Lemon challenge Part deux

So i redid the lemon challenge because of the silly cup...and in answer to some inquiries about my grandmothers cutting and pasting eyes....she had drawn a lovely lady in pastel but was not happy with one of the eyes and according to family legend she drew another eye and glued it over the one she did not like...in the collection of Joyce and Gary Lytle

and then i remembered that i actually had another lemon that i had done in fabric for International Quilt Festival a few years ago...I made the fruit of the month...one a month for nine months that year...these are paper sized and were to be a set of nine journal quilts...this is the first one in that string and is thread painted...which means that instead of drawing them with pencils I drew them with various colored threads......they were done yearly from 2002 to this year which is the last year of the journal quilt culminating in a book Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project in which i was honored to have more pages than any other of the participants except Gloria Hansen...TOO cool I thought:>

FOR SALE FOR SALE...

help me i am drowning in books...most are quilting books...a few drawing books..no more buying those....before i am drowning in them!!:>


SO HERE IS THE LIST:> Condition is listed on the expensive ones. Prices determined by what amazon is selling them for.

Shipping $3.98
If you are buying the $1 you must buy two to make it worth my time to mail them to you! Thanks.:>



$75 - Andersen, Charlotte Warr. Faces and Places. Applique techniques of this international award winning art quilter. Signed by author. Appliqué. Good condition.

$20 - AQS challenge series. Double wedding ring quilts: new quilts from an old favorite. Amazing adaptations of the double wedding ring . Good condition

$35 - AQS challenge series. Kaleidoscope: new quilts from old favorites. Versatile adaptations of this block. Good condition.

$10 THE Art quilt magazine Issue #11 – only one I ever got:<

$10 - Bailey, elinor peace. Put ons. Pin dolls from THE doll maker. $10

$10 - Bailey, elinor peace. How many angels can dance. 20 small dolls $10

$10 - Bailey, elinor peace. 20 pick pocket wearables. More pin dolls $10

$1 - Barber, Barbara. Foolproof curves: quilting with bias strips and continuous paper piecing.

$5 - Batt, Tanya. The fabrics of fairytale: stories spun from far and wide. The weaving of Fabulous worlds with fabric and stories. Beautiful story book with fabric illustrations.

$1 - Bawden, Juliet. The cushion book, creating pillows, bolsters, and decorative accents. $5 If you love pillows and making them…this is a fabulous book of extrodinary pillows.

$1 - Bird, Charlotte. Sew a work of art inside and out. For the fan of unique wearable art.

$10 – Black, Lynette. Dream sewing spaces. Organizing the chaos in your sewing room!

$5 - Browning, Marie. Handcrafted journals, albums, scrapbooks and more. Journaling at its best.

$10 – Buto. Shibori. Gorgeous silk shibori how to.

$25 – Colvin, Joan. The nature of design: a quilt artist personal journey. Excellent condition. The definitive book by this well known art quilter.

$1 – Reike, Ursula. Class Act quilts: 18 eclectic quilts by teachers and their students. Wide range of quilts from art quilts to pieced.

$10 - Craig, Sharon. Twist ‘n’ turn. Never know what to do with all those orphan blocks. Use this fun technique to make them all easy to set!

$30 – OBO -Dales, Judy B. Curves in motion: quilt designs and techniques. Ever wondered how to piece all those curves? Use Judy’s techniques to make it a snap. Almost new condition.

$3 - Dressed by the best: waearble art projects by ten well known designers including Lois Erickson, Maggie Walker, Mary Mashuta, Virgina Avery, Lorraine Torrence & more. Gorgeous wearables.

$3 -Eckley, Ginney. Quilted sea tapestries. Machine appliqué underwater scenes.

$40 – Eddy, Ellen Ann. Thread Magic: The Enchanted World of Ellen Anne Eddy (Paperback, 1997)the original copy. Great condition.

$20 - Edie, Marge. A new slant on bargello. Precision awesome pieced bargellos with the amazing Marge Edie. Good condition.

$10 - Edie, Marge. Bargello quilts. Her first bargello book. Out of print. Precision awesome pieced bargellos with the amazing Marge Edie.

$10 - Erickson, Lois Opening & closing. Unique closures for clothing. Known for her amazing wearables ….a jillion ways to close them!


$5 - Flynn, John. Feathered Sun: step by step. $1 All machine pieced.

