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APPLIQUILT JOURNALS

BEGINNING 3-D ART

tye dye cloths, cotton batting, perle cottons, paper & embellishments

I'm finally getting around to posting these incredibly crafted works of art.

I realize now that I should have taken some close ups so you could see the attention to detail.

These children sewed,

 appliqued,

 and beaded/embellished their hearts out,

pouring all their love into these fabric books.

note:  I lost the paper that has all your names on it over the summer,

so if I mis-label a work ,please let me know

Let's start with senior Eileen Wang.

During the first quarter of school the kids went thru a Tye-Dye unit

 to learn to make complex dyed marks on cloth.

Then during 3rd Quarter after having learned sewing and embroidery techniques,

we brought the pieces of dyed cloth back out to applique & embellish,

then turn into a journal.

The kids really got into designing their covers,

as did English teacher Deliana Park.

Deliana spent at least a 100 hours stitching her brains out on this delightful book. 

And then there is junior Helen Park with this adorable piece.

So well planned and executed.

The kids were required to bring in at least one word of text.

8th grader Elliana Lee stitched in a whole saying!

Senior Clarissa Gutierrez fussy cut this cute little fairy to applique onto her front cover.

She also has done some lovely beading and is having fun with those detached chain stitches. 

I so wish this journal by 8th grader Sydney Eng was in better focus.

She worked her behind off embellishing this book. 

Can you see the two bumble bees flying around?

And we end with I'm not sure.

I thought it was Hapshiba but she rang in and said it's not hers

S help me out 8th graders,

taking a guess here,how about 8th grader Iris Lin??

Because I do so much estate and garage sale picking,

 I often come across antique linens and dollies for the students to work with.

Iris??,

 like Sydney above,

 took advantage of some lovely crocheted pieces to incorporate into their journals.

I've been re-evaluating this assignment,

and I saw the kids struggling to start

 because they did't know what to use for subject matter.

And for the past couple of years I have bee so inspired by the ships that 

Hazel Monte at Handstories stitches,

that I think I might limit their subject this year to ships/boats.

Any thoughts on this?

Although I did just purchase the most wonderful Star from Hazel at her shop.

And check out her lovely moon in the shop.

so hard to know what to do.

Great News!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our pup Bogey who inspired the quilt below. LOL

Guess what? Assistant Editor, Pippa Eccles, from Quilting Arts Magazine contacted me this morning and asked to possibly feature the art quilts that she saw on my blog yesterday. Can you believe it? I'm so thrilled I could hardly contain myself all day. I'm so excited for my students works to be featured in a national magazine. Especially the one that is most important to the Art Quilt Community. Doesn't get any better than that!!! :) So congrats go out to Period 4, Beginning 3-D art. I'm so very proud of you guys!! Also wanted to tell you how excited I was to get comments from two professional fiber artists, Susan M. Hinckley and Jamie Fingal, on my student's pieces from yesterday. Wow! (both their blogs are listed to the right under artists I follow). How COOL is that!

This is an example that I made last school year where I tried really hard to stay one day ahead of my students so that they could watch me demo. all aspects of the assignment. My subject was my very naughty pup Bogey Agrums, who when we first got him was so bad that we had to bring in a dog trainer to our home to try to teach us to work with him. Did it work? Not real well, he's still to this day a handful. One of the key words we were to use when disciplining him was Bah. So that's how the title came into being. My ex-husband found him on a golf course and brought him home to us about a year and a half ago. Now I know why he was turned loose on that course. His owners couldn't handle him either. But we try our best cuz he's so cute.

My beginners are currently working on building a paper mache collaged frame to float their quilt on. And on the back side they are to include a label and hanging device.

This piece I dedicated to my last years Beginning 3-D class. EXTRA CREDIT: on a piece of blue paper cut into the shape of a heart write down the name of the student whose appliquilt from yesterdays post that you liked the best and WHY. Put your name and period on the other side of the paper