I have had several comments a year asking how to sew together fabric pieces cut on a curve.  Here is a blog post with some “how to” guidance, reposted from July 17, 2017. CURVED PIECING is one of my favorite characteristics of contemporary quilting.  Traditional quilting relies almost completely on straight edge piecing but unlimited
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I have created over 80 Sunset art quilts.  In the 11 years I have been making landscape art quilts, I have improved my observation skills, my ability to pause in daily life to notice a unique or just beautiful sunset.  And truly, aren’t they all something special?   Sunset 83 was created from a photo I
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Sometimes the creative brain is not up for a multi week project with design and size challenges.  Recently I felt like working on some smaller projects.  I found these two packets of fabrics rolled up in my closet, just waiting for a few days to make them into art quilts.  Well, those days arrived and
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My husband Jeff passed away in 2020.  He was a suit guy for many years of his professional life which he and I fancied up with cool and unusual ties.   A few years after he died I was finally getting around to sorting out his ties.  I decided to make a tie runner for my
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I am a reluctant quilt studio cleaner!  Usually after a bout of creating a handful of wall art quilt, the piles of fabric and scraps everyone starts to bother me and I dive into a thorough cleaning.  This happened the other day and I was inspired to continue the process into my closet with about
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Art is sometimes hard to gift.  We each have our unique likes and preferences. But you can start now with special friends and family as you visit the next few months in late summer and early fall.  Take a look at decorating colors and what kinds of art your friends and family have on their
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I had so much fun with thread sketching of grasses on the dunes on some of my ocean/dunes art quilts that I decided to try this technique with flowers.  A few weeks ago I created a quilt pieced background of mixed green piecing with several different fabrics for the sky.  On that background I did
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I tried a different piecing process with this recent art quilt of GRASSES.  I selected a single background fabric and then layered different grass pieces, using some darker ones in the back and more medium greens in the front. I also added some thread sketching of stems with decorative foliage, using black thread, to add
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