Machine pieced. Machine quilted by Maureen Mosher, Quilters Heaven. I had enough fabric from a kit to make it larger (twin size) and used all remaining strips on the back and in the binding.
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Woven Bands No. 1Bobbi Shorlidge
Hand woven double weave on a computerized dobby loom. Thick and thin yarns. Black and white yarns. My “Woven Bands Series” deals with illusion. From afar, each piece reads as many narrow bands woven separately, weaving over and under each other. Upon a closer look, one sees that I have woven a “tromp l’oeil illusion”–Continue reading “Woven Bands No. 1
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Woven Bands No. 2Bobbi Shorlidge
Hand woven double weave on a computerized dobby loom. Thick and thin yarns. Black and white yarns. My “Woven Bands Series” deals with illusion. From afar, each piece reads as many narrow bands woven separately, weaving over and under each other. Upon a closer look, one sees that I have woven a “tromp l’oeil illusion”–Continue reading “Woven Bands No. 2
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Woven Bands No. 3Bobbi Shorlidge
Hand woven double weave on a computerized dobby loom. Thick and thin yarns. Black and white yarns. My “Woven Bands Series” deals with illusion. From afar, each piece reads as many narrow bands woven separately, weaving over and under each other. Upon a closer look, one sees that I have woven a “tromp l’oeil illusion”–Continue reading “Woven Bands No. 3
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Woven Bands No. 4Bobbi Shorlidge
Hand woven double weave on a computerized dobby loom. Thick and thin yarns. Black and white yarns. My “Woven Bands Series” deals with illusion. From afar, each piece reads as many narrow bands woven separately, weaving over and under each other. Upon a closer look, one sees that I have woven a “tromp l’oeil illusion”–Continue reading “Woven Bands No. 4
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Woven Bands No. 5Bobbi Shorlidge
Hand woven double weave on a computerized dobby loom. Thick and thin yarns. Black and white yarns. My “Woven Bands Series” deals with illusion. From afar, each piece reads as many narrow bands woven separately, weaving over and under each other. Upon a closer look, one sees that I have woven a “tromp l’oeil illusion”–Continue reading “Woven Bands No. 5
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Splendor in a Stack ‘n Whack SamplerAngel Sidor
Machine pieced and quilted. Made from a class at Quilter’s Heaven.
Asian MotionAngel Sidor
Machine pieced and quilted I bought the pattern at the Rosemont show. The quilt was made from fat quarters.
Hues of Blue and Chartreuse, TooAmy Spungen
Machine pieced and quilted. This is a sampler quilt from the book “Stack-n-Whackipedia” by Bethany Reynolds. Debbie Bookman taught the technique during a summer workshop at Quilter’s Heaven.
Sunflower WallhangingRuth Stegmeyer
Machine pieced and machine quilted. Hand dyed fabric by Frieda Anderson. The design elements were fused together, then cut out. The sunflower wall hanging was started in a 2004 Frieda Anderson workshop. I finally competed it in 2009. The piece is machine quilted.
Crown of Thorns quiltRuth Stegmeyer
Hand and machine pieced; hand and machine quilted. The Crown of Thorns quilt was hand pieced between 1993 and 1995. I started hand quilting this year, finishing in August.
IQI’s Challenge / Fancy CatRuth Stegmeyer
Machine applique and machine quilted. The wall hanging was made for IQI’s 2009 challenge.
HeronsTracy McCabe Stewart
Hand dyed silks and cottons, commercial cottons, machine quilted. I have always had a fascination with herons. This quilt is the first in a series exploring their images.
2008 Quilt-In Friendship QuiltFay Stickler
Exchange of signatures and block squares machine sewn; longarm quilted by Sue DiVarco. A great reminder of my first Quilt-In. I used the exchange blocks to enhance the signatures. Then used red to set on-point each signature.
Butterfly GirlFay Stickler
“Fussycut” girl squares. Machine pieced and machine quilted. I spent so much time and energy “fussy cutting” the girl squares that when it came time to quilt,
Copper LeafKathleen V. Stuart
Fused fabics for background. Leaf was made by longarm quilting on dissolve fusible with copper metallic thread. I’m trying to step out of my box and try my hand at art quilting. I golf and saw a leaf like this on the course. I went home and decided to see if I could “quilt” one.
Shabby ChicKathleen V. Stuart
Wholecloth on silk dupioni quilted with metallic thread and wool batting. I love wholecloth quilts and silk fabric, so this is an example of how to have both! I’m still working out the problems of working with silk and metallic. This quilt won a teacher’s award at MQS in Kansas City, 2009.
Batiki Island ParadiseRachel Sychowski
Machine pieced and machine quilted. During the winter, I dreamed of vacationing in the Caribbean. Instead, I stayed home and made a quilt.