Lorrie Faith Cranor specializes in the application of mathematical and computing skills to quilt design. Dr. Cranor is Professor of Compute...
In an unprecedented act of blogging fanciness I decided to make a video documenting how I create the woodgrain texture (so thoroughly p...
This quilt made its way to me from Arizona. A gal is teaching this pattern (a Jacqueline de Jonge pattern) in a class at a community college and asked me to quilt it after seeing an article I wrote…
Have you considered working with your favorite color in your quilts? Today I'm sharing an ode to coral as featured in the Modern Aztec quilt.
Block Printed Indian Cotton Quilted Women's Jacket This beautiful pure cotton quilted jacket has an awesome design and color. It gives warm feel as well as dashing look Fabric: Pure Cotton We Add On Fabric Contrast Strip Color Type: Quilted Jacket with Kantha Work Available Sizes: S, M , L, XL, closure button We Have More Fabric Colors If You Want Choose Drop a Massage Please Note: Jacket Size is already Made Small Size Upper Side And In Video Small Size - Chest -37 inch Length- 20.5 inch Medium Size - Chest-39 inch Length- 20.5 inch Large Size - Chest- 41 Inch Length- 21 inch Shoulder -15.5 inch XL Size - Chest -43 inch Length - 21 Inch Shoulder-16 inch
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I am FINALLY able to post a progress report on my newest star quilt. I work best on a tight deadline and I desperately want this piece ...
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The modern quilt craze has hit Japan ! Here are some spectacular results from Japanese quilt artists. When the Sunset Crowns Mt. Fuji in ...
I still can’t get over how wonderful and beautiful the quilts from the Home Machine Quilting Show (HMQS) were. You can see pictures from Part 1 and Part 2, and today will be my final round of…
Am Anfang ist immer eine Idee oder eine Person der man was aus Dankbarkeit schenken möchte oder eine Kombination aus beidem... Bei diesem Quilt war es die Dankbarkeit für die Hilfbereitschaft meines Schwiegerpapa's. Ohne ihn würden unser Auto und auch meine Maschinen in meiner Buchbinderei nicht mehr funktionieren. Daher war es eigentlich schon lange an der Zeit für ihn einen Quilt zu nähen. Die Farben waren schnell klar. Blau und Grün... Das passt auch zu dem Quilt, den die Schwiegermama schon einige Jahre zuvor bekommen hat. Die frischen Farben aus der Blueberry Park Serie von Karen Lewis fand ich sehr passend, auch wenn auf einzelnen Stoffe weisse Blumen drauf sind. Die Schwiegermama liebt Blumen und hat auch überall in der Wohnung immer frische Blumen stehen. Daher finde ich geht dies auch für einen Männer-Quilt... In diesem Fall jedenfalls... *zwinker* Mit Hilfe des Super Side Kick Rulers von Jaybird Quilts habe ich Dreiecke zugeschnitten und nach dem Muster des Boomerang-Quilts zusammengenäht. Ich habe das Muster etwas abgeändert und noch weisse Streifen zwischen die einzelnen Rauten plaziert, damit der Quilt es luftiger wird als die Vorlage... An meiner Design-Wand habe ich alle Dreiecke aufgehängt und mal ein Foto gemacht. Das Foto hilft mir zu sehen, ob irgendwo ein Block oder in diesem Fall eine Raute umplaziert werden muss oder ob es stimmig ist... Bei zusammen nähen habe ich dann bemerkt, dass der Quilt, so wie ich ihn auf dem oberen Bild zusammengestellt hatte, zu breit wurde. So habe ich dann noch ein paar Rauten weggelassen... Mit Hilfe einer Plexiglasplatte hatte ich mir verschiedene Quiltmuster aufgezeichnet und wieder verworfen. Dies war dann das Muster, von dem ich dachte, das wäre es jetzt... Doch nachdem ich zwei Rauten gequiltet hatte, fand ich es gar nicht toll. Es war iritierend, da das Muster auf dem Stoff der Raute folgte und ich dies mit diesen Linie durchbrach. Das war mir zu unruhig und daher trennte ich alles wieder auf... Die Blasenkette rund um die Rauten durfte bleiben, doch innerhalb der Raute musste es ruhiger werden und daher quiltete ich bloss noch gerade Linien im Abstand von 1 inch... Hier hat sich wieder mal gezeigt, weniger ist mehr... Und damit ihr auch mal ein bewegtes Bild von mir seht, habe ich mich bei der letzten Reihe mit dem Zeitraffer gefilmt *lach* Viel Spass bei schauen...! Die letzte Reihe komplett gequiltet... Ich hoffe, ich konnte euch einen kleinen Einblick geben, wie bei mir ein Quilt entsteht... Bilder des fixfertigen Quilts werden in einem weiteren Post folgen... Bis dahin, machts gut iva verlinkt: creadienstag , modern patch monday & handmade on tuesday
Mexican Stars Quilt Piecing and curved quilt as easy as sewing a straight line. technique for using dimensional piecing to form the curves means there are no curves to piece. A folded triangle sewn be
Happy February everyone! We had a fabulous Nature Scape series of classes taught by Susan Damone Balch in January. Here are the students intent on piecing their projects. Here is Ruth's piece in progress... And here is Claire's Tulip... Truddie's...
