As I continued working on my muted piece, it was time to do a whole lot of tweaking! First, I made more units so I’d have enough to make it more square, rather than horizontal, as it stood when initially auditioned. Squares from earlier units gave me a good starting point. Getting close. As I…
Possible duplicate post When putting away hand dyed fabrics, I noticed that my least favorites, the dark muted pieces, actually looked pretty good together. I decided to make a quilt with them, and to include a few accents of lighter colors. I was headed for a quilting retreat, so I packed up my potential fabrics…
Here it is, Petal Drop. If you’ve been following along, you know it started as part of a quilted (but not faced) quilt. After lots of slicing rearranging and stitching, this is what I ended up with. I stitched the sections back together with a loose zigzag. And used the same stitching on the edge. The statement:…
Once again, I decided to cut something up. This is where I started, with an already quilted quilt. I liked it, but realized I liked the left side better than the right. So, after some folding and auditioning, I cut this quilt into two pieces. I set the left portion aside. And started work on…
If you’ve been following me for a while you know that I’ve occasionally cut up quilts and rearranged them. So, when I decided this quilt needed some revision, I decided to give it a go. The starting quilt, Beet Salad. Certainly not terrible, but it wasn’t exciting me either. Usually, when I cut something up I do…
I really enjoyed my visit to the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival 2023, held in Hampton, VA. The winning quilts were, of course, wonderful. You can see them all here. Here are a couple of my favorites: Toroweap Overlook, by Sandra L Mollon. This won Best Wall Quilt. It’s amazing! Age is Relative, by Sandy Curran, which…
There were many wonderful landscape quilts at the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival. This is Quiet: Little Stony Creek, by Tina Freudenberger Check out her amazing waterfall detail. Hope Wilmarth made this next quilt, called Shoreline Serenade. This one gave me a joyous response, because about a year ago my husband and I visited the Grand Tetons National Park AND…
The ladies of the Columbia River Gorge Quilters, in Portland, OR, really excelled at creating Floral Improv pieces. These are just a few of the results. Tomme Fent used a vibrant palette that really made her flowers POP! Ginger Hartnett’s poppies were really enhanced by her contour stitching. Don’t they look 3D? Ronda Griffin’s piece…
As I started a new quilt, I looked to my hand dyed fabrics for inspiration. I pulled out a few that I thought might spark some interest. Uh, no. It all seemed pretty ugly. But, I was intrigued by the large scale black and white piece. Could I work with something like that? It was…
More awesome results from my “Floral Improv” students in Tavares, FL. This is what they accomplished in just 5 hours, all with no patterns! Karen’s dark background made everything pop. Dawn was getting close to her final composition. Gail’s was ready for stitching. Betty was careful about how she used her printed background fabric and…