Last fall I had the privilege of speaking with a local quilt guild about my contemporary, often abstract art quilts.  It was a typical Trunk Show but I spent some time talking about HOW I plan and construct my art quilts, all the while using traditional piecing methods.  For quilters who make quilts from blocks
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Those of you who follow my blog know I don’t use patterns.  I’m also terrible about making notes as I create a design.  Often when I want to create a similar design from the past, I must make the photo as big as possible on my laptop and then study it, trying to remember my
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I take a lot of photos of sunsets and sunrises because I like creating art quilts from these photos.  I also take screen shots of outstanding sunsets from Facebook friends and save them from Pinterest.  Sunset 80 was from a friend’s photo taken in Alaska.  I was enchanted by the peaches and darker pinks/maroons of
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If you have been following me you know I have some themes in design.  This year I made another Ocean colors wall quilt.  This is an abstract, curved piecing of the varied colors of the ocean.  It is a chance to play with blues for a day or two!!  There is almost no way to
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Winter definitely arrived this past week in central PA with temps dipping into the low 20’s with howling winds.  I used the word “blusterly” with my grand daughter the other day as no other word did justice to all the cold blowing going on. This kind of weather leads me to warmer colors for art
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I have had several comments a year asking how to sew together fabric pieces cut on a curve.  Here is a blog post with some “how to” guidance, reposted from July 17, 2017. CURVED PIECING is one of my favorite characteristics of contemporary quilting.  Traditional quilting relies almost completely on straight edge piecing but unlimited
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I have created over 80 Sunset art quilts.  In the 11 years I have been making landscape art quilts, I have improved my observation skills, my ability to pause in daily life to notice a unique or just beautiful sunset.  And truly, aren’t they all something special?   Sunset 83 was created from a photo I
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Sometimes the creative brain is not up for a multi week project with design and size challenges.  Recently I felt like working on some smaller projects.  I found these two packets of fabrics rolled up in my closet, just waiting for a few days to make them into art quilts.  Well, those days arrived and
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My husband Jeff passed away in 2020.  He was a suit guy for many years of his professional life which he and I fancied up with cool and unusual ties.   A few years after he died I was finally getting around to sorting out his ties.  I decided to make a tie runner for my
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