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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Blocky Sun Art Quilt
This week I made a fairly simple contemporary design of a sun with a wide variety of yellow, orange, rust, red and maroon fabrics. I like to use many different fabrics even for the same color groups because I like the effect of the variety of fabrics. This is a design in which you first
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New Landscape Quilts
Now that the festival season is over (for me) I am looking towards the fall holiday season followed by the winter months when I can return to lots of creative work. Right now I’m focused on making smaller quilts, usually under 2.5 square feet, as this size seems to have better prospects for holiday purchases.
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Learning and Sharing at Arts Festivals
I always plan for great sales at arts festivals and the Sonnenberg Arts at the Garden show in Canandaigua, NY this past weekend did not disappoint. In fact, this was my best festival yet in my limited three years of experience! YEAH! But beyond selling, the next best thing about being at festivals is the
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Festival Report and Plans for Sonnenberg Arts at the Garden
The 45th Eagles Mere Arts and Crafts Festival was FABULOUS this past weekend! This was one of those times that the weather, the customers, and the sales all aligned for a great show. There is no better temperature than 75 degrees with a slight breeze and no precipitation at all for an outdoor summer festival. All
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Eagles Mere Arts and Crafts Festival Aug 8 and 9
The car is packed except for the quilts which will go in tomorrow morning. We are headed to beautiful Eagles Mere, PA right in the middle of a VERY SMALL town in a lovely park for a two day arts and crafts festival. There will be about 100 artists, several food booths and some periodic
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Arts Festival Booth Improvements
An important part of the arts festival experience is learning from other artists about booth displays. At a recent fine arts festival I saw how artists shared how to display art in your home or office. I wrote about that in a previous blog which I called “Interior Design with Art Quilts”. At this same
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