An Exquisite Moment - The Book!

The book is available on Blurb.com, designed by Loris Bogue -  To view click here for $21.09/each

Cover artwork is by Cheryl Sleboda; Geschwindigkeit (Speed), a detail of her piece in this collection.

 "An Exquisite Moment"  Consider the following:  The unfurling of a flower. A hummingbird in flight.  A magical moment shared with a lover or friend.  The birth of a child.  A personal milestone.  The realization of a dream.  A treasured memory.  The sacred moments of the ordinary.  These are the Exquisite Moments that make us who we are.

Venues:
International Quilt Festival in Long Beach; August 1-4, 2013; sponsored by Moore's Sewing Centers
International Quilt Festival in Houston;Oct 31- Nov 3, 2013; sponsored by Havel's Scissors

Artists:
Frances Holliday Alford; A Moment of Passion
Sue Bleiweiss; The Hummingbird
Deborah Boschert; Glimpse
Paula Chung; Ancient Jupiter
Gerrie Congdon; XXOO
Cindy Cooksey; Grocery Shopping with Sammy
Diane Doran; California Dreaming
Sheila Frampton-Cooper; Ode to Lavandula
Diane Hock; Serenity
Stacy Hurt; Lift
Lyric Kinard; Bach Suite
Susan King; The Visitor
Pamela Klebaum; Stitching, Interrupted
Sherry Kleinman; Waiting Expectantly
Susan Brubaker Knapp; First Snow
Jane LaFazio; Havana
Susie Monday; One, All One
Jeannie P. Moore; The Ring
Jayne Larson; Rainbow:  A Moment of Reflection
Rachel Parris:  Ordinary Day (pictured above)
Judy Coates Perez; Fear of Flying
Yvonne Porcella; The Power of Yellow
Wen Redmond; Birds Eye View
Karen Rips; Fiji
Carolyn Ryan; Shattered
Cheryl Sleboda; Geschwindigkeit (Speed)
Sarah Ann Smith; Listen to the Song in the Night
Virginia Spiegel; Golden World
Cynthia St. Charles; Winter Walk II
Terry Waldron; Water Dance
Kathy York; Balance

Leslie Tucker Jenison
Jamie Fingal

A 33-Piece Collection - 24" wide by 60" high; vertical format

Artist Profile: Co-curator Jamie Fingal

Jamie Fingal
Orange, California

1,  What year did you make your first quilt?    Traditional or art?  1981, a traditional nine patch

2.  What is the first show, and year, that you ever entered your art quilts?  Venue?  3 for 3 in 2003;  Road to California, Journal Quilts Houston, Sacred Threads

3.  What is your artistic style?  bright, whimsical, painterly, representational, abstract

4.  Have you ever changed your style from when you started making quilts?  Yes!  Took the leap to art quilts in 2001, and never looked back.  I hope my style is always evolving.

5.  What other style in quilt making piques your interest?  Surface design has always intrigued me. 

6.  What other medium in art influences your work as a fiber artist?  Painting, watercolors, stencils

7.  What do you have coming up?  Shows, Articles in magazines, Books, etc.  Quilting Arts June/July issue, Mary Janes Farm Magazine June/July issue, line of stencils through Stencil Girl Products, co-curator for What's for Dinner? for IQF Houston, guest on Pat Sloan's radio show on Aug 26.  Teaching at Art & Soul in Portland and IQF Houston!.

8.  Where will your art take you from here?   Onward and upward, to fulfill some of my artistic dreams and goals

9.  Describe your studio space:  1,000 square feet of industrial space, room for my long arm, and Bernina, large design table, various work tables around studio, fabric stash, paint area, office, and sitting area.  Lots of large wall space, room for classes, small gallery show.

10. What was the biggest challenge you have encountered in the making of your art quilt for "An Exquisite Moment?"  The size is a bit unweildey, but that is part of the challenge.  I found it difficult to decide what to do, something sentimental, or abstract?  Number one thing - keep it simple, happy and create this piece about my ankle replacement.

