Hi everyone!

As my friends, family and acquaintances, you are cordially invited to 2 exciting events in Winnipeg. I will have an art piece featured in each show.

Over The Top Art Auction and Cupcake Party!
Sunday March 21, 2010, 2:00–5:00 pm
MAWA (Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art)

611 Main Street - $10 Admission (free preview Sat. 10:00-4:00pm)

“It's back! The art event of the year! Come celebrate MAWA with cupcakes and artworks. Munch as many cupcakes as you can handle, quaff a beverage, buy tickets on MAWA's fabulous raffle baskets, and bid on work by approximately 100 of the country's hottest artists. Crazy, sugary fun!”

http://www.mawa.ca/

Quilt Reflections 2010
Friday, April 9th 1:00pm-9:00pm
Saturday, April 10th 9:00am-8:00pm
Sunday, April 11th 9:00am-5:00pm

Canad Inns, Polo Park - $5 Daily Admission or $12-3 Day Pass (children under 12 free)

Manitoba’s premier quilt show held every 2 years hosts the best of this year’s fresh new talent ranging from traditional quilters to contemporary quilt artists. This year’s show hosts the white glove show of quilts, the boutique, vendors, workshops, demos, and a fabulous choice auction. Be sure to come out and place your bid on a “Challenge Quilt for Charity,” with proceeds going to the Movement Centre of Manitoba.

The art that I have donated for auction at these 2 events are as follows:

Worries Aside – fibre art landscape (framed) – MAWA event

That Bloomin’ Curve – fibre art wall piece (bound) – Quilt Reflections

I will be at both events so please come and find me! I will also have 3 quilt art or quilt pieces in the Quilt Show. My art for auction will be clearly labeled, so if you like it just let loose and throw in a bid! It all goes to a worthy cause. Thank you to my wonderful friends and family for their loving support!

“Your only limits are the ones you choose!”

Brandy

Quilt Reflections 2010 - Winnipeg

Hi all, there are so many things to post, but so little time. Firstly, I have been doing so much writing and enjoying that immensely. But I have to put that on hold!
The Quilt Reflections Show is coming so fast! Be sure to check it out if you are in Winnipeg on April 9th to 11th. The venue is Canaad Inns Polo Park. I will have a few pieces in the show and of course the black and white quilt challenge which was so fun. I will also have a few items for sale in the boutique. I'm working on some quilted sleep masks with vintage ribbon. I hope the quilting ladies will love them. I know that the better I sleep, the better I quilt. I'm also thinking of designing some funky dog and cat blankets for all those pet lovers. Any left overs I'll try to sell at the local Humane Society.
Bye for now!
Brandy Lynn

Gimli Retreat

Hey everyone,

It has been so long since I've had time to post. January has been so busy. I am not one to post everything like, "now I'm doing the dishes," and " Oh, excuse me, someone's at the door..." I really want to post items that would be exciting to quilters and fibre art enthusiasts, so here's the latest...
I just had the most wonderful quilting retreat in Gimli Manitoba with some very good friends and I completed my guild challenge. The idea was to use black and white and one other color with a maximum of 5 fabrics. This is my own design and it is curved piecing, fusible applique and machine quilted. They are all commercial fabrics from JoAnn Fabrics.
I've also attached some detail shots so you can see the different types of machine quilting. This quilt will be up for auction at the Quilt Reflections Show in Winnipeg on April 9 - 11th, 2010. There will be many challenge pieces up for auction and the proceeds will go to the Movement Centre of Manitoba. (a very good cause!) I hope to see you all out to take in the show!

This was a birthday gift for my dad's wife Kimberley. They have recently acquired a new summer place in Mesa, Arizona. The entire place is decorated so beautifully after the reno. She just needed a little piece of something from home. Her love of Kokopelli sent me on a hunt for a cool design. I was inspired to draw this guy from a cool tattoo I saw online. The fabrics are batiks and hand dyes. Kokopelli is fused with waves of music and outlined and shaded in black. The wholecloth background is free motion machine quilted.

This is the third prairie landscape and everyone was marvelling about the truck. It really is just a simple photo transfer, but the effect is astonishing when it is directly on the background. It really looks like the entire piece is a photograph. My friend at work who purchased this piece took one look at this and said it was a photo of his back yard fields as a child with the truck and everything. There is a lot of fun threadplay on the golden landscape fabrics. The sun is some shimmery sheer silk with hand stitched sun rays. It turned out to be very delicate but bright. I placed the truck so the bright side is sun side and it worked out quite nicely.

This is my second prairie landscape. This sold to such a nice friend from Ontario. She saw it and just had to have it. What a sweetheart! It was so fun because I ventured into photo transfer and threadplay. The barn and hay bails are photo transfers with threadplay over top. I hand stitched all of the layers of landscape, but stitched over top with threadplay. The fabrics are batiks and hand dyes with a few frayed edge pieces tucked in for texture.

Hooray, all gifts are given and the reactions were priceless. Sometimes I think I could sew a sloppy silly thing and it would be well loved just because I made it. That's how wonderful my family is. I am finally in a position to post my last 3 private commissions. I had so much fun making them and they all sold very quickly so I am very pleased. This first one has fabrics ranging from linen, silk and polyester to cottons and batiks. I used a very loosely woven cotton and pulled out layers of thread to create a grassy effect. I top stitched the fabrics in place with a blind applique stitch and then quilted it using x's, random stars and stitches as well as couching to hold the smaller grassy edge in place. The sun is a wooden button with sunrays in a chain stitch.