As with any piece of art you want it to compliment or coordinate with the colors of your room, furniture, other art, etc. Even though I use a good quality camera for my photos, it may be difficult to tell if a particular color is going to work in your decor. I recommend that
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In Studio
Using THREEs in geometric designs
As anyone can see from my websites, I like to make a wide variety of contemporary art quilts. I like geometrics, mosaics, curved abstract piecing, landscapes, circle designs, stars, suns, and have begun to dabble in poppies. Making art quilts with curved piecing is more challenging so often after a few quilts with lots of
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Two designs for “gardens and ponds”
I love mixing blues and greens AND mixing prints with batiks and tone-on-tone fabrics. Several years ago I made a mosaic quilt with small square pieces which I named “Gardens and Ponds”. It tries to create curves and blends of fabrics with the design of the mosaic. This winter I wanted to try a new
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Triptych Quilt Landscape
Some quilt projects are designed in my head in a general way though they unfold color and piecing wise as I go along. This landscape triptych is one of those quilts. I had made a large background quilt upon which I thought I would make several different quilts which could be hung interchangeably on the
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Poppy art quilts-new interpretations
I am having such fun creating abstract poppy art quilts! I have included a group of pictures of all the different designs and background fabrics I’ve used so far. My first poppy quilts used a stunning blue/green batik background fabric. Then I found the Stonehenge fabrics! The beige/grey/brown Stonehenge is absolutely fabulous with the red
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QUILT STITCHING doodling with thread
The other day I saw some doodling with thread on Pintrest and I just had to dash to my sewing machine to give it a try. Well….my first effort didn’t look as good as the beautiful “doodles” I saw on Pintrest but I have definitely discovered a new way to play with my sewing machine!
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QUILT STITCHING for a contemporary garden quilt
This fall I have been exploring a variety of flower motifs. After finishing a rather challenging “Three Red Poppies” art quilt, I decided to experiment with a very contemporary garden quilt design using the reds and greens from the poppy quilt combined with an orange/pale green background batik. As I’m sure I’m mentioned in previous
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QUILT STITCHING free motion for curved piecing
I’ve had the most fun with a wide variety of quilt stitches in abstract curves art quilts. I like to make these art quilts by starting first with an interesting, often modern print, and then building the other fabrics and colors around that print. Sometimes I put on a significant border into which you can
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QUILT STITCHING free motion curves on blocks
This blog is about quilt stitching for mosaic quilts comprised of lots of smaller blocks of fabric so definitely “blocky” looking in design. I enjoy designing and piecing mosaic quilts, using different color combinations ebbing and flowing with the colors. All are abstract depictions of color. For some of my mosaic art quilts I emphasize
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