This month's Ambassador Challenge for Island Batik is sponsored by one of our industry partners, Aurifil thread. We were sent a selection of weights and colours in our Ambassador box back in January, and an additional packet of thread arrived later this spring. It included these 3 spools of 40, 28, and 12 weight to be used in our challenge. Our instructions said, "Fabric is your canvas and Aurifil thread your paint! Create a one of a kind art quilt or project with Aurifil thread." This project took a great deal of thinking. Normally, we design to showcase the fabric but this time the thread needed to take centre stage. We had been sent cuts of solid colour batiks, and I decided to use the plain white as my background. I printed some New York Beauty blocks from EQ8 on plain white paper and started colouring in doodles with a box of markers to see if I could make this work. We all know if you can draw it, you can stitch it, so I pulled some of the same colours from my thread stash and set to work. This is my working sketch from EQ8; the blocks are drawn to 6". The only unappealing part of this project was tracing the block outlines onto my fabric. I wanted to get stitching, and this was going to slow me down!! My solution was to cut both freezer paper and the white batik into 9" x 12" pieces, and iron the freezer paper to the back of the fabric. It was then trimmed to 8-1/2" x 11" and fed through my printer. It was a super easy (lazy!) way to transfer the lines. I printed one block first as a test and did this much stitching before I decided it was going to work. (I'm not big on practicing!) The freezer paper was removed from the fabric and the blocks were joined with 1/4" seams as per regular patchwork. I used my favourite Hobbs wool batting for the middle, and another layer of white batik on the back. My bobbin was loaded with 50 weight Aurifil in 2024 white. To say this was fun is an understatement! I changed my needle as often as my thread, opting for a size 12/80 for my 50 weight, a 14/90 topstitch for the 40 and 28 weights, and a 16/100 topstitch for the 12 weight. The 12 weight thread fills in beautifully, even with just rows of straight stitching. The project took about 2 weeks to stitch, and I loved adding new bits every day. Below you can see how fine the 50 weight (purple) used in the swirl inside the spike, appears next to the 12 weight (black). For the white background bits, I simply stitched feathers in white 50 weight. I toss my emptied Aurifil spools into a container, so I fetched two to use as finials. They slid onto each end of a 3/8" dowel for the perfect finishing touch. In all, I used 26 different colours and 4 different weights of cotton thread. Thank you to Aurifil thread, Island Batik, and Hobbs Batting for supplying the products used in this challenge.
Cristina Arcenegui Bono discovered that she preferred the machine quilting to piecing quilts that opened a world of art to her.
