In February, when life was still "normal" , we attended the 2020 Quilt Arizona! Show which is an outstanding display of statewide quilts ...
The modern quilt craze has hit Japan ! Here are some spectacular results from Japanese quilt artists. When the Sunset Crowns Mt. Fuji in ...
I was lucky enough to attend the AQS show in Chattanooga last week, so I’m sharing some of my favorites with you. These are not meant to be representative of the show and they certainly do n…
THIS CALL FOR TESTERS IS NOW CLOSED. I am overwhelmed by the very kind response to this call for testers and now have more than enough people! I am so grateful for all the interest! ****** I’ve made a lot of quilts and Broadcast might just be my favorite—and I had so much fun making this new vers
52 of my favorite modern quilts from QuiltCon 2024.
During QuiltCon 2020, I created a number of Instagram posts of quilts grouped by various topics. That process really helped me to think about how I was experiencing my first QuiltCon and the amazing wealth of quilts. But it also takes a lot more time and energy than I’ve had at QuiltCon 202
Quilters, feast your eyes on a gallery of stunning quilts from the 2017 Pacific International Quilt Festival. #PIQF2017, #quiltshow
I've taken a lot of pictures of vintage Crazy Quilts, but not very many modern day interpretations. I was especially happy to see 2 contemporary CQ versions at the Arizona Quilters Guild show. All Creatures Large and Small by Gerlinde Hruzek won First Place in the "Other" category. This artist used so many mediums in the making of her quilt: Needlepoint, embroidery, applique, crochet and ribbon work to name a few. The far away picture just does not give justice to how wonderful this quilt really is. The close up shots give a much better visual. Look at the imagination and variety! Someday I would really like to make a Crazy Quilt. (Maybe it's because I'm a little crazy?) These pictures bring wonderful inspiration. I could have stared for hours to visually absorb all there was to see. It almost felt a little bit like an I-Spy quilt. Do you spy 3 cats? Or a fish? Imagination made and quilted by Sheila Groman Sheila wrote "Imagination is a fanciful Crazy Quilt created with applique, standard and silk embroidery, ribbon, lace, heirloom gloves, needlepoint, crewel, beads, cross-stitch, and tatting." Whew! Yes, I'd say Imagination is a perfect title.
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Sweet Surrender by Sue Cody, pieced by Beth and quilted by Judi Madsen
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Jan and Gena sure know how to make lovely quilts and it was my pleasure to quilt for them both. Quilt Information: Pattern - Homegrown by Sue Spargo Measurements - 46" x 46" Batting - Wool - Purchased from me. Backing - Supplied by customer. Quilting - Custom Quilting. Threads - Glide. Quilt Information: Pattern - Unknown to me. Measurements - 37" x 43" Batting - Supplied by customer. Backing - Supplied by customer. Quilting - Custom Quilting. Threads - Glide. Quiltmekiwi Etsy Store quilt feature! I thought I might feature one of the cot quilts for sale on my Etsy store from time to time. This is a sweet 1930's panel cot quilt with a 'bubbly' e2e Quilting design.
Earlier this year, some of our Tasmanian MQG members got together at one of our sewing days and started putting blocks together for our raff...
This post is a follow up to a previous article – Sew Pro Convention: Part 1. If you are unfamiliar with Sew Pro, hop on over to that post for a quick skim. Also, Stephanie from Modern Sewciety and I chat all about it on her podcast. Check it out here! In Sew Pro: Part 1, I outlined the twoContinue Reading...
