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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In Studio
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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Free motion quilting inspiration
Free motion quilting adds depth, texture and artistic expression to an art quilt. For me, the focus on creating the art quilt itself is one process and the quilting of the quilt top is a different process. I rarely have any idea about quilt stitching when I’m designing and constructing the actual art quilt. Often
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A New FLOWER Art Quilt Design
I have been experimenting with curved outside edges for my wall art quilts. Many designs don’t lend themselves to this option because their design works fine as a squared off wall quilt. But with some of my curved piecing I’m wondering about continuing those curves to the outside edges. I did this with a recent
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Blocky Sun Art Quilt
This week I made a fairly simple contemporary design of a sun with a wide variety of yellow, orange, rust, red and maroon fabrics. I like to use many different fabrics even for the same color groups because I like the effect of the variety of fabrics. This is a design in which you first
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