I create about a dozen custom quilts each year and almost all are a change in size of an existing quilt design. I have received positive responses to these custom art quilts but it is often a challenge to take a design and colors in a smaller quilt and make it larger. I have learned
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In Studio
Very small art quilts
2018 has arrived and in my Pennsylvania studio I am staying warm in spite of extreme cold outside. It is a good time to quilt….but then, isn’t it ALWAYS a good time to quilt!? I am making a change to my blog postings….moving to a committed blog post in the first week of each month
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Small ART QUILTS make great gifts
Purchasing an ART QUILT as a gift is similar to buying a print, photograph, or painting. We are often reluctant to do this due to personal taste in art. I would like to suggest that purchasing small works of art for friends and family may be the most fun gift of all. Everyone has a
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Love sewing CURVES!
When my creative juices are feeling a bit stagnant or maybe every day life is just crowding out the ideas, I look at abstract paintings to get inspired. I’ve been busy creating a lot of landscape quilts and flower quilts and my heart and brain needed to work in a different design area. I found
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The PERFECT Fabric!!
Not to minimize design….BUT….the perfect fabric is so important for an art quilt! The other day I was looking for fabric to redo pillows and a throw blanket for our bedroom when I came across an abstract cream with pale grey and pale dusty rose fabric. One of my poppy designs is created on an
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New art quilts with curved piecing
One of my signature styles is the use of curved piecing in art quilts. I use these techniques exclusively with my landscape quilts and also with any abstract quilts I create. There are so many varieties of designs for which curved piecing is a great choice. This week I made three new quilts and used
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A year with fewer arts festivals
I took a year off from doing festival shows in 2017 except for a few very local, one day events. This was due to a variety of things from the physical activity required for packing, set up and tear down along with the unpredictability of selling, often influenced by the weather. I think if I
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Two New Tree Quilts
I have had a summer filled with custom orders so not much time to create art quilts for my shop. The past two weeks I decided to look back at some quilts that sold quickly and use those as inspiration for some new quilts. Because I don’t use patterns and often I don’t have the
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Free Motion Machine Quilting Landscape Quilts – Mountains
One of the things most fun about free motion quilting is the freedom to do so many different designs with thread, your sewing machine and your creativity. It really is boundless! If you work in the abstract arts as I do, these freedoms allow you to pick and choose how to accentuate colors or designs
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