In the Pink

my coat In the Pink 

In the Pink

Inspired by the bright pink fabric with flower print I carefully cut out the pattern pieces. I added a lot of black flowers, leaves and bugs with black fabric paint and stamps, stencils and thermofax screens.

I wet-felted the sleeves and parts of the skirt.

To make a transition between the woven fabric and the felt I used my needle-felting machine to integrate the parts.

 

There is a lot of applique and free motion quilting.

At FOQ 2016

The Cherrywood Challenge: The Lion King

My piece Twilight for The Lion King Challenge has been juried into the Challenge!
It will be one of the 120 quilts in the traveling collection.

The Lion King Cherrywood Challenge 2016 is getting ready to hit the road to travel for over a year.

The amazing response to the challenge (over 300 entries) was juried down to a fabulous collection of 120 traveling quilts. These quilts were selected from a pool of Finalists.

All 138 Finalists appear in this beautiful keepsake photo book, including the artist's statements

To add a bit of colour I used colour pencils.

Inspired by the fabrics I decided to depict the Lion King in the desert. The sun is going down. The lion is sleepy. The vultures are waiting..... The feeling of suspense in the air. 

The Lion King Cherrywood Challenge Traveling Exhibit SCHEDULE  (120 quilts ) .
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September 15-17, 2016
AQS QuiltWeek, Chattanooga, Tennessee
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
Cherrywood will have a booth at the show.
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October 6-8, 2016
AQS QuiltWeek, Des Moines, Iowa
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
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November 2-6, 2016
International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
Cherrywood will be in booth (#??).
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November - December 2016
Franklin Arts Center, Brainerd, Minnesota
Gallery will be open on November 25, 26 and December 1-3
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January 19-22, 2017
Road to California Quilt Show, Ontario, California
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
Cherrywood will have a booth.
Karla is teaching "Color Wheel" on Wednesday night.
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February 2017
Stevens County Museum Gallery, Morris, Minnesota
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
Karla will give a presentation TBA
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March 30 - April 1, 2017
AQS QuiltWeek, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
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April 6-8, 2017
MQX, Manchester, New Hampshire
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
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April 25-29, 2017
AQS QuiltWeek, Paducah, Kentucky
*Traveling Exhibit displayed at the Convention Center*
Cherrywood will have a booth at the Rotary Quilt Show which is in the Robert Cherry Civic Center. This is a different building than the main AQS show but is a sanctioned part of the show. It is a little jewel of incredible antique quilts, hand-picked vendors and the Hoffman Challenge.
The LION KING quilts will be at the convention center.
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May 4-6, 2017
Home Machine Quilting Show (HMQS), Salt Lake City, Utah
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
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June 7-10, 2017
Minnesota Quilt Show, Duluth, Minnesota
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
Cherrywood will have a booth. This is our home-state show, so we have lots in store for the exhibit!
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June 22-24, 2017
Sew Original Expo, Reno, Nevada
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
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August 17-20, 2017
World Quilt New England, , New Hampshire
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
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September 7-9, 2017
QuiltExpo Madison, Wisconsin
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
Cherrywood will have a booth.
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September 14-17, 2017 (tentative)
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Oaks, Pennsylvania
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
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October 12-15, 2017
Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, California
*Traveling Exhibit displayed*
Cherrywood will be in booth #101.
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November, 2017
Minskoff Theatre on Broadway, New York City, New York

 

The Hoffman Challenge 2016

This is my entry The Butterfly Effect.
1st place Clothing.

 

I used both the black and the white Challenge Fabrics and a lot of butterfly fabrics.

I used black textile paint to make the transition between the two.

On the skirt I added faces, cocoons and more black butterflies.

For those I used stencils and thermo-fax screens and machine embroidery.

There is a lot of empty space as well.

The collar has 3D black butterflies.

The top is made from the black Challenge fabric with a lot of extra butterflies added.

The Butterfly Effect

The concept that small events can have large, widespread consequences.
When we make even a tiny alteration to nature, we shall never know what would have happened if we had not disturbed it.
When small imprecisions matter greatly, the world is radically unpredictable.

Can we still reverse global warming, pollution, environmental disasters?

The Hoffman Challenge quilts will be traveling through the USA for a year.