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Scroll down for English please. Tässä on yksi, jo pitkään valmiina ollut työ. Se on tehty kolmioneliöistä, joihin käytin tilkkulaatikon sisältöä. Siitä tuli varsin pirteä ja nimeksi annoin "Kipinä" Peitto toimii miten päin vain, joko keltainen ylhäällä tai alhaalla. Tikkaus on teetetty Töölön Tilkkupajassa. Kuvio on lieskoja ja lanka vaaleanpunainen. Ajattelin, että vaaleanpunainen lanka sulautuu paremmin keltaisen päälle kuin esim. keltainen tai oransi noiden tummien kohtien päälle. Tykkään lopputuloksesta kovasti. Pinkin taustakankaan olen ostanut joskus varastoon, kun sattui sopivasti kohdalle ja oli mukava kun se oli nyt valmiina ja kävi tähän työhön. Sitä jäikin vähän jäljelle ja on nyt jo toisenkin peiton taustassa. Aloin kokoamaan paloja lattialle, sillä suunitteluseinä oli tälle liian pieni tai sitten se oli täynnä, enpä muista enää. Mielessä oli jonkin sortin visio, joten uskalsin ommella neliöistä jo pareja tässä vaiheessa, niin niitä oli helpompi käsitellä. Neliön koko on 3" eli ommeltuna 2 1/2" (6cm). Nyt kun Elmo on ollut melkein viikottain meillä hoidossa, niin lattialle kokoaminen on hankalaa tai se pitää tehdä todella nopeasti. Jos jotain on lattialla, se nappaa palan ja juoksee pöydän alle minulta karkuun. Kun pinta näytti hyvältä, ompelin palat riveiksi. Aika paljon se kutistui ommeltuna, kun saumoja on niin paljon. Se yllättää aina. Hennon violetti kantti sulautui parhaiten kaikkiin väreihin, sillä en halunnut sen tekevän voimakkaita kehyksiä. Olipa taas kiva työ tehdä. Tälle on tulossa saman tyylinen pari, sisko tai veli, jonka pinta on valmis ja se odottaa tikkausta. Hyvä talvisää on houkuttanut ulkoilemaan, joten ompelutahti on hidastunut mutta niin se vain nyt menee. **** This quilt has been finished for a long time. It's made of HST blocks size 3" unfinished and 2 1/2" finished. Almost all fabrics are scraps. I can use it both ways, yellow up or down. Quilting is made by Töölön Tilkkupaja . I chose light pink thread because it looks better on the yellow part than yellow or orange on the dark parts. Quilting pattern is some kind of flames and because of that and colors I gave this the name "Spark". I designed this on the floor because the design wall is too small. Since I had some kind of vision about the design I made pairs, so it was easier and faster to play with pieces on the floor. I have to be always very quick because Elmo comes weekly to visit and he is very keen on those pieces. When I was happy about the placement I sewed rows and then two rows together. I didn't want dark frames so I used light purple as a binging. I really enjoyed making this and it felt good to get rid of some scraps. I have made another quilt which is waiting for quilting. It will be a pair, sister or brother for this. We have great winter weather here so I have been outside a lot and sewing has been put on the back burner a little bit but I know, the weather won't last forever.
Birds of a Feather Quilt Pattern. The pattern uses drunken squares and can be made with solids or small patterned fabrics. This pattern is an easy finish for a confident beginner. This is a quilt pattern that assumes quilter has knowledge of basic piecing and can use consistent 1/4" seam allowances. If you sign up for My Bad Choice Stories, you will receive a Free Printable Monthly Quilt Planner and The Rockies PDF Quilt Pattern!
“Flowers Of The Cosmos” by Fumiko Nakayama Let me just say right up front that this quilt show exceeded expectations in every way. Something I really love about Japan is …
Volare is the Italian for 'to fly' (or soar) and is the name of the current European Space Agency mission being conducted by Luca Parmitano on the International Space Station. And now it's the name of my latest quilt: It's now in the possession of the young boy I made it for, so here are a lot of photos... (closest to the sun, Mercury, then Venus) I explained in earlier posts about piecing the background. It came together really well, and with a bit of care at the sandwiching and quilting stages, laid beautifully flat, especially given all the free-form curves. The planets were all made from fabrics which I painted myself after researching the colours and textures required for each. One (Mars) was an over-pained commercial print, but the others were all plain white when I started. (Mars, with two Martians and an approaching Space Shuttle) Each of the planets is fused with a narrow (roughly 1/4in) ring of fusible web to a matching solid print, and then with another ring both layers were fused to the background and appliqued in place with a blanket stitch in matching thread on my machine. The double layer was used to enhance the colours in some cases, and avoid the background showing through. I only fused around the edges to keep them soft. Before sandwiching, I pinned cut-to-size circles of scrap batting under each planet (and the comet and moon) in a simple trapunto technique to add extra dimension and fullness. (Saturn, with rings added by machine and an astronaut on a spacewalk) Obviously it wasn't possible to make them all to scale - or keep the distances to scale; I applied a liberal dose of artistic licence to make the layout visually pleasing. With the exception of Earth, they're sized in order, and the planets were