These portrait quilts use a gradation of several values of similar colors to achieve a 3D look from fabric, thread painting and embellishments for hair, skin tones, facial features and clothing.
2016 Hoffman Fabrics Challenge entry.
Using 12 blocks from a block exchange and a portrait quilt in the center.
2015 Hoffman Fabrics Challenge entry.
2017 Sacred Threads Quilts entry in the "Joy" category.
Featured in the PBS show Treasured Quilts of Wisconsin and in the 2015 Sacred Threads Quilts Exhibit in the "Inspiration" category.
2014 Hoffman Fabrics Challenge entry.
My entry in Sacred Threads Quilts 2013.
Joann Fabric's 2010 National Quilt contest entry. 4th place.
Tina has been in Quilting Arts Magazine in 2009 and 2011.
This group of portrait quilts is based on fantasy themes of unnatural human skin tones and hair color, cultural costumes and historical fashions.
In the International Quilt Festival in Chicago for the Celebration of Color Exhibit which will travel beginning in April 2017
Included in the Yvonne Porcella Tribute Quilt Exhibit.
Included in the Wisconsin Quilt Expo's Black and White Plus One Color Exhibit. 2nd Place.
2013 Hoffman Fabrics Challenge entry,
In the 2013 Sacred Threads Quilts exhibit.
Entered in a homonym Quilting Arts Magazine Challenge, Hair/hare and carrot/carat.
I am in a Facebook art quilt group in which there are 20 members from all over the world and we have a theme every other month. We make a small wall hanging and post to our own blog and the group's blog. Art Quilts Around The World It is a fun way to challenge ourselves to create something new and different.
My Line Drawing Portrait Quilts is based on piecing a background of multi valued/colored fabric squares and a raw edged fused applique motif of a woman which resembles a line drawing. Success happens when the line drawing and the pieced background have high contrast. The details of the image are from the machine quilting and the embellishments.
Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabric's Lion King Challenge entry. Disney's choice quilt.
One of my patterns in the Bella series.
One of my patterns in the Bella series.
My first Bella pattern which the other Bella series patterns are based on.
2012 Hoffman Fabrics entry.