Last week I posted four poppy quilts I had finished piecing but not yet quilted. Here are the photos of the finished quilts. If you click on the photos you should be able to see them large enough to see the free motion stitching. Three Red Poppies on beige/grey background: I quilted the petals so
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Fun Making Pieced Poppy Art Quilts
As May turned back into March these past two weeks I decided the outdoor gardening would wait and I’d spend more time sewing. I decided to focus on exploring some new designs and piecing for my poppy motif. This is one design that is a bit complicated to piece. It kind of feels like I
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Lewisburg Art Festival Saturday April 29th!!
Come to beautiful downtown Lewisburg, PA this weekend for the Lewisburg Festival of the Arts street fair saturday, April 29th from 10-5pm. About 100 juried artists will be showing and selling along about 6 blocks of downtown Market street which is closed for traffic. Many food vendors, entertainers and community group booths will also be
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What MOTION for my Free Motion Quilting????
I am always on the look out for ideas for FREE MOTION quilting. I’ve purchased books and searched the Internet for free motion ideas but so often the ideas are shown in a square shape. I guess this is the “traditional” quilt approach but it doesn’t often translate to my contemporary quilt piecing shapes or
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Creating a sunset reflection in water in your art quilt
In the last few years I have made about a half a dozen sunset quilts with sunlight reflections over water. While my landscape art quilts are all somewhat abstract, I have continued to refine HOW I create a reflection of a sunset over a lake. I study photographs and paintings of sunsets over water to
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New Tree Quilts
Since I am not doing many festivals this spring/summer, I have not been such an intense production mode over the winter months. Two weeks ago I realized I was down to just one tree quilt….YIKES!! Time to get focused and make some quilts with trees for my ETSY shop. I have had a lot of
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Teaching a Quilting Workshop
While teaching and training was part of my professional career before retirement, since I started making art quilts I have shied away from doing this. I have done the occasional trunk show for quilt guilds, traveling a few hours away to meet new quilters. Often at those show and tell events they ask about workshops,
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Festival Season 2017 and some changes
I am in the midst of applications for 2017 arts festivals though this year will be very different from years past. It is a lot of physical work to load and unload and load again at the end and unload at home upon return. When you add to that the cost of the booth, and
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Importance of Fabric Selection
I must have 600 or more different fabrics in my studio! Thankfully I’m getting better about buying fabrics which work well in my art quilt designs as opposed to buying every piece of fabric I like. When I start a new quilt, I get out all the fabrics I think I might want to use.
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