Iris

Maggie Weiss

Hand dyed, stamped and silk screened silk background fabrics overlaid with commercial black silk fabrics, hand cut and fused. Machine quilted “Iris” is a celebration of the vibrant colors of early summer using sheer, hand dyed, and commercial fabrics with hand cutting, fusing and machine quilting.

Goldleaf

Gale Wessel

Fused sheer silks, machine quilting. This piece was created in a Maggie Weiss workshop (“Sheer Bliss”). Winner Choice Award.

Connected Friends

Hedy Wessel

Cut & pieced myself, chose own colors, I quilted on regular machine. Making this quilt was a challenge, seemed complicated, but was fun putting it all together.

Lone Star

Hedy Wessel

Used fusing material with fabric. After eight years of quilting, I finally decided to try making the “LONE STAR” I’ve admired for a long time. It was a challenge and took six months to finish. This is actually the first large quilt I made for myself. Did all the work on a regular sewing aContinue reading “Lone Star

Hedy Wessel

For Amy & Natalie

Gale Wessel

Pieced and fused and machine quilted. These are the colors that Amy & Natalie love. And this is a modern quilt as befits two modern women.

Lone Star

Hedy Wessel

Fussy cut diamond shaped pieces, “squiggly” quilted star, all machine quilted. When I saw a picture of the “Lone Star” on a book cover, I found it intriguing. I made the star using instructions in the book. I am a retired senior citizen and had only been quilting four years when starting this piece. ItContinue reading “Lone Star

Hedy Wessel

Yellow Vest with Flowers

Gale Wessel

Free motion quilting, beads, decorative buttons. This vest began as three rectangles of fabric. We developed our own patterns and ideas for finishing.

How does your garden grow?

Gale Wessel

Technique Free motion quilting, bargello piecing, commercial appliqués. My garden doesn’t look anything like this. Next year I resolve to work harder.

Windows

Gale Wessel

Template-free cutting and piecing. The inspiration for this quilt was the border fabric. It reminded me of the city and the buildings covered in windows.

Intersection

Gale Wessel

Machine quilted (free motion); machine pieced. I made this quilt to hang on the big blank wall at the end of the cathedral ceiling in my living room.

Autumn Wind

Gale Wessel

Hand dyed (disperse dyes), machine quilted With disperse dyes, you paint the dyes on to paper and transfer the dye to fabric with a heat press. This piece (which was layered with leaves) is one piece of fabric (with the exception of the 3-D leaves) and was a very welcome surprise to me when IContinue reading “Autumn Wind

Gale Wessel

Study in Red

Gale Wessel

Machine pieced & quilted on a longarm machine This quilt was designed to hang in my foyer on a big bare wall.