terri kirchner's fabriKations

Saturday, July 24, 2010

New exhibit at the museum

Tomorrow, Sunday July 25, 1-4pm the WI Quilt Museum opens the new exhibit featuring work by Mimi Shimp. . This exhibit displays 30 of the 300 quilts of Mimi Shimp from Tennessee. Her work is all about precision and a creative flair while incorporating a contemporary view of traditional quilt patterns. She uses bright colors bouncing of black and does magnificent machine quilting. Truly a show not to be missed.

Come on out to the country for an afternoon of great stories of creativity and inspiration.

www.wiquiltmuseum.com

Friday, July 23, 2010

more Epicenter news!

The Milwaukee Area Art Quilters winning quilts plus additional Line of Design: Connecting Threads quilts from the group will be shown at this year's Quilt Expo Sept. 9-11 in Madison WI. This would be a great opportunity to see the wonderful talent this group has to offer!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

BIG NEWS

Last week the Museum voted to begin the build! We will break ground this August! It has taken a long time to raise the money needed to build this museum but now that we are within inches we are going ahead with the build.

Stay tuned for more exciting news shortly!

WE WON!

The Milwaukee Art Quilters pulled it out again! We took first place in the Ultimate Guild Challenge in Knoxville this weekend! The quilt pictured is my entry "Epicenter". It is 36" x 36", has 78 different hand dyed or batik cottons..the red rat tail is the line going across the center of the quilt. The rat tail is hand couched down to the surface..There are 5 1/2 yards of rat tail on this quilt!

This quilt was made shortly after the Haitian Earthquake. The background quilting is all seismic graphics radiating out from the center like aftershocks.

A fun quilt to do..the pattern is a blending pattern I developed during my color theory days called petal pixels..what a fun way to watch color flow across a surface!