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BRIGHT BABY QUILT

25 06 2016

BRIGHT BABY QUILT

For a friend’s grandchild, I designed a really bright and playful quilt. I am not personally a fan of pastel quilts, because I know babies react to bright colors; so this square in a square in a square quilt was fun to do. An array of related prints framed in contrasting colors, some of which had appliquéd squares inserted onto the centers worked well for my concept. It was backed with a stash fabric of smaller bright squares in primary colors. The parents-to-be were very happy. I hope the baby will be too.

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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Crib, Primary Colors, Uncategorized

Thiel Regatta

31 05 2014

This wall hanging was made for our Lake George neighbors Nancy and Rob to cover an electrical panel in their lake house. So, of course, it had to be boat related. Using many strips of left over fabrics, I created sail boats, and superimposed them on to a teal colored base. Very Lake!

Portrait image of regatta quilt

Many, random colored strips made fantastic boats

Binding the small quilt in red was a bright finishing touch

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Categories : Brights, Primary Colors, Strips, Triangles, Uncategorized, Wall Hanging

Outer Space

31 05 2014

This bright quilt was made for my grandson Estifanos, who at a very young age, was fascinated with the moon. I found a panel of fifteen different space images, cut it up into individual pictures. I selected vivid primary colored prints of suns and stars for the frames, and sashing, and finished with an over all yellow backing of suns. It is out of this world, and he loves it.

Details of some panels

Phases of the moon

Saturn and corner detail

Reverse, images of the smiling sun.

The Shuttle

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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Crib, Lap Blanket, Primary Colors, Triangles, Uncategorized, Wall Hanging

Boy Blue – Take II

25 05 2013

This quilt was made from additional fabric leftovers from a prior quilt. I recut the wedges into narrower slices, and put them together on cloth foundations, sew and flip style. Playing on my design wall, I decided upon alternated directions for the blocks, then just framing the quilt top in red, white and blue. It has a bright, patriotic look.

I mitered the corners of the three borders.

Portrait

Closeup of blocks on design wall.

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Categories : Brights, Crib, Geometrics, Primary Colors

Amish With A Twist

25 05 2013

This dramatic king-sized quilt in Amish colors was designed by Nancy Rink. It was a kit in many segments, twelve different classic blocks, using black as the backdrop. The borders contain stylized appliqué flowers. The bright pieced inner border and sashing blocks brighten it up. I sent it to Melanie Vaughn at The City Quilter in NYC for long-arm quilting. It was too big for me to manage on my domestic sewing machine. It was a most enjoyable project.

Corner detail

The blocks

Close-up of connecting lines

Detail of the variegated colored thread Quilting

Crumpled Quilt!

Reverse side: B & W butterflies all over

Another corner view

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Categories : Brights, Geometrics, King Size, Primary Colors

Red Diamonds

21 10 2010

This quilt features numerous patterns in reds and creams. Based on dissected rectangles, alternating red and cream rows create this very bold piece. The wide border in a floral pattern using the colors of the diamonds gives it a strong frame. I was fortunate in finding a backing fabric with the same color range as the border, in a luscious paisley pattern.

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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Diamonds, Primary Colors, Twin

Sail Away Triangles

27 05 2010

This quilt contains remnants of every quilt I ever made; a good use of my scrap basket. I sewed thin strips onto a seven-inch muslin foundation. I then cut the blocks in half on the diagonal, and joined those pieces to half-square triangles of bright jewel toned solids. As I sewed the blocks into rows and joined the rows together, the resultant image reminded me of a fleet of sailboats.

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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Brights, Primary Colors, Strips, Triangles, Twin

Strippy Star

27 05 2010

I made this piece as a hostess gift. I pieced seven-inch blocks with half inch strips on a foundation of muslin. I then cut the completed blocks on a diagonal and joined them with half square triangles. That called for a pieced border of the brightest colors, and, framed in black, makes this a jewel of a piece. It is an off-shoot of a much larger quilt on the same theme.

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Categories : Brights, Primary Colors, Small decorative pieces, Strips

Painted Squares

27 05 2010

Half of the squares in this quilt are pieced “crazy quilt” style with bits and pieces from my scrap basket. They were too “busy” when put together, so I alternated blocks with a dark wine-colored print. That was a bit flat, so I decided to paint the red square with metallic paints using rubbing plaques and oil paint sticks. That was a lot of fun.

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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Basic Squares, Earth Tones, Lap Blanket, Primary Colors, Wall Hanging

Baby Boy Blue

11 05 2010

This quilt was constructed of simple squares in a blue-on-blue pattern. I used a dozen light blue, and a dozen of dark blue fabrics. By arranging them alternately with bright red centers, this one-patch design becomes quite interesting. This was inspired by Pat Yamin’s One-Patch Scrap Quilts. I made two of these for my great nephews Aiden and Jonathan.