Exhibition Year Archives

Mystery Mistake Quilt

Nell Thorpe

Machine sewn and quilted. This is a good example of a quilt pattern gone wrong! And we quilters know that even if 2 wrongs don’t make a right, 7 or 8 wrongs can make a new quilt pattern. (Almost half the circle centers face the wrong way).

What the Birds See

Ann Wasserman

Machine applique, machine quilting. This quilt is made from samples of decorator fabrics. The design is a bird’s eye view of the English Walled Garden here at the Botanic Garden.

Crewel Garden

Gale Wessel

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.

Happy Quilts

Hedy Wessel

Machine pieced, machine quilted, all 100% cotton. When I saw a photo of a quilt with similar diamond shaped pieces on the internet, I decided to make one myself and used left-over pieces of fabric from other projects and picked out colors that would make a ‘happy’ quilt. I added the side pieces as aContinue reading “Happy Quilts

Hedy Wessel

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Birds of Film

Hedy Wessel

Machine pieced, machine quilted, all 100% cotton. My son’s trip to Alaska inspired these two ‘birds on film’ hangings. He saw a large quilt on display at a quilt shop there and was impressed with the black and white borders (35 mm film strips) around the pictures. He took a photo of that quilt andContinue reading “Birds of Film

Hedy Wessel

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