Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.
Tracey Lawko is an award-winning textile artist, quilter, longarmer and embroiderer. She combines her love of traditional needlework techniques with free-motion longarm machine stitching to create densely stitched landscapes and richly textured still life art.
Her textile art has been selected for national and international juried shows, and one of her landscapes has been selected for the permanent collection of the US National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.
Tracey is frequently invited to speak to groups about her textile art and sources of inspiration, and is also a CQA/ACC Certified Quilt Judge where she has had the honour of judging the National Juried Show of Quilt Canada 2012.
Old Maples
Mixed threads, wool and silk fibres, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching on collaged fabric
Old Maples (detail)
Mixed threads, wool and silk fibres, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching on collaged fabric
Spring Thaw
Mixed threads, embroidery floss, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching
on collaged fabric, hand-stitched highlights
Spring Thaw (detail)
Mixed threads, embroidery floss, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching
on collaged fabric, hand-stitched highlights
Walking Through the Hardwoods
Mixed threads, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching on collaged fabric
Looking Across the Fields Study
Mixed threads, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching on collaged fabric
Wildflower Fields
Mixed threads, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching on collaged fabric, hand stitching
Backlit Grasses
Mixed threads, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching on collaged fabric
Hay Bales Study
Mixed threads, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching on collaged fabric
Windswept Snow
Mixed threads, cotton fabric, stabilizer. Free-motion longarm machine stitching on collaged fabric
Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.