Art Quilting

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Decorative Stitch “Art Lace”: Embroidery Machine Designs

Heads up Embroidery Machine Users !

A new section has just been added to the store - great new embroidery machine designs for textile & quilt artists.

Visit the store and check out the latest designs - Decorative Stitch “Art Lace”. While you’re visiting the store, don’t forget to sign up for the Store Newsletter to stay informed when new products are released. More great embroidery machine designs are on the way!

Decorative Stitch “Art Lace” traditionally made on a standard sewing machine, can now be made easily using your embroidery machine and this great design collection.

The Decorative Stitch “Art Lace” Design Collection includes a total of 24 designs:
3 individual square lace designs and 1 lace trim design, with an additional 20 design configurations that will allow you to create your own beautiful Decorative Stitch “Art Lace” in various combinations of size and density.

Also included is an 11 page Instruction Booklet, as well as a great “Book Wrap” Project demonstrating how to make fabric using Decorative Stitch “Art Lace”. The tutorial for the project is also available online in the Tutorial Section of the website.

Creativity, Embroidery Machine Designs

New Online Store

The new online store at Creative Textile & Quilting Arts is now open, offering a much more streamlined way to shop.

When you visit the store, please make sure you sign up for the Store Newsletter to keep up-to-date with the great new products that are coming your way.

Shopping

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Some art quilts were just not meant to be! And it’s usually the ones you’ve spent hours and hours on, and used up all your most beautiful coveted fabric (sigh!!!).

Our vision can sometimes be lacking. Even though we can see a design clearly in our head and transfer it successfully to paper, doesn’t necessarily mean that it will turn out the way we planned.

Picture this: a trapunto peacock, with long flowing tail feathers outlined in thread and maybe bobbin work for effect, surrounded by a beautiful free motion quilted background in delicious threads.

The concept is simple, easy to visualize and put on paper. Then hours spent:

• deciding which fabrics to use - there’s only three fabrics mind you, but they must work together of course
• deciding what thread to use
• transferring the design from paper to fabric
• sewing the trapunto design
• decorative stitching
• decorative quilting
• deciding on borders

The peacock looks good!

The background free motion quilting is beautiful (even if I do say so myself).

And so is the border quilting.

The tailfeathers look good also.

But wait! Something doesn’t look right. How did I miss that? Oh my goodness, how the heck can I fix that! A little paint on the tailfeathers perhaps. Maybe a little more paint and some more stitching.

Oh rats, I give up !! That is one legless bird!!

If anyone has suggestions on how to give this bird it’s legs, please feel free to post a comment with a hint or two.

At the moment, he sits abandoned in a crumpled heap in the corner (he has no legs to stand on remember), and I am ready to slice out the good bits to use on another more worthy project.

I like the design so I’m going to do him again, but I have no more beautiful watercolored yellow cotton lame (boo hoo!) However I did find some white cotton lame online which I’m going to dye when my dye room is done (a couple more weeks, woo hoo!!)

Stay tuned for the follow up!

Art Quilting

Online Quilting Classes

Online classes and workshops for textile and quilt artists are currently being developed, with a proposed start date early in 2008.

Along with the online classes will be a series of workbooks that can be used in conjunction with the classes as well as for offline learning. This includes our long-awaited “Felt-Punch-Embellish” book.

Stay tuned - more information will be posted as things progress.

Read the full story at the Creative Textile & Quilting Arts website.

Online Quilting Classes