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https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/02/rice-pillow.html Judy Coates Perez: Rice Pillow Going through the blog roll last night I came across a quick project that appealed to my senses right away. A rice pillow that you can put ... judy coates perezricepillow https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/busy-with-not-much-to-show-for-it.html Judy Coates Perez: Busy with not much to show for it. Isn't summer supposed to be that time when we pull out those lazy days "summer reading" books and lounge around sipping iced tea? Here in Ch... judy coates pereznot muchbusy https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/05/painted-squash.html Judy Coates Perez: Painted Squash I painted one of my designs that I drew a couple weeks ago. It is about 10 1/2 inches square. This is textile paint on cotton fabric. For th... judy coates perezpaintedsquash https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/07/tiny-origami.html Judy Coates Perez: Tiny origami Ty has been making these cards for the exhibit. It is a standard size business card, with a gelatin capsule glued to it containing an origam... judy coates pereztinyorigami https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/12/ho-ho-ho.html Judy Coates Perez: Ho Ho Ho Here's Abby taking a short break from keeping herself warm in someone's shirt and posing for her Christmas portrait. Actually Nina added the... judy coates perezho https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/03/quilted-nerve-cells.html Judy Coates Perez: Quilted Nerve Cells The nerve cells are outline quilted with a metalic thread with wool batting, so they are puffy and round. The background is quilted with mon... judy coates perezquiltednervecells https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2011/04/color-theory-testimonial.html Judy Coates Perez: A Color Theory Testimonial As the current class wraps up and I get ready to launch the next Color Theory Class , I wanted to share a wonderful note from one of my stud... judy coates perezcolor theorytestimonial https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/09/ninas-hearts.html Judy Coates Perez: Nina's Hearts My daughter Nina has been making Sculpy hearts. They range in size from about 3/4" across to 1 1/2". I think they are so cool. judy coates perezninahearts https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogger-is-not-cooperating-today.html Judy Coates Perez: Blogger is not cooperating today I have been having trouble all afternoon and evening. now it will publish, but I still can't save a draft or upload a picture. maybe tomorro... judy coates perezbloggertoday https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/02/paper-quilt.html Judy Coates Perez: Mixed Media Paper Quilt I thought I would play around with making a mixed media paper quilt . I painted a piece of fabric to use as a base. The drawings were done ... judy coates perezmixed media paperquilt https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/10/trees-done-i-think.html Judy Coates Perez: Trees done, I think I got in a couple hours of painting time today and finished up the trees. As the painting progresses there is always the possibility that t... judy coates pereztreesdonethink https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/05/waimangu.html Judy Coates Perez: Waimangu Another excursion I took was about a 20 minute drive over rolling green hills dotted with cows, sheep and deer from Rotorua. Wai-mangu is a... judy coates perezwaimangu https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/prepping-for-miu.html Judy Coates Perez: Prepping for MIU Next month I am going to International Quilt Festival Long Beach . I am so excited to check out the show, I haven't been to this one yet, an... judy coates perezpreppingmiu https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/04/international-quilt-festival-long-beach.html Judy Coates Perez: International Quilt Festival Long Beach Online enrollment has just started for International Quilt Festival Long Beach. I am so excited to be teaching 3 classes this year! This wi... judy coates perezinternational quilt festivallongbeach https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/08/janome-free-motion-quilting-foot.html Judy Coates Perez: The Janome free motion quilting foot I bought the new free motion quilting foot for my Janome 6600 sewing machine while I was making this quilt. What prompted me to buy this new... judy coates perezfree motion quiltingjanomefoot https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/12/nearing-finish-line.html Judy Coates Perez: Nearing the finish line Last Thursday I called my photographer and made an appointment to get the quilt photographed Monday morning. In order to make that happen, I... judy coates pereznearingfinishline https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2005/09/good-and-bad.html Judy Coates Perez: The good and the bad The good news is I have an 8 page artist profile in Quilting Arts magazine this month. I am thrilled to be featured in such a fabulous mag... judy coates perezthe goodbad https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2005/06/joan-of-arc.html Judy Coates Perez: Joan of Arc I think Joan of Arc