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 […]