Mastering the Art Quilt
My new book "Masters: Art Quilts, Vol.2" (Lark Crafts 2011), showcases the work of forty-one artists from around the world who work in the art quilt medium. What led me to choose these particular artists? In each case, it's because I can't get their work out of my mind. I return to their work time and again, and each time I find things to delight me. These works always seem to have something new to say. more


Meet... Izabella Baykova
Take a plunge into Izabella's eyes and you will see the cold steppes of Nothern Russia, icy landscapes and winter skies. You will see strange characters coming straight out of the tales and legends they have been telling in Ural provinces since the beginning of time. more


Bride abduction in the quilt technique
St. Petersburg Literature and Graphics Centre in Liteyny prospect hosts an exhibition of works of Izabella Baikova, winner of Grand-Prix of All-Russian competition of patch-work sewing, working in the technique having the peculiar name "quilt". more


Izabella Baikova's dreams
One of the findings of the Second All-Russian Festival of traditional and modern patch-work "Patch-work Style 2002" was a striking, original phenomenon - a textile picture by Izabella Baikova. more


Changeability of the matter.
Bella Baikova makes textile pictures in "quilting" technique, stitching together the parts of the future masterpiece by sewing machine. This technique is not the patch-work known to us by grandmother's counterpanes, it is a much more exquisite and complicated technology. more