$10 - Flynn, John. Double wedding ring:step by step workbook. $1 All machine pieced.

$10 - Hargrave, Harriet. From fiber to fabric: the essential guide to quiltmaking textiles. The definitive book. Easy to understand directions to test for fiber content, thread count, light fastness, washfastness, and shrinkage, storing quilts, batting selection charts & more

$1 - Hiney, Mary Jo. Two hour vests. A wide variety of vests all made in two hours. Another book for the wearable art lover.

$5 - Hopkins, Judy. Design your own quilt. Create quilts with your own person imprint. Take a ho hum quilt and bump it up to art category.

$10 -Hutchens, Rita. Totally tubular quilts: a new strip-piecing technique. How many ways can you make a strip pieced quilt?

$1 - Landman, Sylvia Ann. Make your quilting pay for itself.

$1 - Laurie, Jean Ray. Fabric stamping handbook. From the quilting diva

$10 -Lark Books. Quilt National: the best contemporary quilts. Eye candy for the art quilter. Out of print.

$1 - Leone, Diana & Cindy Walter. Fine hand quilting. Definitive hand quilting.

$5 - Libby, Shirley Sea and Shore. Paper piece any form of sea life.

$5 - Lund, Tricia & Judy Pollard. Classic Quilts: with precise foundation piecing.

$5 - MacGregor, Shirley. Treasure Underfoot: quilting with manhole covers, round 2. Applique inspired by the original manhole covers in Japan.

$60 – Marculewicz, Nancy Making monotypes: using a gelatin plate. Print making without a press. Excellent condition.

$10 - Marshall, John. Make your own Japanese clothes: patterns and ideas for modern wear. From the master of Japanese clothing. Definitive guide.

$18 - Masopust, Katie Pasquini. Ghost Layers and Color Washes. Amazing quilts from the master Good condtion

$30 - McDowell, Ruth B. Art & Inspirations. Signed. Amazing quilts from the master. Excellent condition.

$20 OBO Mori, Dr. Joyce. Sampler quilt blocks from native American designs. Some water damage in margins. Does not effect the directions. Sells for $60 on amazon. $20

$1 - Murrah, Judy. Jacket Jazz. The grandmother of the wearable movement…original book.

$65 - Nadelstern, Paula. Kaleidoscope quilts. The definitive book on piecing these wonders. Full of eye candy. Almost new condition.

$40 - Nadlestern, Paula. Snowflakes. $40 More eye candy for the quilter. NEW condition.

$5 – Nicolaides. Natural way to draw. Authoritative since the is it the 30s?

$5 - Noble, Maurine, and Elizabeth Hendricks. Machine quilting with decorative threads. Eleven easy exercises to teach you to work with decorative threads.

$20- OBO -Orban, Nancy. Fiberarts design book six. Eye candy. Full of amazing quilts. Good condition.

$10 - Oroyan, Susanna. Designing the doll. How to make her amazing dolls.

$10 - Oroyan, Susanna. Fantastic figures(doll series) More how to make her amazing dolls…

$10 - Oroyan, Susanna. Finishing the figure(dolls series) And even more:>

$10 - Packham, Jo. Where women create. Twenty creative female artists workspaces.

$10 - Packham, Jo. Create your own craftspace. Companion to Where women create.

$ 60 OBO - Parks, Carol. Make your own GREAT VESTS. 90 ways to jazz up your wardrobe. Price out of print book is skyrocketing. Great condition.

$1 - Pellman, Rachel and Kenneth. How to make an amish quilt. Definitive authority.


$40 - Piece of cake. Stars in the garden. Applique the piece of cake way. Good condition.

$1 - Porcella, Yvonne. Sixcolorworld. Creating hand painted fabrics & design exercises.

$5 - Quilt Lovers Favorites –Better Homes and Gardens

$1 - Quilters Travel Companion 8th Edition 2004-2006-definitive guide to quilt shops across the country. $1

$20 – Rankin. Fast sketching. How to draw what you see quickly and accurately.

$1 - Rodale. Perfect piecing. How to sew an accurate ¾ inch seam every time, innovative tricks for strip and string piecing, secrets for matching seams, five easy ways to make half square triangles.

$5 - Silver, Burton. Why paint cats. Did you know that some people actually paint their cats…gorgeous coffee table book.

