North Peninsula Chapter Surface Design Washington

$ 8,500

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
caryl@bryerpatch.com
Port Townsend

The design for this quilt began with a photograph I took at a butterfly garden in Victoria BC. I loved the graphic quality of the butterfly, in black, white, and red, against the verdant background. The fabrics are hand painted or are from my Gradations collection for Benartex.

Technique: hand dyed and painted, machine appliquéd, pieced, and quilted

Materials: fabric: 100% cotton, batting 50% cotton / 50% bamboo, thread: polyester & acrylic, ink, paint, dye

$ 3,400

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
caryl@bryerpatch.com
Port Townsend

In 2013 we chartered a boat and spent ten days cruising in the Canadian Gulf islands. One of our favorite ports was Cowichan, BC, where the harbor was dominated by the headquarters of the Wooden Boat Society. The building’s railings cast dramatic shadows in the water beneath. By zooming in I found dramatic images that looked like abstract expressionist paintings.

Technique: machine pieced, embroidered, appliqued & quilted

Materials: fabric: 100% cotton, batting: 50% cotton / 50% bamboo, thread: polyester & cotton

$ 250

Linda Carlson
lindacarlson@earthlink.net
Sequim

Gathers and puffs have been used to transform what was intended as a simple swimsuit cover-up. One bodice front and one sleeve feature star gathering, a patterned relief created when small circles of fabric are gathered on a grid. The front band is embellished with fabric gathered in concentric circles and attached so closely that the pinked edges are forced upward.

Technique: star gathering on sleeve and bodice grids, massed ruffled puffs on front band

Materials: fabric and beads

$ 800

Leslie Dickinson
Ldakm@msn.com
Port Townsend

Technique: eco printing, fussy cut leaves fused to interfacing, backing and stitched

Materials: ECO printed cotton fabric using liquid amber leaves, duck cloth for bowl construction

$ 350

Donna Lee Dowdney
donnaleedowdney@gmail.com
Bainbridge Island

Technique: free-motion embroidery, collage, and appliqué

Materials: various threads and yarns, varied fabrics, net, bead, and pipe cleaner

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Elaine Girard
roscoep@aol.com
Port Ludlow

Technique: "raised-textured" beading, a free-form style using multiple beading patterns

Materials: beads, shells, oyster shell, and driftwood

$ 1,250

Pat Herkal
spherkal@gmail.com
Port Townsend

A friend gifted me with a box of her family member's unfinished, hand pieced quilt blocks from the 1930's. They have been singing and nagging at me to use them for years. Metamorphosis was the inspiration needed to transform them and my husband's high school trumpet sheet music into this quilt.

Technique: piecing, applique, embroidery, beading, quilting

Materials: unfinished 1930's quilt blocks, cotton fabric, sheet music, embroidery floss, beads

$ 200

Barbara Houshmand
barbarahoushmand@gmail.com or (mobile) 360.808.5525
Port Angeles

This bag is made up of a variety of old kimono I have in my collection.

Old kimono is becoming so hard to find nowadays, that I use every small scrap in my work & nothing is thrown away.

Materials: vintage and antique kimono

$ 250

Barbara Houshmand
barbarahoushmand@gmail.com or (mobile) 360.808.5525
Port Angeles

This piece is from an ongoing series of small works. Using the same shapes over and over and keeping the color palette limited helps to define the simple design.

Technique: pieced and quilted

Materials: my hand dyed cotton and old silk drapes which are naturally dyed

$ 150

Michelle Johnson
928.379.0475 or mj@laughingcloudstudio.com
Port Angeles

An outside reflection of the opening process from within. Blossoming but still allowing a partial protective covering to envelop me. Hidden inside are the seeds of inspiration.

Technique: wet felting using a 2D resist

Materials: Merino wool, unspun silk, freshwater pearls and glass beads

$ 225 each

Cheri Kopp
206.947.7932 or studio@cherikopp.com
Port Townsend

Uniting my cast-off materials art and my quilting, I reimagined Grandmother’s Flower Garden, a traditional quilt pattern, creating 40+ blocks, to date.

I collected, cleaned and stored foil tops from yogurt containers for years until realizing that circles could become hexagons.

