I haven’t created a mosaic quilt for about a year. I decided to try colors I have not combined in a mosaic art quilt before but are colors I use all the time in my tree quilts: green and brown with a smattering of yellow/gold. If you are a quilter you can guess how many
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Thread Sketching Flowers on Art Quilt
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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Art Quilt GRASSES with Thread Sketching
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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Custom Art Quilt – Moon and Stars
I have again begun to accept limited custom order requests. Any custom request must be of one of my designs in different colors or a different size. The custom quilt shown here was a very creative request by a new mom for an art quilt for her baby’s room. I have made this design in
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Quilts on SALE!
This week I was cleaning out one of my studio closets and found several quilts I had started but not finished many years ago. There was a time when I was creating and sewing so much I could hardly keep up with ideas. Some of these quilts were set aside for no good reason except
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Two New Tree Quilts
After my local art quilt show the month of January, I’ve been busy creating new quilts. Somehow the whole month of January snuck by but February has been a very productive month in my studio. I’m excited about two tree quilts I finished in February, one Birch Trees 16 in Spring and the other Birch
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Ocean and Dunes Art Quilts with some new techniques
I have been creating ocean and dunes art landscape quilts for many years but this week I decided to try some new designs. In Ocean and Dunes 22 I used one fabric for the sky instead of piecing it like I usually had done. When it came time to quilt it, I thought I would
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Art Quilts and 4th grade Webelos
I had an interesting request this month from a pack leader of 4th grade Webelos, boy scouts. They were working on a unit on art appreciation and she asked me to speak with her pack about making art quilts. I was a little hesitant because I wasn’t sure how interested 4th grade boys would be
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Busy with more than just art quilts
I took a break from quilt making to finish a non quilt project this fall. I self published a book about the first year after my husband died, a book about coping and dealing with his loss and my sadness. Unfortunately many of we female spouses may confront this reality as women are still outliving
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