QUILTING PROCESSES | 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

Log Cabin – Classic Black and White

11 05 2010

This is the most classic of Log Cabin patterns, light and shadow. There are eighty blocks in this quilt, the center of each, the hearth, is red. The process of making this follows the Fons & Porter method of cutting out all the size strips, and lining them up in a pizza box to stay organized. I then chain stitched the segments as they were added one by one to the growing blocks.

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Categories : Black & White, King Size, Log Cabin, QUILTING PROCESSES

Basic Quilting Process

24 12 2009

This sequence of pictures documents the steps taken to create my first quilt Earthtones Railfence May 2006. Click on the thumbnails to see each image, full scale, with commentary.