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One of the reasons that I sell fabric is that my fabric prefers to go live elsewhere...where real artists live! Here's a fine example of some of my happiest fabric.
Marilyn Wall is a Fiber Artist in South Carolina. We've been working together over a year to develop some lines of color gradient packs that can be used for skin tones. One of those is the fabric that she used in this piece called Connor. You can see her progress on this on her blog. Start with this post and read back.
Marilyn does different kinds of quilt art and you can see some of it in her gallery but the best part is that she shares her talent in workshops! She uses my fabrics in her Fabricating Faces workshops. You can see why fabrics going to Marilyn pack and mail themselves!
A few weeks ago I shared this link to Emma's blog and a quilt that she made froms everal of my gradient fabrics. It was featured in Australian Patchwork and Quilting Vol 20 #6. I finally found a copy here!
I was going to leave the magazine out and open to this page but then I saw this.
That's Deb Levy's Seasons of the Moons! Kits for these and 2 other of Deb's designs are in the shop.
I'll just leave the magazine out and flip back and forth between the 2 pages! I think it has some other nice projects in it too. I'll look at those at some point.
I am grateful that artists like Marilyn, Emma and Deb who find my fabrics a good match for their artisic vision. I love seeing what they do with them. If' you've made something from one of my fabrics I hope you will consider sharing it in my customer gallery on Flickr or send me a photo that I can share on the blog.
Oooh! They're all wonderful! Thanks for sharing. You're getting me into big trouble! LOL
Posted by: Joy Manoleros | August 03, 2011 at 02:30 PM
Those are such beautiful projects and your fabric really does make the quilts, the variations give so much more dimension to the pieces.
Debbie
Posted by: Debbie St.Germain | August 03, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Fabulous news.... when will it be available ... I always am on the look out for flesh tones ... all races.
Posted by: NONNIE | August 03, 2011 at 10:45 PM
I'm happy to have you fiddle over getting just the right color combos for me :)
Posted by: Deb Levy | August 03, 2011 at 11:34 PM
Those are all fabulous! Such a wonderful collaboration!
Posted by: twitter.com/CandiedFabrics | August 04, 2011 at 12:24 AM
Wow, Vicki! Your gorgeous fabric and their talent...why it just takes my breath away!
Posted by: Heather Woollove | August 04, 2011 at 05:43 AM
What wonderful use of your fabric and to see how other are using it is very cool! Could this mean more orders for fabric? :)
Posted by: patty | August 04, 2011 at 07:54 AM
Wow, such talented artists. It must be exciting for you to see how they use your fabrics.
Posted by: Terri | August 04, 2011 at 08:05 AM
I'm not surprised they have created such beautiful work, because your fabrics are gotgeous! But its lovely to see too!
Posted by: heckety | August 04, 2011 at 09:08 AM
Love the transitions quilt--just a delight for the eye as you move down the stripe--sort of subtle and unexpected.
Posted by: Debra Spincic | August 04, 2011 at 10:02 AM
oh, I love today's post. How exciting it must be to see your work light up these quilts. I love Marilyn's work and what Emily did with your fabric. As a matter of fact, one of my favorite things to look at (I dragged it out again last night) is an old copy of Australian Patchwork and Quilting that has some things I am itching to make. Wow, how exciting to influence quilting around the world!
Posted by: Marian Moody | August 04, 2011 at 12:17 PM
How awesome it that, Vicki!
Posted by: Cindy Is Crafty | August 04, 2011 at 09:33 PM
I'm glad you found yourself a copy! I'm busy fusing gradient butterflies to that big background piece you dyed for me at the moment!
Posted by: Emma | August 05, 2011 at 01:14 AM
Your fabrics look wonderful in the quilt! Congratulations, Vicki
Posted by: Anita Heady | August 05, 2011 at 06:53 PM