Susan Shie

Here are the nine little drawings I made when I was in Girona, Spain, in July.  I kept meaning to scan and put them here, but got all caught up in making the big art quilt about Girona, which i...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2012/09/little-drawings-on-paper-i-made-in.html

I had a very nice cultural exchange style of Turtle Art Camp this month, from August 4 to 10, when Elke and Flox came from the Netherlands to study with me.  We talked a lot about customs in ou...

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I took a trip to Girona, Spain from July 2 to 13, to teach and have a solo show at a new event called "INTERQUILT Girona 2012,"  organized by CatINCat and InCatIs, along with Girona QuiltArt . Â...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2012/07/sketches-for-my-piece-about-spain.html

My episode on The Quilt Show is free now through July 1! Now you can watch my new hour long episode of The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims for free . You have to do a little...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-episode-on-quilt-show-is-free-now.html

Last August I went to Boulder and was filmed for my episode of The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims . The show will air to Quilt Show paid members starting on June 18, and you can wa...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-episode-on-quilt-show-starts-on-june.html

I was asked to create a solo exhibition for the Chicago and Cleveland venues of the Original Sewing and Quilt Expo .  The Chicago event is next week - March 22 to 24, at the Schaumburg Conventio...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2012/03/my-solo-show-in-chicago-and-cleveland.html

 The day started like normal, with Libby bringing in the paper and waiting for Jimmy to reward her with treats.  This is a trick that Jimmy taught her, with advice from Libby's first trainer,...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2012/03/libbys-new-training-begins.html

I haven't posted here since last May!  SO I'm going to be very disciplined and only post a few things, even though almost a year of news has gone by!  We'll just have to go without all that stu...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2012/02/long-time-gone.html

The sun came back out this week, during our second Turtle Art Camp of May, 2011, again with only one student, feisty Pauline Salzman from Treasure Island, FL.  Here's the front yard, as you lo...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-18-24-turtle-art-camp.html

My Turtle Art Camp for May 4 - 10 had only one student, but Louise Harrington, of Cork City, Ireland, brought her husband and son along, so we still had a full house and lots of action that week...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-2011-turtle-art-camps-two-of-them.html

This is a blog about not having written here since January! Yikes! And I know I should keep it short, so I'll feel like writing here again soon!  So here's mainly a short peek at what happened i...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2011/05/time-flys.html

I've never made a major piece just about Jimmy before, and this one isn't huge, but I think of it as major.  It's 73"h x 37"w, and I named it simply "Jimmy," after having a working title cal...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2011/01/jimmy-painted-biography-by-me.html

This blog entry is actually a conglomerate of entries made between Sunday, Nov 7 and Sunday, Nov 14, 2010, adding up to one chronicle with many stories and pictures from Art Quilt Tahoe 2010. En...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/11/art-quilt-tahoe-conference-2011.html

(At the end of this blog entry, you'll see the paintings I made about our new puppy, Libby Spooler. This is a detail of the one I'm keeping.) There was a real break from the time I airbrush-...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/10/10-14-10-rest-of-airbrush-painting-on.html

I've been slowed down in my studio work: both by my birthday celebrations for turning 60 yesterday, and by catching Dog Fever! First I'll show you some pix of me airbrushing the starting painted ...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/09/9-29-10-start-of-airbrush-painting-of.html

I started sketching for this next Minor Cards piece, the 4 of Wooden Spoons (Wands, in  normal tarot parlance), for my Kitchen Tarot deck, right after GEM went with us to the Wayne County Fair o...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/09/drawings-for-my-next-piece-kitchen.html

f I hope you'll consider bidding on and buying my painted diary art quilt, made especially for the Heifer International auction. Since 1944 Heifer has brought very successful sustainable food p...

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Now that the big adventure in England is over, I'm looking to the Fall, to classes I'll be teaching in October and November. My 3-day class at the Budding Art Ideas Workshops at the Matthaei B...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/09/three-classes-of-mine-coming-up-soon.html

We had a super nice TAC (Turtle Art Camp ) here at our place in Wooster, Ohio in July, but when it was overwith, I went into crazy mode, finishing my entry for Quilt National, "Stars on the Water...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/09/turtle-art-camp-july-7-13-2010-catch-up.html

This is going to be a really, really long blog entry about my Festival of Quilts adventures, because, in spite of all my noble intentions, I never got around to writing another post the whole tim...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/08/festival-of-quilts-birmingham-uk-aug_28.html

I'm writing from my Mac laptop Sally in the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, later than I should still be up, on Aug 16, after two days of getting here. Im going to make some typos in writing t...

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Instead of making a blog entry here on my own blog about my newly completed quilted painting (art quilt), called "Philadelphia Freedom: Two of Paring Knives," I took Dawn Goldsmith up on writing ...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-guest-post-today-on-subversive.html

Our granddaughter Eva came and spent three days and two nights with us last weekend, and it was such a wonderful time, especially considering that it was her first time ever to stay away from hom...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/05/evas-first-visit-to-panny-and-poppys.html

This last week, we had three students for TAC (Turtle Art Camp ) here at our home in Wooster, Ohio: Bonnie Zieben and Kathy Zieben of Houston, Texas, and Marsha Boasso, from Augusta, Georgia. As ...

http://susanshie.blogspot.com/2010/04/turtle-art-camp-april-7-13-2010.html

We went up to Cleveland and had a fine Easter day at GEM's - our kids Gretchen, Eva, and Mike's place, in Lakewood today. Eva's always up for a big time on a good holiday! First thing I'm goin...

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