Chapters

Nell Thorpe

Machine pieced and quilted, embellished with beads and buttons. This was a challenging IQI challenge! The busy fabric reminded me of meandering journeys.

DJ’s I-Spy Quilt

Nell Thorpe

Fussy cutting 2 identical pieces, machine sewn, quilted. It was great fun going through my stash looking for novelty prints. Children of all ages love this type of quilt!

Aunt Nancys’ 1840’s Stars and Stripes

Nell Thorpe

Machine pieced and quilted; pieced back. My sister Nancy and her family enjoy camping 1840’s style. After making her a large quilt, I had a few left over stars and decided to make another because it was so much fun.

Mystery Mistake Quilt

Nell Thorpe

Machine sewn and quilted. This is a good example of a quilt pattern gone wrong! And we quilters know that even if 2 wrongs don’t make a right, 7 or 8 wrongs can make a new quilt pattern. (Almost half the circle centers face the wrong way).

La Pas

Ariel Towers

18 Months 2,309 Paper Pieces Nearly 36 yards of Fabric & Countless Hours of sewing – phew! Pattern: La Passacaglia by Willyne Hammerstein, adapted by Pink Door Fabric for an 18 BOM (block of the month).

Zoo Lites!

Ariel Towers

English Paper Piecing English paper piecing is a method of patchwork where fabric is wrapped around fabric shapes made of thin paper cardboard or heavy paper. Once the shapes are wrapped and ready, the sewer will hand sew the shapes together one at a time until the shapes become an intricate desi

Treasure Map

Ariel Towers

This was from a pattern with many different finishing/fabric options. I loved the idea of making a quilt made up of different types of basic symbols. Using foundation paper piecing, a great technique for making otherwise difficult to create designs, you are able to make an infinite variety of quilted images.

The Inner Life of a Rainbow

Ariel Towers

Trapunto, from the Italian for “to quilt”, is a method of quilting that is also called “stuffed technique”. A puffy, decorative feature, trapunto utilizes at least two layers, the underside of which is slit and padded, producing a