colour - quilts - collage
a slide show of my very successful solo exhibition in Peebles during
April and May 2011
a slide show of my very successful solo exhibition in Peebles during
April and May 2011
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About Me
- friedaquilter
- Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
- I am an award winning quilt artist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally,and has won many prizes including Championship quilt twice. I had a very successful solo exhibition Colour - Quilts - Collage in Peebles in 2011 which subsequently travelled around the U.K.I have also entered the world of mixed media and my ATC Enduring, Unending won Best of Show in the House of Cards exhition, Columbus, Ohio, 2005. I worked as a member of the Alpha Stamps Design Team for 4 years from 2007-2010. My art has been published in a wide variety of magazines and books both here in the U.K. and abroad. I'm improving as a photographer by uploading one picture every day to the Blipfoto site and my interest in graveyards has led me to start a separate blog about my local one in West Linton. I'm currently working on making one Journal Quilt every week in 2012 (the 52 Journals Project)
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Recently Published in
And also in The Quilter, Spring 2012 issue
Gillian Cooper interviews me on pages 20 - 21 and Sweet Spring (detail) features on the cover!
and also in issue 77 of Fabrications
in which my two Lucy Journal Quilts are featured.
As well as in
The Bernina Calendar 2012
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Now Reading
Making an Exit; from the magnificent to the macabre; how we dignify the dead. By Sarah Murray. Since I started ordering books about graveyards etc. from Amazon they helpfully provide me with recommendations on the subject and I must admit simply seeing the picture on the front of this book was enough to persuade me I had to have it. And I was not disappointed. Spurred on by the meticulous arrangements her father had made for the disposal of his "organic matter" Sarah started to ask herself how she would like to depart this world. Contrary to what you might think the resulting book isn't depressing in the slightest, rather it's filled with humour, just even fun, while at the same time opening a window showing the amazing ways various cultures deal with their dead. It's a travelling book both to actual locations and to the realms of fantasy that death has occupied in the mind of human beings over time. It's informative, humourous and wonderful to read. Sarah never gets morbid but considers death a natural consequence of living and looks into ways to make our departure easier both on us and on those we leave behind. In the process she comes up with some truely original turns of phrase and fascinating facts to to with the business of dying. Reading this book can make you feel that death can be a friend rather than an enemy. Click on the picture to find the accompanying website!
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Daily Quotation
- Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt. Live life every day as if it were your last. (Irish proverb)
Blue Waves
the quilt stolen in 2006
Enduring, Unending ATC
Best of Show in House of Card Exhibition, 2005
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Quilt Biz #8 - Get Online! - It's Sunday and time for another Quilting Business post! Today I really want to nail in the fact that being online, no matter what type of business you ha...6 hours ago
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Fruiting Bodies - Carol Sloan here. I didn't really want to draw or paint a piece of fruit or vegetable (even though I like them). I didn't know what to do actually...so I d...
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Teasers are Us and The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread! - A couple of weeks ago now, I received an email from a manufacturer who had seen my work via Cloth Paper Scissors. He wanted to introduce me to a new pro...
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Digitale problemen - Even een kort bericht: met ons is alles goed, maar onze computer heeft het begeven. Na zeven jaar trouwe dienst wil de batterij geen stroom meer doorgeven ...2 days ago
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Art Journal Every Day (only when you can!) - "*I have some awesomely good news for you: you don't actually have to art journal every day to be a part of Art Journal Every Day. So if you're up for a li...
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Fence Holes Bandage 1.0 Update - *Fence Holes Bandage 1.0 *has been installed on the tree in my back yard for just about six months now. This piece is on my flowering pear tree which...
