I love this little raised picot edge which I applied, not to an edge, but to a line on the fabric. It's hard to see, but it's yummy in orange and multi-red.
Paula Tanner (second from left) of Apalachee River Trash gave us a program called "Drafting Your Quilt Design". Paula is a commercial artist, among many other talents, and taught us how to use a proportion wheel plus some geometry tricks I have never seen before. It was a wonderful program. Thank you, Paula!
The flowers at the bottom are appliqued beautifully.
The one on the left is thread painted and the one on the right is colored with Paintstiks. I missed Frances' stairway quilts, but you can see one in her blog archive by clicking on her name.
...some flesh-tone fabrics I dyed for her latest quilt. Thanks, Frances. I had forgotten to take a photo before giving them to you.
I also forgot to take a photo of the description sheet to record the maker's name. She was from Japan, I'm sure, and the quilt was amazing!
We painted silk, embellished it with foil, Paintstiks and other items, and then cut up the fabric to roll into beads!
Later that afternoon, Kristal was also teaching at the Mixed Media Miscellany Sampler. A Houston sampler consists of a ballroom full of teachers who teach unique ten-minute segments over and over again. Students can go to all of the teachers in the ballroom that they'd like to see for two hours! It's the best bargain of the show!
...and here's a sample of one of her beaded, silk screened pieces...
This was one of Ann's finished quilts using her paint-with-dye method. Are the colors wonderful?! 
...and it's called "On the Wings of a Dream". The bird shape is created with quilting only and is lovely.
My son Bryan was deployed to Afghanistan in 2007 and sent beautiful digital photos home when it was allowed. This was one of my favorites, and I decided to make a photo quilt with it.
Bry set up the photo and handed his camera to a buddy to take the photo, so the soldier in the quilt is actually my son. His troop had been out for a long time on foot patrol and had run out of food, so they turned to their Army survival skills to eat. When Bry saw the quilt he told me that he had been eating some of the ants from the tree that hangs over him in the photo.
Luckily, Mary Ellen Kranz was teaching a photo-to-fabric class for the Asheville Quilt Guild and taught us how to print our photos as posters. This photo is printed in four pieces and joined at the center.
When building the quilt around the photo, I had no clue what the rest of the valley looked like, so I improvised. The soldier's lower body is painted. My husband posed for a photo wearing his work boots and squatting down so that I could figure out how to sketch the legs and feet. I also had to go online to find a photo of the gun so that I could paint the base of it.
I have no formal training in painting, but PBS painting shows helped a lot. I knew that the bushes in the landscape would look natural if I used a sponge to apply the paint. The rocks to the left and right are layers and layers of fused fabric which were then painted.
The quilting is not my best, but it was the first time that I had free-motion quilted a piece, so I practiced on the leftover rejected photos on fabric. I had to paint some of the pieces to see if my machine would quilt through them.
The label shows the faces of the honored men in his troop who were killed during that deployment.
The larger beads are black-blue and the crystals are turquoise (bad photo colors).
The colored beads in this necklace are metallic cylinders mixed with black glass beads.
As per the usual, I forgot to get my camera out when we were oohing and aahing about the finished blocks.
...I gave it a new layout, but when I looked through my camera, my eye kept being drawn to the light blocks at the top left of the quilt. I chose to move one of those blocks ...
The design wall has lots of color and is a happy space...
Now the bags are being filled with strings in the dining room in preparation for the upcoming Lake Oconee Quilters program and workshop...
The "string kits" (6 - 8 yards of tapered pieces of fabric with no particular color scheme) are made up of some of my fabric stash, and a lot of hand-dyed fabric. When I cut fabric to dye, I always allow extra fabric for strings which end up in these kits or in my quilts. 
