above: detail from “Prairie Roots Run Deep”
Eileen Doughty's specialties are creating landscape art quilts, and three-dimensional thread sculptures. She founded Doughty Designs in 1991 and has been creating commissioned quilts, textile art, and fiber art jewelry ever since. She also teaches and lectures on various aspects of quilting.
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My stitched "glass sponges" and "sea fans", along with hundreds of crocheted corals made for the Smithsonian's Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef are currently at the Putnam Museum in Davenport, IA
The Virginia Quilt Museum is having several quilt auctions this spring, to raise funds. I was delighted to be asked to donate a quilt for the "Little Quilts, Big Talents" online auction, running May 10 - 24. Please bid on my "Cape Hatteras Lighthouse" or any other little delight, and support a worthy institution!
"White Oak Tea" (shown above) and more of my threads sculptures are available at Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
My quilts are traveling! Three were juried into the Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2012. Another will be part of the International Quilt Convention Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. Another is in the Machine Quilting Unlimited 2012 Challenge Invitational, "Seasons," which may be seen in the May 2012 issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited in addition to several shows. Please see my Schedule for details.
"Hydro-Eclectic Power" is a public art installation of 10 art quilts and 10 painted acoustical baffles, at the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center, Rockville, Maryland. My largest project, to date!
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