Monthly Archives: February 2012

Feb292012

“Artistic Photo Quilts” still getting good reviews

I discovered today by way of my Google Alerts a lovely review of my book, “Artistic Photo Quilts” on the blog, Uncommon Threads.  Many thanks to the author.  The book has been out for two and half years and it is still so gratifying to know people are liking and learning from the book. 

 

Summer Heat #1

Here is the quilt from which the cover was composed:

 
 

–and its companion piece:


Summer [...]

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Feb202012

more digitized embroidery

Although you can digitize any drawing for the purpose of embroidering, I really like the drawings that result from my photographs. Another example is shown below.  A photo was taken on a crisp cold walk along Lake Granby in the mountains of Colorado. Zeroing in on the details of the grasses revealed interesting silhouettes. Wouldn’t it be great to embroider grasses?

 Isolating a few blades of grass and cropping the image yields something that can be turned into a black and white drawing, cleaned [...]

Posted in Art in nature, Digital Tools, Digitized embroidery, Techniques
Feb12012

Digitized embroidery on digital art quilts

Blue Leaves, White Trees 16" X 18"

For the past couple of years I have been learning how to digitize my drawings using the Bernina Embroidery software for a Bernina artista 730 with embroidery module. The software is often used for embroidering logos, teddybears, or exotic embroidery from times past.  I have thought there were untapped possibilities for using digitzed embroidery on my stitched digital art quilts.

I start with a photo that has simple lines, as [...]

Posted in Digital Tools, Digitized embroidery, Recent Work, Techniques