was an interesting figure in history; courageous, spiritual, devout, used for political gain and wrongly condemned. Joan... judy coates perezjoanarc https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/07/rust-dyeing.html Judy Coates Perez: Rust Dyeing with Lois Jarvis Bonnie McCaffery has put together another great Vidcast with fellow PAQA member Lois Jarvis from Wisconsin. In this interview Lois descri... judy coates perezrust dyeingloisjarvis https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/houston-quilt-festival.html Judy Coates Perez: Houston Quilt Festival Look what just came in the mail, are you going? I will be teaching two classes this year and you can find them listed in this part of the ca... judy coates perezhoustonquiltfestival https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/10/and-journal-tutorial-with-tracie.html Judy Coates Perez: and a journal tutorial with Tracie Check out Tracie Lynn Huskamps new tutorial on adding nature to your journal. judy coates perezjournal tutorialtracie https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/10/want-to-knit-gorgeous-socks.html Judy Coates Perez: Want to knit gorgeous socks? Then you must go to Emily Parson's Etsy shop to buy her hand dyed sock yarn. Who can resist yarn like this? judy coates perezwant toknitgorgeoussocks https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2012/01/removing-color-article-part-2.html Judy Coates Perez: Removing Color article Part 2 The second article in my 2 part series on alternative methods for removing color from fabric is in the February March issue of Quilting A... judy coates perezremovingcolorarticlepart https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/03/art-escape.html Judy Coates Perez: An art escape While in Wisconsin at the retreat last week, Frieda , Laura and I ran out at the end of the presentation on day one for an art fix. We mana... judy coates perezartescape https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/07/brushes.html Judy Coates Perez: Brushes Vicky aka stichr asked... Once again I was curious what paints you use, so went clicking on your side bar...ta da...the info I was curious... judy coates perezbrushes https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/09/quilting-arts-tv.html Judy Coates Perez: Quilting Arts TV Around the end of December our favorite quilting magazine Quilting Arts will also be a tv show on PBS. Taping starts later this week. I hav... judy coates perezquilting artstv https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-did-not-drop-off-face-of-earth.html Judy Coates Perez: I did not drop off the face of the earth just cyberspace and I am happy to say my laptop is finally fixed, yay! I kept thinking the problem was resolved, then a day later my compute... judy coates perezi did https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/05/mixed-media-painted-fabric-with-rose.html Judy Coates Perez: Mixed Media Painted Fabric with the Rose City Quilters The Rose City Quilters of Palmerston North booked me to come to New Zealand to give a lecture at their Quilt show, judge their quilt challen... judy coates perezmixed mediapainted fabric https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2011/11/8-of-cups-progress.html Judy Coates Perez: 8 of Cups progress I am finally getting some time to work on my latest piece. I decided I want the quilting to have less loft and dimension and instead have ... judy coates perezcupsprogress https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/10/we-are-sophisticated-group.html Judy Coates Perez: We are a sophisticated group Rachel Perris, Leslie Jenison, Jamie Fingal, Melly Testa and Frances Alford. I think Jamie is calling on the forces of the great spoon G... judy coates perezwe aresophisticatedgroup https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2005/06/word-quilts.html Judy Coates Perez: Word Quilts Tea This quilt was the first in a series of word quilts. The definition from the dictionary of the word tea is written on the center panel. ... judy coates perezwordquilts https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/04/quilting-arts-tv-again.html Judy Coates Perez: Quilting Arts TV again! This is what I couldn't tell you about the other day, Quilting Arts TV had a camera crew at the show. I taped a segment making the Fiesta O... judy coates perezquilting arts tv https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/03/3-of-swords.html Judy Coates Perez: 3 of Swords I finished the quilt, except for the sleeve, I will be stitching that on over the next day or so while I am at the PAQA sponsored Alyson St... judy coates perezswords https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-am-featured-on-dinner-at-eight-blog.html Judy Coates Perez: I am featured on the Dinner at Eight blog today I have been interviewed for the Dinner at Eight Artists blog , coinciding with the Beneath the Surface Exhibit that will be opening at IQ... judy coates perez https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2005/09/packing.html Judy Coates Perez: Packing? We close on our house in 16 days. I am procrastinating. I realize I really should start packing stuff I don't want movers to pack. So saturd... judy coates perezpacking https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/12/cute-booties.html