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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Birch Trees with new designs
My art quilt Birch Trees 22 includes some new design features. Trying new things is sometimes anxiety producing but more often fun if approached with the expectation that it may work or it may not. Nothing is lost but a few hours if it doesn’t but if new design ideas work, well, lots of options
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Raven Art Quilt
A quilter friend of mine made a beautiful Raven art quilt which I offered to buy. She, of course, suggested I try my own hand at making such a quilt. This is my first effort but I had so much fun it will not be my last. I created the background for this quilt including
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Trees with more pieced branches
In early November I had a week of trying new things in my quilt studio. Attempting to piece more branches onto my Tree trunks was on the list of things to try to improve my design and planning skills since this is all about planning and sequencing with a sewing project. A landscape design such
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Night Sky Moon Art Quilts
Sometimes when I sit down to create a new quilt, even if, like this one, it is a new version of a previous design, I find myself toying with two options. This fall I decided to simply make two night sky moon quilts. In the past I have pieced the thin strips of fabric with
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Traditional quilt piecing with applique in an art quilt
I have tried a variety of ways to “piece” leaves into or onto my tree quilts. I still lean towards no leaves for most designs or I have the leaves pieced in the background of the trees so the greens or autumn colors are part of the art quilt even as they are not over
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A Different Approach to a Sunset Quilt
I have made 85 Sunset art quilts since 2012 when I opened my Etsy shop. They are all one of a kind but I tend towards colorful sunsets, marveling at how different each sunset can be. I have a ready source our my western picture windows. Sunset 86 is a very different design of a
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Sunrise 24 over the lake with a focus on the light
Sunrise 24 was a calming art quilt to design and create. I spent time studying the light as it appears in a sunrise by looking at photographs. I find ideas on paintings of sunrises too for how the colors present, then morph quickly. With this quilt I went back to one of my design standards
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Sunset with a new quilt design
This weekend I pieced two art quilts, one a sunset and one a sunrise. The Sunrise is a larger quilt and will take more time to quilt and bind. I finished the Sunset art quilt, Sunset 85. I want to share a photo of a step I often forget…what the pieced quilt looks like from
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