I had a customer recently who wanted a red flower, similar to one I had made in Yellow. I decided to use her custom request as a chance to try some different designs to give her some options and give myself some room to experiment. Often when I make a design for the first time, as
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Creating an abstract quilt in autumn colors
I have just returned from a month away, relaxing, biking, kayaking and wine drinking in the finger lakes in New York State. We are just 3 hours away and have spent the last 20 years visiting the lake area. The trip is about as perfect as you can get except I don’t take my sewing
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Small Quilts for the Holidays
For the first time since I started selling art quilts, I am doing a holiday show in early December in Lewisburg, PA, indoors of course. I really labored over whether or not to accept the invitation to this show, limited to about 30 local artists, because I have noticed a significant decrease in sales from
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Gallery Show in September 2016
I’m very excited to announce many of my quilts will be on display at the Public Library of Union County for the month of September 2016. I’m expecting to have about 15 quilts on display for the month. When the library did a major renovation several years ago, they included a lobby for displays by
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Arts Festivals Can be Difficult
Earlier this week we returned from the Sonnenberg Arts at the Garden in Canandaigua, NY, a very well organized arts festival in the Finger Lakes of New York state. No matter the organization, which here was outstanding, and no matter the size of our booth spaces which here was a generous 15′ x 15′ for
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Arts at the Gardens in August
In one week I head out for my last outside arts festival of the 2016 season. I am headed to Canandaigua, NY in the Finger Lakes region at the tip of Canandaigua Lake. This is my favorite festival! The location is the Sonnenberg Mansion and Gardens which is a spectacular setting for an art show.
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Mosaic art quilts diagonal piecing
I like working with fabric pieces which are not square. I like piecing three fabrics together into a wonky block, making lots of those and creating a wall art quilt. These approaches to mosaic art quilts are the most unstructured and challenging from both a design and a piecing standpoint. But even me…..the wonky, non-straight
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Triptych Art Quilts
I just finished another triptych art quilt. There are lots of reasons I like making triptychs but it all begins with how much easier it is to sew three reasonably sized art quilts than one large quilt. I sew on a Bernina 750….a great machine….but since it isn’t a long arm, the larger the quilt
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Mosaic art quilts pieced on your design wall
The absolute most fun, with no rules and no size restrictions on fabric pieces is to design a quilt on your wall. You start by collecting a bunch of smallish pieces of fabric in the colors you want and then just plop them on the flannel wall, organizing and reorganizing to get the colors sorted
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