initially placed in order of their position from the sun, but somehow Saturn shifted a bit closer than intended and here appears about as close as Jupiter. (Jupiter; my favourite of my hand-painted planet fabrics) Most of the details were free-motion stitched prior to sandwiching (e.g. the Martians, plane, ISS and Saturn's rings) but near Jupiter is something I added during the quilting. It's visible in the image above, below and to the left of the planet, but here's more detail below: Rotated here to its more familiar orientation is the Southern Cross, a constellation always visible in the southern hemisphere, and depicted on the Australian flag (as well as others). On the Australian flag, all but the smallest star are shown with seven points, one for each of the six states, and another for the two territories. So I chose to quilt the larger of the two pointer stars (bottom left of the photo above) with seven points (the others were really too small for such detail). Uranus is a pale greeny-blue, but I'm still not used to how much lighter the painted fabrics are once dry, and it's a bit paler than intended: Furthest out is Neptune, among the darkest background fabrics: I remember the passing of Halley's Comet in 1986, so I decided to add it into the quilt as well. Some of the tail was added prior to sandwiching, but I added a little more yellow at the quilting stage, and if you look closely at the main image of the quilt (open it to view it larger), you'll see I quilted a subtle extended tail in navy thread round underneath and up past the left-hand side of Saturn. I used a pale yellow fairy frost fabric for the body of the comet, which gives it a but of luminescence. The greatest detail went into Earth. I over-emphasised its size to be able to include more detail - although it was still hard at 7in across. I used a commercial leaf-print batik for most of the land appliques on Earth - and a pearlescent snowy-white fairy frost for Antarctica. I used a combination of straight-stitch and blanket-stitch to applique the fused pieces in matching threads. I'll tell you a little secret. Australia is sufficiently symmetrical in shape that when traced in reverse on the fusible web, I forgot it was flipped. I carefully positioned it on the fabric with a brown section to represent the drier desert areas of the central outback and northern Western Australia - and ended up with it towards the lusher rainforests of far-north Queensland instead, and didn't realise until it was permanently fused in place - oops! The larger land areas and islands are appliqued (I especially like the peek of Antarctica down the bottom) and I added a few more in thread-only, but naturally had to simplify considerably. I took special care to make sure the Philippine archipelago was recognisable. This tiny little plane over China was also thread-sketched (by machine of course). And of course, one of my favourite details, the International Space Station (also rather simplified, at about 1 1/4in across) passing by New Zealand. I had the perfect fabric for the crescent moon, then had to find a section of sky that was both suitably close and suitable dark to place it! I mentioned several posts back about our plan to go and see the ISS. Well, we had a perfect viewing, as it passed right over Adelaide on a clear evening, and was easily visibly for over 5 minutes. James was the first to spot it. I set up my DLSR on the tripod and took a number of 4-second exposures. Without a remote-shutter, even the most careful depression of the button moved the camera a fraction, and my small tripod isn't the most steady, so the path looks rather jagged in my photos, but I was pleased with the results from so little effort. I especially liked the image below, which was towards the end of when it was visible (moving away from us, 'down') and shows a change in colour as the angle of the sun's reflection on it changed. (Several stars are also visible.)
Claude Monet was one of the best loved Impressionist painters of the late 19th-early 20th century. He painted many scenes of his gardens at ...
UPDATED JULY 6, 2022 — CLICK HERE TO SEE MY CRUMB PIECING TUTORIAL TO LEARN HOW I SELECT FABRICS AND SEW MY CRUMB BLOCKS. INCLUDES A VIDEO TUTORIAL. A little over a week ago on February 22 I …
Happy New Year! Despite the long pause in postings, I did actually complete a few more sewing projects in 2014. January 2014 - Drawstring book bags for Allie and Cate's birthdays February 2014 - Robert Hughes baby quilt (I really need to consider taking a "how to photograph your quilts" workshop:) quilted with stars and spirals May 2014 - Amy Becker's HS graduation lap quilt Amy picked out fabrics at Fabric Depot during her Portland visit, Christmas 2013. I supplemented with a few fabrics I found at The Stitching Post and at Kapaia Stitchery during a trip to Kauai (always looking for an excuse to fabric shop). The blue batik with butterflies was the first fabric Amy chose. Other colors were built around that. quilted with vining flowers and leaves Now Amy has this nice warm lap quilt - perfect for her college years at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She assures me that it does get cold there, especially when the air conditioner is running. November 2014 - New curtains and duvet set for the Sisters house After 20 