Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 25, 2009, 7:57 pm
This afternoon, I made cranberry sauce with zinfandel, white and brown sugar, cinnamon sticks, clove, allspice and orange peel, then a pumpkin pie and Nina made the cranberry pie, only this time with ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 25, 2009, 7:29 pm
To quilt the details on the plants I am drawing them on with my Bohin marking pencil. I have put in a pink lead to give a little more contrast than the white since some of the leaves are a bit light.
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 24, 2009, 9:31 am
I have finished quilting the trees, I did not want to obscure the lines of painted images so I am opting to quilt slightly outside the painted image lines. I want it to retain its painting quality. I ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 20, 2009, 5:26 pm
I started the quilting by outlining the deer and tree trunks to stabilize the fabric and the batting. I always try to work around the quilt covering some broad areas very simply and then slowly work i...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 18, 2009, 3:44 pm
Nina loves cranberries, she eats raw cranberries all the time, so she did a Google search for desert recipes with cranberries and found a recipe for cranberry pie! She made it last night and it cam...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 16, 2009, 7:15 pm
I have spent the last few days catching up with life; cleaning the house, going to the bank, getting groceries, doing laundry...and trying to figure out how to tackle the quilting. Usually I like m...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 13, 2009, 8:35 am
I just self published this little portfolio of my art quilts and mixed media work using Blurb. I have seen several people write about using Blurb on their blogs and thought I would try it out myself....
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 12, 2009, 8:24 am
I just got my paperwork from the IQA that I will be teaching in Long Beach at International Quilt Festival July 22-25! I will have three classes: Thursday (all day)- Mixed Media Painted Fabric, F...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 11, 2009, 8:34 am
I think after eleven hours of painting yesterday it is done. There is always the possibility I will tweak thinks here and there. I had to force myself to stop last night at midnight, I was touching up...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 10, 2009, 9:24 am
I only had a short amount of time to paint yesterday so I didn't get as far as I would have liked. Hopefully today I will get the rest of the flowers painted and begin the grass.
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 9, 2009, 12:15 pm
I have finished painting the greenery and am now painting the flowers. I am only using red, yellow, white and blue for the flowers since that is the limits of the flower colors in the hunting painting...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 7, 2009, 12:07 am
Friday morning I went to two wonderful textile themed lectures at SOFA. The first one Fiber Art: Expressions & Aesthetics, Part I: fiber artists Marcia Docter, C. Pazia Mannella, Carol B. Shinn and B...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 6, 2009, 8:02 am
It doesn't look much different and I won't have chance to paint because I am going to SOFA today. I love this show, it is always so inspiring. This morning I am going to two textile lectures, ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 5, 2009, 9:39 am
The only green on my thumbs is from paint. I love plants, I am just not very good at keeping them alive. Except for cacti and succulents, I do really well with those, but unfortunately I don't liv...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 4, 2009, 8:06 am
I outlined the yellow scroll design with metallic gold paint, to give it that classic gilded touch. Now I begin the plants, it will probably take me a few days to paint all the flowers and grasses....
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 3, 2009, 8:55 am
I painted hairs on the deer to look more like the deer in the hunting paintings, it also has the benefit of looking stylistically more different from the smooth painting style of the little deer. I al...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 2, 2009, 9:19 am
I painted the little deer using opaque paints with white because I wanted him to feel more like a solid object, since those figurines were always made of glass or plastic. I also wanted it to have a b...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Nov 1, 2009, 11:16 am
Saturday night I managed to get the big deer painted. I used a transparent brown textile paint and used varying amounts of textile medium (Jacquard; colorless extender) to lighten the color. I plan on...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 31, 2009, 4:22 pm
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 they will need further tweaking, but they are done enough to m...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 30, 2009, 11:40 am
I painted 4 hours in the afternoon and 3 hours in the evening and have still not finished the leaves. The leaves are now being painted with opaque paints with a fair amount of white mixed in.  I a...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 29, 2009, 1:20 pm
I am starting another whole cloth painted quilt for an exhibit and am panicking a little because I don’t have a lot of time left to make it and I have to use a specific fabric which I only have enou...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 25, 2009, 9:13 am
Who is this amazing looking woman in orange making such a striking figure at festival? Well it is none other than Ricë Freeman-Zachery the author of Creative Time and Space a wonderful new book that...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 24, 2009, 9:24 am
One week ago, the place to be at 5:30 Saturday night was the Make It University class area at International Quilt Festival, Houston. If you are a fan of Project Runway, this can be your way to have a ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 23, 2009, 9:52 am
On Wednesday Leslie and Jamie ran to Texas Art Supply and picked up some fun after hours art supplies, which included a two yard piece of primed canvas, various sponge and paint brushes and acrylic pa...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 22, 2009, 10:45 am
Saturday I taught whole cloth painted fabric, I was surprised to find I had 30 students instead of 25. Thirty is a really large number of students for this kind of class, I felt like I was at a bit of...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 22, 2009, 9:12 am
