I taught myself about quilting by reading books and watching tutorials on the Internet. One of the first and best tips I found was to dedicate a large part of one wall in my sewing room/studio to a flannel board of sorts, otherwise known as a flannel wall. Who knew that the old teaching tool
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Tell me the story of your art
Last evening was the annual “Stroll Through the Arts” event in Lewisburg, PA when about 30 artists set up small displays in 30 different business in the downtown. This event is organized by the Lewisburg Arts Council. For four hours we had an opportunity to dialogue with the public about our art and have some
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Two New Mosaic Quilt
Here are two new quilts I just posted for sale, both are mosaic in design. The PURPLE TEAL MOSAIC ART QUILT is my first effort at creating a mosaic on the diagonal and I really like it! I usually make mosaic quilts with more varied size pieces and rarely am I concerned with the pieces having
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ART QUILTS and custom orders
In the two years I have been creating and selling contemporary art quilts I have been commissioned to make almost a dozen custom quilts. Sometimes they have been as straightforward as a sunset at the beach or some wonky blocks in black, white, and red geometric fabrics. For one custom project a customer took one
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QUILTS ALL OVER THE HOUSE: Managing inventory in a small space
My inventory management skills were not keeping up with my creative side and before I knew it I was inundated with too many finished quilts. That is, too many for the walls upstairs in our house where I decided to hang all finished quilts until they were sold. Not only was there visual overload but the
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QUILTS FOR SALE: How I decided to start selling
I began making wall quilts in the fall of 2010 and quickly filled up our house. Within a year my husband noticed that all the other art we had collected over the last 20 years had been relegated to a closet and walls were covered with quilts. He suggested slightly less production…OR it was time
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Welcome to my quilt blog
Welcome to my blog about contemporary art quilts. I am new to quilting, having just started 4 years ago. I don’t want to restate my bio found elsewhere on this website but suffice it to say that after an 18 month run volunteering in dog rescue, still a cause near and dear to me, I
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