years, Stefanie and I decided it was time for a change in the upstairs bedroom in our Sisters house. We found some curtain fabric at IKEA (seen below in the medium-sized pillows). After a futile search for a coordinating duvet cover I decided we just needed to make our own. Not as cheap, but so much more fun! On the bed in Anna's old room at our house (tempted to keep it here, but...) Had to add a border piece as it was just a bit too small. Found a fun coordinating fabric at The Stitching' Post. Shams and throw pillows. The quilting in the shams mimics the print in the curtain fabric. All set up in its new home. On to 2015... January 2015 - Jeanne's lap quilt This quilt was made for my good friend and fellow swimmer, Jeanne. She will be out of the water for a bit, recuperating from surgery, so of course this called for a quilt! My daughter, Anna, suggested the colors - perfect for a swimmer. Another swimmer friend, Jenn, joined me for a shopping trip to Fabric Depot and also helped with part of the sewing. Sandi and Jeanne The design incorporates over 60 small blocks with names of some of Jeanne's friends. Next Up???? cityscape art quilt based on a photo of Roussillon, France art quilt based on our Croatia travels last September flower/plant themed art quilt for the Hardy Plant Society Hortlandia Plant Sale in April hopefully taking Hilde Morin's Bowl Art class
While shopping at the antique mall, one of the things I’ve been noticing re-surge more and more are Victorian Crazy Quilts and all of their lovely styles and forms. Since I cannot begin to to…
Make a super-simple landscape art quilt with free-motion thread sketched embellishments, regardless of whether you’re a beginner or advanced.
There were several favorite small wallhangings but I'll concentrate on the larger quilts for this favorites tour. I have a huge selection of striped fabric so I decided to use a big variety of them as sashing with Kaffe Fassett prints in this favorite quilt of 2015. One of my favorite Martha Negley prints is the border fabric, tree rings. My first X and + quilt was made in 2015. I used both light and dark backgrounds and just kept making blocks until I had more than enough to make this quilt. I played for days at the design wall and eliminated the blocks that weren't working. I love the riot of color in this one. I have never been able to get a good photograph of this favorite large wallhanging. This one hangs in my living room. It is called Many Moons. The blue around it is my grayed lavender living room walls so you can see how far off the color is. This one from 2016 is the size of a baby quilt or could be a wallhanging. I had a plan to cut up a bunch of batiks that I didn't like very well into squares and triangles. Since I love star quilt, my plan was to put the triangle squares and large squares on the design wall and see what happened. It was a surprise when the stars started joining in a diagonal pattern. I loved the top so much I didn't quilt it for years for fear it would leave my house. This 2016 favorite was a surprise. I had made the stars as my nightly sewing, all scraps, and no quilt in mind. One day I was looking through my stacks of blocks and realized the Kaffe fabric 16 patches were the same size as the star blocks. I'm sure the quantity of red plus stars is the reason I love this one so much. The last one from 2016 is my Marcia Derse fabric tall triangles quilt. I love Marcia's fabrics and I love triangles so it's easy to see why I love this one. 2017, a year of so many favorites but this one is at the top of the list. The plaids are all shirting weight and some of them are the Roberta Horton yarn dyed wovens from the 1990s. Others are from yardage purchased over a period of 40 years. The blocks were cut with my 7" Drunkard's Path acrylic templates. I know 2 people who would love to own this one. 2017 was the year I finally cut into all of my indigo Dutch Wax fabrics. I made it modular style which is explained on my blog, click on Modular quilt tutorial on my Label List. This is my favorite 2017 colorwash made with 1.5" x 3" rectangles. I love the irregular shaped light center. I'm sorry but there is a fourth favorite from 2017. I like this one for many reasons, the Marcia Derse background and border fabrics, the Kaffe Fassett yarn dyed stripes for the sashing and the large prints, some of them from 30 years ago. It's all about the fabric for me. The block design came from a Kathy Doughty book. 2018 was a year of mostly wallhangings but this one is a larger quilt. I used the last piece of a lot of the African fabrics in this quilt so it can never be reproduced exactly. This is my third half hexagon quilt and my favorite of the 3. 2018 was the introduction of a new style quilt called Colorburst, not a blend like Colorwash but contrasting colors touching. I created my first larger Kaffe Fassett fabric colorwash in 2018. It has a lot of his early out of print fabrics in it and I really like it. 2019 has already been published on my blog on January 3. Click here to see it. My favorites for 2019 are ones I am keeping whereas a lot of the favorites from previous years have been sold or gifted to special people. I tend to want to hold onto the newest ones for awhile and after I have made some new favorites I can sometimes part with an older favorite.
