My name is Kate Themel, owner of Square One Design. My art quilts have been exhibited around the United States in galleries, offices, art shows and quilt festivals. I have also created commissioned works for customers from New York to San Francisco and as far away as Rijeka, Croatia.
My fine arts training and experience as a painter have a great influence on my quilt designs. I see myself as primarily a painter, but I may use acrylics, oils or colored fabric as my medium.

I love using Dharma's PFD (prepared for dying) cotton. It works great with reactive dyes, regular and metallic fabric paints, inks and photo transfer.

Some examples:
Spider web background is PFD cotton tie dyed with reactive dyes. Dragonfly is PFD cotton drawn with colored fabric markers & white fabric paint Magnolias are PFD cotton hand painted with Dye-na-Flow silk paints Sunlight beams (in the tree scene) are painted using metallic bronze Portraits were created using black cotton and light, opaque fabric paints

To see more works of fabric art visit:
http://www.square-one-design.com or
http://www.katethemel.com
Kate Themel, Artist
Square One Design