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Dance of Life

Joan Galantha

Free motion stitching, layered fabric and colored netting, quilting techniques,and french knots. Inspired by a trip to Maine, I took a picture of one of the crabs that was dinner and let my imagination go from there

Garden Gallery

Joan Galantha

Multi layered fabric and netting, quilting techniques, french knots, raw edges, and free motion stitching. Inspired by a beautiful flower box outside an art gallery in a small town in Maine

Banyon Tree

Joan Galantha

Free motion machine, layering, quilting (machine). For me, the Banyon Tree represents life’s journey. Standing tall, strong, and setting down permanent roots.

Bananas

Joan Galantha

Free motion stitching, quilting, layering. My inspiration was a photo I took in Mexico. I am a painter and fabric artist and was compelled to make this piece because of the lush colors and textures within and around this environment.

Layer Cake Hexagons

Sandra Geis

Machine pieced & quilted. A hexagon patterned quilt from a layer cake pack. The back is pieced from a matching fabric bundle. The quilting was done by my friend, Anne Spiotta – Blue House Quilting.

Charm Square Pinwheels

Sandra Geis

Machine pieced; longarm quilted. Charm packs are so enticing – you know the impulse buy at the quilt shop checkout counter. Four charm packs later – a pinwheel quilt. Quilted by my friend, Anne Spiotta.

Disappearing 9-Patch

Sandra Geis

Machine pieced; machine quilted by Anne Spiotta. This is what can happen when two friends share their yellow & blue fabric stashes.

I Saw It, I Wanted It, I Made It

Sandra Geis

Machine pieced, machine quilted. I always enjoy Kaffe quilts, but once in a while I just have to have one exactly like in the book. The machine quilting was done by my friend Anne Spiotta, Blue House Quilts.

Garden Reflections

Janette Gerber

Machine thread painted. The early spring willows touched by the sun are reflected in the water. I used a photograph I took at the Chicago Botanic Garden as inspiration for this thread painting. Design Source – Photograph I have taken at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Tulip

Janette E. Gerber

Digital photo printed on cloth, machine quilting, hand quilting & embroidered embellishments. Flowers and all of their various parts fascinate me. When I look closely at the details, design inspirations are endless. In this work I have printed my flower photo on fabric and thread enhanced the details with hand embroidery. Once the photo insetContinue reading “Tulip

Janette E. Gerber

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Multicolor Hand-painted Stencil Motif Jacquard Kimono-Style Lined Jacket

Carol Gildar

Japanese technique rice paste resist, acid dyes, treated silk jacquard, created using my own mulberry paper cut stencils, layering of dyes, steamed to set. After fabric created, sewn into jacket patchwork style. Unique one of a kind material created from ancient Japanese stencil printing technique. I was influenced by my trip to Japan and studyingContinue reading “Multicolor Hand-painted Stencil Motif Jacquard Kimono-Style Lined Jacket

Carol Gildar

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Four Moons

Anne Goldberg

At the beginning of Covid we were given four themes over a period of four months. Upper left is “Home”. Upper right is :Nature”. Lower left is “What You Miss”. Lower right is “What You Want in the Future”. (Machine applique and piecing. Hand embroidery.)

Salamander One

Anne Goldberg

This is the first embroidery I have done in many years. I learned a lot while doing it, and I plan to do more. (Hand embroidery, machine quilting)

Facing Another Challenge

Anne Goldberg

Machine pieced and quilted. The real challenge was working with these fabrics, as I would never have chosen them myself. Now that the quilt is finished, I really like it. I needed to be shaken up.