For a few months I’ve been trying to find my art inspiration for a quilt of Red Rocks from the US southwest. The colors and textures of these incredible rock formations are perfect for art quilts! I’ve seen several other renditions from artists which are very realistic…not at all my style. I made some small
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New Lopsided Star Design
After a refreshing month enjoying lake living in the finger lakes of NY state in September, I came home eager to get back to quilting. Sometimes the ideas come so fast I spend the first few days back in my studio organizing stacks of fabrics for future projects. I call this my “playing with colors”
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Ordering a Custom Quilt
As an artist, it is sometimes difficult to focus on maintaining a good size inventory of art quilts vs focusing on creativity. I had a GOOD PROBLEM as 2018 started….several custom orders!! I make custom quilts of one of my original quilts or designs but usually in a different size. Sometimes I will make a
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Quilting Ideas for Hills and Mountains
I enjoy creating landscape quilts! Often my sunset and sunrise art quilts have a fore gound of hills or mountains. My landscape tree quilts frequently have a background of hills or mountains. These sections of the quilt are not dominant and often small in area but they create some quilting challenges. I’m never sure how
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A landscape of summer colors
I am drawn to the colors of fall which you find frequently in my landscape quilts. But as the summer finally arrived here in central Pennsylvania and the greens exploded around us, I decided to create several tree quilts with the beautiful greens of the summer season. In the past I’ve made several larger width
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Coastal Storm Art Quilt
Art quilting is a retirement artistic journey for me and is ALWAYS enjoyable, something I look forward to doing each day. BUT….sometimes the stars align themselves and creating a quilt energizes me as has happened with “Coastal Storm” which I finished yesterday. I saw some paintings with this orientation and I decided to step out
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Let the sun shine in art quilts
There are some designs and motifs that lend themselves to quilting quite easily. Making sun art quilts is one of those designs. I have made quilts with dark colors for the sun and the colors lightening as they radiate from the sun. I’ve made them with light yellows for the sun and a lighter to
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Beach art quilts create a mood
So many people at one time or another go to the beach. Many of us day dream about what it would be like to live at the beach, look out our windows to see the endless ocean and the big sky, and listen to the waves. Beach designs and motifs give us a sense of
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The Art of RIPPING and REDOING with art quilts
I often have people ask, “how do you come up with your designs and colors?” Well, often the final result of a design and the combinations of colors is the result of several “do overs”, otherwise known a ripping and retrying. This is especially true for abstract quilts for which I have a general
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