Machine pieced. Quilted by Debbie Bookman. This piece was inspired by the work of Kitty Pippen. It was quilted by Debbie Bookman.
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Blue Moon
StarburstEdrene Heiss
Paper pieced – longarm quilted by Debbie Bookman. Deb Karasick was our January speaker. This is one of her patterns. Quilted by Debbie Bookman.
Lesley’s DaylilliesEdrene Heiss
Hand and machine pieced. Quilted by Debbie Bookman. This quilt is primarily hand-pieced. Quilted by Debbie Bookman. The pattern is featured in Jinny Beyer’s book “Quilting by Hand”.
FireflyLucy Hill
Machine and hand quilted. Paper pieced.
NavajoLucy Hill
Strip piecing & stitched in the ditch.
Cosmic SpiralLucy Hill
Machine quilted – paper pieced.
Pink and Brown Scrappy StarsJudy Hillebrand
Machine pieced by me and quilted on a Gammill long arm machine by Dawn Larsen, Vernon Hills, IL. This quilt pattern, “Scraps and Stars”, was offered as a Block of the Month at A Touch of Amish in Barrington. I decided to use fabrics from my own voluminous stash, but wanted to see how theContinue reading “Pink and Brown Scrappy Stars
Judy Hillebrand
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1930’s Scrappy StarsJudy Hillebrand
Machine pieced by me and quilted on a Gammill long arm machine by Dawn Larsen, Vernon Hills, IL. This quilt pattern, “Scraps and Stars”, was offered as a Block of the Month at A Touch of Amish in Barrington. I decided to use fabrics from my own voluminous stash, but wanted to see how theContinue reading “1930’s Scrappy Stars
Judy Hillebrand
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Asian FansLinda Howard
Hand and machine pieced. Longarm quilted by Maureen O’Connor at Quilter’s Heaven (Northbrook). Many leftover Asian fabrics from a previous FAOF raffle quilt were used for the “fans”. But the border fabric was my inspiration.
Moonlight PuzzleII
IQI Machine applique, machine quilted. I was inspired by the full moon’s awesome piecing of light and shadow on my garden.
A Japanese InspirationAlice Jenks
Polymer clay tube created with Mokume Gane technique. Kumihimo (Japanese braiding with a special device) strand was woven with a variegated thread in clear glass beads. Mokume Gane is a technique that was used by Japanese metalsmiths to imitae woodgrain. It first came to the attention of polymer clay artists in Nan Roche’s book “TheContinue reading “A Japanese Inspiration
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Phoenix Rising from a Polymer BaseAlice Jenks
Polymer clay with quilting-type designs on the background. Started in an NSNG polymer clay workshop with Christi Friesen. The swirls in the background are very quilt-like. Beads were added using wire or thread.
I Spy a Pair of TwinsAlice Jenks
Machine pieced and machine quilted by me. This is the third quilt I’ve made using this pattern from a class led by Judy Gould at an IQI Quilt-In sometime in the 1980’s. It was made for my son, JR, and his wife, Kara, and now also for their twins, Emerson Lee and Riley James JenksContinue reading “I Spy a Pair of Twins
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Moonlight PuzzleKathy Jurevicius
Machine applique, machine quilted. I was inspired by the full moon’s awesome piecing of light and shadow on my garden.
Bird of ParadiseChan Soon Kang
Painting on silk. Pretty as the flower is, it called bird of paradise. It is delightful, brilliant, joyful flower.
Felted LampDonna Koranek
Lamp shade is wet felted with silk, flax and wool nubs embedded in fiber. This lamp was made during a workshop at NSNG. The cutaway at the bottom was made by placing wool nubs under silk chiffon, a resist ober that then covered in wool. The piece was wet felted, the frame is embedded inContinue reading “Felted Lamp
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Dolphin DanceLaurie Korte
Fused applique, thread couching, netted layers. “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life”. William Faulkner
Ebb TidePat Kroth
Hand-dyed cotton fabric, mixed content fiber fragments, tulle. Threads, cords, ribbons. Heat bonded applique, machine stitched. Inspired by a winter walk on South Padre Island.