Baby Boy Blue II

26 02 2013

This quilt was made for a grand nephew, Conor.  I wanted to use a large number of light to medium blue fabrics, and break it up with splashes of red, and really dark blue.  Running the wedge shaped patches in sequence created an even flow of color and balance.  Sashing the rows with a white print with red and blue stars, and framing it in dark blue tied it all together.  I quilted each patch with curved lines, which created a flowing motif across the quilt.

 

1 Portrait

1 Portrait

Reverse side

Reverse side

3 Quilting detail3 Quilting detail

2 Closeup 2 Closeup

 


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Categories : Brights, Crib, Strips

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.

Bright Colors for Babies4 Bright Colors for Babies

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

New York Beauty

15 06 2012

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

“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

Stripes to Diamonds

13 06 2012

This small quilt was made from one yard of a stripped fabric, cut into strips on the bias, and pieced back together.  Then it was quilted in the ditch along all the diamond shapes, giving the illusion of a pieced quilt.


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Categories : Pastels, Strips, Table Topper, Wall Hanging

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

Victorian Placemats

13 06 2012

My daughter Nikita has a Victorian home, and requested placemats for her dark blue dining room. I raided my extensive stash and came up with this luminous variety of blues, for two different pairs of mats, all with the same backing, giving her a variety of ways to use them.  For all those tiny triangles, I used half-square triangle paper sheets to insure accurate sizing, and precise points.


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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Table Topper, Triangles

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