Earlier this month, Ruth Lane’s blog post covered work done by Gail Harker’s Level 4 students. Check that post out here.

https://feltingandfiberstudio.com/2026/03/21/where-art-meets-embroidery/

My post will cover work done by two of the five Level 3 students, Gloria Shelton and myself.

Here we are at the Opening Reception which was held on February 28th.

The exhibition Where Art Meets Embroidery is currently on display at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Art Museum (QFA) in LaConner, Washington USA through May 31st.

As Ruth stated in her post, if you live locally, please do try to visit the museum to see our exhibition in person. Photos don’t really do this work justice.

I’ve been on this creative journey with Gail Harker since about 2013. I finished Level 3 Art and Design in 2019. At the completion of that course, we had our exhibition in her studio in LaConner. That was more of a hands-on exhibition for the students as we learned how to display our own work. The museum handled the displays for this exhibition.

We did, however, have the opportunity to rent a space across the street from the museum for two days right after the exhibition opened so that we could share our working notebooks, samples and other artwork that was not at the museum. This was my favorite part as we got to share the story of our work process with people one on one. When you work on a piece for so many hours, it’s nice to see the process from a different person’s perspective. Visitors spent hours going through all of our sketchbooks. Some even bounced back and forth between the two venues several times.

One of my tables had work from Level 3 Art and Design and Level 3 Experimental Stitch.

L3 Art and Design work against the wall and L3 Experimental Stitch on the table

Here is a photo of Gloria’s table items.

Now, let’s move over to the actual museum exhibit…

Gloria made a poster-type wall hanging after visiting Paris. Her husband took the photo of the three policemen on skates.

The policemen were printed onto fabric and are heavily stitched.  The rest of the components of this piece are also heavily stitched.

Gloria LOVES pansies and does a wonderful job of stitching them in a variety of ways.

Here I am with My Secret Garden…

Here is a closer view.

Here are the other pieces I had in the exhibition.

These were all constructed using a Print-to-Stitch method. I really learned a lot from making the three pieces of the people. These were made from old black and white photos taken in the 1920’s of my grandmother, mother, and grandfather.

Myrtle (My maternal grandmother. AKA Gram)

Hazel (My mom)

Andy (My maternal grandfather. AKA Dedaddy)

I have two more photos that I would like to add to these three. Hopefully someday I will get them completed and framed as well.

 

I am blessed to live on a small lake. These cattails are in front of my property. This time of year, the red winged blackbirds are nesting in this area and it’s fun to see them blowing in the wind while they are hanging onto the reeds.

The exhibition has been a wonderful way to showcase our current work done over the last 3+ years of study with Gail (and Penny). I hope you get an opportunity to visit the exhibition while it is at the museum. I hope you enjoyed the “tour”!

Happy creating!

Tesi Vaara