I’m so thrilled to be able to finally tell folks about my secret collaboration! I was invited by the talented and generous Jane Davila and Elin Waterston to collaborate on some art projects for their new book, Art Quilts at Play! The image above is the cover– the book will be available in Jan 2009, more info on Jane’s blog:
janedavila.blogspot.com/2008/12/art-quilts-at-play_06.html

Yay! :)

My fiber art Bird in Digital Shibori Landscape was published in the book “Innovative Fabric Imagery for Quilts.” Click the photo to go to my flickr page and see more photos.

bird in digital shibori landscape, 18″h x 36″w, fiber, 2006
digital prints on silk of altered shibori imagery, cardinal photograph, & other images, hand & machine quilted

I shipped this quilt off yesterday to the C&T Publishing special exhibition “Innovative Fabric Imagery: A Digital Exploration in Quilting” at the 2007 Fall International Quilt Market & Quilt Festival (Houston, Oct 27- Nov 4). This work is featured in the companion book “Innovative Fabric Imagery for Quilts.”

You can see more of my quilts here.

I’m thrilled to be invited to show in a special exhibition at the Greater Chicago Quilt Exhibition! From the Mancuso announcement:
Digital Shibori: Pattern & Stitch
Fiber Works by Tricia McKellar
Tricia McKellar presents a series of fiber works that explore pattern and stitch. McKellar hand-dyes shibori fabric. Her shibori is a modern adaptation of traditional Japanese hand-dye methods. Shibori techniques produce patterned fabric with subtle variations; the patterns are natural, organic, complex, and, somehow, simple. McKellar photographs her shibori, digitally alters the image and prints the digital collage to silk. The works wrestle with the theme: How do the natural and the man-made, the organic and the digital feed each other? Each work is an exploration of another permutation.
Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition
11/8/2007 – 11/11/2007
Schaumburg, IL

Shibori Building
digital prints of altered shibori imagery and photographs on silk, machine and hand stitched
18″h x 36″w, ©2006

I’m honored that my work Shibori Building is included in this exhibition:

Art Quilts Lowell 2007
Brush Art Gallery
256 Market St., Lowell, MA 01852
August 2 through October 28, 2007

Nest #4, 12″ x 12″, ©2006, $125

Digital prints on silk, stitched.

computation, 12″x 12″, ©2006, sold
new work for the green hill center’s invitational winter show.

luna, 18″ x 36″, ©2006, $650
Luna moths are so beautiful… and well behaved for the camera. Occassionally they land on our house or on a tree in the yard. My first few photos are hurried, then I realize the luna moth is not moving and I can get my tripod and choose a lens.

This piece will be in Green Hill Center’s Winter Show.

detail:

Hmmmm…. I should work on making better photos — the work is mostly machine stitched and has some lines of big hand stitches with fat cotton thread.

network #3, 29″ x 24″, ©2005, $350
I’m thrilled that network #3 will be included in Form Not Function at the Carnegie Center, January 12 — March 8, 2007.