Quilts

Going deeper with a quilt design

September 5, 2011
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I started this quilt last year, based on a Zentangle drawing I made, and blogged about it then. I am just now coming back to it and was happy to complete the top piecing yesterday. According to the drawing I had made for it, I now had 5 orange pieces to applique and it would [...]

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Zen-Quilt Center Complete!

November 17, 2010
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It’s so cool to see something I drew turn into a real quilt. Here is the central element of my latest quilt in one piece. The white block in the middle is a temporary part of the construction…I will eventually applique a teal piece over the top, sort of a rounded diamond. My inspiration for [...]

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A Zentangle® inspired quilt

November 5, 2010
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I’m working on a new quilt idea that sprang from one of my Zentangle sketches. The actual Zentangle® drawing is incomplete and somewhat flawed (I filled in an area with black that I intended to be patterned.) Had I stayed committed to the Zentangle® drawing, I would have somehow incorporated that error into the finished [...]

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Empty Walls

October 22, 2010

My walls are empty. Not one thing is hanging…no family photos, no favorite poster. All the framed items that have hung on my walls before are leaning against each other on the floor, or stacked on my dining room table. I realize as I unpack that the children in the frames are not children anymore. [...]

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Sketch Becoming a Quilt

November 21, 2009
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If you take a good look at the computer-rendered sketch above, it’s dated October 12, 2009. I have to be honest and admit I have many of these computer-rendered designs that never got beyond the sketch stage. But this one stayed in mind…I printed out a few copies and left them around my studio. I [...]

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Improvising a Quilt Design

November 12, 2009
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A little over a year ago, I took a one-week workshop at the Nancy Crow Barn about Improvisational Quilting. When I create for fun, I like to work without knowing where I’m heading. I had hoped the class would give me some ideas and direction for working in that style (kind of funny…”I want to [...]

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