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Joyce Hughes is an award-winning self-taught quilter, fiber artist, and author. Her first quilt was a tee-shirt quilt, which she enjoyed making, but felt limited in the ability to express her artistic capabilities. Within several months, she began to design pictorial landscape quilts using raw edge applique, thread painting, and a variety of embellishments. Never knowing the “rules” she broke a lot of them, but with exciting results!
Amazingly, her first art quilt, “Mother’s Day”, was entered into a national show and won a blue ribbon. This has led to numerous awards, recognitions, and opportunities in the quilting world. Several proud accomplishments for Joyce are: “McCall’s Quilt Designer 2012 – Professional Category” for McCall’s Quilting Magazine; also an endorser and sample maker for Northcott and Timeless Treasures fabrics, and Ambassador for Mettler Threads and Brother Sewing.
Currently, Joyce has a second book, Thread Paint A Garden Quilt (released October 2020) focusing on raw edge applique and thread painting to add shading, highlighting, and definition. Joyce’s first book, Creating Art Quilts with Panels is about working with Fabric Panels to create dimension and texture with threads and embellishments, creating a style of her own! Joyce loves to teach and share her tips. One of her greatest accomplishments is when a student creates their own artwork following Joyce’s technique of Dimensional Thread Painting!
Lecture Description:
“My Journey into Quilting”… It is a very open and inspiring talk about how Joyce started in quilting, leading into Art Quilts with Thread Painting, finishing with ideas to use with Panels as Art Quilts.
Join the many people who leave very excited to try something new with their quilting . Joyce’s main subject matter will be working with fabric panels. Showing many “Before and after” Art Quilts. Exploring how panels will be able to be used on your personal projects. Many panels are looked at and passed over. Joyce often here’s, “What do you do with this”, it’s so big, the colors are dull, etc., etc. With a little embellishing and/or thread painting on the fabric, it soon becomes a piece of art.
Learn about the preparation of the Panel for a project, the freedom of using thread painting and showing that layering thread lets you achieve different effects on the quilts. Then, add embellishments of ribbon, markers, paint, crystals, etc., The Panel is now unique and one of a kind!
Class Description:
Want to learn Dimensional Thread Painting but you think it is too hard. I often hear, “I am not creative and can my Machine do this? etc., etc., Yes, You are Creative and Yes, you can do this on your Domestic Sewing Machine!!!
In this class you will start with a Beautiful Panel to Create a piece of Art! You will learn the proper steps of Dimensional Thread Painting and find it to be a fun and creative technique. Explore the various thread selection, setting up your machine for stitching techniques with free motion quilting of zig zag and straight stitching, bobbin work and embellishing with netting and crystals. See the fabric come to life as you sew and layer the threads on top of your design. You will use Thread as Paint –sew with different types of threads and color combinations. Learn how to create interesting texture and dimension to your quilting project. You will leave with a full knowledge of Dimensional Thread Painting and create a One of Kind piece of Art!
Learn more about Joyce on her website www.JoyceHughesOriginals.com and contact her at joyhughes1 @ verizon.net [remove spaces]
Please tell Joyce that you found her on The Quilters Calendar!