http://JamieFingalDesigns.blogspot.com/ 

Artist Profile: Co-curator Leslie Tucker Jenison

Leslie Tucker Jenison San Antonio TX 1.  What year did you make your first quilt?    Traditional or  art?   My first quilt was made around 1980 or 81.  I began as a quasi- traditional quilt maker, though I was not very prolific early on due  to work & family demands. I became interested in creating my  own unique work in the early 90s. 2.  What is the first show, and year, that you ever entered  your art quilts?  Venue?   I didn't show any of my work until after we moved to Texas.  My first quilt show was local:   The Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild.  In 2001 I showed a quilt that I  feel was somewhere between a traditional and art quilt called, "What Bugs Me The Most".   It won 2nd place in the mixed technique category. 3.  What is your artistic style?    I vary between representational and abstract, but lean more heavily toward abstraction.   Certain themes come up again and again:  the meaning of home, the effects of pressure  upon objects, cells, circles. stones, nests, the garden lifecycle.  These things are symbolic  and meaningful to me in my work. 4.  Have you ever changed your style from when you started making quilts?   Oh yes, I think my style is always evolving.  I like to push myself.  I do this with the surface  design work on the cloth, and again with the quilts I create. 5.  What other style in quilt making piques your interest?   I am revisiting my roots of making useful quilts within the framework of the Modern quilt  movement.  The aesthetic is very appealing to me and I enjoy the occasional foray into  this world.  I try to stay open to the possibilities out there. 6.  What other medium in art influences your work as a fiber artist?   I'm also a painter.  I like to draw and paint and try to do this fairly consistently because it forces me to stop, pay attention, and really look at things.  I'm also a photographer:   my camera is never very far away.  I may be addicted to Instagram! 7.  What do you have coming up?  Shows, Articles in magazines, Books, etc.   In addition to "Exquisite Moment", Jamie and I juried "What's For Dinner, to debut this  fall at the Houston Quilt Festival. I have created a quilt for the Ovarian Cancer Fundraising  event for MD Anderson for fall, 2013.   I'm teaching at several places this year:  "Don't Fade  Away", a quilt documentation seminar, and at City Quilter in New York City, both  sponsored by the Quilt Alliance.  I will teach several workshops at the Art & Soul Mixed Media Retreat in Portland OR in late September/early October, and also at the  International Quilt Festival in Houston TX, fall 2013.  I've written several articles this year  and my studio will be featured in an upcoming book.  It has been a busy and wonderful year! 8.  What do you have coming up?  Shows, Articles in magazines, Books, etc.   Does anyone know how to answer this question?!  As my studio life, writing, and teaching  unfold I hope I continue to learn.  There is no question I will enjoy it!  I love the give and take of teaching and working with a group.  My work on the board of the Quilt Alliance  continues to inspire me.  9.  Describe your studio space:  My main studio is a large second master suite in our home.  I recently re-organized the  space to better accommodate my work habits and reorganized my storage.  I hope to  recreate the bathroom/vanity area into a more functional wet work space.  The small sink  is a bottleneck!   I also share studio space at Art Cloth Studios.  As the wet studio in the new studio location gets up and running I will be spending part of my time there and hope to  organize a few workshops in the space. 10.  What was the biggest challenge you have encountered in the making of your  art quilt for "An Exquisite Moment?"   I had my theme picked out immediately!  My biggest challenge was getting the digital images sized to the appropriate scale for the piece.  It was very frustrating!

Artist Profile: Jayne Larson

Jayne Larson
Indianola, WA

1. What year did you make your first quilt? Traditional or art?  The first quilt that I finished was an art quilt for a mini group challenge in 2002/2003. I had started several other quilts, a mix of art and traditional, before then, but never finished any of them.

2. What is the first show, and year, that you ever entered your art quilts? Venue?  My quilt was in a group show in southern California in 2003 or 2004. And I can't remember the venue.

3. What is your artistic style?  Expressionistic realism probably describes most of my work. But I am interested in moving toward more abstraction.

4. Have you ever changed your style from when you started making quilts?  I started using mostly machine work, piecing, appliqué and stitching, but now handwork is my preference.

5. What other style in quilt making piques your interest?  In the past I have occasionally used digital photography in my quilts which I would like to explore further. Its very exciting how images can be manipulated and printed or applied to textiles, with the software and technology that is available.

6. What other medium in art influences your work as a fiber artist?  Drawing is the key starting point and means to focus my inspiration.

7. What do you have coming up? Shows, Articles in magazines, Books, etc.  This year, I plan to participate in a gallery show in Hilo, Hawaii in September and a show in Thousand Oaks California in October with my mini group, Extreme Quilters.

8. Where will your art take you from here?  I am interested in experimenting with drawing more.

9. Describe your studio space.  I work in a bonus room area. Although it's part of a walk out basement, there are lots of windows and my yoga room is adjacent. I've recently added a new TV so that I can watch Netflix while I'm stitching. My husband calls my studio the "woman cave" and I love my time there.

10. What is the biggest challenge you have encountered in the making of your art quilt for "An Exquisite Moment"?   Although an idea came to me fairly early, I struggled to find a way to translate the idea into an image that was not too literal or trite. Serendipity of fabric bits floating around my design wall and a luminous gray hand-dyed fabric provided a solution.

Artist Profile: Diane Perrin Hock

Diane Perrin Hock
Heraldsburg, California

1.  What year did you make your first quilt?    Traditional or art?  I made my first quilt back when I was in high school, in the early 1970's.  My sister and I collaborated to make a gift for a cousin.  She drew cats on fabric (remember Liquid Embroidery?!) and then we alternated the cat blocks with traditional squares.  I suppose that means it was an "innovative" first quilt!

