New Member Intro

Sep 12, 2007 9 Replies
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Hi All, I just found this group and am excited to hear about what everyone's doing. I have been a self-taught quilter/patcher/fabric manipulator (lol) since sometime in the 70's (I hate to admit!) My passion is color, and I love dyeing and surface design on fabric, trying new combinations, letting my imagination gallop all over the place. Lately I've been doing Zen-inspired altar hangings.



I'm also a Zen priest and do counseling using a technique called Focusing, which has really helped me in my creative endeavors. Please visit my new website at

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Jane Dunnewold's Complex Cloth book is one of my all-time favorites, and I recently got the Workshops DVDs, which is tremendous. If you subscribe to my newsletter on my website (you can unsubscribe anytime) you'll soon get my Sept. one which tells about adventures with dyeing complementary colors, and even brings in the "Zen of Dyeing!"



Any other surface design folk out there? I was especially interested that Jane Dunnewold often uses fabric paint rather than dye for her top surface--so much easier, I'd think!



Best, Jan Hodgman

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Welcome Jan. I'm not a dyeing or painting person; but it's good to me you anyway! . In message , Zen_Jan writes

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Hi Jan, welcome to this group. I'm fairly new here too and I'm live in north Scotland. I hope you have as much fun as I have. I've never tried dyeing or painting on my quilts, I'm basically a quilt by numbers person though I've tried on occasion to design my own stuff but it's generally along traditional lines.... and not that creative. I would like to try surface design stuff one day once I've picked up some instruction on it. So far I have a book on using decorative threads but haven't got around to working through it. I'm self taught too with my patchwork and quilting mainly through reading and trial and error. You can view my quilts at the link below.. Elly

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Howdy!

Welcome, Z-Jan.

Checking in on Jane Dunnewold's site

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there's are ol' buddy Susan Madden, silkscreening away! ;-) One of my favorite fabric painters (and she's been doing this for years!) is Cynthia England.
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's so funny, her programs/workshops are a delight. R/Sandy--noting that the word "zen" is very popular now; my understanding is that "zen" means "meditation"-- something I do lots of during handquilting ;-)

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Welcome! I'm not a painter or a dyer, but we welcome all sorts of quilters here -- even my sort! ;)

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It's so fun to see everyone's work! Thanks for the welcome and links. What truly wonderful work everyone's doing with quilts.

Here's a question: For those of you who incorporate writing on your quilts, wht kind of marker do you use? I'm looking for a fine-point good permanent marker for fabric.

Best, Jan

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Welcome! I've been pretty happy with the Pigma archive-quality markers. Come in fine point and several colors. Roberta in D

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Welcome, Jan!

- dlm. in central MA

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