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Category Archives: modern quilts
There’s nothing like a deadline for motivation!
I just finished this quilt! It’s for a SAQA show called Art Movements- making quilts inspired by art movements, like Cubism. When I was eleven years old I painted a self portrait that my art teacher said was reminiscent of … Continue reading
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My quilt top from Sarah Goer’s class
I took a Zoom workshop with Sarah Goer on making an improv quilt with squares. Each of us cut out random squares of fabric- mine ranged from 7.5″ down to 2.5″. I decided that I didn’t want to deal with … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, EBHQ, Improvisational piecing, modern quilts, Work In Progress
Tagged Sarah Goer Quilts
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Looking at a WIP (Work in Progress)
When does a WIP become a UFO (Unfinished Fabric Object)? I haven’t worked on this improv Log Cabin in many months. I was deleting photos on my phone and came across it. When I stopped working on it I was … Continue reading
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Baby quilt continued
I decided that this baby quilt needed another color. I was thinking purple or hot pink. Some online quilters in the Lib-quilters suggested gold, to go with the giraffes on the back. I went with a cranberry. And here’s the … Continue reading
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When your quilt isn’t working…keep working on it.
This was the hot mess on my design wall, a few weeks ago. My artist friend Lila Wahrhaftig looked through the photos on my phone. She liked the one with negative space, which was just slices separated by an inch … Continue reading
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Strata for baby quilt
Here is the first set of strata sewn together for the baby quilt I’m working on. I would have made a wider piece, but I was limited by the bicycle fabric. I only have short lengths of it left, from … Continue reading
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VIC quilts
This one is called Axis Mundi: Jacob’s Ladder. This one is Improv Stars. These are the two quilts I’m entering in Voices In Cloth this year. The first is guaranteed to get in, and the second will get in if there … Continue reading
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Tagged #quiltcon reject, East Bay Heritage Quilters, EBHQ, improvisational quilting, Voices-In-Cloth
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Wonky Stars class!
I’m teaching a class on “Wonky Stars” at Hello Stitch on October 8 from noon to 4 PM. click here for the registration link. This class is good for beginners as well as more advanced quilters. It’s a simple stitch and … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, Improvisational piecing, liberated stars, modern quilts
Tagged Hello Stitch, Hellostitchstudio
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Auditioning background fabrics
I’m taking 2 classes from Jacquie Gering http://www.tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com/ in a couple of weeks, through EBHQ . I’m auditioning background fabrics for both classes. The first class is called Precision Lines. I know I want to insert orange strips as the lines, on … Continue reading
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Stitch Modern
I have a quilt in the East Bay Modern Quilters’ show! The show, Stitch Modern, is at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Ave, Piedmont, CA, from now until May 8. For more info, go to http://eastbaymodernquilters.com . I took … Continue reading
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Tagged Pam Rocco, stitch modern, thumbnail sketch
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