Judy Coates Perez: Cute Booties When I was on Kristen LaFlammes blog I saw she had made an adorable pair of booties for her sisters baby made from a pattern designed by He... judy coates perezcutebooties https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2011/04/may-i-have-drum-roll-please.html Judy Coates Perez: May I have a drum roll please! The winner is: Congratulations Sherrie of Chelly and Me for winning Laura Wasilowski's new book Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts ! ... judy coates perezi havedrum rollmayplease https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-trip-to-chicago-school-of-fusing-may.html Judy Coates Perez: Chicago School of Fusing May birthday lunch. This week I took a trip out to the suburbs to have lunch with Frieda , Laura and Emily who all have birthdays in May. My morning began by ... judy coates perezchicago schoolfusingmaybirthday https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2011/11/check-out-this-cool-stamp-tutorial.html Judy Coates Perez: Check out this cool stamp tutorial Hop over to Traci Bunkers tutorial for some fun and easy stamping ideas. Tweet judy coates perezcheck outcoolstamptutorial https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/12/riverwalk-quilters-guild.html Judy Coates Perez: Riverwalk Quilters Guild This week I gave a lecture and taught a workshop making Fiesta Ornaments at the Riverwalk Quilters Guild . The weather was lousy but the spi... judy coates perezriverwalkquiltersguild https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/06/irrepressible-robbi.html Judy Coates Perez: The Irrepressible Robbi Bonnie has done another wonderful interview, this time with Robbi Joy Eklow . You can see Robbi's engineer mind at work here as she shows h... judy coates perezrobbi https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2005/09/smokey-skies_30.html Judy Coates Perez: Smokey skies My daughter took these photos tonight at sunset. The fire in Burbank has spread across the hills unfortunately in this direction creating a ... judy coates perezsmokeyskies https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/02/mixed-media-paper-quilt-finished.html Judy Coates Perez: Mixed Media Paper Quilt- Finished? I was torn with how I should quilt this since the over all look began to feel like an aged document. I thought if I quilted around the eleme... judy coates perezmixed media paperquiltfinished https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/07/painted-bag.html Judy Coates Perez: Painted Bag I have had this black book bag for several years. Today it looked like it needed painting. I painted it with metallic textile paints, the on... judy coates perezpaintedbag https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/05/purse-pattern-by-melly-testa.html Judy Coates Perez: Purse pattern by Melly Testa Melly Testa designed this cool purse and you can make one too, download the pattern here . judy coates perezpursepatternmellytesta https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/02/tired-get-your-b12-checked.html Judy Coates Perez: Tired? get your B12 checked Who knew a little B12 could make a person feel so good. I found out recently that I have really low B12 levels categorized as anemia. I tho... judy coates perezget yourtiredchecked https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-tour-has-begun.html Judy Coates Perez: The blog tour has begun! The Fanciful Stitches, Colorful Quilts blog tour that is! My good friend Laura Wasilowski , has a new book. Lucky me, I got to see a pre... judy coates perezthe blogtourbegun https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/08/mackworth-island.html Judy Coates Perez: Mackworth Island Every time we are in Portland we go walking on this Island. There is a school for the deaf here and nothing else besides a lovely trail arou... judy coates perezmackworthisland https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/09/dyeing-with-rit_21.html Judy Coates Perez: Dyeing with RIT A month or two ago I mentioned that I had done a project for RIT dye for Quilting Arts TV . I actually made three projects for the RIT repr... judy coates perezdyeingrit https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/07/iqf-silent-auction.html Judy Coates Perez: IQF Silent Auction This is going to be this years contribution to the silent auction in Houston. I started painting this at the Quilting Arts virtual studios d... judy coates pereziqfsilentauction https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogher-conference-2007.html Judy Coates Perez: Blogher conference 2007 The Blogher conference was great. I learned so much. I wish there was more of a craft/art contingent there. We were pretty outnumbered by ... judy coates perezblogherconference https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/08/ornamental-fiesta_31.html Judy Coates Perez: An Ornamental Fiesta At Create I got to teach one of my favorite classes making Fiesta ornaments. I saw several mother daughter teams at Create, what a fabulous ... judy coates perezornamentalfiesta https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/09/abbys-new-fall-sweater.html Judy Coates Perez: Abby's new fall sweater Fall is coming fast in Chicago and I thought Abby should