The 45th Eagles Mere Arts and Crafts Festival was FABULOUS this past weekend! This was one of those times that the weather, the customers, and the sales all aligned for a great show. There is no better temperature than 75 degrees with a slight breeze and no precipitation at all for an outdoor summer festival. All
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Eagles Mere Arts and Crafts Festival Aug 8 and 9
The car is packed except for the quilts which will go in tomorrow morning. We are headed to beautiful Eagles Mere, PA right in the middle of a VERY SMALL town in a lovely park for a two day arts and crafts festival. There will be about 100 artists, several food booths and some periodic
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Arts Festival Booth Improvements
An important part of the arts festival experience is learning from other artists about booth displays. At a recent fine arts festival I saw how artists shared how to display art in your home or office. I wrote about that in a previous blog which I called “Interior Design with Art Quilts”. At this same
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Birch Tree Landscape Quilt
When people see my abstract tree quilts, I am often asked if I ever make birch tree art quilts. I haven’t until now. I just finished my first one. My hurdle up until now has been the fabric for the birch trees. There are many very realistic fabrics out there and some quilters simply cut out
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A new approach to a headboard wall quilt
I hear from people at art festivals that they like a particular quilt but they believe it isn’t big enough for above their bed or above their sofa where they would like some art. I can easily make larger (wider) quilts, more suitable for above sofa and bed headboards BUT….and this is a big BUT…..people have very specific color
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Curved Edges in a Triptych
This week I designed a triptych wall quilt made of all vertical curved piecing. I used the same 10 fabrics in these three quilts, coordinated so the design and color coordination carries through across the three quilts. I added another element of “curves” by curving the sides and then matching the curves of the sides to
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Curved quilt piecing
CURVED PIECING is one of my favorite characteristics of contemporary quilting. Traditional quilting relies almost completely on straight edge piecing but unlimited options open up when you begin to sew curves. Curves can be small wiggles or whole circles though often whole circles are made with four blocks of quarter circles (see quilt in photo). Curved
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Interior Design with Art Quilts
I participated in my first fine arts festival the last weekend in May. It was an opportunity to learn from accomplished artists about booth displays. One of the tips I went home with was that I should have a small section of my booth set aside for some photos of how and where to hang art quilts.
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Contemporary Quilting Speaks to Me!
I live in rural central Pennsylvania, traditional quilting central. We have quilt guilds in just about every county and a bounty of beautiful Amish quilts from our German heritage. Sometimes to merely suggest designing and creating contemporary quilts feels almost sacrilegious. But contemporary designs just speak to me! Recently I tried to communicate my passion, interest
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