This quilt contains remnants of every quilt I ever made; a good use of my scrap basket. I sewed thin strips onto a seven-inch muslin foundation. I then cut the blocks in half on the diagonal, and joined those pieces to half-square triangles of bright jewel toned solids. As I sewed the blocks into rows and joined the rows together, the resultant image reminded me of a fleet of sailboats.
Sail Away Triangles
27 05 2010
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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Brights, Primary Colors, Strips, Triangles, Twin
Strippy Star
27 05 2010I made this piece as a hostess gift. I pieced seven-inch blocks with half inch strips on a foundation of muslin. I then cut the completed blocks on a diagonal and joined them with half square triangles. That called for a pieced border of the brightest colors, and, framed in black, makes this a jewel of a piece. It is an off-shoot of a much larger quilt on the same theme.
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Categories : Brights, Primary Colors, Small decorative pieces, Strips
Painted Squares
27 05 2010Half of the squares in this quilt are pieced “crazy quilt” style with bits and pieces from my scrap basket. They were too “busy” when put together, so I alternated blocks with a dark wine-colored print. That was a bit flat, so I decided to paint the red square with metallic paints using rubbing plaques and oil paint sticks. That was a lot of fun.
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Bar Code
27 05 2010This quilt was a study in free motion quilting patterns which are different for each color in the quilt. I utilized a variety a soft colors in bars that reminded me of bar codes. Placing the batik strips randomly, and then making rows resulted in a pleasant, easy-on-the-eyes piece for a table top or a wall hanging.
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Categories : Earth Tones, Rectangles, Strips, Table Topper, Wall Hanging
Asian Panel
27 05 2010This quilt was created as a dining room wall hanging for my daughter Larisa and her husband Peter. They requested a horizontal piece. I found some Asian panels that I cut and incorporated into a sea of small squares in blacks and bright Asian prints. The panels reflect aspects of their life and their interests. Gardens, planting, and tea.
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Categories : Basic Squares, Brights, Wall Hanging
Baby Braids
27 05 2010This baby version of French Braid was made from a one and a half inch wide roll (called a honey bun) of coordinated strips. The colors offered a wide choice of creams and every color of apple in the orchard. It was fun to create a mini version, and this quilt was selected to be part of a quilt exhibition of quilts from The City Quilter at the Williams Club in NYC in the Fall of 2009.
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French Braid
27 05 2010This quilt was made in a class at The City Quilter. It is made of strips and small squares in a color set that ranges from dark to light, and repeats a second time. Its luminous quality is the result of this gradual change in color value. The bright red batik squares punch right out at you, and support the linear design.
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Categories : Earth Tones, Geometrics, Strips, Twin
Kaleidscope 3
27 05 2010This small piece was made from the final five blocks left over from my first kaleidescope quilt. I used four solid blocks of the purple fabric to alternate the kaleido squares, and sashed them with the deep rose that I used in Kaleidescope 1.
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Kaleidescope 2
27 05 2010The cutting of the four-inch squares for my first kaleidescope quilt yielded many extra sets, so I embarked on another related quilt. I utilized twenty more blocks set close together for an entirely different look. I separated the blocks with thin piping in a muted batik fabric that contained most of the colors of the blocks, but in softer tones.
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Kaleidescope 1
25 05 2010This was another project in the Squares Quilt University with Judy Doenais at The City Quilter. Here I used a twenty-four inch repeat fabric in a dramatic large scale print, and cut and laid out the panels precisely one atop the other, pinning them in place with great care. I rotary cut the rows, then the four-inch squares. Then the fun began. Each stack of four identical pieces was arranged, and re-arranged until each block was chosen as the best fit.
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Categories : AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Basic Squares, Multicolored Florals, Twin
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