Rachel Perris, Leslie Jenison, Jamie Fingal, Melly Testa and Frances Alford. I think Jamie is calling on the forces of the great spoon Goddess. Iris Karp of Mistyfuse struggled to make a spoon s...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 21, 2009, 1:12 pm
It has taken me a couple days to catch up with life enough to start writing a blog post about our adventures in Houston. I have been to Festival every year for the last 13 years, this trip was a lot ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 13, 2009, 9:00 pm
My quilt Moon Garden has won an honorable mention in the painted category at International Quilt Festival. If you are at festival make sure you ask someone to show you the back of the quilt, so you ca...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 12, 2009, 10:01 am
With the instant arrival of fall and obvious signs of winter I have been finishing up projects started last year and thinking about new ones. I like to have a lot of hand warmers around because when t...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 11, 2009, 9:49 am
When you are at Festival be sure to head over to Mistyfuse, booth 957.  Iris has made some cool buttons with different artquilts on them. This one has my quilt Arbol de Vida. There are also buttons w...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 9, 2009, 9:53 am
On Tuesday my daughter Nina and I will be going to International Quilt Festival for lots of fun and creative adventures and our first stop will be the Quilting Arts booth 1244, to be seen on the Quilt...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 8, 2009, 8:55 am
With the arrival of fall and cold weather, I decided to pick up the sweater that I started last year and finished it just in time for the chilly mornings we are getting here in Chicago. The best pa...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 6, 2009, 8:10 pm
This weekend my son and I went on a teen retreat with several other families in Michigan. The weather was cold and rainy, but there were wonderful breaks in the rain for peaceful walks with camera...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Oct 1, 2009, 12:06 pm
Bonnie McCaffrey has made another fabulous vidcast. Click on Bonnie's name to go to her website and watch this very informative demo with the ever delightful Maggie Weiss, you won't be dissapp...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Sep 28, 2009, 9:21 am
Sunday, Nina and I walked down to the Chicago Antique Market, it takes place about 8 blocks from where we live on the last weekend of each month from April through September. This is the first weekend...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Sep 22, 2009, 2:26 pm
I had such a great time in St. Louis, thanks to my wonderful hosts Judy Cobillas, president of MoFA and Carlene Fullerton, fiber artist and hostess extraordinaire.Thursday evening I gave a lecture at ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Sep 16, 2009, 5:58 pm
I placed a pre-order for Creative Time and Space by Ricë Freeman-Zachery from Amazon, and it arrived this afternoon, just in time for me to get in some good airport reading tomorrow. Yay!This book i...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Sep 16, 2009, 1:45 pm
Image courtesy of WikepediaI am packing my bags, let's hope the kids and dog don't eat each other while I am gone. I will be giving a lecture Thursday night at 7pm at the St. Louis Artists'...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Sep 14, 2009, 12:54 pm
I love having talented friends. These earrings are a birthday gift from my friend Vickie Hallmark, aren't they beautiful? They are made from precious metal clay. When I first met Vickie, 14 years ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Sep 4, 2009, 12:20 pm
Yesterday my friend Trish Williams and I drove out to the burbs to have lunch with Laura Wasilowski, Frieda Anderson, Anne Lullie and Emily Parson. Laura, Frieda and Trish are the new Illinois/Wiscons...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads Projects - Sep 2, 2009, 11:13 am
I just bought a relatively new product from Tsukineko Inks called Ink Potion no. 9 to find out how it works with the All Purpose Inks. One purpose of the solution is to help blend ink colors. From my ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Sep 1, 2009, 9:19 pm
I just bought a relatively new product from Tsukineko Inks called Ink Potion no. 9 to find out how it works with the All Purpose Inks. One purpose of the solution is to help blend ink colors. From my ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Aug 26, 2009, 10:49 am
I looked off the balcony just now to see what the noise was and noticed the O show obviously has started taping the new season. These are all the happy audience members grabbing cabs after the show.Yo...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Aug 24, 2009, 10:02 pm
I know I haven’t been posting much lately, because I haven’t had a lot of art making going on. It has been a rough year in many ways, that I won’t go into now, but one of the issues I have been ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Aug 19, 2009, 9:18 am
SPLIT COMPLIMENTSThis week at the grocery I saw these bright and fun flowers that I couldn't resist, how can you say no to bright yellow daisies with green centers and limey green and red-violet m...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Aug 14, 2009, 10:08 am
I am getting so excited, I will be teaching two workshops and giving a lecture in conjunction with Innovations in Textiles 8 in St. Louis next month (September 17-20) for the Missouri Fiber Artists. ...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Aug 12, 2009, 8:00 am
The next class begins September 8 and ends November 8th. If you would like more info or to join the class send me an email following the link on the class description page.
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Aug 10, 2009, 10:32 pm
Ricë Freeman-Zachery who wrote Living the Creative Life: Ideas and Inspiration from Working Artists has written a new book that is due to come out very soon called Creative Time and Space. This is wh...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Aug 5, 2009, 11:06 am
When ever we go to Los Angeles one thing we can not miss is a trip downtown to Little Tokyo, on a quest for paper, cool new pens and pencils and books.Our favorite drink is green tea Boba with soft sw...
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Judy Coates Perez posted an article on Painted Threads - Jul 30, 2009, 9:49 am
For those of you who have never made it to International Quilt Festival, here's your chance to see what you are missing Saturday night in Make it University, and for those of you who have, enjoy a...
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