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

Square in a Square …

1 06 2014

If you like squares, you will really like this quilt., a square in a square in a square in a square. The process of “paper foundation piecing” assures that all the points are sharp and accurate. I used four colors:  red, green, cream and black in various combinations for the blocks. Almost Christmas – but without holiday themes. Small scale prints give sufficient variety, without any one becoming dominant. Sashing the blocks in red sets off the individual motifs, and keeps the cream from overwhelming the quilt. A few wide borders completes the design.

Full picture of Square quilt

Full picture of Square quilt

Block detail

Block detail

Another color combination

Another color combination

Corner detail

Corner detail

Corner

Corner

Reverse side, a real holiday backing

Reverse side, a real holiday backing


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Categories : Basic Squares, Holiday, Lap Blanket, Uncategorized, Wall Hanging

Imperial Diamonds

31 05 2014

I made this quilt Called “Imperial Diamonds” for my sister Rita and her spouse, Christine.  The design is by Jean Nolte, editor of Love of Quilting Magazine.  It is loaded with different batik squares, all different.  The wide borders are of a really intensely colorful batik, which draws all the colors of the smaller squares.  The center  was long-arm quilted by Melanie Vaughn of City Quilter, and I did the outer parts.  I can’t manage a king-sized quilt on my home machine very well.

Portage image of king-sized quilt

Portage image of king-sized quilt

Detail of batik squares and quilting

Detail of batik squares and quilting

Two inch and four inch squares on point.

Two inch and four inch squares on point.

The rows are joined by deep purple sashing

The rows are joined by deep purple sashing

Dramatic border drapes nicely over bed

Dramatic border drapes nicely over bed

Precision counts, the corners resolved perfectly

Precision counts, the corners resolved perfectly

The corners work well

The corners work well

Double-scaled squares relate very well

Double-scaled squares relate very well

Reverse - gold-toneed batik swirls

Reverse – gold-toneed batik swirls

Happy Colors !!

Happy Colors !!


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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Diamonds, Geometrics, King Size, Uncategorized

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

Details of some panels

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Phases of the moon

Phases of the moon

Saturn and corner detail

Saturn and corner detail

Reverse, images of the smiling sun.

Reverse, images of the smiling sun.

The Shuttle

The Shuttle

 

 


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

Matched Pair for a Matched Pair

26 02 2013

When my niece Meaghan gave birth to a set of identical twin girls, I came up with this color scheme, lively and bright.   I used a pattern by Liz Porter, of Fons & Porter.  The fabrics were a matched set of precut squares, transformed into “snowballs” by the addition of flipped yellow triangles in all four corners of each precut patch.  The quilts are bordered in a dark pink floral,  and backed with an allover pastel pink floral.  Each “snowball” was quilted with a five petal flower.  To enable Meaghan to tell the quilts apart, I just arranged the blocks in a different order.

3 Reverse side

 Reverse side

 

On the design Wall

On the design Wall

 

Shifting the patches for the second quilt.

Shifting the patches for the second quilt.

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1 Portrait photo

Portrait photo

1 "Snowball" closeup

 “Snowball” closeup

 


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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Crib

Simple Symmetry

15 06 2012

At Paula Nadelstern’s all day workshop at City Quilter in NYC, I ventured into the world of art quilting.  Using a bilaterally symmetrical fabric as the basis, (Paternista designed by Paula); fussy cutting identical squares; then cutting and rearranging them, enjoying the magic and surprise at the results, made this a fascinating class.  The complex designs that resulted were far removed from the original “mother” fabric – kaleidoscopic ideas that resolve into tiles.

Portrait of completed quilt. All tile-style rows are cut from the same mother cloth

Portrait of completed quilt. All tile-style rows are cut from the same mother cloth

detail of one color band

detail of one color band

Another color band detail

Another color band detail

Pink band detail

Pink band detail

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Cut from the same cloth but oh how different

Cut from the same cloth but oh how different

And yet another

And yet another

Corner detail inner border cut from original mother fabric

Corner detail inner border cut from original mother fabric


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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Wall Hanging

“T” is for Tony – Tessellating Ts

14 06 2012

I saw this pattern in several quilting books, and knew it would be perfect for my brother Tony.  He is a technocrat and I knew he would like the  interlocking tessellating pattern.  I first selected many earth tone fabrics for the Ts, but thought it was too dull, so I added several primary jewel tones, and that brought it to life.  The bold border of a black and tan zebra strip gave it the masculine feel I was seeking.  I used the border fabric for the back as well with the addition of two vertical bands of triangles, for a two sided quilt.


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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Triangles, Twin

Gatsby – for Iris and Mawuena

14 06 2012

This quilt is my take on a design by Jean Nolte published in Fons & Porter 2008.  A king sized quilt for a modern young couple to celebrate their wedding.   It was easy to piece, with my own choice of muted colors.  I added a multi-banded mitered border to give it a traditional touch.  Quilting it on my home machine was a real challenge.  I utilized the tips I learned from an on-line quilting course by Ann Petersen entitled “Quilting Big Projects on a Small Machine”.  A life saver!


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Categories : Basic Squares, King Size, Pastels, Rectangles

Gentleman’s Fancy

14 06 2012

I made this quilt for my brother Steve Z. who is a writer, master carpenter, and sometime sailor.    The block I chose is “gentleman’s fancy”, and I utilized a set of four panels illustrating writing, reading, and general scholarly traits.  I chose rich, deep colors;  and for the back, a whole sheet of sailing flags.  This quilt suits him very well.


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Categories : Basic Squares, Twin

Floating Bubbles

13 06 2012

This quilt was begun in a class at City Quilter in NYC with Judy Doenias.  It uses two basic fabrics, plus a border.  I selected two patterns with sympathetic  colors, chocolate and teal, with similar design scale.  The result is that  when finished, it looks like the patterns are floating in and out of each other’s frames.  I found the wonderful Deja Vu soft striped border  fabric by Paula Nadelstern in matching colors.  For the back, I cut the striped fabric of the border on the bias and placed a central rectangle of one of the focus fabrics of the quilt top  in the center.  Really cool result!


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Categories : Basic Squares, Multicolored Florals, Twin

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