have a new turtle neck cable sweater. She is a stylish city dog after all. The basi... judy coates perezabbynewfallsweater https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/11/little-paintings_3021.html Judy Coates Perez: Little Paintings judy coates perezlittlepaintings https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-sweater.html Judy Coates Perez: New Sweater I have started a new sweater. This time it is a hoodie from Patons made in Knitpicks Merino Style wool . It is nice and soft. I was not so t... judy coates pereznewsweater https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2011/04/welcome-to-fanciful-stitches-blog-tour.html Judy Coates Perez: Welcome to the Fanciful Stitches blog tour! If you are a fan of bright hand dyed fabrics, fusible applique and beautiful embroidered stitching, you have arrived at the right place. T... judy coates perezwelcome to thefancifulstitchesblog https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/03/ Judy Coates Perez: March 2007 judy coates perezmarch https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/07/ Judy Coates Perez: July 2008 judy coates perezjuly https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2011/04/online-color-theory-class.html Judy Coates Perez: Online Color Theory Class next class begins May 23, 2011 9 week online course $60 Did you know the color choices you make can transform an average piece of artwork ... judy coates perezcolor theoryonlineclass https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/08/blogger-hold-up.html Judy Coates Perez: Spam Blog? For some reason blogger flagged my blog as a spam blog and I was unable to post for several days until blogger looked at my blog to confirm ... judy coates perezspamblog https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2012/01/ Judy Coates Perez: January 2012 judy coates perezjanuary https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/04/surviving-runway.html Judy Coates Perez: Surviving the Runway If you have never seen Surviving the Runway at one of the IQA shows you are really missing something wild. This time there was a 70's disco ... judy coates perezsurvivingrunway https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2005/06/agave.html Judy Coates Perez: Agave The air quality in Los Angeles, when I lived there, was less than desirable. But it did make for intensely colorful sunset walks. Surreal sh... judy coates perezagave https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/08/barack-is-never-gonna-give-you-up.html Judy Coates Perez: Barack is never gonna give you up OK I have tried to avoid posting any political type stuff, but this is too cute. judy coates perezbaracknevergonnagive https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/02/design-and-painting-process.html Judy Coates Perez: Design and Painting Process I started this piece with the idea of making a Mexican tree of life quilt. I knew it should be bright, colorful and graphic in style. For se... judy coates perezdesignpaintingprocess https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/10/experiment.html Judy Coates Perez: an experiment I am going to start a new quilt soon. While I am working out the design I have been trying to figure out what techniques to use to make it. ... judy coates perezexperiment https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/12/oh-deer-look-whats-become-of-me.html Judy Coates Perez: Oh Deer, Look What's Become of Me! It is officially done, yay!, except for the label which I am sewing on tomorrow. Then it gets sent off to Kaufman Fabrics to be in a travel... judy coates perezoh deer https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/10/painted-batting.html Judy Coates Perez: Painted Batting I wrote an article for the upcoming December issue of Quilting Arts magazine on painted batting. The Warm Company wanted to do an ad tying... judy coates perezpaintedbatting https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/06/cicada-invasion.html Judy Coates Perez: Cicada invasion This is the time in the 17 year cicada cycle that the bugs crawl out of the ground. I remember the cicadas in Austin TX fondly, hearing the ... judy coates perezcicadainvasion https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2012/01/off-print-table-fabric-blog-hop.html Judy Coates Perez: Off the Print Table fabric blog hop My friend Lynn Krawczyk has been making fabric and you could be the lucky winner of a fat quarter of it! Just leave a comment ov... judy coates perezthe printfabric blogtablehop https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-at-antique-market.html Judy Coates Perez: A day at the Antique Market This weekend my kids and I walked over to the Chicago Antique Market to have a look around. There are always so many things I see that I ... judy coates perezdayantiquemarket https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/07/open-house-in-cps.html Judy Coates Perez: Open house in CPS My Open House book is in Cloth Paper Scissors this month in the mixed media accordion book challenge "It's Home Grown" article. This is a g... judy coates perezopen housecps https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/04/melly-stamp-love.html Judy Coates Perez: Melly stamp love! I really have no business doing this