City Scape 1.0

Virginia Cruz Carlson

Free motion Machine sketching & paint & color pencil. When looking at architecture – wouldn’t it be great if we could see the light in the grayest of places?

Birds in the Garden

Georgia Cibul

Machine pieced by Georgia Cibul. Machine quilted by Sue DiVarco. I loved doing this quilt because the fabric was so beautiful. The feeling of this quilt is that of peace and tranquility.

Chestnuts & Vine

Georgia Cibul

Hand applique, machine piecing by Georgia Cibul. Machine quilted by Sue DiVarco. This quilt was a 6 month project from Pieceful Gatherings Quilt Shop. It was fun to do except for the many, many leaves. They took forever to do.

Napkin Exchange

Beth Coughlin

Hand-woven in rosepath, twill, birdseye, and huck lace. Three napkins were created as part of a napkin exchange among six weavers. Each weaver wove designed and wove napkins, which were exchanged and used at a luncheon with the five other weavers.

Bowties

Lynn Dykstra Davis

Machine pieced & quilted. Made with fabrics from my mother, 80 years of sewing scraps. Quilted by Sue DiVarco.

Spools

Lynn Dykstra Davis

Machine pieced & quilted. Made with fabrics from my mother, 80 years of sewing scraps. Quilted by Sue DiVarco.

Catching the Brass Ring

Chris Deering

Machine pieced, appliqued and quilted. Hand work for embellishments. Our guild challenge included 5 fabrics which we were to use. When I saw the the striped fabric I immediately pictured a zebra – so here it is!

Red Earth

Chris Deering

Machine pieced and custom machine quilted. My very own design resulting from a workshop with Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. The fabrics were bought on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Australia and I wanted to have a very special design.

Checkerboard Flowers

Chris Deering

Hand appliqued and custom machine quilted. The hand applique took a long time – this was my carry-around project for a couple years. The quilting was a challenge (the cross hatching) and ufun (the custom work in each block).

Feathered Star Medallion

Chris Deering

Machine pieced and custom machine quilted. This was The Quilt Show’s Block of the Month in 2009. But there were so many pieces I didn’t get mine done until 2012!

Leopard and Old Lace

Chris Deering

Machine pieced and quilted. Made from a single piece of cloth from a book called “One Block Wonders”. Lots of fun playing with color and design but it takes a long time to piece.

Working Dogs

Suzanne Ditsler

Wire – needle felting – sewing In this piece the “Working Dog” is depicted as “playing”, “dancing”, :walking” or loving their prey – rather than “working it”.

Tree Hugger

Suzanne Ditsler

Needle felting, wire, beads Birch trees are a favorite. The image of a tree, blowing leaves and all one delicate color – makes me smile.

Penny Totems

Suzanne Ditsler

Felted wool – sewn – wire – embroidery. I love the geometry of the penny rug. I am also intrigued by the totem poles. The two together provide an interesting image.

Ring around the Posie

Sue DiVarco

Round Robin Challenge – machine piecing, hand applique, longarm quilting, embellished with buttons & yo-yo’s My 6 quilt bee friends challenged ourselves to do a Round Robin. Each made a Center block of our own choice of design & fabric, then sent it around the group, secretly. Following these design rules: Row 1 – triangles

Tisket A Tasket

Sue DiVarco

Wool applique, machine pieced, longarm quilting, needlefelted wool My first wool applique project so I experimented with different types of wool. The background is wool coating – most wool scraps were purchased, but some I needlefelted from roving.

Community Jigsaw

Lonnie Dunlap

Machine pieced; machine quilted. I have been a member of Northwestern University Circle Piecemakers for over 10 years. Our group meets monthly to work on quilts which we donate to local organizations, such as, The Harbour, Housing Options in Evanston, Evanston/North Shore YWCA, and Northwestern Settlement House families. When planning for these three quilts, ourContinue reading “Community Jigsaw

Lonnie Dunlap

Overserved: Whites

Mary Jo Eckhart

Two holes were drilled in each cork which were then sewn together with Perle cotton using a variation of the beading stitch Right Angle Weave. This piece is made up of more than 1200 white wine corks, which were collected over 30 years. No, I did not drink all that wine.