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Our guild had a challenge to make a record album size quilt inspired by a song., This is my interpretation of Purple Rain by Prince. (Machine pieced, hand quilted and beading.)

Our guild had a challenge to make a record album size quilt inspired by a song., This is my interpretation of Red Rain by Peter Gabriel. (Machine pieced, hand quilted and beading.)

Machine pieced and hand quilted. Incorporates hand printed and painted “NO” flannel fabric.

Machine pieces, hand quilted and beaded with button embellishments.

Sunflower is an improvisational medallion quilt in a series I’ve been working on for a few years. The colors in the center Sunflower square influenced the scrap fabric color choices in the quilt. It’s sister quilt is Corn and was made around the same time.

Machine pieced, hand quilted, hand beaded and embellished with buttons.

Corn is an improvisational medallion quilt in a series I’ve been working on for a few years. The colors in the center Corn square influenced the scrap fabric choices in the quilt. To bead and elevate a basic vegetable is quirky and amusing to me. Corn’s sister quilt is Sunflower which was made around theContinue reading “Corn

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I’m more of an improvisational quilter, so challenge quilts push me out of my comfort zone. A deadline, smaller scale, limited materials and trying something new have been a fun combination. I envisioned a simple but formal table setting. I loved adding the mini wrenches and beading to “dress it up” and thought the mustardContinue reading “No Clue!

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Machine piecing, hand tied, hand beading, hand sewn yarn edge. I enjoy the unbalanced feel of Dancing Squares with its unexpected red steps, turtles, frogs and beading.

Machine pieced and hand tied. Quilting for me is like putting a puzzle together. I find pieces that fit and match as I go, not having to follow a specific pattern. It’s my form of meditation and the vibrant colors make me happy.     

Machine pieced, hand quilted, beading and embellishment. Dotty Bird was our quilt guild challenge quilt this year. Creating a quilt that looked like an object versus my improvisational absrtact style was outside my comfort zone, but I really enjoyed the challenge. I liked the freeform feathers the added beading and the hand quilted dot patternContinue reading “Dotty Bird

Staci Raymond

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Machine piecing and hand quilting. I like the idea of re-purposing fabrics. I was given all of these scraps from a woman who made fabric covered books. There are so many things to discover in this colorful creation.

Machine pieced and hand tied. Sometimes a bit of fabric from a previous project sparks a new one. For this quilt, I decided to limit my pallet to red, white, blue, stars and stripes. A haphazard, patriotic log cabin with farm animals was the result.

Machine pieced and hand quilted. I am very process oriented and don’t have the end result in mind when I work. I like the random haphazardness of each square with the grid structure creating small windows or vignette.

Machine pieced and hand tied. The “One Fish, Two Fish” series started with creating an abstract fabric representation of the book. Each fabric square was a word. As the series evolved, I created additional quilts using excess pieces, scraps and other fabrics sparked from the original idea. This is the first of the three.

Machine pieced, hand quilted, and hand beading on the surface. Incorporated parts of a found quilt. Dinosaurs and Bricks are a very odd combination that I wanted to explore. The dancing shrimp make it even more fun, but the surface beading was certainly a labor of love.     

Fabric collage with fusible pellon, machine pieced, machine quilted. I uncovered fabric collages I had made 30 years ago. I loved the colors and fabrics, but wanted to use them in a new way. I wanted to use a larger scale square than the first of this series. I love the shapes and watery feelContinue reading “Dark Water Strip II

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Machine piecing and hand tied. Untitled III was inspired by my study of African American strip quilts. I enjoyed using a wide range of fabrics including clothing scraps.