Wall quilt from a Linda Ballard class.

Hand applique.  Machine Quilted by Beverly Jones

Inspired by a painting by Ted CoConis (with his permission), this wall hanging depicts the magnificent egrets that inhabit Florida wetlands.

Techniques used are raw edge applique, 3 D applique, trapunto, thread painting and free motion quilting.

Experimentation with confetti quilts yielded the four seasons.  This is summer.

Quilt is from he Infinite Variety Quilt Show in New York several years ago. Found a class on Craftsy by Angela Perejda which duplicated the quilt.

Took a work with Nancy Amidon. The project was Nesting Goose by P3Desighs, Pearl Pereira.

Applique Quilt design by Lori Smith. Hand applique and pieced.

Tomorrow, this year's "Tour de France" will run through my hometown and whizz past the corner of  my street. That's the reason why my "Reverse of the Medal" welcomes the peloton in the local pharmacy.
As a sports addict, I was disillusioned and upset by last years’ doping affairs and the tearful confessions of some convicted racing cyclists.
NADA and WADA information disclosed the apparently common abuse of “supportive substances”, even in unexpected disciplines.
These athletes defraud their competitors and us, the fans, but also put their health and life at risk – to gain medals, break records, keep crowd and sponsors satisfied : “To win silver is to lose gold !”

Expecting to add an update some day soon, I finished the right edge with a divisible zipper. On the back, I printed tattoo bicycle gears.

The quilt was on display in shows in England, Japan and the States.

Enchanted Evening Star was a quilt I designed as a Quilt of Valor quilt pattern.  The All Hallows block is repeated in this quilt .  It can be made using jelly rolls, fat quarters, or yardage.  It is made using HSTs.   The pattern is available for download at McCalls Quilting.  

    I love to display this quit during patriotic holidays.  All of the components used to make this quilt are located in the classroom section of TQS.  Look for the Patchwork Math classes, and you will be able to make a Zinnie's Choice to proudly display in your home. 

Made for a cheerleader graduating from high school.  This was my first T-shirt quilt, which includes a cheerleader uniform (partially set-in), sweatshirts, detachable hair bows (pinned on using eyelets) and tees.  I used woven fusible interfacing and cotton pieced quilt blocks as fillers.  Each block was custom quilted on my domestic sewing machine.  Backing fabric by Tula Pink.

This quilt was pieced (no raw edges), cutting  & sewing random shapes. I learned this technique from Sheila Frampton-Cooper and added my own spin to it. It was fun to free motion quilt different motifs in each shape. I used my Babylock Elisimo gold domestic sewing machine throughout the quilt.  So much fun!

Small whole cloth quilted on the home sewing machine using ruler work.

This was a quilt I made for the 2017 Iowa Shop Hop Challenge.  Our region of Iowa was given the fall theme and a pre-selected set of specialty designed fabrics produced by Wilmington Fabrics to create a quilt to inspire the quilters throughout the state with projects.  The challenge rules were to incorporate as many of the specialty fabrics and we could add any accent colors that gave the final project a fall look and feel.  I choose the pumpkin seed or orange peel block and changed the scale of the blocks which ran diagonally across the middle.  The quilt is a table topper and is simply quilted with a large meander.  After watching the Mary Kerr show I thought it would be fun to share this quilt.  It is modern but is based on a very old pumpkin seed block.  

My friend Prue Wheel and I have made this quilt.I made the two right hand panels & Prue made the left hand ones.

We each then quilted & attached the panels using a quilt as you go technique.

The Iron Throne

Created by Candace West

Quilted leather art piece using new materials and techniques I am currently experimenting with. Leather, heat transfer vinyl, computerized cutting, and chainmail.

The quilt focuses on the nine houses that are fighting for the Iron Throne, (from the television series Game of Thrones based on the book series by George R. R. Martin.)  Each diamond block has the sigil emblem of one of the houses in their standards colors. The houses are placed in the quilt in the same N/S/E/W position as their geographic location in the fantasy world they inhabit. The corners depict the Iron Throne, which was made with the swords of the vanquished armies that came before them.

Specs and Details

Size:40” x 54”

Weight:7 lbs

Quilting: Hand guided quilting on an Innova 22" longarm.

Time to complete: Who knows? I worked on this off and on between teaching gigs since November 2016. Design and top construction about 2 months. The quilting took approximately 4 weeks, chainmail about 3 weeks. Finishing hardware – 1 week.

Leather Used: 3 Silver lambskins approx. 10 sq feet each, ¼ hide of Grey cow plonge, Fat quarter sizes of all the other colors which include pig, cow and lamb.

Applique and Flanges: Siser Easy Weed Extra heat transfer vinyl. All cut with my KNK Maxx Air cutting machine and heat pressed (fused) to the leather.

Metal: 240 rivets, 449 grommets, 3530 chainmail rings (all chainmail was handmade by the artist, one link at a time in a European 4 and 1 pattern on the bias), 5 decorative conchos.

Lacing: 60 feet of 1.5 mm silver leather cord.

Thread: 2000 yards of Twist thread from Superior, 7 bobbins of Bottom Line (Superior M size) various colors of Invisafil from Wonderfil. Around 300,000 stitches at 13 SPI.

Batting: Quilters Dream Poly on the bottom, Quilters Dream Blend on the top and Hobbs Wool for the trapunto under the appliques.

Backing: Upholstery weight décor print fabric.

Drugs: One full bottle of Tylenol and lots of sugar!

This art quilt is fused on a black background leaving a space between shapes to show a black outline. it has more than 500 pieces and while it was time-consuming it was worth and a lot of fun. it just won a second place award.

One of my favourites. Made for my son and his bride 3 years ago. A free moda pattern but I added smashing and cornerstones. Rita Bertling.