Artist Maria Shell is incredibly talented, and making stripes with solid fabrics is one of her signature techniques that you can master, too!
20" x 20"
The Common Thread Symposium hosted by the North Carolina State University College of Design’s Department of Art+Design is on November 6-7 , 2015 ( find out more here ). I am one of the featured artists.
I'm so excited to share that the NEW Upscale Plaid quilt pattern is now available! Believe it or not, this design was born out of the quest to create the perfect holiday coaster. Yep, you read that right, haha. Last year, Elizabeth (our fearless Creative Project Manager) and I were brainstorming ideas for a plaid coaster and we landed on an idea that we just HAD to turn into a full size quilt. Over the last few months, we've been tweaking, fine tuning and perfecting the scale and pattern until we created what you see today. Friends, I present to you the newest Lo & Behold pattern, Upscale Plaid! There are so many things to talk about with this quilt. It's difficult to know where to start! How about the sizes, shall we? QUILT SIZES There are seven (you read that right) SEVEN sizes in the Upscale Plaid quilt pattern. Coaster, which is really more of a mug-rug sizes (6.5
YOUMIKA - Solid Color Bed Skirt Quilt Cover Four Piece Set French Lace Bow knot Dormitory Home Bed Sheet Quilt Cover Bedspread Bedding Product name: Solid matte four piece setFabric: BrushedProcess: Reactive printing and dyeingplease buy according to the recommended size. Suitable bed quilt cover bed skirt pillowcase 1.5M bed 200x230cm 150x200cm 48x74cm 2pcs 1.8M bed 200x230cm 180x200cm 48x74cm 2pcs 2.0M bed 200x230cm 200x200cm 48x74cm 2pcs
~~ Material~~ Front Material: 100% Cotton Fabric Back Material: 100% Cotton Fabric Batting: 200 GSM 100% Cotton Sheet Washing Instruction Special Care: Normal gentle machine wash when needed, line dry in the shade (do NOT tumble dry), and Warm iron as needed. 1) Hand washable with mild detergent and normal water. And do not dry in direct sunlight. OR 2) Gentle machine wash with normal water and low tumble dry. And do not dry in direct sunlight. Custom Orders: We accept the customized orders These quilts are hand stitched by local artisan in Pink City Jaipur, India, which may result rare uneven edges or loose thread. Colors of threads may be different from pictures above. However, this adds to the character and beauty of the kantha products and makes them unique and one of a kind. Note :- Actual colors may vary from those shown due to the nature of photographing and monitor color settings.
On 3 August Nicole Calver (of Snips Snippets) and I will be kicking off the Jen Kingwell’s Gypsy Wife Quilt Sew-along. Jen...
Learn how to make a wholecloth quilt with this step-by-step photo tutorial that includes tips for Kantha-style stitching!
Next chapter of solo travel in France... I leave Honfluer on the west coast of France and take a high speed TGV train into Paris' Gare St. Lazarre. There are five train stations in Paris, each with transportation to and from certain regions, so I need to get from Gare St. Lazarre to Gare L'Est so I can make my way east to the town of Colmar, my base for the European Patchwork Festival. I decided to walk between the two stations. (Since people have asked, I travel with a medium sized backpack with a change of clothes for three days. It's light enough and easy to navigate all the stairs, cobblestones, etc.) The beauty, charm, and history often takes my breath a way! A brief down pour. I take refuge under an awning of a tea shop for fifteen minutes. These three French pigeons take their own refuge! Time to keep walking. This is the big shopping area of Lafayette. Finally, I make it in time for my train! I find this magazine in the newspaper stand. I take it as confirmation that I am where I am supposed to be! "ici and maintenant" translates to "here and now". LOVE that! I am up early the next morning and leave for the Patchwork festival. Here's my hotel in Colmar. My single room is up in the attic! It's a taxi ride, to the train, to a bus ride, through delightful landscape. Hooray! I get right down to business and look through the small market first. Ha! Liberty fabric! Drum roll please... patchwork! The quilts are spread out through four charming towns with a free shuttle running between them. It took me a full eight hours to make it from one end to the other. Quilts are displayed in churches, halls, store fronts, community buildings. All four towns are saturated with quilts and quilters! These two ladies took advantage of the crowds and set up a lunch stand. Look at the size of that loaf! My sandwich and nutella muffin were delicious! OK, back to more patchwork... LOVE this one! This was a group quilt. I really enjoy quilts when the humor shines through. Unfortunately, I start to realize I am going to run out of battery power for my camera. I apologize for not photographing all the artist's names! This one is for you LeeAnn! And then my battery dies! I spend a few minutes feeling crabby and mad at my self. Then I let it go and really enjoy just looking and being in the moment with the quilts. It becomes a nice balance of having camera/tourist syndrome and being an awake and present human! Great show, wonderful experience, completely unique. I just love thinking of other nutty/addicted/creative ladies worldwide expressing themselves through patchwork! C'est manifique
PURE Solids by Suzy Quilts for Art Gallery Fabrics: A beautiful collection of poplin fabric perfect for quilting!
See the Seashore Drive & Emma Bella Solids Coordinates so you can combine beautiful solids with these fabric collections.
The Goldie Quilt Pattern is available now! I am back with my next Goldie Quilt sample which also happens to be MY FAVORITE QUILT OF THE YEAR! Yes, that's right. I am so in love with this quilt. So far I have shared my Baby Goldie and my Ruby Star Society Basics Goldie. Today we are going to talk about this bright happy
PURE Solids by Suzy Quilts for Art Gallery Fabrics: A beautiful collection of poplin fabric perfect for quilting!