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Wrap yourself up in this lightweight cotton robe made from 100% organic cotton and adorned with delicate hand embroidery for a textured touch. The removable waist tie, two roomy front pockets, and locker loop in the collar make for a customizable fit and easy hanging. This colorblock cotton robe, created with non-toxic dyes, is perfect for everyday lounging or at-home spa days, landing just below the knee for ultimate comfort. PRODUCT DETAILS: Materials: 2 layers of 100% organic cotton, grown & woven in India Featuring: 2 front patch pockets, lock loop at neck & removable waist tie belt Dyed with non-toxic & low-impact AZO-free dyes Handcrafted by a skilled woman artisan in Ajmer, India Features the hand-stitched signature of the maker on the tag
Oh, look, it's climbing a tree. ;) Welome to our second TGIFF! Party! Laura at Quokka Quilts and I think every finish deserves a party so we launched this touring TGIFF! Party. Laura hosted last week, I'm hosting this week's party, and Erin of Missy Mac Creations will be our hostess with the mostest next Friday. I know that I've totally milked this project with little peaks and teases so thank you for your indulgence! I think this is my favourite quilt to date. As far as I know, it's my original design. I qualify this statement because I look at so many quilts (obsessed, remember?) that I'm never quite sure if it's all mine or if I saw something somewhere similar and tucked it away in the back of my mind. If you've seen something similar, let me know and I'll gladly give the credit to whomever it belongs, if it's not me. For those of you who have been following for a while, you may remember that I started Project Y (interim name) back in June. I didn't think of this as Fall-like when I was staring summer in the face, but when I saw the A Fall Palette post by Rachel at Stitched in Color, something clicked. I didn't associate purple with Fall before, but now I sure do. Seeing that post also helped me think of a name, which for some reason was eluding me. Normally, names for my quilts come pretty easily. There have only been a few that stumped me and this was definitely one of them. I toyed with this name and that name. Someone suggested that I stick with Project Y, and I considered that for a while, but I just thought this one needed something more original. Once the Fall colour theme registered and as this was the first time that I worked with stripes like this and loved it, Falling for Stripes just seemed perfect! I paid much more attention to the quilting on this project. I'm still pretty new to free motion quilting (FMQ) and wanted to use it to accentuate the design as much as possible. Straight lines were in order, but in patterns. It was going to be a challenge to make straight lines without my walking foot! I took my time and used my trial quilting sheets to work out how each section would look. And I diligently tested out the threads on scrap fabrics. Then I mustered up the courage and went at 'er. I did it 'right' and didn't rush or wing it like I usually do, and I'm sooo happy with the results. Still doing the Happy Dance with this one. :) Okay, enough naddering. Here is Falling for Stripes. This is my quilt, just for me, for absolutely no purpose whatsoever. I'll probably use Falling for Stripes while reading and wearing my crazy skirt. :) Falling for Stripes - The Front Falling for Stripes - The Back Detail Shot of the FMQ Detail Shot of the FMQ Quiltography: “Falling for Stripes,” original design by Michèle-Renée Charbonneau, Ottawa, 36” by 47”, 2011. Other tidbits: Fabrics are shot cottons by Kaffe Fassett. Thread is Blendables by Sulky. And because I now do think this is Fall-appropriate, I will link up to Celebrate Color as well. I'm also linking up to Sew Modern Monday.
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I am so excited about going to QuiltCon in Austin. I signed up so long ago and can’t believe it’s just around the corner. Texas….here I come.In antici...
Crafting Magic Fabric Lookbook Crafting Magic by Maureen Cracknell. Constantly reinventing the boho style, Maureen Cracknell invites you on a magical journey through creative illustrations of majestic creatures, hand-drawn florals, and glistening colors.
Haze Kilim is one of my favorites from the Kaffe Fassett & Liza Prior Lucy book, "Simple Shapes; Spectacular Quilts." I made it one row longer to measure 72" wide and 90" long so it's a nice generous twin quilt or equally generous family room sofa throw. I found it makes a striking wall hanging for one of those two story stairwells too! I like to use strip piecing techniques so I calculated the sizes of the strips needed to make the large half square triangles (HST) with multiple strips (like Kaffe Fassett made his original) and to make the small HST's both using a triangle ruler. These calculations and tips are included in the kit! Below are the light triangles for the quilt pictured above. Below is a photo of the 20 fabrics (each 22" x 44") and heavy weight vinyl project bag included in the kit. It was quilted with So Fine in Red and a pantograph called "Dizzy" by Clothwerks. I used Banded Poppy in Carmine for the backing & Shot Cotton - Aegean for the binding. I think it's spectacular!
A postage stamp quilt is the perfect way to use up fabric scraps. Use it as a leader ender project or set down and sew it all at once.
