wall quilt

Mosaic art quilts diagonal piecing

I like working with fabric pieces which are not square.  I like piecing three fabrics together into a wonky block, making lots of those and creating a wall art quilt.  These approaches to mosaic art quilts are the most unstructured and challenging from both a design and a piecing standpoint.  But even me…..the wonky, non-straight
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Mosaic art quilts pieced on your design wall

The absolute most fun, with no rules and no size restrictions on fabric pieces is to design a quilt on your wall.  You start by collecting a bunch of smallish pieces of fabric in the colors you want and then just plop them on the flannel wall, organizing and reorganizing to get the colors sorted
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Matching an Art Quilt to Room Colors

As with any piece of art you want it to compliment or coordinate with the colors of your room, furniture, other art, etc.  Even though I use a good quality camera for my photos, it may be difficult to tell if a particular color is going to work in your decor.   I recommend that
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Prepping for Arts Festival Season

I am one month away from the start of my handful of arts festivals.  Last week I decided it was time to get an updated booth photo.  After watching the March WINDY weather for weeks on end I finally saw a day, last Saturday, when winds appeared to be below 10mph and the sun was
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Two designs for “gardens and ponds”

I love mixing blues and greens AND mixing prints with batiks and tone-on-tone fabrics.  Several years ago I made a mosaic quilt with small square pieces which I named “Gardens and Ponds”.  It tries to create curves and blends of fabrics with the design of the mosaic. This winter I wanted to try a new
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