Constructed fabrics

November 17, 2020 by Filigree

Old projects revisited: Southron Sampler

For my ongoing theme of ‘Taking Back Red’, here’s an old fiber art project that is calling for a reboot, possibly as a book art sculpture: 1994’s ‘Southron Sampler’, a small 14×9″ (ish) fiber art wall hanging donated to an Arizona science fiction convention charity auction to benefit a local literacy group. If this piece…

August 11, 2015 by Filigree

To continue the fiber art theme, I’m discussing ‘constructed fabrics’, of which quilting and applique are subsets. In my version, I work finished layers on top of a support layer of fabric or felted interfacing. I use the end result as either accent pieces (book cover above), or whole backgrounds (award ribbons below.) They are…