Each “block” is titled to reflect it’s distinct identity; these are: Clockwise, How Now?, and Green Is Sexy.

Technique: folded, burnished, concealed “seams”

Materials: foil tops from food containers

$ 120

Cheri Kopp
206.947.7932 or studio@cherikopp.com
Port Townsend

A class sample – words, images and patterns made by others appropriated – illustrating the power of message.

In the early morning hours, especially on Saturdays, when, not quite fully awake, I think I might call her, to tell her about my week.

A tiny Buddha (above “om”) keeps watch. I will ALWAYS miss my dearly departed Mom, my best friend, forever.

Technique: collage, machine stitching

Materials: paperboard product packaging (cereal, crackers, soda, pizza crust), and thread

$ 4,000

Mary O'Shaughnessy
maryoshaughnessy@me.com
Port Townsend

Technique: paper making, letterpress printing

Materials: handmade Abaca paper, letterpress ink, neon, wood and plexiglass

$ 500

Barbara Ramsey
bramsey53@gmail.com
Port Townsend

The rainforest's greatest agents of metamorphosis are the nurse logs. Their horizontal trunks form a dense mesh that hosts ferns, fungi, lichens, mosses, insects, spiders, tree seedlings, and a variety of vertebrates. Nurse logs are both the larder and the highways upon which the forest depends.

Technique: machine piecing, machine quilting, hand quilting, hand beading

Materials: cotton fabrics, cotton batting, thread, buttons, beads, and thrums

$ 400

Barbara Ramsey
bramsey53@gmail.com
Port Townsend

There's no greater agent of planetary metamorphosis than the rifts in the earth's crust, deep under the ocean. This quilt calls to mind a rift where magma has just breached the crust and is now about to emerge onto the ocean floor.

Technique: machine piecing, machine quilting, hand stitching

Materials: cotton fabric, cotton batting

$ 150

Janice Speck
janicespeck@hotmail.com
Port Townsend

Technique: felting

Materials: hand fashioned felt beads, vintage and ethnic beads

$ 185

Jean-Marie Tarascio
jmtarascio@gamail.com
Port Townsend

Technique: discarded book deconstructed, then reconstructed with handmade papers, thread, raffia

Materials: discarded book, handmade paper, wasp paper, decorated and marbled papers

$ 1,000

Mary Tyler
tylerstudio@olympus.net
Chimacum

Technique: machined pieced, machine quilted

Materials: discharged, hand-dyed  cotton

$ 500

Mary Tyler
tylerstudio@olympus.net
Chimacum

Technique: machine pieced, machine quilted

Materials: discharged, hand-dyed cotton

$ 325

Marla Varner
pennylanequilts@gmail.com
Sequim

Some of the garments in our illusive "mending" pile were given new life... "Wait, is that my shirt?"

Technique: improvisational free hand cutting, machine pieced and quilted

Materials: upcycled jeans and shirts

$ 150

Cathie Wier
cathie.wier@gmail.com
Port Townsend

Life is full of twists and turns. Sometimes we think we are following a path, or we just let life unfold. There are always surprises. In this piece I adorned a doubleweave piece and attempted to control the differential shrinkage of layers through stitching, but I knew there would be some unexpected results.

Technique: handwoven, embroidered, beaded, differential shrinkage

Materials: rayon and wool yarn, beads, embroidery floss

$ 250

Cathie Wier
cathie.wier@gmail.com
Port Townsend

There are so many layers in the world around us - seen and unseen, experienced and understood by each of us in unique ways. In this doubleweave piece, I explored the interaction of layers. I wove two layers, alternating shrinking and non-shrinking yarns. After washing, agitating, and drying, I continued to work with the piece to expose some of the layers.

Technique: handwoven, differential shrinkage, embroidery

Materials: cotton, mohair, rayon, bamboo, embroidery floss

$ 400

Diane Williams
Queenmab50@gmail.com
Port Angeles

I admired a swarm of fruit flies over a neglected apple pie and stated thinking about our relationship to food. I also started thinking about apples and what they represent. The rest is up to you.

Technique: piecing, painting and drawing on fabric, hand and free-motion embroidery

Materials: hand dyed and commercial fabric, acrylic paint,embroidery thread, fusible web, colored pencil