I wanted to make a Quilt with trapunto wreath's. And I thought this Diamond flower was a perfect block to combine with the fethered wreath's.
I just picked a sice on my Diamond ruler and started making Flowers ,... I ended up with a big Queen size
I've always loved vintage Santas, and had previosly made a Santa quilt using patterns designed by Jan Kornfeind. As I gained a bit more experience with my quilting I wanted to try designing some of my own Santas, and "Has Anyone Seen Rudolph?" was the first of a series.
Name of Maker: Karen Fitzpatrick, Mary Holman, Bridget Lilja, Cindy Neville, Mary Kay Runyan, Carol Moeller, Dana Lynch, Wanda Myers
Amazing 8 made the decision to make this quilt at the Houston International Quilt Festival in 2012. As we sat around a table at the Embassy waiting for dinner one night, we discussed suggestions for a new quilt. We made the decision of the Aztec Calendar after discussing "the end of the world" and the Mayan Calendar. Cindy Neville found the line drawing by Thomas Filsinger. He granted permission to use the line drawing and also provided research that he had done. We are very thankful to Thomas!
I was commissioned to make a log cabin quilt. I was handed a pattern from a book but the size wasn't large enough. I used the basic layout but increased the finished block size from 7 to 8 inches. I used my accuquilt go to cut my blocks and my new Bernina London 7 Bernette machine to sew it. Once finished I put it on my frame and quilted it with my Tin Lizzie 18DLS machine. I don't have robotics so everything was freehand or ruler work. I used a circle ruler for the feather wreath spines and chalked in registration lines and quitled the feathers freehand. I used my ruler to do line work but the borders were all freehand. I enjoyed making the quilt and learned alot. I used Glide thread in the top and bobbin. In the future I will use thread that matches the back for the back and different color on the front. I've only been quilting/sewing for 2 years now and using the longarm for 1 year.
This personalized and adapted quilt features myself and three friends, Jo, Judy, Judy, and Joan. We are the four J's! Using photographs, I made the characters reflect our personalities and features. I made this one, that I own, and three others, so we all have one!
Design of this quilt performed in the technique of tessellation.
During tessellation picture is divided into fragments, which completely fill plane without creating overlaps and gaps. The master of visual arts in the tessellation was MC Escher, the favorite of mathematicians. Creativity of Escher rendered significant influence on the quilts of great master quilting Jinny Beyer. She has created not for one quilt in this style, and even wrote a book about tessellation. I visited her master class and here you can see my result.
Quilt "Dancing Butterflies" consists of 1173 pieces of 139 fabrics.
This small wall quilt is based on a fragment of a photo I took out of my office window. The quilt is entirely machine pieced using methods of Ruth McDowell and Ruth Powers, and was designed and partially completed in a workshop at Empty Spools at Asilomar, CA in 2014. http://susieturn.blogspot.com/2014/11/asilomar-robins-final-chapter.html
This quilt is the result of a border's class given by Linda O'Sullivan at The Bernina Connection in Tallahassee. I loved every border in her sample quilt - from the paper pieced birds to the little doors on the bottom row that reminded me of little Santa's elf doors.