right now, but I have been so busy doing business type stuff like planning for upcoming teaching gigs,... judy coates perezmellystamplove https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/04/gathering-supplies.html Judy Coates Perez: Gathering Supplies All week I have been gathering supplies for teaching two MIU classes, Open Studios and one other Quilting Arts event I will be doing at Int... judy coates perezgatheringsupplies https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/11/off-to-houston-friday.html Judy Coates Perez: Off to Houston friday I'm going to the International Quilt Festival for the weekend. To see the show but mostly to hang out with my textile art group gal pals fr... judy coates perezto houstonfriday https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/05/artist-interview-with-kelli.html Judy Coates Perez: An artist Interview with Kelli My dear friend Kelli Nina Perkins, author of Stitch Alchemy, interviewed me on her blog this week. Take a look . judy coates perezan artistinterview withkelli https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2011/07/unusual-clouds-over-chicago.html Judy Coates Perez: Unusual clouds over Chicago Last week we had some amazing clouds pass over Chicago, they were very ominous and threatening and had that slight greenish tinge that no o... judy coates perezunusualcloudschicago https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/12/mixing-rit-dyes-for-new-colors.html Judy Coates Perez: Mixing RIT dyes for new colors When I was working on the project for RIT, I experimented with creating some of my favorite jewel tone colors. I found that I could create a... judy coates perezrit dyesfor newmixingcolors https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/01/work-space.html Judy Coates Perez: Work Space This was my sewing table when it was first built by my brother in law. It has a 4 foot by 8 foot surface. I have insets so both my Bernina a... judy coates perezworkspace https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-universe-says-you-need-to-take-break.html Judy Coates Perez: The Universe says 'you need to take a break!' I feel like I have been going full tilt for the last couple months and when I got word my place wasn't closing, it was like being slammed ... judy coates perezthe universe https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/07/cutest-cute-skirt.html Judy Coates Perez: The cutest Cute Skirt I adore this skirt. It is from the Cute Skirts pattern and made with Heather Bailey 's gorgeous fabric. I made a Cute skirt before this one... judy coates perezthe cutestskirt https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2010/10/good-friends-good-food-good-times.html Judy Coates Perez: Good Friends + Good Food = Good Times With busy summer schedules a potluck feast with friends was long overdue. It started with lots of appetizers; kalmatas and green olives, hu... judy coates perezgood friendsfoodtimes https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2005/06/lichen.html Judy Coates Perez: Lichen My son had a fascination with lichen when we lived in Texas. It was everywhere in so many different beautiful forms. Lichen is a class of or... judy coates perezlichen https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/02/mixed-media-paper-quilt-3.html Judy Coates Perez: Mixed Media Paper Quilt #3 I started this one by collaging a nine patch of colored papers to fabric. I played around with a few options for layering other papers on it... judy coates perezmixed media paperquilt https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/11/little-paintings_30.html Judy Coates Perez: Little Paintings judy coates perezlittlepaintings https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/11/happy-thanksgiving.html Judy Coates Perez: Happy Thanksgiving I woke up this morning to see snow flurries out my window. That really makes it feel like the holidays are here. Yesterday I finished painti... judy coates perezhappythanksgiving https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2009/11/batting-thousand.html Judy Coates Perez: Batting a thousand I have spent the last few days catching up with life; cleaning the house, going to the bank, getting groceries, doing laundry...and trying ... judy coates perezbattingthousand https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2007/11/greater-chicago-quilt-exposition.html Judy Coates Perez: Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition If you live in the mid west and have not gone to the Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition, you should. It is a great show with some fantastic s... judy coates perezgreater chicagoquiltexposition https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2012/01/and-lucky-winner-is.html Judy Coates Perez: And the lucky winner is... I know everyone wanted to win some of Lynn 's beautiful Spoonflower fabric, but alas there can only be one winner here and that lu... judy coates perezand thelucky winner https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2006/03/quilted-mitochondria.html Judy Coates Perez: Quilted Mitochondria This piece is about 10 inches across. judy coates perezquiltedmitochondria https://judyperez.blogspot.com/2008/09/ Judy Coates Perez: September 2008 judy coates perezseptember