Updated April 2026
ARTWORK
Although, I haven’t been updating as much lately, my studio work has kept me quite busy. I decided to keep working on my Boro Blue, Boro Gold patchwork pieces.
They fit the patchwork theme that I have running through this year. Boro is an ancient Japanese style of patching together larger textiles from lots of torn and tattered scrap fabrics. I followed the same old style by tearing up and “battering” the fabric to get that older, torn look. (bottom pic)
The two 12″ squares in floater frames are a part of a small series I have resurrected in the studio. They use modern fabrics in an old way. I love that. I need to catalog these works in and create spec pages for them.
While these are not available for sale, I do have intentions to have some larger ones in the studio store. So more to come on that.
I’m also working on quilted tapestries that are made in a block style, as well as the patchwork style. Having created wholecloth, fused quilts for a long time, these quilts represent my return to my roots in pieced quilting. They are more like tapestries in that they are created with a muslin sandwich instead of a batting one. This makes them hang much like a tapestry would on the wall. I like to call them quilted tapestries.
The first one is Native Land. It uses commercial cottons, linens and upholstery fabrics. There are 8 blocks cut from an original template. The construction is different in that each block is quilted on a piece of unbleached muslin fabric as a substrate. Then, the blocks are combined into a quilt top. The final step is to attach the backing fabric and sleeve. I’m finding that this new technique is relaxing to work with and it creates more of a quilted tapestry on the wall.
AH MAKER STUDIO
At the top of the year, I worked on a technique called Fabric Pleating to create texture in my pieces. This layering of fabric presents a nice option when I want to use it. Check out the article on this at Angela Heath Maker Studio.
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