts magazine for information/inspiration...check their links, resources for more places to look...
#3
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 5,052
Are Crazy Quilts considered Art Quilts? Applique, counted cross stitch on that wash away stuff, embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, ruching, beading, ribbon work. I use all kinds of buttons, trims, ribbons, lace, cigarette silks, and crocheted doilies.
#4
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Louisville, KY
Posts: 1,293
All of the above. Carol Ann Waugh's Stitch and Slash and Stupendous Stitching methods. You can add paint to the fabric. Metal chains and rings; plastic (shower curtain rings, bottle tops, etc.) Paper (old book pages). Really, anything that hits my mind at the time to get across what I want to "say" in a piece.
Last edited by Sunnye; 01-12-2013 at 07:05 AM. Reason: Thought of other things to add to list.
#7
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: northern California
Posts: 1,098
What "art quilt" means is obviously open to interpretation. I think of true art quilting to be having a vision and going for it, with or without pattern, or instructions. Usually there will be a definite technique (like making an image by thread only-- there have been lots of pets done this way, and pictures of a woman presented more than once here on QB), or it can be totally fabric, but done as a landscape or an abstract, or ......? with or without embellishments.
There is an art quilt thread going on now, and I followed it for a while, but I'm not "into" embellishments or dark concepts (dark gray quilts depress me) and I was hoping they might start having specific technique, or concept threads, but that became a controversary. I'd like to see a thread that is basically "landscape", and another basically "portraits" (people, and animals), but I can't start it because I can't upload onto QB.
PatriceJ has put pictures up into categories and there are about 30 photos of quilts that QB members themselves consider to be "art quilts". They are a wonderful example of what I was trying to say above. Made from the heart, not just from a pattern.
There is an art quilt thread going on now, and I followed it for a while, but I'm not "into" embellishments or dark concepts (dark gray quilts depress me) and I was hoping they might start having specific technique, or concept threads, but that became a controversary. I'd like to see a thread that is basically "landscape", and another basically "portraits" (people, and animals), but I can't start it because I can't upload onto QB.
PatriceJ has put pictures up into categories and there are about 30 photos of quilts that QB members themselves consider to be "art quilts". They are a wonderful example of what I was trying to say above. Made from the heart, not just from a pattern.
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