(Anonymous and Me Series #2)
Hand quilted on shiboried fabric. I have taken classes in shibori technique & indigo dyeing but I did not create the fabric used in this piece, which I quilted to batting and a backing fabric. The fabric, found in a resale shop, started out all white, was stitched & gathered by hand, then dipped inContinue reading “The Art of Shibori
(Anonymous and Me Series #2)
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Jan Sneesby Aaron
Paper pieced, machine pieced; longarm quilted by Debbie Bookman. A wedding gift for a delightful young couple. I watched her grow from a “little tomboy” to a beautiful young woman.
Jan Sneesby Aaron
Paper pieced. Longarm quilted by Debbie Bookman. Over my many years of quiltmaking, my scrap collection is endless. I keep trying to reduce the amount but never quite make a dent. There are well over 100 different blue fabrics in this quilt and I still have more than enough to make at least one moreContinue reading “Stripping the Blues No. 2
Jan Sneesby Aaron
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Mario Alonso
Stack-n-Whack technique – machine pieced – machine quilted. The Beach Balls quilt was a class taught by Jan Aaron (IQI) using the Magic Stack-n-Whack Quilts book by Reynolds. All the Beach Balls are cut from one fabric and the pattern is different for each one depending on where you cut from. This quilt has beenContinue reading “Beach Balls
Mario Alonso
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Mario Alonso
Machine pieced, designed and quilted by me. Used Twister tool. Quilters all have left over fabric and this one was last year’s quilt “Dot-Dash”. I used the Twister tool I had laying around to try something new. With still some fabric I made my own design for the back which can also be the front,Continue reading “Dot-Dash Two
Mario Alonso
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Melanie Anderson
Machine pieced and quilted. This technique is called “One Block Wonder”. Virtually the entire quilt is made from a single fabric, cut into equilateral triangles.
Melanie Anderson
Machine pieced and quilted. I was greatly influenced a few years ago by a fellow quilter’s use of topographical maps to create quilts. This is my second, and for a dear woman for whom this is her center.
Sue Babbs
Hand & machine stitched, beaded, hand-dyed silk ribbon embroidery on photograph printed on fabric. Photograph had been altered in Photoshop. This photograph was taken on a sunny day in 2014 when we visited Firs National Plaza with the friend who introduced me to bobbin lace-making, to show her where my husband worked. [Part of theContinue reading “Fountain at First National Plaza
Sue Babbs
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Sue Babbs
Hand embroidered & beaded purse made in February class with Diane Hyde at NSNG. Diane Hyde provided us with already pieced front and back panels to bead, embroider & embellish as we wished. Her instructions for assembly were amazingly clear and well produced.
