Update from Cleveland

On the set, filming a new DVD!

I just got home from filming a new instructional DVD. It will be an introduction to Wet Felting, with creative ideas to take the piece of felt to the next level of an art quilt. The DVD/download should be for sale in a few months. I'll keep you posted, of course!

The DVD was filmed in Cleveland, Ohio, just like my last two, "Art Journaling to Art" and "Layered and Fused Applique: from fabric scraps to recycled circles."

More details and photos to come!

Filming QA TV and a DVD for Interweave.

I spent Wednesday, Feb 16 in a TV studio in Cleveland, Ohio. That's me with Pokey Bolton, friend and host of QA TV (and she does a million other things, like Quilting Arts & Cloth Paper Scissors magazines.) I started at 8am in make up, and filmed 3 segments for Quilting Arts TV, Series 800. (You'll be able to start pre-ordering in July, and shipping starts around the 3rd week of July)

Pokey makes the segments relatively easy, as she asks great questions and is loads of fun.

That's me listening intently to the Producer. I did a needle-felting segment too. You can see Suzanne Morgan's Everthing Kit on the left, that's what I used to create my Venice pieces.

Jeannie Cook-Delpit, Bernina's director of national events was in the green room to teach me to use the Bernina machine and the needle punch attachment for my segments.

This is what the set looks like. That's Lindsey Murray on the right.

My work, spread out for one of the segments.



After filming the 3 TV segments, we started the filming of my hour long DVD around 3pm. Here I am. Ready!

Pokey was a special guest in my DVD. I taught her to draw and paint!

Here at I about 5pm, ready to start filming the final chapter of my DVD. You can tell I'm starting to tire. I don't know the title yet of the DVD, but it is based on my "Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style" and will also show ways to use your original artwork in mixed media. I'll keep you  posted!

Fave Books and DVDs

I'm thinking of holiday shopping.  Here are some of my fave books & DVDs, in no particular order, and I'ved * the ones that would be a great kick start if you're participating in the Sketchbook Challenge.

• Everyday Matters by Danny Gregory *
• An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers by Danny Gregory (I'm in this one!) *
• Inspired to Quilt by Melanie Testa
• The Found Object in Textile Art by Cas Holmes
• Journal Spilling by Diana Trout *
• Stitch Alchemy: Combining Fabric & Paper for Mixed Media Art by Kelli Nina Perkins
• Canvas Remix by Alisa Burke
• A Complete Guide to Creative Embroidery by Jan Beany & Jean Littlejohn
• Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists by Carla Sondhiem *
• Nature Inspired Mixed Media Techniques by Tracie Lyn Huskamp

Blurb books, self-published by the artist:

• Painted Threads by Judy Coates Perez
• Wild at the Edges by Virginia Spiegel
• Beneath the Surface by Loris Bogue (My work was included in this exhibition)

DVDs

• Surface Design Sample Platter by Lyric Kinard (includes how to sew an easy journal cover)
• Design, Paint, & Stitch: Wholecloth Quilts by Judy Coates Perez (I confess, this one is on my wish list) 
• Quilting Arts TV hosted by Pokey Bolton (I love these, and watch them again and again while I work in my studio. Especially Series 300... blushing..where I make two appearances.)
• The Small Art Quilt by yours truly. (instructional DVD) 

These were just off the top of my head, so if you've got some super faves, let me know!