2.  What is the first show, and year, that you ever entered your art quilts?  Venue? I'd shown quilts in local guild shows, but the first significant show in which I entered an art quilt was Pacific International Quilt Festival, in 2003 or 2004.

3.  What is your artistic style?  I ponder this question myself, because sometimes I feel like I'm all over the place.  I am drawn to a more graphic style, and tend to use a lot of color.  I also tend to use more realistic imagery in my art quilts, rather than pure abstraction.  I consider my style to be always evolving.

4.  Have you ever changed your style from when you started making quilts?  Yes, definitely.  I started out making traditional quilts, although with contemporary and usually bright fabrics. As I discovered the fun of making art quilts, I started trying a lot of different things.  I hope my style continues to change as I grow and learn.

5.  What other style in quilt making piques your interest?  It's easier for me to define the few things that don't appeal to me in working with fiber art than the ones that do.  There are so many wonderful avenues to explore!  I am increasingly drawn to painting on fabric and using whole cloth as a base for a painted quilt.  I would love to explore the concept of abstraction more, too.

6.  What other medium in art influences your work as a fiber artist?  Drawing and painting definitely influence me.  I'm doing a lot of watercolor painting and I can see that starting to creep into the way I think about fiber art. 

7.  What do you have coming up?  Shows, Articles in magazines, Books, etc.  I am one of the twelve quilt artists in the Twelve by Twelve International Art Quilt Challenge group, and I'm pleased that the Twelve by Twelve collection quilts are continuing to travel for upcoming exhibits.  The Colorplay set of 144 quilts will be exhibited at Midsomer Quilting in Bath, England in July, 2013, and the original set of 144 quilts will be exhibited at the Northwest Quilt Expo in Portland, Oregon in September, 2013.  I am also one of 30 American quilt artists participating in an international invitational fiber art challenge between Japan, France and the United States, in which each artist is interpreting a painter's work.  Those quilts will debut in Japan in 2014.  I am also a newly certified quilt judge, with the mission to help other judges and show hosts understand art quilts, and I will be judging in several Northern California quilt shows this summer and fall.

8.  Where will your art take you from here?  Who knows!  I consider art my adventure, my therapy, my expression, my experiments, my fun. 

9.  Describe your studio space:  For several years I have had one small 10x12 foot bedroom which both my housed my work materials (desk files, books) and my sewing and art materials.  A few months ago I was finally able to move my work office into another room, so I now have one room dedicated to sewing, quilting and fiber art.  It's still 10x12 feet, but those extra feet make a huge difference.   

10. What was the biggest challenge you have encountered in the making of your art quilt for "An Exquisite Moment?"  The size and the unusual shape.  I had many ideas that, to my mind, required a horizontal orientation.  Because of the space constraints in my studio, and the fabric collage technique I was using, it wasn't always easy to step back from the quilt to see its full effect.  But those sorts of challenges are good lessons and present opportunities for problem solving, I find!

http://www.goingtopieces.blogspot.com

Review : theBalm Instain #Toile ^^

HolaA beauties, lama gak nge-blog.  semingguan ya ? Hehe lagi sibuk kumpul2 sama keluarga. Bagaimana puasa kalian beauties ? Lancar kan ?  semoga ibadah kita lancar, diterima Allah SWT yaa amiiin ya robbal alamin.

Kali ini saya kembali dengan review, setelah kmarin bkin peran antagonis. Lipen merah, pose serem -___-" benar-benar bukan saya sesungguhnya.  saya lembut beauties sebenernya. 
Review kali ini adalah, tentang blush on yg selama ini saya pake. Udah sekitar 3mingguan saya pake. Slalu ada didalam makeup punch saya. Slalu ada didalam tas saya. Setia membawanya  seperti apa reviewnya ?

TheBalm Instain ini, sekitar 200an ribu. Padahal harga asli sekitar 300an kali yaa. Yg jelas di websitenya 22 dolar. Agak mehi sih beauties, cuma saya kalap sama packaging. Seperti yang kalian lihat packagingnya theBalm, benefit, too faced itu cute banget. Vintage-vintage getooo... 

Dan entah kenapa saya demen banget. Secara spontan jatah bulanan beli makeup saya terkuras untuk blush on ini. -___-"
Siapa sih beauties yg gasuka sama packaging ? Pasti semuanya sebelum beli. Pasti yg pertama diperhatikan ialah packagingnya.

