Whimsical play with my design   Textured Tweety.... 

patchwork baby quilt

child's play mat surrounded by patchwork.

this 'One Block Wonder fabric was made from a decorator fabric depicting a gothic architectural design.  Hollow blocks add a dimensional quality.

rhis quilt was made with a local gallery in mind.  Appalachian Spring is an outdoor activity initiative based in Southwest Virginia.  This quilt celebrates the winter sports.

This was made for a regional exhibition of the Embroiderers guild in the UK, and is made mostly out of an old, unwanted shirt. I made a stencil of the design, used markal sticks and fabric paint, then free machine embroidery, then free machine quilting. Finally I added some beads to add a bit of sparkle.

Hand appliqued Garden Girl Quilt, machined pieced & quilted with a ric-rac binding

Baby quilt made for great niece/nephew due in November.  Centre square from 2015 BOM Quilt designed by Lynette Anderson surrounded by veriation of a 9 patch.  Machine pieced, appliqued and quilted.

Double Wedding Ring Quilt made from templates by Sharlene Jorgenson.  Machine pieced & quilted on Elna Quilter's Dream machine.  Made to celebrate my 43rd wedding anniversary.  Finished size - 47 x 57.

"Trish and Tweety
30" x 40”
 
Cycling on the back roads of Wisconsin last summer, I spied twin baby swiss calves and snapped photos of them.  This is my first cow quilt.  Initially, I had created the outline to capture the realistic image of this little babe, but then decided to challenge myself to work more whimsically.  The quilt uses my Picture Image Appliqué process.
Completed January, 2014
 
Inspired by the theme for the
MCFA-Madison Contemporary Fiber Artists exhibition "In Living Color" and the IQA World of Beauty, " Art Whimsical catagory, Houston, 2015
Textured Tweety created with Texture Magic. Machine embellished with couching and machine quilted on a home sewing machine
 
Designed and Created by
Wendy Butler Berns
textile artist, teacher, lecturer
   www. wendybutlerberns.com

I began designing this quilt as a project for a class I took.  As I was making the flowers, I had the opportunity to enter a show with a fabric challenge using a floral fabric.  I used parts of the challenge fabric for the centers of the flowers. I sent a piece of the background fabric to Spoonflower and had it printed in a larger scale so that  I could use it to  applique the flowers on top.  The quilt won the challenge and allowed me to buy more fabric!

28" x 54" Runner made to play with 60 degree triangles made from strip pieces. It had been raining here a LOT and I just wanted to make something that was representative of sunshine and fun summer days. Original pattern.

The Roses Are Red queen-sized quilt is hand appliqued, machined quilted and trapuntoed with piping in the scalloped borders.  Made for a daughter that grows roses and she'll get it as soon as it is no longer needed for trunk shows!

My local quilt presented a block of the month to the members. I decided to make mine using felted wool for the applique. The background and piecing is all 100% cottons. The wool applique was fused and then machine appliqued to the background, I used my Bernina to do some of the emblishing...flowers and tendrils.  It won 3rd place in the machine quilting catagory at my local guild show 2015.

I fell in love with the meadow print of the Stonehenge fabric collection. I asked my local quilt owner to order the line and she did. I purchased 1/2 yards of 10 prints. I used a barn red fabric for the accent.
I was inspired by the pattern Birthday Cake Quilt by Elizabeth Hartman.

paper pieced wall quilt with led lights

I started piecing these cute baskets using Alex's cutting technique. It soon became clear that I wouldn't live long enough to make this quilt. I decided to buy a Go Baby and the die to cut the remainder of the blocks. I used the color and setting ideas from Alex's book on neutrals. I am pretty sure that there are not two baskets the same...wow, a lot of neutral fabric and still more in my stash. Thank you for the inspiration, Alex.

A 'One Block Wonder' quilt with hollow blocks.