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This page has photos of some of my quilts.. keep checking, more to come!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Some quilts have to be made. This was the third quilt I made, inspired by observing monarch butterflies pupate, then later emerge, expand their wings by 300%, and take their first flight.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Hand-pieced monarch applique, 3D butterfly weed flower and leaf applique, with pieced background blocks<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
(I made two) were designed for my great-nephews, who love Star Wars. I used the DK Star Wars Blueprints as inspiration for my design. This is my most recent \u2018Art Quilt\u2019<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
This quilt was inspired by my favorite Art Deco post card, purchased in Monaco… a trip to the south of France for my husband’s 40th birthday. He loves Grand Prix auto racing… and so I designed this quilt for him. I talk about some of the design problems on my Monaco Quilt page. My goal was to do little if any raw edge appliqu\u00e9, and there was a lot of detail that needed to be interpreted. Fabric selection was very important, but so were simplification choices, and finally quilting decisions.<\/p>
The post card was purchased in 1993, in the early days of my quilting. I collected fabrics over the year, and eventually found fabrics I loved for the main car and started working on that as an appliqu\u00e9. Then in 2021, I needed a major quilting project as a family health issue had me lethargic. It was finally time to just do it. I solved the final design problems\/decisions one at a time, which included interpreting building detail through simple tone on tone appliqu\u00e9s and quilting detail, and simplified the text – choosing\u00a0choosing to interpret the spirit and not the exact details of the original poster<\/span>\u00a0resulting in a quilt that was pleasing to both me and my husband.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> I did some mini projects along the way, then actually took a break to do my first Moon Dance quilt and used that as an opportunity to learn some ruler quilting techniques before doing the final quilting.\u00a0<\/span>In the end, I didn’t do a lot of ruler quilting, using a walking foot for most of my work. I am most proud of my idea to simulate a firework effect in the quilting of the sky, using some zig-zag stitching (tuned from wide at the base to a point at the end).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t