Art Quilts

I sketched my first boy pattern. Here he is fused on the quilt. Sort of plain at the moment.

Sometimes my mind needs a break from art quilts. I’m auditioning the placement of these crocheted flowers, stems and various shapes in green brown and purple on a piece of burlap.

The bike is ironed in place on the quilt. The bike is outline stitched with black thread.

To add a bike to one of my smaller quilts, I traced a smaller version of the pattern I used to create my initial bike quilt onto the release paper of fusible webbing. The pattern pieces are fused to the fabric and cut out (very carefully). On a teflon craft sheet, I fuse the individual

11 bigger art quilts ready for their sleeves to be hand stitched in place.

Once I have a batch of quilts completed, it’s time for photography. I tape bright white fabric to my dining room wall, turn on some super bright lights and set up the tripod.

My quilt guild posed a challenge in which we were to create a small quilt based on a children’s book/story. I picked Dr. Suess’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go! I changed the guy in yellow to be a girl and added my favorite line from book to the quilt.

A smaller quilt begins. Is she at a picnic? Perhaps she needs a boyfriend? I’ve never added a boy but there has to be a first sometime.

I added this little record player on my yellow quilt with the girl in grey. It is so adorable, I may want to make another record player on a small quilt all by itself.