Fiber Art with an old Friend

I enjoy playing with all sorts of art. My current interest is with quilt art or fiber art. A friend I've known since kindergarten, Deborah Boschert, is a professional fiber artist, and I was able to spend several days in her studio learning from her and catching up. It was a delightful time.

I never learned art and design basics, so she began with a quick lesson:

She has some great photos and a review of our time together on her blog. Here is the large piece I completed while I was there. It's about 5 feet long and now hangs in our stairwell:


Here, Deborah taught me her technique where she photographs a work in progress, prints it out, and then uses markers to try out different surface design techniques. I really liked that process. I can play with several different things on paper before I commit to it on the cloth.


And here is a series I completed with Deborah. I'd never done a series before, and when she gave me the assignment, I didn't have any idea how to begin. She was an excellent and motivating teacher, and helped me discover a lot of ability I didn't believe I had.

Besides all the time in her studio I loved catching up on their lives, seeing her children growing up, and even attending an impressive middle school band concert. Connecting with dear old friends was a major goal of my sabbatical, and my trip out East gave me a great start.