I have always liked sunflowers!  There is a plethora of sunflower photos, paintings, and wall quilts out there but I wanted to try my hand at my own interpretation of a sunflower quilt.  I have made some “flower” quilts which have very similar piecing for the petals, designs for which I have made my own templates
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As I mentioned in my previous blog, I am focusing on creating quilts in the 2.5 square feet size or smaller for the fall, both to replenish my stock of smaller quilts and because past sales in the fall indicate small quilts are popular this time of year.  Creating landscape quilts of sunsets, sunrises, pastoral
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Free motion quilting adds depth, texture and artistic expression to an art quilt.  For me, the focus on creating the art quilt itself is one process and the quilting of the quilt top is a different process.  I rarely have any idea about quilt stitching when I’m designing and constructing the actual art quilt.  Often
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I have been experimenting with curved outside edges for my wall art quilts.  Many designs don’t lend themselves to this option because their design works fine as a squared off wall quilt.  But with some of my curved piecing I’m wondering about continuing those curves to the outside edges.  I did this with a recent
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This week I made a fairly simple contemporary design of a sun with a wide variety of yellow, orange, rust, red and maroon fabrics.  I like to use many different fabrics even for the same color groups because I like the effect of the variety of fabrics.  This is a design in which you first
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Now that the festival season is over (for me) I am looking towards the fall holiday season followed by the winter months when I can return to lots of creative work.  Right now I’m focused on making smaller quilts, usually under 2.5 square feet, as this size seems to have better prospects for holiday purchases. 
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