Jack and Jill are Friends” work of art based on FaceBook by Mirjam Pet-Jacobs

 Mirjam Pet-Jacobs begins every artwork with working out a theme by means of a brainstorm session and collecting information from newspapers, magazines, the internet. She makes many notes, sketches are kept very simple. Working like this gives her usually enough material to make a series. Themes are usually found in daily life: “I am interested in [...]

Why a quilter – or more precisely – a quiltprinter?

Turid Tonnessen is Norvegian. She won the Aurifil prize at the 2008 international European Patchwork Meeting contest: 1 suitcase with 216 Aurifil cotton threads. Very excited, she decided to use some of these threads immediately and we thank her for sharing her secrets with us!

I am mainly a traditional…….

Griet Knops : “I met Sophie Campbell while living in Paris and she is the one who introduced me to patchwork and quilting. When I returned to Belgium I started a patchwork Group and later I have been one of the founders of the Belgium Patchwork Guild.
I am mainly a traditional. When I started, I [...]

Colors have a strong influence on our state of mind and both in patchwork and textile art

Marta Anzolla job has always focused on people’s health, holistic speaking.  Each person is made up of body, mind and soul, and only with this cohesion people can “be healthy”. Body techniques professional, she plunged into chromoterapy and aromacology attending training courses in Italy and abroad.She runs groups and workshops on health.  For 10 years [...]

The sewing machine became very early my favourite tool

       Bente Vold Klausen
Bente Vold Klausen is a norwegian textile artist born in 1952 and the editor of the Scandinavian quilt magazine ”Quiltemagasinet” for 10 years. She has exhibited and teached all over the world for the last 25 years.
Bente tells us: ”I was lucky to be born into an artistic family. [...]

ARTES TEXTILES 68 …Gisèle Acker

    Gisèle Acker : ” When I started with traditional patchwork,  I discovered that anything can be recycled. Used material, worthless objects, as long as somebody is interested in, can become a piece of art.This is why everyday objects become my main source of inspiration. I work only by instinct without following any rules [...]

I always loved making things with my own hands

   Marianne Byrne-Goarin
Marianne : “As a little girl, I always loved making things with my own hands. Watching my mother and my Irish and American grandmothers expertly stitch, crochet, knit and craft, it is needless to say that my creativity was nurtured and tenderly encouraged. After studying fashion design in Dublin and Paris, career opportunities [...]

I’ve always been keen on all types of textile activities

         RAMONA CONCONI  info@quiltingbee.ch I started with the traditional patchwork in 1984 in Nyon. I’ve always been keen on all types of textile activities, such as knitting, weaving, wool spinning, felt and then I started doing patchwork that enables me to work in a very spontaneous way, without rules! My strength point is [...]

An American Artist residing in Belgium

   LINDA COLSH   linda@lindacolsh.com  An American residing in Everberg, Belgium, Linda Colsh is a lifelong artist, whose work is published and in collections worldwide.  Among the awards her artwork has won are the European Quilt Triennial first prize and top prize of the Fabric of Legacies Exhibition in Colorado.  To create her unique fabrics, she works [...]

Her unlimited artistic vein goes beyond the limits of patchwork

  MARIANA FRUHAUF mariana@fruehauf.it
Mariana Frühauf lives and works in Merano. Her unlimited artistic vein goes beyond the limits of patchwork and quilting, testing with great passion more and more techniques in the van. The coherent and harmonious expression of all her works is given by a thorough elaboration and transformation of fabrics into shapes, [...]