Making Foundation Paper Pieced and Improv Faces - Jamie Kalvestran | Hand Embroidery On Painted Fabric - Alex Anderson
(Show 3708) Jamie Kalvestran always knew she wanted to be an artist. After a successful career in banking, she shifted to product design, leading to work with toy companies, 3M, and fabric collections before moving into art quilting. Learn how to turn a rough sketch into a foundation paper pieced figurative-portrait and create your own improvisational abstract portrait using paper piecing. Then, Alex shares a inspired way to break free from your creative rut by reimagining a painted fabric piece as the foundation for further embellishment using hand embroidery to transform into a renewed work of art.
Art Quilts, Quilting Designs, Painting, Foundation Piecing, Improv Piecing, Hand Embroidery, Embellishment
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