Two Fiber Art Pieces at PIQF

"Waste Not, Want Not", Eileen Wintemute

I'm proud to have both my "Waste Not, Want Not" and "Dirty Dash Damsels" pieces on display at Mancuso's Pacific International Quilt Festival (PIQF). They will be part of Beyond the Edge Fiber Artist's Special Exhibit entitled "Say Something".

PIQF runs from October 16 through 20, 2019.

The show is located at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great American Parkway, Santa Clara, CA.

"Dirty Dash Damsels", Eileen Wintemute

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"Waste Not, Want Not" Close Ups

"Waste Not, Want Not" 

I thought I would show some details of this fiber art piece in this post. This first detail has a block with fruit and a leaf from a fabric painting class, a left over leaf block from a completed fall quilt, and a couple of pieces that are my watercolor paintings printed on fabric. 







In this detail - The horse rider was a test piece I made for a commissioned quilt. I placed it on an abstracted landscape fabric image I painted from left over paints. It looks like he's riding in to the landscape. The flamingos are watercolor paintings I did that I had printed on fabric. The pieced areas are from blocks I made in one of my first quilting classes.










  In this detail I have a couple of pitchers that I made during my "still life" obsession. The mission bell was painted for a California Mission based art quilt I made a few years ago. It didn't make the cut for the quilt, but here it is! Lastly, there is a painting of my own hand that I made for a painting practice exercise.

As you can see, in addition to a still-life phase I also went through I bird house phase. This art piece is like looking back through a scrap book for me. I think that is enough of the details and I thank you again for visiting my blog!

"Home on the Range" Pillow

  This is a little back pillow that I made for my computer chair. I had some leftover paint in my fabric painting palette one day, and I decided to use it up instead of washing it down the sink.

Here is the painting on the white fabric that I used:





It's not a great painting but I liked trying to create something from what otherwise would have been wasted.

Here is the top after I cut the painting down and sewed on some side panels. I also couched some yarn down around the edges of the painted area and on the border.

















This is the back fabric that I used. I sewed overlapping panels so that I could slip the pillow form in it.



Waste not, want not is a great philosophy.

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