Judith Martin Quilt Artist
List of Workshops
All of these workshops are suitable for a wide variety of levels of expertise. Both beginning textile artists and those with more experience will discover something exciting about themselves and new ways to approach fabric art.
Blessings
- Small wall hangings using raw edge applique and embroidered text
- Folk art embroidery and imagery, use of wool and velvet
- All hand work
- Either use the creative pattern provided, or create your very own
- One day
New Millennium Hand Piecing
- The English method of paper piecing is updated
- Create gorgeous contemporary textiles creatively and accurately
- All handwork, use of velvet, satin, found papers
- Either use the creative pattern provided, or create your very own
- One day
Painted and Embroidered
- Fabric paints and three basic embroidery stitches add individuality and power to your work.
- All hand work Drawing not necessary
- Either use the creative pattern provided, or create your very own
- One day
Dye Parfait with Shibori On Top
- Low water immersion dyeing with tie-dyed effects
- Pole wrapped and stitched shibori resist
- Bring your own ten metres of white cloth to transform
- One or two days
Creating Raw Materials for Fabric and Paper Collage
- Wax, ink, photo transfers, polyester sheers, block printing
- Twelve methods of surface design techniques introduced
- One or two days
Quilt Poems Use memory fabrics and your own UFO's to create a poem in fabric.
- Some surface design techniques presented, including embroidery
- Includes slide lecture on the language of traditional quilt pattern
- Two days
Art Quilt Intensive
- Bring UFO's and samples of one or two previous pieces
- Bring a journal to write and sketch in
- Work with Judy to find your own dream and how best to voice it.
- At least five techniques in embellishment and surface design will be presented during the course of the workshop
- Three to five days
Judith Martin Quilt Artist
List of Lectures
MY LIFE AS A SQUIRREL
Slide Lecture
All of us have something unique to say, and those of us who sew have a rich and historic medium to speak with when we make quilts.
My childhood in an isolated area of Northwestern Ontario, my love of painting, music, and sewing, as well as the overwhelming impact of motherhood have all directly influenced my quiltmaking. The quilts I make document my journey through this lifetime. The meditative "escape" of putting that needle in and out while quilting has been like therapy for me.
Featured in this slide lecture are the pieces I have done with sewn photographs and papers, my soft books and several paintings. As well I will show slides of those cloth quilts that are in public and private collections and therefore cannot be in a trunk show. One or two full sized quilts will also be displayed.
Multiple visual images stun the audience with two carousels shown at the same time.
Some actual quilts will also be available for touching.
Art and Life are All Mixed Up
Trunk Show
The idea of art and daily life being mixed up has been with me ever since I began quilting in 1970. I discovered quilting the same year that I began my first job as a young teacher in Rainy River Ontario. Home decorating and women's magazines often pictured quilts as tablecloths or in clothing, besides on beds. I taught myself how to quilt using some sewing scraps and photographs from the Family Circle. Joni Mitchell was on the radio.
Trunk show of over thirty quilts showing a mix of tradition and contemporary styles, interspersed with poetry and feminist humor.
