Texture Magic Has Arrived!

My Texture Magic supply has just arrived and is available on the What's New page on my web site. What a great product for art quilters, "regular" quilters and, in fact, anyone who works with fabric. Just sew Texture Magic to the back of your fabric, apply steam, and the fabric magically shrinks approximately 30%, creating a beautiful textured effect.

Here is the piece of fabric I started with.

I sewed Texture Magic on the back, using a slightly curved line to match the design in the fabric. After the fabric was steamed, it looked like this. You can stitch any kind of design on the Texture Magic and each one will give a different finished result.

Complete instructions for using this product are included in the package.

Artists' Studio Tour

The annual Father's Day Artists' Studio Tour was held in Brockville this weekend. Here is a look at the work of 2 of my quilting friends, Linda Potter and Colleen Blackwell McMahon.

Colleen's Taffy Pull quilt


More of Colleen's quilts

Even more quilts from Colleen

One of Linda's fabulous jackets

Linda's fabric balls

Linda's Journal covers

Another of Linda's artistic creations

Elaine Quehl: Contemporary Art Quilter

Elaine Quehl was the guest speaker at our Thousand Islands Quilters’ Guild meeting on April 24. Elaine started quilting by doing traditional designs, but soon branched out to explore contemporary art quilting, free motion machine quilting and fabric dyeing. Her work has been exhibited across North America and she has won many awards.

Here are a few pictures of her quilts, including some “in progress” works. Be sure to visit Elaine’s website to see more of her wonderful quilts. Elaine was a real inspiration to us with her dynamic presentation!