Wall Hanging | Louise Naples Quiltmaker

Nested Hexes

1 06 2014

This quilt was born in a set of fantastic and dramatically contrasting fabrics in black, grey and cream. It took a while to decide what to do with them. Cutting strips in varying lengths, adding them to fussy-cut floral centers – log cabin style, created wonderful nested hexagons. Joined by triangles, and set in rows the pattern required me to cut off half of all the top and bottom hexes, which I didn’t like. So, instead, I made neutral half-hexes of various cream fabrics to close the gap. The border is made up of four parts, cream, black, cream, and a multi. Very dramatic!

These are my opening inspiration – seriously contrasting colors

Fabrics cut into strips and bits, and fussy-cut flowers

One hexagon

More hexes

Hexagons joined by triangles

Finished quilt with four borders

Detail of neutral half hex

And all the borders

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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Earth Tones, Geometrics, Pastels, QUILTING PROCESSES, Twin, Wall Hanging

LeMoyne Stars

1 06 2014

This quilt grew out of a set of fat quarters with alternating patterns in soft red and slate blue. I decided on eight point stars to illustrate the alternating color ways of each fabric. I used black as the foil to set them off, used red as the inner border and black again for the outer. It is a piece with lots of drama. I added black/grey yo-yos in the center of the stars.

A dozen stars in blue and red in a dark “sky”

Detail of a single star

Detail of another star, – note texture on black

A set of six stars

Corner detail

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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Dark - Dramatic, Diamonds, Stars, Wall Hanging

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

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

Block detail

Another color combination

Corner detail

Corner

Reverse side, a real holiday backing

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

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

Crazy Quilt

31 05 2014

This crazy quilt evolved over many years, as I kept adding embroidery, beading, buttons, and bows, braid, lace, and charms. The panels were done as individual twelve-inch blocks, and it was hard to finally stop, deciding when “enough” was “enough”. That’s the thing about crazy quilts! I decided to join the blocks with dark green grosgrain ribbon, and back it with black velvet. It is now a wall hanging.

A long labor of love.

Detail

Patches of silk, brocade, velvet, toile, and cotton

Anything goes!

Blocks laid together before joining with grosgrain

Lots and lots of beads

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Categories : Brights, Earth Tones, Geometrics, 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

Fallen Leaves

27 02 2013

This mini quilt, constructed from twenty-five different fabrics, plus the borders, was the result of a class at City Quilter, called ‘Little Bits”. The design is by Cindi Edgerton, and reminds me of walking in the woods in the deep Fall, with all the magnificent colors on the ground. The project was “paper pieced”, with very careful attention to the placement of the colors and bits. The little piles of each color were placed in a precise order because each one “borrowed” some bits from adjacent piles. It was a very interesting project, and resulted in a delightful table topper for Autumn. I found in my stash the perfect border, of Autumn Leaves.

Portrait

Carefully placed sets of pieces

Color list and placement chart help keep things in order.

Tessellating Leaves

Corner detail

Closeup of leaves

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Categories : Earth Tones, Geometrics, Table Topper, Wall Hanging

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

detail of one color band

Another color band detail

Pink band detail

Cut from the same cloth but oh how different

And yet another

Corner detail inner border cut from original mother fabric

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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Wall Hanging

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

Louise Naples Quiltmaker

Nested Hexes

LeMoyne Stars

Landscapes

Square in a Square …

Thiel Regatta

Crazy Quilt

Outer Space

Fallen Leaves

Simple Symmetry

New York Beauty

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