After my very successful show at our local public library gallery, I am looking at my Etsy shop without any tree quilts.  Trees continue to be very popular so my focus for the next few weeks will be some new tree quilts. Birch trees 23 in Autumn gave me a chance to try some new
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The other day I finally returned to a fabric shop in Pine Grove Mills, PA for shopping her unique and fun quilt fabrics.  I went to look and buy a little but of course left the store with LOTS OF FABRIC!!  I also bought a new cutting pad from a company she swears by which
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I have not made this design of an art quilt for a few years.  This art quilt has about twelve shuffled blocks each with about 8 pieces which I used for the varied greens and pale blues for the sky/leaves top 2/3 of the background.    I used curved piecing for the lower third with
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A quilting friend introduced me to creating Raven quilts.  For me, this is a combination quilt as it involves some traditional piecing, of the background, with some raw edge applique for the bird itself.  I studied Raven paintings and saw a lot of Ravens with moons.  But, truth be told, Raven’s are not nocturnal so
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As a resident of central Pennsylvania, I have spent most of my life enjoying the beautiful patchwork of the farm fields all over the state.  I have saved paintings and photographs of these patchwork landscapes, vowing to one day try to make an art quilt.  That day arrived in the last two weeks! I consider
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I have been experimenting with my preferred way of piecing, traditional, with raw edges on the quilt top back, with additional piecing using raw edge appliqué.  My most recent wall quilt, a “Bright Autumn Day” , does just this.  I pieced the landscape background and then added five leafy trees.  I did some free motion
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This last week I experimented with a new art quilt design, these snow capped mountains.  I created this quilt in the traditional piecing method but I pieced the three mountains separately and then created the sky.  I pieced the mountains and sky together somewhat similar to the way I create my Tree quilts.  I pieced
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A few weeks ago I decided to try some new curved piecing techniques on some designs typically in my wheelhouse. I have now made two quilts with what I’m calling curved section piecing.  In this design and piecing approach, I first sketch what I want to make in an art quilt and it involves layers
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