I have just returned from a month away, relaxing, biking, kayaking and wine drinking in the finger lakes in New York State. We are just 3 hours away and have spent the last 20 years visiting the lake area. The trip is about as perfect as you can get except I don’t take my sewing
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In Studio
Small Quilts for the Holidays
For the first time since I started selling art quilts, I am doing a holiday show in early December in Lewisburg, PA, indoors of course. I really labored over whether or not to accept the invitation to this show, limited to about 30 local artists, because I have noticed a significant decrease in sales from
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Mosaic art quilts diagonal piecing
I like working with fabric pieces which are not square. I like piecing three fabrics together into a wonky block, making lots of those and creating a wall art quilt. These approaches to mosaic art quilts are the most unstructured and challenging from both a design and a piecing standpoint. But even me…..the wonky, non-straight
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Triptych Art Quilts
I just finished another triptych art quilt. There are lots of reasons I like making triptychs but it all begins with how much easier it is to sew three reasonably sized art quilts than one large quilt. I sew on a Bernina 750….a great machine….but since it isn’t a long arm, the larger the quilt
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Mosaic art quilts pieced on your design wall
The absolute most fun, with no rules and no size restrictions on fabric pieces is to design a quilt on your wall. You start by collecting a bunch of smallish pieces of fabric in the colors you want and then just plop them on the flannel wall, organizing and reorganizing to get the colors sorted
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Quilt Stitching to enhance Mosaic Art Quilts
This blog is about some different approaches to quilting a mosaic quilt. One of my favorite free motion designs is a random repeating and overlapping square pattern. I hesitate to use the word “pattern” as that denotes something quite specific in the quilt world, something often repetitive and strictly drawn. My quilting approaches are neither.
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Mosaic Quilt Piecing Options
MOSAIC art quilts could also be called “stash buster” art quilts because you get to use small pieces of fabrics from your entire stash! More fun though is that mosaic art quilts give you a chance to play with colors in a very intimate way. Some of my earliest art quilts were mosaic quilts. In
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Beach and Dunes Art Quilt
This past week I made a new Ocean/Beach with Dunes art quilts, trying some new colors for the ocean and creating more artistic dunes. I’m very happy with the final quilts and want to share my new ideas. My Ocean/Beach scene quilts have always been popular but because they are less colorful, I tend to
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The challenge of custom quilt orders
I’ve been making and selling art quilts for almost 4 years. In the beginning I was very hesitant to make custom quilts, primarily because I didn’t have confidence in my abilities. After a significant number of sales my confidence grew and I began to offer custom quilts. However, my custom quilts come with a
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