Design Wall Monday – Arabesque #3 Grows
Arabesque #3 is growing. The center medallion is sewn (and resewn and resewn again) and I have cut many of the pieces for the edges. Still to decide where to cut it off. The beauty of geometric designs is that they could go on forever.
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Design Wall Monday – Arabesque #3
Here’s what the design wall looks like today: Unfortunately, I haven’t made a lot of progress since this morning because it’s one of those days when I am taking out more seams that I put in, but c’est la vie. I did make one big change over the weekend …
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Arabesque #3 In Process
After some great help from Arlington Swifty Printing on Friday to enlarge the design for Arabesque #3, work is now underway. So far, so good!
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History of Quilting in America – Westward Expansion, 1840s – 1860s
Westward Expansion, 1840s – 1860s In the mid-1800s, Americans turned their eyes west. The first wagon trains left Missouri for the territories in 1843, and hundreds of thousands of settlers followed over the next few decades, bringing their quilts with them. Family and friends of settlers sent their loved ones …
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Grandpa’s Waves
This is the top that I finished yesterday. A little over a week ago, on the day that would have been my grandparents 70th wedding anniversary (though I didn’t realize it at the time because I rarely know what day it is), I started thinking about my grandfather and was …
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History of Quilting in America – Rise of American Patchwork, 1825 – 1860
This is the second installment from the History of American Quilting special exhibit at the Rising Star Quilters 2015 show. The sample quilts included here were not in the exhibit, but are quilts that I have made in recent years. Rise of American Patchwork, 1825 – 1860 By 1825, conditions …
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Design Wall Monday – Waves
I’ve been struggling with the design for Arabesque #3. I just had to be inspired by some tile work that’s a 12 pointed star inside a hexagon! Getting it drawn is proving to be quite a challenge. So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I was inspired to work …
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My Authentic Self is Complete
Well, the quilt anyway. I expect that my authentic self is going to be a WIP for quite a long time. For the quilting on this quilt, I let each different fabric “speak” to me and chose a quilting design that reflected the fabric itself. Each quilting design is different, …
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Arabesque #2
I am putting the final touches on a few quilts this week, readying them for my guild show this weekend. (Come see it on Friday and Saturday at St. Brigid’s Church in Lexington, MA.) I’ll have two quilts in the show, in addition to the many samples that I pulled …
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