Ini gak 2 lho ya beauties, karna emang modelnya dobel packaging gitu, tapi bedanya yang luar itu cuma sampul aja. enak donk kalo misal dpet dobel -_-

Packagingnya ini tutupnya magnet, bisa praktik kalo buru-buru pakenya. Dan seperti biasa, ada cerminya juga. Kecil, tp berguna kok. Dipinggir blush on nya ini ada bunga-bungaannya. Lucu deh *kalap*

Untuk kualitasnya, si instain ini oke menurut saya. Warna yg saya pilih warna yg pink-pink ke merah-merahan seperti strawberry gitu, unik ya. Sebelumnya cuma tau warna blush on itu pink, sama orange. Makanya saya pengen coba yg warna ini. Dan apabila kita perhatikan detil, si toile ini *tanpa T* ada bintik bintiknya, sepertinya mau demam berdarah. *bercanda*

Untuk kepigmented-annya ini super, beauties. Saking supernya, kita harus hati-hati memakainya, bisa-bisa kalo berlebihan jadi kayak ondel-ondel. Bisa pake stiple brush biar gak terlalu lebai nyocolnya. Atau kalo pake blush brush bisa satu kali tap aja udah oke banget. Cuman nih, saya agak kesusahan ngeblennya, agak tricky. 1, harus hati-hati ngetap-tapnya, 2. Ngeblennya harus cepet-cepet. Memang bukan cream blush cuman entah kenapa kalo kelamaan di pipi itu akan lebih susah diblend. Tapi warnanya saya suka banget beauties, apalagi packagingnya tuh. Jadi yaa terpaksa saya suka sama blush on ini. Huehheeh

Untuk ketahanannya atau yg lebih populer "staying power"-nya, blush on ini keren. saya pake dari jam 7 pagi mungkin bisa sampai jam 12 sampai jam 1 siang kalo saya aktifitasnya gak banyak. Cuma saya ya hanya duduk sembari didepan kompi dalam ruangan ber-AC. Mungkin karena jam 12 saya sudah sholat, blush on ini harus saya bersihkan donk. Dan touch up lagi, sampai pulang jam 4 gitu masih nempel. Mungkin karena itu kali ya, namanya jadi INSTAIN, STAIN gitu. Yahh overall blush on ini berkualitas banget kok. worth to try, haha.

Kelebihan :

• Cute Packaging :*
• Pigmentednya super
• staying power so so soooo lahhh

Kekurangan :

• Ngeblendnya susah, sedikit tricky
• mahaaaallllllllllllll >.< 22 dolar

Kesimpulan yang saya tarik pake rafia, blush on ini warnanya saya suka, seperti apa yang saya lihat apa yang saya dapatkan. Bukan yang warna di web ini, eee kenyataanya bukan ini. Packagingnya syuukkaaaa.....

walaupun ada pepatah mengatakan "jangan menilai sesuatu hanya dari sampulnya" Tapiiiii T_T
ya untungnya saya nilainya gak salah juga, lihat sampulnya = kualitasnya juga yang OKE. Sejauh ini instain inilah blush on favorit saya ^_^

Semoga bermanfaat beauties, have a nice day. Selamat berpuasa bagi yang menjalankan :)

Artist Profile: Frances Holliday Alford

Frances Holliday Alford
Grafton, Vermont

1.  What year did you make your first quilt?    Traditional or art?  1986.  It was quasi-traditional.  Cut "blooming" squares, alternating squares of dark and light blue.  I still use it.

2.  What is the first show, and year, that you ever entered your art quilts?  Venue?  The International Quilt Festival in Houston.  1996

3.  What is your artistic style?  Multi-media, brave colors, unexpected elements, humor and innovation.

4.  Have you ever changed your style from when you started making quilts?  It shifts all the time.  I like to try different mediums, different techniques.  But, eventually they look like I made them.

5.  What other style in quilt making piques your interest?  Modern Quilt Guild, old crazy quilts, postage stamp quilts.

6.  What other medium in art influences your work as a fiber artist?  Sculpture, Outsider Art, Old Masters, Collage.

7.  What do you have coming up?  Shows, Articles in magazines, Books, etc.  IQA Houston - Celebrate Spring!

8.  Where will your art take you from here?  It keeps me in the community of wonderful artists.  It gives me something to keep me moving forward personally, physically, and spiritually.  I want to make art for the rest of my life.

9.  Describe your studio space:  I rent a converted two story barn several blocks from my house.  The sewing and design are all upstairs in one big room.  Downstairs, I have a collage room, an office and a kitchen.  I have decided it would be nice to work at home so am considering a remodeling job to make that work.

10. What was the biggest challenge you have encountered in the making of your art quilt for "An Exquisite Moment?"  The biggest challenge was to think of the perfect exquisite moment.  I finally decided that I would follow Rachel Parris' lead and use a simple pleasure.  As a child, finding passion flowers growing wild behind our house was a spectacular moment for me.  

http://www.franceshollidayalford.com