Floral Quilts in Full Color

Here's another series of quilts from my show that is currently up at Oasis Gallery in Harrisonburg, Virginia:

The top piece is called
"Dance of the Periwinkle"

Hand dyed cotton, buttons

Hand Embellished

Fused and machine quilted

17 x 15

$245

The Long Narrow one on the right below that:

"Windswept"

Hand dyed cotton

Hand Embellished

Fused and Machine quilted

$170

The smallest one on the left:

"Petit Four"

Hand dyed linen & commercial batiks

Machine pieced and quilted

Hand embellished

8 x 8

$79

And finally, the one on the pedestal with the art glass is this one:

"Buttoned Down Wreath"

Hand dyed cotton

Machine pieced & quilted

Hand quilted, fused and embellished

12 x 12 on gallery canvas

$235

Here is another shot so you can see how dimensional the flowers are on the surface of this quilt.

I hope you are liking these little snippets of photos from the exhibit.  

I'm kind of enjoying spreading it all out like this.  

Of course your comments are welcome.

Happy Creating

-Carmen Rose

Oops! Fix that one Quick!

I'm working on a little quilt on canvas stretchers inspired by the amazing Melody Johnson.  Check out her blog if you haven't already!  Only problem was, when I stood back to take a look at this lil bugga... all I saw was a great big swastica.  Crimeny!  

Sooo... I looked at it for a bit and decided it needed more flowers.  And so I made some flower type things, took another step back and decided that it was in dire need of buttons!

  So I added buttons and a little bit of hand work.  Sewing through canvas isn't all that easy so I didn't do much of that.  But check out how this looks fused to a gallery style 12 x 12 canvas.  I'm lovin Melody's canvas idea and I'm tickled by how the extra flowers add texture.

It turns out to be a relentlessly cheerful little floral thingi.  Do you think the swastika is gone enough?  I still see it but it's better than it was.  Oh, and I'm still getting used to machine quilting on my (new to me) antique Singer sewing machine, I'll get the hang of that one of these days.  This was a very interesting experiment, I'll do this again sometime!

Christmas Ornaments

I made small jewelry pendant sized wreaths, and suddenly I wanted to try making ornaments as well... so after some experimenting this is how they turned out. Each of these are about three inches across plus the silver bail. They are tack fused and then I used my glass glazes (check out the hand painted glass on my website for an example)to add words and another layer of texture in pearl white. These ornaments meld my work in kiln glass fusing and glazing glass together. The wreath is made from crushed stained glass and also some crushed dichroic glass, all carefully placed with a clear section in the middle. All of them (some photos were taken before I had added the bails)now have a silver jewelry bail. I think these would be pretty in a window at Christmas time!
Peace, Hope, Love... mostly lavender
Peace, Joy, Love... mostly green
Hope, Love, Joy... mostly turquoise and cobalt blue
Faith, Hope and Love... Multi earthy colors.
The cool tones all together on a scarf. $35 each.
Click on the image for a better look.