Exhibition Year Archives

Summer Fun at Lake Geneva

Paula Nathan

Machine quilted, hand painted, appliqué, machine and hand embroidery. I have been creating fabric quilts for over thirty years. Some of the media I’ve used to add texture and color to white fabric include acrylic and fabric paints, oil crayons, colored pencils, Sculpey, and embroidery floss.

Summer Reading

Paula Nathan

Machine quilted, hand painted, appliqué, machine and hand embroidery, original stenciling. I have been creating fabric quilts for over thirty years. Some of the media I’ve used to add texture and color to white fabric include acrylic and fabric paints, oil crayons, colored pencils, digital printing and embroidery floss.

Hawaiian Flowers

Carole Naughton

Machine quilted; hand sashiko appliquéd, machine pieced. The beauty of the flowers against the dark blue fabric & enhanced by the sashiko drew me to make this involved quilt.

Stars in the Sky

Carole Naughton

Machine pieced. Love learning to make the bias tape and appliquéing it to the fabric. Each quilt I choose is always a source of challenge and it expands my quilting technique.

QR Code

Rhonda Newman

Machine pieced. Quilted by Barbara Deletzke. This QR Code Quilt goes to my website. Check it out!

Rhonda Newman

Bead crochet. Necklaces and bracelets crocheted into a tube and then decorations added.

Chartreuse & Purple Squared

Pat Niffenegger

Machine pieced & quilted. Using the flower fabric as inspiration & two favorite colors (chartreuse & purple) in mostly batik fabrics, I pieced the quilt. It was quilted by Debbie Bookman.

Art Saves (Anonymous and Me Series #3)

Pat Niffenegger

Machine pieced, hand and machine quilted, embellished with buttons & vintage crocheted potholder. This is the third in a series of wall hanging-size quilts using a crafted piece created by another person. I found the face potholder in an antique shop & was intrigued by the maker’s ingenuity.

If You Ask Me

Pat Niffenegger

Fused, machine pieced & quilted. I love to use words as part of my art. This was my first attempt to use fusing as a technique, learned in a class by Chris Kirsch in Minocqua, WI several years ago.

Sirius Fun

Stephanie Nordlin

Machine appliqué, pieced, decorative stitched and quilted. Original design matching game for children with my signature Slash’n’Switch method and decorative stitching

Summer in the Birchwood

Stephanie Nordlin

Oat flour resist, dye painted, painted, fusible appliqué, beaded, machine quilted. My inspiration was a photo I took last fall outside this building. Learned to detail the birches in a workshop by Denise Havlan

Blue Garden

Katie Ordover

Machine pieced; machine quilted. All quilters have in their fabric stash prints they love but are difficult to incorporate into a piece. I was inspired by a pattern by Heather Mulder Peterson and finally able to use some of this crazy floral print.

Emerald Key

Katie Ordover

Machine pieced; machine quilted. This is the inspiration for the Illinois Quilters’ Guild 2015/2016 Challenge. It was fun to cut and sew and I can’t wait to make more!

Storm

Katie Ordover

Machine pieced; machine quilted. I love the blue and gray fabrics in this piece. It reminds me of Lake Michigan during a storm.

“12 Tribes”, “Jerusalem of Gold”, “Shoah”

Beth Polonsky

Machine pieced, appliqué, painted silk, hand dyed cotton, hand beaded, hand embroidery, machine quilted. As a gift to Congregation Beth Judea, a Conservative synagogue in Long Grove, Illinois, I, along with my friend Ronna Leibach, created seven new Torah Mantles, three of which are shown here. Ronna painted all the beautiful silk fabrics used inContinue reading ““12 Tribes”, “Jerusalem of Gold”, “Shoah”

Beth Polonsky

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