The quilt stitching I’m discussing today is for a unique art quilt with three red poppies on a dynamic but neutral background. As with all my quilts, this one is pieced so the background is in many different pieces as it is added around the poppy pieces. The background fabric is absolutely part of the
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In Studio
QUILT STITCHING on a sun design quilt
I love making bright sun design quilts. Reds, oranges, and yellows are some of my favorite colors though I must confess to loving just about any color as long as it is dynamic. This is my second blog discussing how to use some varied free motion designs in a sun quilt to create more excitement
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QUILT AS DESIRED….Deciding how to quilt a quilt
When I first began to learn how to quilt, I bought several books to teach myself ideas, techniques, and some basics about design and color. My first year I made some of the quilts shown in the books to practice skills. I always came to the end of the quilt “how to” directions and encountered
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Crazy December with Custom orders
Somehow the month of December is slipping by and I’ve been delinquent on my blog posts….something I promised myself I would never do! Never say never, I guess. I ended up with two large custom orders around Thanksgiving which have filled my weeks. The push to get those both done and mailed in time for Christmas
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Horizontal designs vs Vertical Designs in Art Quilts
I don’t know if other wall artists experience this or not but I frequently have people ask me why I don’t make more quilts with a horizontal orientation instead of the vertical orientation which seems to be my comfort zone. I have a natural impulse to make a quilt that is higher than wider instead
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Red Poppy Art Quilts
I like to explore different subjects in my art quilts in addition to different designs and color combinations. This fall I have been experimenting with a few different abstract designs with red poppy flowers. Most of my inspiration has come from contemporary paintings and watercolors of poppies. You can see many of these pinned on
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Making a Sunflower Art Quilt
I have always liked sunflowers! There is a plethora of sunflower photos, paintings, and wall quilts out there but I wanted to try my hand at my own interpretation of a sunflower quilt. I have made some “flower” quilts which have very similar piecing for the petals, designs for which I have made my own templates
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Making Small Landscape Quilts
As I mentioned in my previous blog, I am focusing on creating quilts in the 2.5 square feet size or smaller for the fall, both to replenish my stock of smaller quilts and because past sales in the fall indicate small quilts are popular this time of year. Creating landscape quilts of sunsets, sunrises, pastoral
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Small Art Quilts
Now that I’m in my third full year of making and selling art quilts, I have some data to use from previous years as I plan for the fall. It is hard to tell how many quilts are purchased for gifts but when I reviewed my sales in the fall last year I saw two trends:
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