Peek at a project I sent off to a magazine for possible publication For months, now my husband has been changing the words on our chalkboard to celebrate the day. We’ve had New Sofa Day, First Friday, Sam’s Club Shopping, Taco Tuesday. Thanks for my recent dental surgery, we are currently celebrating Soft Food Fortnight. […]
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With lace and a beaded top she looks ready for her big day!
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I stitched this background months ago and it never quite matched the girl I had created for it. I contemplated turning it over and used the back with the girl, but with the encouragement of AMQG members, I created a new girl for it. The background is pastel so the girl needed to be in
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He’s outline stitched – they look cute together! I like that they have different ‘skin’.
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I sketched my first boy pattern. Here he is fused on the quilt. Sort of plain at the moment.
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My friend, Kristin, has been cleaning out her fabric stash. Strips and fat quarters in greens, blue and brown looked fun. I challenged myself to finish it today. It’s not fancy — patchwork, pillowcase binding and mostly stitch in the ditch quilting. It’ll a great charity quilt for a child as soon as I snip
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Sometimes my mind needs a break from art quilts. I’m auditioning the placement of these crocheted flowers, stems and various shapes in green brown and purple on a piece of burlap.
The bike is ironed in place on the quilt. The bike is outline stitched with black thread.
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To add a bike to one of my smaller quilts, I traced a smaller version of the pattern I used to create my initial bike quilt onto the release paper of fusible webbing. The pattern pieces are fused to the fabric and cut out (very carefully). On a teflon craft sheet, I fuse the individual
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11 bigger art quilts ready for their sleeves to be hand stitched in place.
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