Thankful Thursday – Carolina Oneto

Thankful Thursday – Carolina Oneto

Keeping myself in gratitude, I’m sharing #thankfulthursday posts on Instagram highlighting the generous teachers who have inspired me and upskilled me in pursuit of my #passionsandpastimes. Today, thank you to @carolina_oneto for her help with curves, color transparencies in quilts, and modern paper piecing. Don’t judge her talent by my photos – mine are the work of a student, hers are the work of an artist, check them out.

This piece started with a workshop block exploring creating transparency effects and learning modern paper piecing techniques.  Then, it grew to more blocks.  And now, apparently I will be big stitching the whole thing, forever, because I’m loving how it feels and the designs showing up on the back, and the meditation of it all.  This link will show a quick video how it has been evolving

 

Curves and  Transparencies

Curves and Transparencies

I recently spent a delightful afternoon taking a class from Carolina Oneto (#carolina_oneto) learning this modern version of the English Paper Piecing technique applied to creating tranparent effects.  I’ve worked with transparencies with paper and fiber, but this was my first time in fabric, and also my first time with EPP.  I’d mostly seen it used with hexie projects, which impress me but don’t tempt me to try.

Carolina is from Chile, living now in Brazil, and the students were from around the world.  Just one of the silver linings to the pandemic – putting teachers like her within reach of students around the world.  I’m so grateful so many of them made the effort to amp up their on-line presence.