Lisa Binkley's Fiber Art Blog

Early June Workshop & Exhibition

Here are six of my small embroidered quilts. They just arrived in Columbus, Ohio for the Small Works faculty show and sale at the Quilt Surface Design Symposium. I'm really looking forward to being there June 5-8 to teach a new 2-day workshop on Saturday and Sunday: "Layered Surface Design: The Hand-Made Stitch on Hand-Dyed Cloth." There are still a few spots in the class too!

Here's the QSDS website: www.qsds.com. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have about my class (lbinkley@tds.net).

Here's a close-up of the newest mini quilt (upper right, above). It's called "Unfettered & Alive" and is hand embroidered cotton floss and hand-dyed pearl cotton on hand-painted cotton sateen. It's just over 8" wide and 7" high and is framed in a painted wood cigar box lid:

Exhibition Opening May 7th

For about the past year I've been a member of the Memory Cloth Circle in Madison, Wisconsin (www.makingmemorycloths.blogspot.com). When I attended the group's exhibition last May I knew I had to join. It's an amazing, thoughtful, creative group of remarkable women, and I'm so proud to be a part of it.

Members have created a new group exhibition of our hand stitching that we're hanging tomorrow:

With These Stitches
We Remember

We're holding the exhibition at our favorite meeting place--the Lakeside Street Coffee House at 402 W. Lakeside St. in Madison. The show will run from tomorrow afternoon through Wednesday, June 24th.

The opening/Mother's Day reception is this Thursday, May 7th, 4-6 p.m., and the closing/Father's Day reception is on Thursday, June 18th, also from 4-6 p.m.

Members of the group have been stitching memories of their mothers, fathers, childhoods, and families. Many are stitched on vintage linens and handkerchiefs, and each has a distinct story to tell.

I've selected two of my cigar-box framed embroideries from the Fragments series I've been making. They are:

"Mother and Child"

"Leaving Home"

If you're in the Madison area, be sure to stop by to see the show or to join us at one or both of the receptions!