Category Archives: Improvisational piecing

Axis Mundi or Jacob’s Ladder

Posted on December 6, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

Here’s another quilt finished in 2017! I feel like most of my energy has gone to 12″ x 12″s this year, so it’s important to me to have finished a few larger quilts I made a smaller version of this … Continue reading →

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12 x 12 show opening

Posted on December 6, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

Here I am at the opening of the 12 x 12 show last Sunday. All the quilts to my right are mine. This year everyone could have up to eight of their twelve pieces in the show. Thank you to … Continue reading →

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Quilt finished after many different versions

Posted on December 3, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

  Here’s version one. I pieced the stars, and wanted to enlarge the quilt with out piecing any more stars. I love this Asian crane fabric, and the friend I’m making the quilt for loves to go bird watching. However, … Continue reading →

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Blue star quilt in progress

Posted on November 17, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

This is the quilt I’m working on. It will be a lap quilt for a friend in a nursing home. She said blue was her favorite color. When I pressed her for a second color, she said blue-green. Of course … Continue reading →

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Class with Maria Shell

Posted on November 12, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

Here are two quilts by Maria Shell, a quilter from Alaska. I took her class today at HelloStitch.  The class was called Riffing on Tradition-taking a traditional block and improvising on it. I decided to use a four-patch.  The blocks … Continue reading →

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12 x 12 show opening party on 12/3 from 1-4

Posted on November 10, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

Come join me and 25 other artists for this year’s 12 x 12 show. We have been meeting once a month for a year. Each month I make a 12″ x 12″ quilt. Not everyone is doing quilts. There are … Continue reading →

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More wonky log cabins

Posted on October 30, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

Here are three wonky log cabin blocks in some of my favorite fabrics. I made them in an EBHQ workshop. They are quite free form, and also not square. I also didn’t keep track of the usual order of adding … Continue reading →

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Looking at two wonky log cabin blocks

Posted on October 23, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

Here we have two wonky log cabin blocks, one which I like, and the other I really don’t. The upper one is the one that disturbs me. I made it a couple years ago.  I look at it and think … Continue reading →

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Another Sujata inspired block

Posted on October 19, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

Here is a block from Sujata Shah’s book, Cultural Fusion Quilts. Her process for making it is not what I expected it to be from looking at the finished quilt. She takes a stack of four 7″ squares of fabric, … Continue reading →

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Blocks from Sujata Shah’s class

Posted on October 9, 2017 by silvert@catskill.net

I had a lovely 2 days, learning free form blocks with Sujata Shah. We made her hourglass blocks, lattice blocks, endless mountains, and crossroads blocks. The blocks on the bottom left are a mistake that I salvaged by adding a … Continue reading →

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