If someone would have told me 10 years ago I would be purposefully making art quilts with colors I previously thought should never appear together, I would have said they were nuts!  And yet…I just created an abstract art quilt with orange, pink, yellow, and burgundy.  Almost all of the fabrics are batik prints too
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For a few months I’ve been trying to find my art inspiration for a quilt of Red Rocks from the US southwest.  The colors and textures of these incredible rock formations are perfect for art quilts!  I’ve seen several other renditions from artists which are very realistic…not at all my style.  I made some small
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As an artist, it is sometimes difficult to focus on maintaining a good size inventory of art quilts vs focusing on creativity.  I had a GOOD PROBLEM as 2018 started….several custom orders!!  I make custom quilts of one of my original quilts or designs but usually in a different size.  Sometimes I will make a
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I enjoy creating landscape quilts!  Often my sunset and sunrise art quilts have a fore gound of hills or mountains.  My landscape tree quilts frequently have a background of hills or mountains.  These sections of the quilt are not dominant and often small in area but they create some quilting challenges. I’m never sure how
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I am drawn to the colors of fall which you find frequently in my landscape quilts.  But as the summer finally arrived here in central Pennsylvania and the greens exploded around us, I decided to create several tree quilts with the beautiful greens of the summer season. In the past I’ve  made several larger width
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Art quilting is a retirement artistic journey for me and is ALWAYS enjoyable, something I look forward to doing each day.  BUT….sometimes the stars align themselves and creating a quilt energizes me as has happened with “Coastal Storm” which I finished yesterday.  I saw some paintings with this orientation and I decided to step out
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There are some designs and motifs that lend themselves to quilting quite easily.  Making sun art quilts is one of those designs.  I have made quilts with dark colors for the sun and the colors lightening as they radiate from the sun.  I’ve made them with light yellows for the sun and a lighter to
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I often have people ask, “how do you come up with your designs and colors?”    Well, often the final result of a design and the combinations of colors is the result of several “do overs”, otherwise known a ripping and retrying.  This is especially true for abstract quilts for which I have a general
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I like to make a variety of sizes of quilts as I know people have both small and large wall spaces for quilts.  Sometimes I make small quilts as a way to try out a new design…sort of see if it is going to work!  Other times small quilts are just the right size for
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