in·no·va·tive (ˈinəˌvādiv/) adjective Featuring new methods; advanced and original.
Posts Tagged ‘Janet Stone’
Innovative Winning Quilts
Friday, October 27th, 2017These four quilt artists were each awarded First Place and $1,000 for their innovative fiber art skills at Road 2017:
Innovative, Large
The A-E-I-O Ewes by Janet Stone.
Sponsored by BERNINA of America, Janet says, “I had to design this quilt after the title came to me first, while lying in bed one night. The color fabrics were all hand dyed by my very talented friend, Gilbert Muniz. It was originally going to be just a wall quilt, but it demanded to be bit larger. This is the 16th quilt in my alphabet quilt series.”
Innovative, Wall, Appliqué 
PROUD PEACOCK by Mrs. Antonia Hering
Antonia is a resident of The Netherlands. She came up with her original design because she always wanted to make a quilt with a peacock. Antonia said, “The challenge was to use very tiny stitches. It had to be a special one, different from all I had seen. Another challenge was the hand-piecing of the tiny triangles in the spirals.The rest of the quilt is inspired by old catalogs from the 1800’s showing all kinds of long forgotten crafts.” Leo9 Textiles sponsored this winning quilt.
Innovative, Wall, Other
Bailando en la Noche (Dancing in the Night) by Shelley Stokes
Kerry’s Kollectibles sponsored this winning quilt. Shelley describes her innovative design that “the colorful medallions evoke the swirling skirts of Mexican folk dancers under an exuberant night sky. Just as music and dance add delight to our lives, hand stitching breathes life into the painted images. The shapes in the medallions were painted on whole cloth black fabric with Shiva Artist’s Paintstiks. All surface stitching was done by hand with pearl cotton threads. It appears to be appliqué, but it’s not.”
Innovative, Wall, Pieced 
Five Turns of the Wheel by Sandra F. Peterson
This quilt was designed using Sandra’s original “fractured wheels” because she was thinking about a design that fills in between circles. For Sandra, “the idea of playing with colors that move through the circles with an imaginary turn of each wheel was intriguing. Clockwise, follow yellow starting with the lower left corner circle and watch it move through the circles and burst out and consume the center circle.” Thank you Primitive Gatherings for sponsoring Sandra’s winning entry.
What innovative designs are you working on?
Meet Laurie Tigner: Road 2016 Teacher and Quilt Award Winner
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 
Laurie Tigner with Road’s owner, Carolyn Reese[/caption]
Laurie won first place for Traditional, Wall, Other for Cameo Rose.
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Cameo Rose made and quilted by Laurie Tigner[/caption]
A whole cloth quilt, Laurie used a technique that she continues to learn about. She chose batik because when she painted over it, it gave the fabric a look of stone with shadows and provided the sculpted look of a real cameo. Laurie tried three times to get the appearance she wanted. At one point, being discouraged, she threw the quilt away. Her husband rescued it out of the trash. Laurie took the piece, squished it in a ball and threw it in a corner where it stayed for 3 months until she heard that HMQS needed another quilt for their show. She added ”tons more color” to finish the piece and turned it in. To Laurie’s amazement, Cameo Rose ended up winning first place in the Wall Quilt category. Then it won first place at Road 2016. Laurie has promised the quilt to a friend after she shows it two more times to get back the time and money she put in to the project.
Laurie won another first place honor for doing the quilting on Janet Stone’s winning entry, This One’s Four Ewe.”
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“This One’s Four Ewe” made by Janet Stone and quilted by Laurie Tigner[/caption]
Janet is a close friend of Laurie’s and asked her to do the quilting. Laurie confided that she was “scared to death” to work on the quilt knowing Janet’s status as a master quilter. Laurie “lived in fear” that she would bring Janet’s reputation down. When Laurie heard the quilt had won first place for Traditional, Large, Applique, she was so relieved. “I didn’t humiliate myself.”
What were Laurie’s first impressions of Road? “Huge” and “Friendly.” She was particularly impressed with all the attention to detail.
Laurie’s Road classes all focused on using her Inktense Fabric Painting technique. She said she loved her students in her classes. “They were the best.” One day, Laurie remarked how she couldn’t believe how wonderful California oranges were compared to the oranges she got back in South Dakota. Laurie was totally flabbergasted when the next day, one of her students brought Laurie a bag of oranges from her tree!! “I didn’t expect that.”
To learn more about Laurie, please visit her web page.
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