I like to explore different subjects in my art quilts in addition to different designs and color combinations. This fall I have been experimenting with a few different abstract designs with red poppy flowers. Most of my inspiration has come from contemporary paintings and watercolors of poppies. You can see many of these pinned on
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Perfect evening for Lewisburg Stroll Thru the Arts
Last Friday was the annual Lewisburg Arts Council Stroll Through the Arts. My location inside the Mercantile store, one of the best gift/home/kitchen stores in town, is just perfect for this event. I must schlep a lot of white boards in on which to display my quilts, but the store owner and I are in
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Preparing for a very small display
On Friday, November 6th I am participating for the 4th year in the Lewisburg PA Stroll Through the Arts. It is a fun short show in which about 30 artists set up some of their art in different businesses in downtown Lewisburg. From 6pm – 10pm the public can wander through while shopping or perhaps
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Making a Sunflower Art Quilt
I have always liked sunflowers! There is a plethora of sunflower photos, paintings, and wall quilts out there but I wanted to try my hand at my own interpretation of a sunflower quilt. I have made some “flower” quilts which have very similar piecing for the petals, designs for which I have made my own templates
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Pinterest and Inspiration
Pinterest is a wealth of art quilt inspiration!! Currently I use Pinterest to get broader exposure for my art quilts and to find inspiration for new art quilts. At first I found myself only looking at art quilts or contemporary quilts, seeing what others were creating, how they combined colors and trying to figure out
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Making Small Landscape Quilts
As I mentioned in my previous blog, I am focusing on creating quilts in the 2.5 square feet size or smaller for the fall, both to replenish my stock of smaller quilts and because past sales in the fall indicate small quilts are popular this time of year. Creating landscape quilts of sunsets, sunrises, pastoral
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Small Art Quilts
Now that I’m in my third full year of making and selling art quilts, I have some data to use from previous years as I plan for the fall. It is hard to tell how many quilts are purchased for gifts but when I reviewed my sales in the fall last year I saw two trends:
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Free motion quilting inspiration
Free motion quilting adds depth, texture and artistic expression to an art quilt. For me, the focus on creating the art quilt itself is one process and the quilting of the quilt top is a different process. I rarely have any idea about quilt stitching when I’m designing and constructing the actual art quilt. Often
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A New FLOWER Art Quilt Design
I have been experimenting with curved outside edges for my wall art quilts. Many designs don’t lend themselves to this option because their design works fine as a squared off wall quilt. But with some of my curved piecing I’m wondering about continuing those curves to the outside edges. I did this with a recent
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