Curves | Louise Naples Quiltmaker

Landscapes

1 06 2014

Landscapes belong not only the realm of painters. Textiles are a wonderful medium for natural scenes. I have experimented with numerous fabrics, cutting and snipping to create three dimensional shrubs, couching yarns to delineate different textures, and moods. Creating “matted” frames or borders makes them wall-ready.

A Lake Scene, with different textures in the cloth and the quilting

Detail of appliquéd tree

Layering of rocks

The texture of the quilting matches its element

Lighthouse scene, moody sky

A variety of textured fabrics create a dynamic shore terrain

Textured quilting, and snipped greens for shrubs
add dimension

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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Curves, Earth Tones, Wall Hanging

Just Playing

25 05 2013

In a class at The City Quilter, given by Linda Hahn, we explored making numerous paper-pieced blocks that can be mixed and matched in a variety of ways to make dynamic quilts. The class was titled New York Beauty Diversified. Back at home, I made four of each kind of block in harmonious colors; don’t know what I will do with them yet, but I have been playing on my design wall to check out the possibilities of just sets of four.

The Design Wall

Square in a Square blocks

Beauty in a Square 2

Beauty in a square blocks

Swirl blocks

Star Burst

Flower blocks

Flower block 2

NY Beauty The Sun

Quarter suns turned outward

Half suns

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Categories : Curves, Earth Tones, Geometrics

New York Beauty

15 06 2012

: 1 NY Beauty portrait

: 2 NY Beauty process 1

: 3 NY Beauty process 2

: 4 NY Beauty process 3

: 5 NY Beauty point detail

: 6 NY Beauty on the design wall

: 7 NY Beauty close-up

: 8 NY Beauty border-backing

At an all-day Linda Hahn workshop at City Quilter in NYC, I enjoyed my inaugural experience in Paper Piecing. I always wanted to learn how to make those really sharp points as used in NY Beauty, but was intimidated by the technique. Linda’s class took the mystery away, and I felt emboldened. The fabrics all came out of my stash, and I was thrilled that I had a batik in the colors and pattern to really frame and enhance the central theme. There are many ways one could lay out the individual blocks, and after much “playing” I decided on this one.

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Categories : Curves, Earth Tones, Wall Hanging

Hailey 1

23 05 2010

This quilt is a variation on the Solstice quilts. I loved making the curved blocks, and, utilizing pinks and greens with some darker elements made a sweet baby quilt for my grandniece. I added prairie points for a delicate edging in the two primary colors. The backing fabric is a very dramatic black with pink and green print.

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Categories : Crib, Curves, Pastels

Solstice 1

6 05 2010

My daughter commissioned a wall hanging quilt for her living room in California. I decided on a drunkards path pattern, in muted pinks, blues, tans, reds, containing lots of birds and flowers, and a splash or two of black. I added a doily crocheted by her great grandmother, as the “moon”, an homage to the lady who taught my daughter how to crochet. The room where this quilt hangs has a glass wall looking out over a magnificent native garden which host birds of all sorts.

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Categories : Curves, Earth Tones, Multicolored Florals, Uncategorized, Wall Hanging

Baby Rattles

5 04 2010

This is an example of a one block quilt. I used a collection of 1930’s reproduction prints in an assortment of colors and patterns to create a baby quilt that is all softness. I took all my clues from the curved shape of the pieces.