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| Threadwork program at August meeting. |
In addition to "collecting" fabric, quilters also love collecting thread... at quilt shows, sewing centers, quilt shops, on line, or wherever they come across it. Self-proclaimed master thread collector,
Veronica Hofman-Ortega, will be presenting the program on
"Threadwork" at the
Choo Choo Quilters August 15 guild meeting. The program also includes using photos as inspiration and working in a series.
The reading assignment from the
"Fearless Design for Every Quilter" textbook is Chapter 7, "Using Images from Your Surroundings," and "Working in a Series" on pages 80-89.
Members are also reminded to bring items for Show and Tell and any completed quilt blocks for the
Cuddle Quilt workshop scheduled for
Saturday, August 27.
As we work towards the finale of our Fearless Design-inspired lesson plan for the year, we are able to go home after each meeting and return with new experiments, new ideas, and new ways to critique our work. The Threadwork Program started off with a Show & Tell of beautiful examples of innovative piecing techniques learned during the previous program.Threadwork is like doing a pencil drawing and using shading to create depth. It is the tiny detail that creates interest, as in the photo to the right where an innovative piecing technique using earthy tones of fabric is combined with exquisite surface detail using threadwork and other surface techniques.A classic example of threadwork is the Crazy Quilt, originating in the Victorian era. Portrait "paintings" made with threadwork are shown in the photos below, as well as landscape "paintings". Examples of beautiful and unusual yarns couched with thread are evident in the photo of the red quilt, below.