$5 - Simmons, Judy. Creative marbling on fabric: a guide to making one of a kind marbled fabrics.

$5 - Simmons, Judy. Machine Needlelace and other embellishment techniques.
Singer. Fabric artistry. Explores innovative texturizing techniques like bubbling, crinkling and pleating, felting, pin weaving, trapunto, decorative stitching, devore.

$1 - Speckmann, Doreen. Adventures of Peaky and Spike. Piecing with the irrepressible Doreen

$15 - Speth, Pat & Charlene Thode. Nickel quilts. How to use up all those 5” squares we all have.

$40 - Sudo, Kumiko. Circles of the east: quilt designs from ancient Japanese family quilts. Almost new condition

$15 -Sudo, Kumiko. East meets west. Fresh new designs for quilt blocks with a Japanese twist.

$50 Sudo, Kumiko. Fabled Flowers. Japanese inspired appliqué. Almost new condition


$10 - Sudo, Kumiko. Omiyage. Balls, teapots and more.

$1 - Tauton Press. The new quilt:Dairy Barn National, 1991. Eyecandy

$1 - Townswick, Jane. Color blend appliqué. Stitch roses, orchids, poppies and more.

$10 -Visions quilt expressions…some signatures. Eye candy

$25 - Wada, Yoshiko. Shibori(paperback) from the Queen of all things shibori. Definitive guide.

$5 - Wolfrom, Joen. Patchwork persuasion. Definitive guide to innovative appliqué.

$20 - Wolfrom, Joen. Make a block any size. The name says it all. Almost new condition

Apparently this artist has become a

quilter too....this was made up quickly from the block heap that i had sewed up earlier this month...wild wonky log cabins...Jeff is racing it off to somewhere to see if it can get sold...evidently it wowed everybody that saw it...and i do have to say its pretty cool for an innovative quilt with handprints...not your average handprint quilt....

yes i know crass commercialism but lets face it....do we really like to be starving artists living in hovels???Not I nor Jeff....

These last i zapped together from a couple of prints that I took pics of and then I inserted them using paintshop pro into the quilts that we got ready for the show in Aiken...and it was MUCH faster:>

This was sooo quick that i am looking around to see what else I can zap together...my quilts, jeffs artwork....ez pz....

I also discovered how to turn out a dvd on this Mac and that was well just so time consuming NOT....amazing how quickly we turned these three quilts into a dvd that actually worked!

A sea change - an artist becomes a fiber artist

My friend and artist Jeffery Callaham is getting ready for a show at the AIken Center For the Arts in February 10 and decided to try something new...he is presenting some of his art just as the original charcoal sketch...after much discussion and getting my HUGE bag of scraps that I use for all my scrappy projects he decided to edge them with quilting squares...He felt like a kid at Christmas playing with all the colors in my bag...full of batiks and Kaffe Fassetts to name a few...scraps from all the qulit tops i did last summer and fall...did I say he already knows how to sew...he went to hmm is Bauder Fashion College in Atlanta and interned with Mary McFadden in NYC....so yes the guy does know how to sew...

He was a little rusty with rotary cutting...not the same technique as the dressmaker approach...but he got the hang of it in no time...he and Connie played with the fabric all last weekend at Hickory Knob at our quilt retreat...he was sooo surprised to see that there were a large group of people who loved color as much as he did...he was in hog heaven...and everyone lovedd him...hes such a gentleman and a truly nice guy...another added benefit was all the eating that went on...I mean what guy does not enjoy getting invited to eat lasagna?? followed by awesome deserts like Linda Yehles killer chocolate cake ...to see more of the quilt retreat...go to my friends Kim's blog

All the ladies are hoping he comes back to play SOON with them...

The first attempt at blocks...sewing strips of color together and then cutting them into blocks. Jeff has definitely got a wild sense of color...

Connie sewing away on some of the strips they picked out

Number two under construction...sorry blogger will NOT rotate this darned picture...who knows WHY?!
I really like the use of the cool blues on this one...a funeral, mourning painting

I think the figure on the right is soo powerful...and shes just hanging up the laundry...
another porch drawing of Jeff's grandmothers house....alot of porch sitting goes on in McCormick SC...watching the world go by....bytw the strip of red Kaffe Fassett with the orange flowers...my friends were ready to kill to get that out of my "scrap" bag....it was the edges off the back of a queen sized quilt that I have been quilting off and on for the last week...