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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Finding Quilt Fabrics in my Closet
I am a reluctant quilt studio cleaner! Usually after a bout of creating a handful of wall art quilt, the piles of fabric and scraps everyone starts to bother me and I dive into a thorough cleaning. This happened the other day and I was inspired to continue the process into my closet with about
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Start thinking about an art quilt for the holidays!
Art is sometimes hard to gift. We each have our unique likes and preferences. But you can start now with special friends and family as you visit the next few months in late summer and early fall. Take a look at decorating colors and what kinds of art your friends and family have on their
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Mosaic of the Colors of Nature
I haven’t created a mosaic quilt for about a year. I decided to try colors I have not combined in a mosaic art quilt before but are colors I use all the time in my tree quilts: green and brown with a smattering of yellow/gold. If you are a quilter you can guess how many
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Thread Sketching Flowers on Art Quilt
I had so much fun with thread sketching of grasses on the dunes on some of my ocean/dunes art quilts that I decided to try this technique with flowers. A few weeks ago I created a quilt pieced background of mixed green piecing with several different fabrics for the sky. On that background I did
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Art Quilt GRASSES with Thread Sketching
I tried a different piecing process with this recent art quilt of GRASSES. I selected a single background fabric and then layered different grass pieces, using some darker ones in the back and more medium greens in the front. I also added some thread sketching of stems with decorative foliage, using black thread, to add
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Custom Art Quilt – Moon and Stars
I have again begun to accept limited custom order requests. Any custom request must be of one of my designs in different colors or a different size. The custom quilt shown here was a very creative request by a new mom for an art quilt for her baby’s room. I have made this design in
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Quilts on SALE!
This week I was cleaning out one of my studio closets and found several quilts I had started but not finished many years ago. There was a time when I was creating and sewing so much I could hardly keep up with ideas. Some of these quilts were set aside for no good reason except
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Two New Tree Quilts
After my local art quilt show the month of January, I’ve been busy creating new quilts. Somehow the whole month of January snuck by but February has been a very productive month in my studio. I’m excited about two tree quilts I finished in February, one Birch Trees 16 in Spring and the other Birch
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