In December 2021, I took my first block printing class and fell in love with the process of designing, carving, and printing my own patterns. Learn more about my block printing adventures and Creations…
Join me for a Block Print & Play! workshop to learn how to hand carve your own block prints for use on paper and/or fabric. Learn more about the supplies, tools, and block printing process as you go through the steps to design, carve, and print your own original block printed patterns. Be forewarned that block printing is super fun and addicting!
Block Print & Play! Live, Online Workshop
Saturday, November 9
2-5 PM EST / 11 AM -2 PM PST
$45 Course Fee includes 3-hours of instruction and handouts
PrintINKTOBEr 2024: 31 Days of Block Printing FABRIC FLORALS
In conjuction with PrintInktober 2024, each day I revisited previously carved blocks to block a beautiful variety of fabric floral elements onto fabric swatches sourced from Fabmo Creative Reuse Center. You can learn more about my game plan, materials, and process for successfully block printing 31 days’ worth of fabric florals in my Celebratory blog post.
Follow me on Instagram/Facebook to see how I layer these floral elements into floral arrangements that I can stitch and finish into art quilts.
Beatrix
15” x 16”
August 2024
Beatrix means "voyager, traveller" with it's latin adaptation meaning "blessed, happy." I thought this was a fitting title given her 6-week start-to-finish voyage and the amount of happiness I experienced during the printing and stitching stages. How fitting that her Name Day in Hungary was approaching on August 29th, 3 days after her finish!
AGalia
12” x 12”
June 2024
Introducing, Agalia, a happy nymph-like character filled with merriment! Created through a whimsical combination of hand-carved block prints, she is magically transformed through joyful layers of hand embroidery and free-motion quilting. The colorful stitching captures her cheerful disposition. Agalia paves the way for more delightful block-printed and stitched nymph friends to follow. Made for SAQA’s September/October Benefit Auction.
Irish Daisy Chain
23” x 23”
March 2024
Made for Project Quilting’s 15.6 Irish Chain Challenge. Inspired by the traditional Irish Chain quilt pattern, it features block-printing to recreate the Irish Chain design.
tiME
6” x 8”
February 2024
Made for Project Quilting’s 15.4 Hourglass Challenge. It reflects upon this quote by John Estrin (television producer, writer, director): "The way we spend our time defines who we are."
Board game hourglass timers served as inspiration for a new set of hand-carved hourglass block prints. Each hourglass represents one of four categories of how I choose to spend my time, as evidenced by the catalog of meetings, projects, and tasks in my weekly bullet journal spreads.
Creating this piece gave me time to reflect on how I choose to spend my tiME, thereby defining ME. How do we carve out time for ourselves, especially our creativity?
This piece was donated to the April 2024 Spotlight Auction to support SAQA’s mission to promote the art quilt. ⏳
Windows Into The Soul
25” x 22”
February 2024
Made for Project Quilting’s 15.3 Inside Out Challenge. It was inspired by a TED Talk by french artist JR and his Inside Out Project featuring portraits pasted onto buildings, trains, and other iconic landmarks. This piece features a newly carved stamp of yours truly that was block printed onto a gorgeous palette of rayon/silk fashion swatches. Inverted images represent my reflections on life changes, vision, perception, etc. More textured fabmo fabrics were used in the assymmetrical borders to reference architecture as used in JR's Inside Out Project installations.
Juried into Art Movements in Fiber, SAQA NorCal/NV Regional Exhibition, 2024.
Block Nest Birds
21” x 27”
January 2024
Improv pieced composition featuring interior design fabric swatches and block printing.
CarveDecember 2023
During the month of December 2023, I carved one or more blocks as inspired by the #CarveDecember prompts. Over the 31 days, 63 blocks were carved and printed, filling a 2” binder of printed patterns and yielding lots of fussycut fodder.
Peace OMind
12.5” x 12.5”
November 2023
Wholecloth art quilt layered with painted and block-printed Evolon, free-motion quilting, hand embroidery, and sequins.
Yoga Flow(ers)
13” x 13”
September 2023
Wholecloth art quilt layered with painted and block-printed Evolon, free-motion quilting, hand embroidery, and sequins.
This piece was juried into SAQA’s RItual Virtual Gallery which can be viewed online.
Limelight & Delight
12.5” x 12.5”
August 2023
Wholecloth art quilt layered with painted and block-printed Evolon, free-motion quilting, hand embroidery, and sequins.
Peacock FANdango
12.5” x 12.5”
August 2023
Wholecloth art quilt layered with painted and block-printed Evolon, free-motion quilting, hand embroidery, and sequins.
Flora Fiesta
12” x 12”
July 2023
Wholecloth art quilt layered with painted and block-printed Evolon, free-motion quilting, hand embroidery, and sequins.
Emerald Gardens
12” x 12”
July 2023
Wholecloth art quilt layered with painted and block-printed Evolon, free-motion quilting, hand embroidery, and sequins.
This piece was juried into Quilt Visions 2024 biennial exhibition, hosted by Visions Museum of Textile Art with jurors Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Karl Reichert, and Sandra Sider. Pinch me! I received the Quilt Japan award sponsored by Japan Handicrafts Instructors’ Association and Nihon Vogue Co which includes a paid trip to travel and teach in Japan! It was purchased by one of the Visions’ board members to be included in the museum’s permanent collection!
Peace & Parcheesi
12” x 12”
June 2023
Wholecloth art quilt layered with painted and block-printed Evolon, free-motion quilting, hand embroidery, and sequins.
Donated to SAQA’s 2023 Benefit Auction and in a private collection.
Block Printed Tool Wrap
19” x 12” open
January 2023
Block printed tool wrap to store my carving gouges and block-printing tools.
CarveDecember 2022
During the month of December 2022, I carved one or more blocks as inspired by the #CarveDecember prompts. Over the 31 days, 68 blocks were carved and printed, filling a 2” binder of printed patterns.
Mind Over MATter
24” x 68”
July 2022
Art Quilt made using block printing, fabric painting, free-motion quilting, and a yoga mat.
100 Days of Hand Carved Stamps
February - May 2022
100 days of rolling a pair of dice to determine the starting shape and source of design inspiration for creating one or more hand-carved stamps each day. In total 145 blocks were carved and printed, filling a 3” binder with printed patterns!
