2015 images - Irene MacWilliam

As I am a new member of the group here is a little info about me. I live in Northern Ireland.
I have been working with textiles for almost 30 years. Current interests are working with black of white striped fabric to produce optical illusions or producing my own fabric for use in my work. I am a member of both the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild and the Northern Ireland Embroidery Guild.
The  pieces above are the first 2 of the 4 for Maastricht. I sun printed the applied fabrics - that has been tricky as since I decided to do these pieces we have had virtually no sun; so sometimes fabric had to be rescued from the rain or the printing hardly worked at all. I used a thermofax screen for the birds on the LH piece. For the frogs I made my own screen then put the frog image on it using Speedball drawing ink and Speedball filler- the first time I had tried them. Now that I know how to do it I hope to be able to make better images as I try and perfect the technique.
They are called Environment Dwellers 1- bird and Environment Dwellers 2 - frog. Although only 4 are required I plan to make an additional 2..... if the sun ever shines!

Here are my quilts for Series 1, my theme being LINE and Series 2 my theme being DESTINATIONS

The above are images of the selected quilts for Series 1 - LINE

Although I have three extra ones:

My theme for Series 2 is DESTINATIONS

Lyon, St.Ives, New York and Copenhagen

Jane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are my 4 quilts for our second series. The title is Color fracture and I was still playing with colors and black. Fused batik and machine quilted.

All done !

The jars are painted with ochre powder from Roussillon (South of France)

My 8 quilts are ready fro Maastricht !

Tequila

Although I am still making circle quilts, my theme for this group this year is beverages. Here is the first one:

Maybe not what you expected with this theme, but this quilt is based upon a microscopic photo of tequila. I used a combination of hand dyed and commercial fabrics.

Exhibit

Stitched will have it first exhibit coming October-November in Maastricht - the Netherlands. So if you want to see our work and meet some of our members, book a room at the MECC and enjoy a couple of days of textile art.  Click on this link to read more about it.

2015 : I've decided to keep my theme "Tunisia Past & present" and to enlarge my collection.

The Punic Tomb Stone
The stone is made with distressed painted felt (with hot gun)
The background : hand dyed linen
The birds are discharged.

Close up with quilting

Market place.
Lino printing on hand-dyed fabric.
Ethnic embroideries on prints made with a piece of foam.

Close up