above: detail from “Prairie Roots Run Deep”



Eileen Doughty's specialty is creating landscape art quilts. She founded Doughty Designs in 1991 and has been creating commissioned custom, heirloom quilts and textile art ever since.

I love the concept of "place" and so my preferred subject matter is the landscape. Over the years I have created a broad range of work from bed quilts to wall hangings, postcard size to mural size, traditional to abstract, and wearables. I also teach and lecture on various aspects of quilting.

News

Look for my art quilts in "Environmentally-Friendly Quilts", Machine Quilting Unlimited, March 2010, and "500 Art Quilts", Karey Patterson Bresenhan, juror, published by Lark Books, 2010

One of my art quilts will be turned into a banner, for part of Washington DC's "Urban Forest" project this spring.

New patterns:
Cape Hatteras Beach Scene, North Carolina
St. Augustine Lighthouse, St Augustine, Florida

New: a series of three art quilts, for the Studio Art Quilt Associates invitational exhibition, "A Sense of Place II: Artists Working in Series." A foot-square version of "Rhapsody Watershed" will be part of SAQA's 2010 Benefit Auction.


Rhapsody Watershed

I am exploring making three-dimensional thread sculptures. "Green Leaf Tea" is an example. It is about 8 inches high, and made only of cotton threads:
Green Leaf Tea

(Photo courtesy Dan Moore, taken at Wichita Center for the Arts).

See my thread sculptures gallery for more. I also am making jewelry!



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