It was pretty busy in “MY ROOM” this past week. Here are four of the quilts that spent some time on my longarm machine that I lovingly call Bessie. She’s my computerized girl an…
It's time to get back to my blogging routine. I lost my computer charger and now that we've spent $50+ to replace it, I'm back in business. Believe me, I could kick myself for that loss, but it's time to move on. That said, I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the darling little art quilts I found just before "the big loss." This one is especially unusual. You have to really look at it to see that the hibiscus in the center actually extends out to the edges of the quilt, even past the first frame or two. How unusual and artistic is that? from Murray Johnston Art Quilts Most of these seem to be smaller quilts, but it's difficult to tell the size exactly. That's one of the problems with Pinterest. Well, that and the missing or broken links. I can't believe that I was so gun-shy when I first discovered Pinterest and now I have couple of boards with 1000+ pins! I suppose I got over my trepidation. Go by and visit my "heart, quilts" board and take a look. And if you'd like to see even more pins of fine art paintings, visit my "fine art, masterpiece" board. Happy Pinning, Mary
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… you finish a quilt and you can’t quite believe it’s actually done! That very thing happened to me today. I put the final stitch in a quilt that has been on the go for at least a…
This is Ulrike’s stunning New York Beauty quilt and she said it took her 10 years to complete this top! It is made with all batik fabrics and batik backing. The blocks and border were all paper pieced and I love the blocks put on an angle creating stars in the sashing. The whole quilt is stitched in the ditch which took the most work and then I rolled it back and added the quilting designs. I did the same feather in the outer curve in all the blocks, added pebbles to some of the arcs and loops to others. It took me a while to figure out what to quilt in the sashing but finally came up with the petal curl design the fit in the space nicely. I have lots of pictures to share! The batting is Quilters Dream Blend and the threads are So Fine. When I posted a picture of the quilt top last week I had a lot of questions about stitch in the ditch and what threads so here is what I used. So Fine #456 is the magic gray green that I used on all the blocks, it blended very well with all the colors. I matched thread with the two purples in the sashing for that design element as I wanted the thread to blend in on the sashing. I also used a light beige for SID around the outer border spikes. When I stitch in the ditch I don’t always stitch in the ditch side. Depending on the thread I’m using and the final look I’m going for I sometimes will stitch on the high side of the ditch to keep the thread in the same color fabric as the thread. I did this in the outer border in the light beige fabrics as I wanted the colour spikes to really pop! But in the blocks themselves I just stitched on the low side of the ditch as I was quilting across so many colors it didn’t matter what color of fabric I was stitching in. Here is a better look at the thread I used. There were a few spots on the blocks where I switched to the light beige thread as the blocks had a very light background. And in these blocks I stitch on the high and low side so I stayed in the light fabric like I did in the outer border. So for me there is no hard fast rule about stitching in the ditch, I do what looks right to my eye. Also in this next picture you can see where I strayed from the side I was on and stitched in the darker colour, this happens and I don’t panic about it because when you look at the quilt as a whole you never see that! There were only a few times on this quilt where I was not happy with my stitching and picked out a line or two. So don’t stress too much when your stitching in the ditch, just take your time and don’t be over critical of it.
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I've taken a lot of pictures of vintage Crazy Quilts, but not very many modern day interpretations. I was especially happy to see 2 contemporary CQ versions at the Arizona Quilters Guild show. All Creatures Large and Small by Gerlinde Hruzek won First Place in the "Other" category. This artist used so many mediums in the making of her quilt: Needlepoint, embroidery, applique, crochet and ribbon work to name a few. The far away picture just does not give justice to how wonderful this quilt really is. The close up shots give a much better visual. Look at the imagination and variety! Someday I would really like to make a Crazy Quilt. (Maybe it's because I'm a little crazy?) These pictures bring wonderful inspiration. I could have stared for hours to visually absorb all there was to see. It almost felt a little bit like an I-Spy quilt. Do you spy 3 cats? Or a fish? Imagination made and quilted by Sheila Groman Sheila wrote "Imagination is a fanciful Crazy Quilt created with applique, standard and silk embroidery, ribbon, lace, heirloom gloves, needlepoint, crewel, beads, cross-stitch, and tatting." Whew! Yes, I'd say Imagination is a perfect title.
On peut venir du même pays, le Japon, et explorer le textile de façon bien différente... Fumiko Nakayama , amoureuse des Molas, et ses tableaux de grande taille créés avec beaucoup de minutie et de couleurs: Tomie Nagano et ses somptueux quilts indigos...
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The Jen Kingwell Gypsy Wife Sew-along kicks off next week (August 3) and I thought it would be a good...
