I’m not a sketcher or very good at drawing.but I do make some rudimentary sketches for most of my landscape quilts. These are very broad and simplistic ideas of the way I want the art quilt to flow and appear. Much of what I use the sketches for is to figure the proportions of the
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In Studio
Birch Tree Art Quilts in Two Seasons
A few months ago I created “Birch Trees 8 in Autumn”. I’m totally partial to fall/autumn colors so I have created quite a few birch trees in autumn in different designs. I liked the size and simplicity in design of the Birch Trees 8 so I thought I’d try making a very similar one of
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First Quilt Workshop a Success!!
I had an awesome time with 17 eager quilters today. I presented my first quilt workshop for the Juniata County Quilt Guild. I taught them how to piece using curved cuts and to design a quilt in a more contemporary style. The three hour workshop was just enough time to piece the art quilt itself
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Four Poppy Quilts Finished
Last week I posted four poppy quilts I had finished piecing but not yet quilted. Here are the photos of the finished quilts. If you click on the photos you should be able to see them large enough to see the free motion stitching. Three Red Poppies on beige/grey background: I quilted the petals so
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Fun Making Pieced Poppy Art Quilts
As May turned back into March these past two weeks I decided the outdoor gardening would wait and I’d spend more time sewing. I decided to focus on exploring some new designs and piecing for my poppy motif. This is one design that is a bit complicated to piece. It kind of feels like I
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What MOTION for my Free Motion Quilting????
I am always on the look out for ideas for FREE MOTION quilting. I’ve purchased books and searched the Internet for free motion ideas but so often the ideas are shown in a square shape. I guess this is the “traditional” quilt approach but it doesn’t often translate to my contemporary quilt piecing shapes or
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Creating a sunset reflection in water in your art quilt
In the last few years I have made about a half a dozen sunset quilts with sunlight reflections over water. While my landscape art quilts are all somewhat abstract, I have continued to refine HOW I create a reflection of a sunset over a lake. I study photographs and paintings of sunsets over water to
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New Tree Quilts
Since I am not doing many festivals this spring/summer, I have not been such an intense production mode over the winter months. Two weeks ago I realized I was down to just one tree quilt….YIKES!! Time to get focused and make some quilts with trees for my ETSY shop. I have had a lot of
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Importance of Fabric Selection
I must have 600 or more different fabrics in my studio! Thankfully I’m getting better about buying fabrics which work well in my art quilt designs as opposed to buying every piece of fabric I like. When I start a new quilt, I get out all the fabrics I think I might want to use.
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