Art Quilts

I love watching television and movies while I sew. We don’t have cable at home so I had never seen ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ until it came to Netflix. The show is mildly entertaining, but the dresses are amazing. I had stitched charm squares together to make backgrounds for art quilts; they reminded me

I spent a fun morning with the Anchorage Log Cabin Quilters day group creating art girl quilts. Every time I teach, I am inspired by the creativity of the group. Here are some of the quilters’ works in progress – perhaps they will inspire you to play.

Sometime in 2007 I created this fused red-head girl while crafting with my mom. I never turned the top into a quilt and it got shuffled from place to place and lost in our move to Anchorage. While searching for another lost project (still not found) I stumbled upon the top and set about making

She was ready to begin (9” x 12”) Scraps of fused fabric and a background quilted months earlier came together to make a cute little quilt of an artist and her blank canvas. I used tiny bias tape for the binding – I don’t think I’ll use it again. I love the frayed mess of

She loved today (5.25” x 8”) I had a few leftover cats from the challenge art quilts. So I made some mini quilts for my guild’s upcoming small quilt auction. She couldn’t imagine life without her cats (5.25” x 8”)

Potholders (8” x 8”) My quilt guild posed a beautiful fabric challenge in which we were to find a precious fabric in our stash that we had not yet cut into and cut a fat quarter. We put our pretty fabric in a brown bag and swapped. I received the orange batik above. Joan, the

Toss the bouquet (8” x 10”) I also finished this before my last quilt guild meeting. The background I had previously constructed so I pulled out scraps of white and text fabrics and challenged myself to make a girl without drawing her first. I had been watching a show where the characters were going to