Results of Bedazzling Beads

Susan added her beads as an icicle embellishment to her snowflake scene. After piecing the background, she used a Cedar Canyon stencil and a silver Paintstik to add snowflakes to lower part of the piece and the upper right corner. The sky area is covered with an embroidered organza that she embellished with silver thread by machine. The white snowflakes were made by her mother though Susan added glitter and a few glass beads. Her silver icicles in the upper left corner were made with netting and organza and melted. In the photo you don't see the last snowflake which hangs below the quilted piece.

Sue has altered gold netting for her little piece. The background squares behind the beads are red netting that she painted and embossed with gold powder, giving them a metallic look. The same red netting has been rolled and melted to make the beads. She also used red organza to make additional beads, which have been coordinated with glass beads for the background texture.

Sue Anne created a grid of squares, text, and beads over a hand-painted background to make a quilt describing marriage. She has used lutradure and Tyvek to make the narrow beads and Kunin felt for the larger ones. All have been embossed with gold or copper embossing powder. Many of the beads have been embellished with small commercial beads. The text was taken from an old book and adhered with matte gel medium. The quilting was done as the last step.

Jamie's quilt is the "M" in her series of Fruits and Vegetables; although Morel Mushrooms are neither, nor did she use beads! Instead of rolling the Kunin felt and organza, she sewed these fabrics to a background of black felt in a random pattern. She then melted the felt and organza between the stitching to give the illusion of depth. The mushrooms were attached once the background was quilted.

Painted fusible web results:

Sue Anne's piece uses many different layers and materials. She started with a rejected sunprint which she painted. On it she layered the velvet squares and rectangles. Several have been embossed, others covered with decorative thread. A piece of fusible web was painted and then fused over the entire top. Before the web cooled, she pulled it off, leaving pieces adhering unevenly. A small amount of foil was fused to the web. Finally a piece of an old chiffon scarf was laid over the previous layers. With a heat gun, she melt away portions of the scarf, leaving a multi-dimensional piece that is very interesting. You see something new each time you look at it.



Jamie's lemons were a perfect fit for painted fusible web. The lemon slices are a white on white fabric fused with a yellow Pearl Ex powder-colored Misty Fuse, giving the slice a translucent feel. The rinds are painted fusible over the wrong side of a yellow fabric.



Susan painted Wonder Under a silver color and when it had dried, removed the paper backing and tore it into strips. These strips were fused to a painted canvas background, giving the illusion of a plaid fabric. The other design elements are sewn over the colored background.

Covered Cording Results

Jamie used fabric strips, twisted and zigzagged, to form the stems on her kohlrabi. The cords are attached to the bulb and caught in the border seam and so give a dimensional texture to the quilt.

Susan has combined a past project into this one featuring ribbon cords. The smaller quilt in the foreground was made for her shibori project. She knew that it wasn't finished yet and this larger piece was just the right combination. Decorative ribbon is crotcheted and couched on the left side, alternated with the same ribbon strung with beads at regular intervals. The beaded ribbon has been also added to the diagonal strips in the smaller quilt. The gold circles are painted washers surrounded with beads, a design element that repeats the print in the background fabric.

Sue's small piece takes its inspiration from a tree in her backyard. The tree trunk is beaded cording to look like a birch tree. The leaves are a dyed pellon product that she has handstitched to the background. Detailing has been provided by machine stitching. A closeup of the beaded cording is shown below.

Sue Anne has transformed a curtain fabric into a most colorful background. The original circle fabric did not have blue circles. She used blue glue gel to edge a gray circle in order to paint it with blue dynaflow. A beaded cord rests on a silk hanky which was machine felted to a piece of hand-dyed wool. She has embellished the piece with emboidery floss, letters, painted leaves, and beads. A closeup of her beaded cording follows below.

Silk Paper Results

Susan used her silk paper as an abstract background over a fabric woven quilt. It is layered over hand dyed felted wool with black tulle. Susan sewed a variety of beaded elements to add interest to the surface.
Sue created her silk paper with leaves in mind, incorporating many different types of texture into the paper. She then cut out the leaves and appliqued them to her pieced background. The shadows behind the leaves are painted dryer sheets. Thread embroidery adds texture and highlights to the branch.

Sue Anne's silk paper has been used to add texture and shape to her journal cover. She has embellished the silk paper with beads and painted paper squares finished with charms.

Jamie's silk paper sheet has been hand-stitched to a quilted background with the jalapeno pepper appliqued on top. Sequins glued in the corners add sparkle.

Texted Collage Results

Sue used old sheet music, musical notes, and writing in and around her happy flowers to create this collage. The background was dyed and texted. The flower edges were painted with Dyn-a-flo, and she carved her musical note stamps. The musical staffs in the background were free-motioned quilted.

Sue Anne painted the canvas behind the spool of thread with dye, wrote a thesis on thread and decoupaged tissue paper over the top. The "wooden" spool is used shopping bags with the top oval covered with an old pattern tissue. Once the spool was appliqued to the background, she thread painted the flower. The canvas is stitched to a piece of dyed cotton batting. The piece has been embellished with buttons and a card of floss.

Jamie's quilt is a collage relating to Iceberg lettuce. The text is a description of iceberg lettuce and the collage includes magazine cutouts as well as printed Extravorganza, all of which have been decoupaged with diluted Elmer's glue. The entire quilt was machine quilted. The half head of lettuce is a photo printed on inkjet cotton and appliqued to the top.

Blue Glue Batik Results

Jamie used the blue glue to outline the leaves of the huckleberry branch. She started with the rust fabric and once the glue dried, she applied a wash of green paint from the branch outward. She then painted the leaves specifically with a brighter green paint. When the glue was washed out and the piece dry, she thread painted the leaves and branch. The huckleberries are fused fabric.


Sue Anne's batik is the background harlequin print over which she stamped, glued and stitched. The blue glue was used to separate the diamonds and up close, one can see the white fabric between the two colors of paint.

Block Results

Jamie carved the eraser into an asterisk in order to define the garlic blossom which is represented by the blue squares along the two sides. The motif was colored with the blue fabric marker and stamped onto a machine quilted circle. The center was sun printed with Setacolor and the entire garlic plant.