Claire Sherman Art

Back story on Lone Robin quilt

Posted on December 21, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

I have a tendency to procrastinate, and all this Covid quarantining is draining my creativity. However deadlines are a great motivator for me. There was a midnight deadline to send the photo of my Lone robin to the SFQG. By midnight that night this is what I’d accomplished. Although all 6 elements were there, I hadn’t finished the top row. I emailed the photo above to Julia and kept working till 2 AM when I finished the top row. That’s when I sent Julia the photo below.

Even though this won the prize at the SGQG meeting, I wasn’t happy with the top row. I decided that I want an orange diamond in the center of the top row, and different orange curves on either side. I have taken apart the top row and am redoing it before the EBHQ deadline of January 1. Since I am the one picking the 4 prize winners for EBHQ, I won’t put my name in the hat.

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Lone Robin, (sort of) finished!

Posted on December 21, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

Here is my Lone Robin with the 5th and 6th elements. #5 was crosses or Xs and #6 was anything of my choice but must include a color from the first round. I submitted this quilt top to the San Francisco Quilt Guild meeting for the show and tell of all the Lone Robin quilt tops. There were 26 LR quilts shown at the meeting. Everyone on the Zoom meeting could vote for their favorite. There were 3 quilts which tied for first place, each receiving 9 votes, including mine! there was a runoff for these 3 quilts, and mine was voted the winner! I received a $50 gift certificate to Bay Quilts, which I will use for fabric. I’m actually really surprised that my quilt won. I am a newcomer in the SFQG, and I thought people would vote for their friends.

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Pillow number 1

Posted on November 2, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

This is an 18 inch pillow I recently finished for my daughter in Vancouver, BC. She has a red couch. I offered to make black and white pillows, but she wanted vibrantly colored pillows! These are some of the same food fabrics I used for the quilt for her bed.

Here’s a photo of her bed quilt.

Good Enough to Eat 2012
(twin bed size)

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Lone Robin 5th element!

Posted on October 28, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

For the 5th element of the Lone Robin we are adding crosses or X’s. Above is what I might do, and leave the extra space for element 6. However I made a bunch of examples for EBHQ of the many options possible. Here are all the options I tried, even though I wouldn’t use all of them in one quilt!

In looking at these options, I realized that I wanted thicker bars to my X’s, except for the 3 color, Sujata Shah style ones on top.

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Lone Robin with the 4th element

Posted on September 16, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

The 4th element to be added to the Lone Robin is squares. The squares can be regular squares or wonky squares. I’m adding a lot of squares to the bottom. I haven’t sewn the squares to the rest of the quilt because I’m waiting to see what comes next!

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Fast baby quilt

Posted on September 13, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

This is the baby quilt I’m almost finished with. I’ve already put the binding on. All it needs is the label, which will be heart shaped. It’s a two sided quilt and I don’t want the label to detract from the back. Here’s the back

This is a present for my friend Robin’s grandson, who hasn’t been born yet. I asked for the couple’s favorite colors. I was told, “ocean, forest, sun-just like our wedding colors.” so I gave them fish in the ocean on the front, and yellow and green on the back.

I didn’t look at the alphabet panel carefully when I first sewed the front together. I then realized that it was a double alphabet. I felt the quilt was too large in any case, so I took the second alphabet out, and sewed it back together, smaller.

Here it is before I shortened it.

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Second EBHQ workshop with Latifah!

Posted on September 2, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

Since I’m the co-chair of Workshops for EBHQ (East Bay Heritage Quilters), I get to take the workshops for free in exchange for my work. In the before times that meant setting up tables, buying the teacher’s lunch, making coffee, and organizing clean up. Now it means that I’m the Zoom host. Today’s workshop was all about bias tape quilts with Latifah Saafir. I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. I didn’t know that I would like working with bias tape so much! Here are the two blocks I made. Both are my own improvisational design.

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I took a Zoom workshop with Latifah Saafir!

Posted on August 30, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

Today EBHQ had its first Zoom workshop since Shelter In Place. Latifah Saafir was the teacher. This is her paper pieced Molehills pattern. Since I never make want to make someone else’s pattern or make a quilt that looks like someone else designed it, I’m thinking of inserting these arcs into a square or rectangular block, and making a baby quilt.

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Continuing to add to my hamsa quilt

Posted on August 22, 2020 by silvert@catskill.net

I had so much fun with the string blocks on the Lone Robin that I decided to add larger ones to this quilt. My question is what 4″ block to put in the corners? I was thinking of a liberated star on a background similar in color to the sashing, but now I’m thinking maybe lime green??

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