Here are some details from the 'Early to Bed' exhibition at the Welsh Quilt Centre. It closed on Saturday, so if you didn't get to visit, you've missed it. The exhibition catalogue is available by mail order, as are the catalogues from the previous exhibitions - worth having. The quilt shown above, from Llandeilo, which is shown in Janet Rae's book 'Quilts of the British Isles'. I didn't take a photo of the whole quilt, because it's in the book, so please cross refer with your copy to see the whole thing. I like the tiny pieces in the centre grading out to larger pieces towards the edge, and the completely busy appearance of all those prints. There are some very early fabrics in this quilt. This quilt, made from military cloth, includes early khaki uniform cloth. It has a more innovative, random style, similar in feeling to the coverlet made by James Williams of Wrexham (scroll down my blog link to see photos) but in an even more lively style. This patchwork top is a very playful and irregular take on a medallion arrangement. It seems like an early hint of some of the 'modern quilt' pieces being made today. The fabrics used to piece the squares are graded, with darker pieces at the bottom, almost an early colourwash. This patchwork is made from flannel shirtings, with the stripes going in every direction and very simple quilting. Tailors' sample quilt, showing fabric details. Detail of the tailors' quilt Glyn is looking at in my previous post, showing that bold red stitching. Another tailors' quilt, with very simple quilting but wonderful value contrasts, also shown in my previous post but with an extra detail photo below. Details from the quilts displayed in the central 'enclosure'. Quilts from the right hand wall. These have typical Welsh quilting designs, with spirals and fans etc. The Sennybridge quilt, a well known design partly thanks to being used as the poster quilt for Festival of Quilts a few years ago, is much more simply quilted. Unlike many Welsh quilts, the quilting design on this one seems to have been fitted into the patchwork design. Perhaps I could use any oddments of red and black check from Glyn's kilt to make something like this? There were some very interesting textured weaves in this block based quilt, beautifully accented with red flannel. I love the random strips and the plaids on point in this. The fancy stitching on this crazy quilt suggests much later abstract embroideries from the 1960s. Subtle touches of plaids in an otherwise dark palette. An early C19th patchwork in many brown fabrics - and in very good condition for its age, as brown/black prints are very prone to rot from the iron mordant in the dye. Aren't the blocks of colour beautiful in this? It was hung very high and this was the best photo I could manage. I am sure I have seen this quilt exhibited before, perhaps at Llanidloes. It might surprise quilters today that anyone would attempt to piece such an intricate design in thick wools, but the fabric is a big part of the charm here. We finished off our visit with a good look through the shop and bought the exhibition catalogue so we can browse the quilts all over again. I would have liked to stay much longer, but we could only have a very short visit because of our schedule - setting up World Textile Day on the other side of Bristol that afternoon. We were both glad we'd made the effort to drive that bit further to Lampeter on this trip, otherwise we wouldn't have had the chance to see the exhibition - 540 miles. Now I'm looking forward to next year's exhibition, which will feature wholecloth quilts. The Welsh Quilt Centre makes great reuse of an old building and getting there by car is relatively easy from south or mid Wales. Next time I want to explore the town as well.
For a new grand baby that is! And I for one, can not wait!! For those not following along I’ve previously rambled about the fabric selection, bumpers duvet cover… here, here and here. T…
The Northwest Star Quilt Pattern is fat quarter friendly and a great pattern to work on your scant 1/4 inch seam. Advanced beginner quilters will love this pattern. Read about this quilt Shelby made using Modern Handcraft's curated bundle from Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
I have always had an interest in Frank Lloyd Wright and have admired his vast and varied accumulation of work. I like to make different types of quilts so I thought it would be fun to make a quilt using inspiration from Frank. I love his stained glass windows made for the Avery Coonley playhouse in Riverside, Illinois in 1912. Some of these windows are displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is my Frank Lloyd Wright inspired quilt. I have titled it Happy42. This was my inspiration. Designing The Quilt I took photos as I made this quilt. Proof for myself that an idea can turn into beauty. Or as Frank once said, "An idea is salvation by inspiration." And so my journey began with a 3 inch grid the size of my desired quilt. I gathered the tools to make this quilt: fabric, glue, iron, thread, scissors, and Mt. Dew. Once the color placement felt right I added the 1/4" biased tape. I made the quilt in quadrants so that I could manage them easier. When the left top and bottom where done I sewed them together. I hung the left panel on a wall for awhile so I could judge the balance of colors. I was then ready to work on the right side. Laying the right side next to the left side I could get the correct length. I wanted the two sides to interlock so that there would be no obvious connection seams. Making the lines straight at the beginning was one of my biggest priorities. When both sides were completed I pinned them together, fan folded them, then sewed them together. Once the two sides were sewn together, I added biased tape to cover my seams. Quilting The Quilt It was finally time to quilt my quilt. I chose to place an 80/20 cotton poly blend and a 100% cotton batting in the quilt. Why two layers? I wanted definition for the quilting. I started with stitch in the ditch. Then I added long lines in the white areas. I varied the width to keep it interesting. In the colored areas I sewed fun fills to add a playful look. When every inch of the quilt was quilted I blocked it so it would be nice and square. The binding was the last step. I spent about 200+ hours making my Frank Lloyd Wright inspired quilt. Was it worth it? I think so. Thank you Frank Lloyd Wright for the inspiration!
