About Lu Peters

Award-winning fiber artist and art educator

Lu Peters' work combines collage, painting, dyeing, and embellishment and features the interplay of texture, color, organic and geometric shapes. Her garments have been selected for exhibition by the American Quilter’s Society Hobbs Fashion Show (Paducah, Kentucky) and the International Quilt Association (Houston, Texas), where she earned a Judge’s Award in 2003 and an Honorable Mention in 2006 at the Stitch N’ Time Fashion Show. She has garnered numerous local and regional awards for wearable art and quilts, including the Pfaff Special Garment Award for Sargasso Sea. Her piece Mood Indigo was featured in the November/December 2005 issue of Belle Armoire, a nationally published wearable art magazine. Reinventing the Wheel, a beaded silk quilt, received the First Place Award at the Dallas Area Fiber Artists’ biennial show in 2005.

In her latest seminar, New Directions in Wearable Art, Lu presents a brief overview of the history of wearable art and then forecasts future trends and influences. She shows a variety of garments and patterns, and explores design, techniques, and resources. The seminar also features tips on improving skills.

During a career spanning five decades, Lu has founded a design business; taught felting, papermaking, and sewing; worked in the retail, wholesale, and mail order fashion fabric businesses; and served as a contributing editor of Press de La Plantz Sew Magazine and Art You Wear Newsletter. She has been named an Outstanding Volunteer of the Quilter’s Guild of Dallas and is an active member of Dallas Area Fiber Artists and the American Sewing Guild.

Her website, www.lupeters.com, contains book and resource lists that cover all aspects of multimedia art, fiberart, wearable art, and sewing.

2024

Selected for Exhibition: The Plague Doctor’s Mask, Plano ArtCentre
Honorable Mention: Chaos Theory I (collaboration with Connie Akers), Addison Theatre Center

2023

Honorable Mention: Home-Icide: Putin's Highway to Hell art quilt, Quilters Guild of Dallas

2022

First Place: The Plague Doctor’s Mask, CC Young The Point / Age is Timeless
First Place: Building a Wall of Civility: WORDS MATTER #1, Quilters Guild of Dallas

2018

Judge's Choice: Taking No Flak garment, Dallas Area Fiber Artists

2017

Second Place: The Back Story art quilt, Dallas Area Fiber Artists
On Exhibition: Multiple art quilts, Irving Jaycee Art Center

2015-2016

Selected for Exhibition: Art quilts at Contexture Fiber & Fabric Exhibit, Plano Art Association

2014

First Place: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Cloak of Invisibility, Quilters Guild of Dallas
BOS: The Enigma Project (collaboration), Dallas Area Fiber Artists
Selected for Exhibition: The Enigma Project (collaboration), International Quilt Association

2013

Judge's Choice: The Dinner Jacket garment, Dallas Area Fiber Artists
Third Place: The Dinner Jacket garment, Quilters Guild of Dallas
Selected for Exhibition: Deep Pocket Investor garment, Materials Hard & Soft
On Exhibition: Alzheimer's Awareness Show at Lovers Lane Methodist Church

2012

First Place, Best Interpretation of the Theme: Red, Read, Red, Members Challenge RED, Dallas Area Fiber Artists
Best Art Quilt: Roots & Routes (art quilt collaboration with Connie Akers), Dallas Area Fiber Artists
Third Place: Deep Pocket Investor jacket, Quilters Guild of Dallas
On Exhibition: Urban Reflections (collaboration), The Point at CC Young

2011

Second Place: Roots & Routes (art quilt collaboration with Connie Akers), Quilters Guild of Dallas
Second Place: Red Kimono miniature quilt, Quilters Guild of Dallas
Honorable Mention: The Avant Garden garment, Quilters Guild of Dallas