Carol Wiebe

No, it’s not dirt about somebody. It’s just plain dirt. I took this outside of Perth Hall, where the Gathering Threads Conference was. If something catches my eye, and I have my camera on me, I take it. I did get a startled look from a passerby. That lets me know I’m on the right track. The thing is , any photo can make a fabulous collage paper, help create a design or texture, or even be a color reference ~ any photo. Patch of Dirt Just look at the texture and color here: lo

Quilting Arts Magazine called Katie Pasquini Masopust The Rock Star of Quilting, and if I listed all the quilting related awards she has won, positions she has held,  books she has written and workshops she has taught, you would have to concede that she earned that status. Katie PM I am more interested in convincing you to take a workshop from this woman. Whether you go sniffing on the Internet like a hungry dog (we do love to dig up those tasty bones of information) or simpl

I have four books by Joen Wolfrom. This woman is nothing short of amazing. When she senses a lack in her knowledge of something, she completely immerses herself in the subject. She goes after information with the tenacity of a bulldog on the hunt for a bone, and then she shares the meal. Her insights provide any number of “aha” moments. Let me give you just a few inspiring quotes from each book: The Magical Effects of Color by Joen Wolfrom When creating, give color and all it

I have usually approached painting with the idea of using whatever I create in a future collage or paper quilt. I tend to develop design papers rather than paintings. Essentially, I create the “fabric” for my paper quilts. This attitude, or approach, has resulted in paying little conscious attention to composition while I am painting. Typically, when I do get to the composition stage, where I put all my elements together for a quilt, I proceed intuitively. The work reveals it

I’m going to start out with a less than remarkable doodle. Sometimes doodles really have zing! and you blink, shake your head and say, “Wow! How did this come out of that ho-hum meeting? ” Other times, I simply save them out of habit, or curiosity as to how I can fiddle with them and make something else. The first pic is my original doodle. Then I fix it up, make it straight, refine a little in Photoshop Elements. I repeat the doodle for a full sheet of pattern. I can use the