art quilt Tag

Lisa Thorpe

January 12, 2022

Art and Design, art classes, art journalin, art quilt, collage, design, fabric art, fiber art, quilting

Seeking DELIGHTENMENT: from sketchbook to art quilt at SAQA Conference in Toronto

The Delightenment Workbook where mindfulness and design merge.

Lisa Thorpe

June 5, 2021

Art, art classes, art quilt, fabric, fabric art, stitch

Kitchen Garden Quilt – Virtual Workshop

Kitchen Garden Quilt is an exploration of fabric coloration and stitch to create a personal unique art quilt with a tasty theme. Class will begin by colorizing fruit and veg block prints with fabric dye pastels provided in your kit.

Lisa Thorpe

May 18, 2021

Art, art Journaling, Art Quilting, collage, embroidery, fabric art, fabric arts, monoprinting, time stamp

art quilt, meditation, stitch, surface design

Seeking Balance in a Strange Land

"Balancing: paddling the Little Maumelle River" includes marbled, monoprint, hand dyed, digitally printed and embroidered fabrics. As most of you know I moved to Little Rock Arkansas in late March. I am two months into my new life in a new

Lisa Thorpe

October 25, 2019

Art, art Journaling, collage, craft, embroidery, fabric arts, gelli printing, Inspiration, joy, quilting, spiritual, The Bishop's Ranch

art quilt, Art Quilting, fabric, fabric art, fabric collage

Time Stamp #3 & #4 a series continued….

I’ve posted a couple of these little exercises in the last six months and I’m here to share two more. My goal in creating these is to mark a moment; they are little meditations or, maybe more accurately, an ode

Lisa Thorpe

August 8, 2019

Art, Art Quilting, craft, fabric art, fabric arts, Inspiration, spiritual

art quilt, design, embroidery, experiment, life lessons, slowing time, stichery, teaching

Slow stitch: a lesson in leisure

For those of you who have followed for a while you know that I’m am a wandering artist. Trying this technique and then that teaching what I learn along the way. Sometimes I lament that I’m not a Monet type,

Lisa Thorpe

March 31, 2019

Art, collage, fabric arts, gelli printing, Inspiration, monoprinting, quilting, teaching art, The Bishop's Ranch

art quilt, design, endangered species of Sonoma, gelli print, marbled fabric, Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse, stitch

Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse

A several weeks ago I showed you the first art quilt in a series about endangered species of Sonoma County; that piece highlighted the plight of Myrtle's Silverspot Butterfly. This week I finished the second in my series featuring the

Lisa Thorpe

December 14, 2018

Art, collage, craft, fabric arts, gelli printing, Inspiration, monoprinting, teaching art

art quilt, attachment parent idea, community, design, early childhood development, early language aquisiton, fabric art, fabric designs, freemotion quilting, gelli print, I spy quilt, quilt guild challenge idea, quilting

Making Connections…

Those of you who follow me know that I've got a million ideas and time for about 10 at a time. Some times my ideas are bigger than me and I don't always reach out to make the connections I

Lisa Thorpe

May 10, 2015

Art, craft, Inspiration

Art, art quilt, art sales, etsy, fabric art, freemotion quilting, quilting, tintit spray

What Price ART? My eternal struggle with what is the value of my art….

I have always had trouble assigning a price to my art. I believe strongly that art should be a part of everyone’s life that why long ago I framed the following “the why cheap art manifesto” that my sister gave

Lisa Thorpe

April 24, 2015

Art, craft, Inspiration, spiritual

art quilt, fabric art, free motion quilting, inspriation, peace, peace be with you, stamp, stencils, stitched

PEACE BE WITH YOU

PEACE be with you….peace BE with you….BE peace….peace be with YOU….this phrase with all it’s possible inflections has been rolling around my head since last Sunday when I went to our regular episcopal church service here at The Bishop’s Ranch.