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journée du souvenir - Today's moving post is by guest blogger and author Nancy Rial (pictured here at the American Cemetery in Lorraine). Monday is Memorial Day in the US. The n...2 days ago
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Art Journal Every Day: Step-by-Step with Cathie - If you're new to Art Journal Every Day, all the posts can be found here. Please read this post first. There is a flickr group for sharing right here. Remembe...2 days ago
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Seasonal Palette - Update 6 - [image: SueReno_SeasonalPallette10] Having assembled my components - the cyanotype prints and the Seminole patchwork strips - it was time to work on the ove...
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Fabric printing - Some of the little quilts at Loch Lomond were taken from my paintings and drawings and printed onto fabric before being stitched and beaded. Here they...
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Competition - How uncomfortable is it to feel that one has to do well in an area in which one has no competence whatsoever? My answer is very. When I was 17 years old, m...1 week ago
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It’s Time to Be Outside – My Newsletter is What’s Up! - It’s that time of year when I won’t be posting as frequently here because I will either be outside chipping away on my lawn removal project (aka landscapin...2 weeks ago
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Is this a Cause for Concern? - * * It was a perfectly ordinary trip to Tesco for my husband and me. It was a pleasant enough day outside. Parking was easy. The shop wasn't busy. It ...2 weeks ago
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Happy Birthday Zippy! - Hi everyone! Today my little Zippy turns 1 year old. Can you believe it?! Me either. I'm a year old. Now where's that cake? Hap...
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Last Day for April Challenge.... - There's one more day to post your art for the April Collage Challenge. I hope you're joining us!1 month ago
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Matchbox Swap - I've just parcelled up my first matchbox swap. I am taking part in the Popular Crafts magazine swap and have been paired up with a jewellery maker in the S...
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webshops for collage supplies
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- Art from the Heart, finally a UK supplier for all those collage goodies that previously I had to buy from the US and they also have a gorgeous range of their own acrylic paints and sprays! Very tempting!
- Artchixstudio
- Artfabrik (lovely threads and fabric from Laura Wasilowski!)
- Bmuse
- Collagestuff
- Create and Craft, the website associated with channel 671 on Sky selling an amazing collection of craft supplies, including great CDs!
- Europeanpapers
- Gauche Alchemy
- Mickie McCormic (who sells an excellent DVD entitled Image Transfer on Fabric, which I highly recommend!
- Patsy May - basic ATC supplier in the U.K. includes a starter kit
- Rainbow Silks. Wonderful supplies and UK supplier of most of the Stampington magazines, such as Somerset Studio
- UK Trading Cards, the place to find ATC albums and sleeves by clicking on the Accessories tap. Free postage to UK!
- VintageImageMadness
Favourite websites
- A Million Little Pictures project
- Art-e-Zine
- ARTspecially, a Dutch stamping magazine
- ATCs for All, my favourite swap site for ATCs and also inchies!
- Bead Shop Haddington (oh so deliciously tempting for all those fabulous beads, including Swarovski crystals!)
- Blipfoto, a website where you can upload one photo every day
- Collage Exchange
- Contemporary Quilt Group
- Craft STamper Magazine
- Electric Quilt
- Equilter (my favourite for buying quilting fabrics!)
- Greyhound Awareness League, a Scottish charity from whom I got both my dogs!
- Helen Cowans
- IndieArtsDVDMagazine
- Joggles (for all those hard to find fabric and mixed media supplies)
- Just let me Bead, Laura McCabe's wonderful beading kits and supplies
- Lenna Andrews website
- Lenna's website for tutorials and classes
- Loch Lomond Quilt Show
- Lost Quilt website. If you've lost a quilt, post it here and you just might get it back! Maintained by the American quilter Marie Elkins
- Quiltart (a place to exchange news and quilt challenges for art quilters)
- Quilts und Mehr, a German website which organizes travelling exhibitions of small quilts, with a different theme every year. I'm participating in the current Freedom exhibit as well in the previous 2 ones
- Sheep's Head peninsula
- Stampington, the publisher of a delicious selection of mixed media magazines
- The Arts Map
- The Sketchbook Project
- Wayfarers Cards, beautiful cards featuring West Cork in Ireland
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