Mixed Media Quilting

02/25/2022

3 Mixed Media Quilt blocks finished using the Mokume Gane Sky/Water cane

02/17/2022

The latest Mixed Media Quilting pieces. The dragonfly has rubies for eyes, the blue earrings are gold filled wires and vintage glass, and the green earrings are sterling silver and aventurine drops.

02/15/2022

Newest mixed media "quilt".

02/13/2022

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02/01/2022

I was just asked if you can use the Ferric Chloride solution more than once to etch your copper plate. While they say you can I've never found the 2nd etch being nearly as deep. Try to make sure your dish isn't much larger than your copper and that you tape the copper sheet with only about 1/8th inch between it and the bottom of the dish.

01/27/2022

Three latest "quilted" necklaces ready for Valentine's Day!

01/22/2022

Polymer Quilt Blocks
Depending on time we can also explore simple crazy quilts and what they can be used for.

01/22/2022

6) Mixed Media Quilt using Alternative Veneer #3
This embellished quilt makes use of hammered circles of thin copper, green colored wire, the Mokume Gane background veneer stretched to cover a 6x6 black canvas, standard polymer clay, and antique buttons as the center of the flowers. Now is the time to let your imagination go free and use any and all found objects to embellish your crazy quilt. Baking it onto a stretch canvas allows this piece to be hung as wall art.

Materials for this piece will be up to the artist as anything goes. The mokume gane veneer has been baked onto a 6x6 stretched canvas. The stems in the back are done by drilling small holes through the veneer and the canvas and “stitching” green copper artistic wire in a chain stitch just like you would do thread through material. The leaves are gradient polymer clay cut and shaped to size and baked onto the canvas. The flowers started with hammered rounds of very thin copper coated with cold enamel powders and heated with a heat gun to cure and then 2 holes were hammered in the center with an awl. The red/orange middle layer is a baked polymer clay jelly roll slice and the center of the flowers are antique buttons. The flowers are then wired through drilled holes and tied off in the back of the canvas. As a button “purist” I didn’t want to destroy the buttons so they are simply wired on through the flowers and not baked into the composition.

Choose any subject and any set of materials and we can walk you through the “engineering” of your embellished quilt block.

01/22/2022

5) Mixed Media Quilt using Alternative Veneer #2
Adding traditional polymer clay elements to the initial veneer creates a mixed media “quilt” to be used for jewelry or art pieces as desired. Other elements such as beads can embellish the work to create unique quilts so the mold can be used again and again.

01/22/2022

4) Mixed Media Quilt using Alternative Veneer #1
Woven brass wire and brass strip make up the frame for this alternative etching veneer. The top layer of the quilt is the veneer, the middle layer is ultra light clay, and textured clay is used to finish the back.

01/22/2022

3) Alternative Veneer: Mokume Gane sky/water veneer
This twist on a standard Mokume Gane cane works wonderfully for a sky or water background, but in different colors can be used for other art pieces as desired.