The Slice
Making Art With Needle and Thread
9/10/2021 | 1m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Helen Smith Stone has always been a “maker.” At the age of eight, she learned...
Helen Smith Stone has always been a “maker.” At the age of eight, she learned from her mother how to hand embroider, and as an adult, she discovered her passion for quilt making. And it is needle and thread that Helen uses to create art.
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The Slice is a local public television program presented by PBS North
The Slice
Making Art With Needle and Thread
9/10/2021 | 1m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Helen Smith Stone has always been a “maker.” At the age of eight, she learned from her mother how to hand embroider, and as an adult, she discovered her passion for quilt making. And it is needle and thread that Helen uses to create art.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipIf you look around my quilting studio, the quilts on the walls here, these are all made from somebody else's pattern or someone else design them.
But I have reached a point in my artwork that I want to make my own quilts from my own designs.
And I started thinking, why can't I create quilts that are inspired by my photographs?
So with assistance from Arrowhead Regional Arts Council and the guidance from quilt instructors that I discovered, I made three.
That is a photograph of my son Lane with a facemask.
It's the very first face mask I made when the pandemic started.
And then I took a photograph of a cup and saucer that I would say was maybe the most challenging.
And then the final one I did for this project is a photograph of my poppies in my garden.
The fabric and thread is a way to create art, just like paint and beadwork and all the other types.
So I kind of have been on a mission to get that message out there.
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