Playing with Scraps
I’ve always been a scrap quilter at heart. From my earliest log cabin quilts decades ago, I’ve enjoyed pulling out the leftover strips and strings and turning them into something interesting. Inspired by my friend Susan Lapham’s scrap quilts in the month of January, I decided to gift myself some time to play this week.…
Challenge Accepted!
When I saw the fabrics selected for the QuiltCon 2024 fabric challenge, I knew I needed to accept the challenge. Purples and blues with lime green–what’s not to like? Windham and QuiltCon offered a free fat eighth bundle of the fabrics to the first 500 people who asked for them, so I threw my name…
“Supernova” in Process
I’m working on something I rarely do–revisit an older piece and create something new. A few years ago, I made a quilt called Fireflies using a combination of bright reds, oranges, and yellows, plus dull burgundy and gold, with a black background. It sold last year, and I found that I missed it. Here’s the…
New Freehand Curves Top in Progress
I’ve been playing with oversized freehand cut curves for the last several years–cutting the curves without patterns or templates, using my rotary cutter as a drawing tool. The blocks are created individually, with each curve cut on its own. Then I add fun elements like insets, wonky triangles, confetti pops, skinny lines, and “fried egg”…
Working on a New Series
I’ve been working for the last several months on a new set of quilts with a very different aesthetic than I’ve used in the past. Sometimes these experiments don’t really turn into anything, but I have hopes for this one! The most recent one is Unfurling, pictured below. This is so far my favorite. It’s…
Starting a New Series
Over the past year, I’ve been playing with the idea of large multiple cut curved blocks. The motif is simple–take a stack of blocks and cut random curves out of three of the four corners, shuffle the blocks and sew. Red Scarf, above, was the first one. I made it in grayscale to see if…
Blooming is Finished!
I’ve been working on a new large wall hanging for the last several months. It’s finished and I can finally share it! The plan was to try and combine my love of Improv Blocks and large scale freehand cut curves. I started with a group of Improv Blocks that used mostly bright solids and a few…
Creating “Picasso’s Chickens”
I’d like to take you through the creation of my newest quilt, Picasso’s Chickens. This one went through a number of variations, mostly because I’ve been at home and able to really sit with my designs until all of the niggling issues are resolved. This one was in process for nearly five months. One of…
Old Favorite Finished
It is a crazy time. I hope you are safe and well. I’ve been having trouble concentrating on anything new, even though I have a list of things I want to do, so I went back to this old favorite Amish style Double Nine Patch. I started it about 20 or 25 years ago and…