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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Inspiration
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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New Landscape Quilts
Now that the festival season is over (for me) I am looking towards the fall holiday season followed by the winter months when I can return to lots of creative work. Right now I’m focused on making smaller quilts, usually under 2.5 square feet, as this size seems to have better prospects for holiday purchases.
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Learning and Sharing at Arts Festivals
I always plan for great sales at arts festivals and the Sonnenberg Arts at the Garden show in Canandaigua, NY this past weekend did not disappoint. In fact, this was my best festival yet in my limited three years of experience! YEAH! But beyond selling, the next best thing about being at festivals is the
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Festival Report and Plans for Sonnenberg Arts at the Garden
The 45th Eagles Mere Arts and Crafts Festival was FABULOUS this past weekend! This was one of those times that the weather, the customers, and the sales all aligned for a great show. There is no better temperature than 75 degrees with a slight breeze and no precipitation at all for an outdoor summer festival. All
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Birch Tree Landscape Quilt
When people see my abstract tree quilts, I am often asked if I ever make birch tree art quilts. I haven’t until now. I just finished my first one. My hurdle up until now has been the fabric for the birch trees. There are many very realistic fabrics out there and some quilters simply cut out
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A new approach to a headboard wall quilt
I hear from people at art festivals that they like a particular quilt but they believe it isn’t big enough for above their bed or above their sofa where they would like some art. I can easily make larger (wider) quilts, more suitable for above sofa and bed headboards BUT….and this is a big BUT…..people have very specific color
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Curved Edges in a Triptych
This week I designed a triptych wall quilt made of all vertical curved piecing. I used the same 10 fabrics in these three quilts, coordinated so the design and color coordination carries through across the three quilts. I added another element of “curves” by curving the sides and then matching the curves of the sides to
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