Quilts

I saw this fabric and just couldn’t cut it up. It’s great for quilt backing, but I thought it needed be the star of a whole cloth quilt. I stitched many dahlias to quilt this. I used a pink and gold floral print to bind it. The back is a plain cream cotton. This small […]

I pulled 3 solids and 3 prints and began cutting 60 degree triangles and strips in various sizes. Using improvisational piecing, I created a quilt top using the ledger print as my primary neutral. The final quilt measures 54” x 54”. I picked the teal triangle toward the bottom as my pattern for echo quilting

Plus sign quilts are great for large prints you want to show off and they are easy to cut and assemble. This one is a kid’s quilt measuring 45” x 50”. I backed it with some sale fabric that happened to match the stripes in the elephants’ legs perfectly. For some added color today –

Earlier this year a local quilt shop was selling everything so they could move out of state – I picked up a yard or two of a few prints and continued to wade through the chaos. When I saw charm packs of the Zen Chic Figures line, I took almost all o them knowing that

Remember the baby quilt commission? I also created a throw size quilt (58” x 70”) as a wedding gift using more of her grandmother’s needlework and bit of my usual art quilting. I cut apart tablecloths, napkins, pillowcases and placemats, sometimes cutting around holes or stains that I could not repair or clean. With the

A local lady asked me to use her grandmother’s embroidered linen and my usual style to create two quilts. This one is for a baby. Her grandmother had created 7 nursery rhyme pieces that seemed perfect for a baby. Since the baby is named Ford, we discussed adding trucks to the quilt. Baby Ford’s parents

Diamonds of foxes surrounded by color and mushrooms. I used these fabrics to create a quilt for an auction to benefit the Girdwood Center for Visual Arts held during Fungus Fair. The quilt is 70” x 80”. I quilted this with straight lines in an offset diamond pattern. The back is covered in more foxes

The Modern Quilt Guild Riley Blake challenge has 4 rules: – Make something fantastic that is quilted – Make something you have never done before – Challenge yourself to learn something new – Use only the Cottage Garden fabric line and Riley Blake solids I decided to play with improvisational curved piecing as my something