Machine pieced, hand quilted. Made for my granddaughter, Ursula’s, 10th birthday.
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The Button Quilt
Bow Tie VariationDiana Burrows
Machine pieced and quilted. Bow tie squares made by person(s) unknown, Assembled and quilted by Diana Burrows.
Global Warning & EnigmaDiana Burrows
Fusing and smushing with Elmer’s glue & water mixture. Sun so hot the glaciers are melting. The water is so high only the highest parts ofland are showing. It’s so high it is spilling out of the piece.
5 DimensionsSally Cameron
Machine and paper pieced. Machine quilted. A Sally Challenge Quilt made sequentially by 4 friends (Sally Cameron, Mitzi Bojar, Jen Sirek, Peg Sorenson) with a starting fabric for inspiration. Amy Parker longarm quilted this piece.
The Jane Austen Legacy QuiltDiane Capitani
All hand pieced, fabric are replicas of those used by Jane & Cassandra Austen in the quilt they made shown on the bed at Chawton Cottage, England. IQI members Diane Capitani and Georgia Cibul both worked on this quilt. This replica of the quilt made by Jane & Cassandra Austen, on display at the JaneContinue reading “The Jane Austen Legacy Quilt
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Jezebel and her SunflowersVirginia Cruz Carlson
Hand dyed and commercial fabrics, machine embroidered, machine quilted and hand beaded. The petals on the beaded sunflowers were cut out one at a time and hand dyed by the artist. The background fabric was hand dyed, by I believe Robbi Ecklow. It has “mellowed” in my stash for so long, I can’t remember anyContinue reading “Jezebel and her Sunflowers
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Season of SingingVirginia Cruz Carlson
Machine & hand fabric manipulation, including yarns; machine quilted & hand beaded. I ran across a writing that touched me deeply – it did not indicate who the author was…not even anonymous. “Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.” I had toContinue reading “Season of Singing
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Complexity—Life on Many LevelsVirginia Cruz Carlson
Commercial fabrics raw edge appliqué, couching yarns, metallic threads; and miscellaneous objects. This piece was the epitome of “when life hands you scraps, make a quilt.” Even the frog button I used is a bit less than perfect, but then do we always get “perfect” scraps from life? Yet, you can see that each bitContinue reading “Complexity—Life on Many Levels
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The Valleys of Ups and DownsVirginia Cruz Carlson
Commercial fabrics, batik & hand dyed velvet by the artist. Machine quilted & appliquéd, couched yarn for bottom side of binding & hand beading. This was my first thought of how life gives you “Ups and Downs” and how fantastic the process seems when you are on the Up side!