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Pieced & fused. Most of this quilt was done with my wrist in a cast.

Free motion quilting, beads, decorative buttons. This vest began as three rectangles of fabric. We developed our own patterns and ideas for finishing.

Technique Free motion quilting, bargello piecing, commercial appliqués. My garden doesn’t look anything like this. Next year I resolve to work harder.

Template-free cutting and piecing. The inspiration for this quilt was the border fabric. It reminded me of the city and the buildings covered in windows.

Machine quilted (free motion); machine pieced. I made this quilt to hang on the big blank wall at the end of the cathedral ceiling in my living room.

Machine quilted, hand painted & stamped This quilt was part of the NSNG Challenge “Pathways.”

Hand dyed (disperse dyes), machine quilted With disperse dyes, you paint the dyes on to paper and transfer the dye to fabric with a heat press. This piece (which was layered with leaves) is one piece of fabric (with the exception of the 3-D leaves) and was a very welcome surprise to me when IContinue reading “Autumn Wind

Gale Wessel

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Machine pieced & quilted on a longarm machine This quilt was designed to hang in my foyer on a big bare wall.

Hand stitching, couching, crewel embroidery, few beads. I made this piece of crewel embroidery back in the 1970s from a kit. For forty years I’ve been trying to think of what to do with it until this challenge forced me to make it work.