a quilter’s journey
Posted in Quilts on Mar 31st, 2012
It’s a scary thought, making a beautiful quilt top, sewing carefully together slices of gorgeous hand-dyed fabric, and then pull out your scissors and cut holes into it. Never mind, you’ve only one shot of this. But once you get over your initial fear doing something wrong to your work, it’ll get better. You’ll lose [...]
Posted in Quilts, Work in progress on Apr 22nd, 2009
… can you see the shark? When I bought this pattern, it pictured some kind of a whimsical school of fish on a blue background, good idea, but – I immediatly saw all the fish in silks, shiny stuff and the surround in hand-dyed fabrics. I especially like the tropical water [...]
Posted in Quilts on Feb 23rd, 2009
In 2005, I took my very first class on machine quilting. Elizabeth Spannring was a very good teacher, no wonder I got hooked to this type of quilting in an instant. The small test-run sampler was done in no time, but the actual quilt dissapeared in my box of UFO’s. Finally, 4 years later, I [...]
Posted in Art Quilts, Quilts on Feb 9th, 2008
Deadlines, deadlines, they sneak up so fast, tomorrow is another one: at CQA, – for a Small Quilts show in April at Up Front in Issaquah. Well, I’ll see if this quilt is going to make the move, it still has to run thru the jury process. I love the layers and circles, which look just as I imagine molecules of fragrances. [...]
Posted in Quilts on Jan 21st, 2008
A part of this quilt is shown at the blog header. For a full size picture please see http://www.mqinnovations.com/QSWinner%203.htm#creativity After travels to Lisbon/Portugal, I got fascinated by the early navigators. Many of these ships never returned. The Flor de la Mar was on it’s way home, full with treasures and slave girls, taken from Malacca (today’s Malaysia). It [...]
Posted in Quilts on Jan 20th, 2008
In mid 2007, Maggie Ball asked for quilters who want to make a quilt for her new book “Bargello Quilts with a Twist” (Krause Publications, 6/08). The beauty of making quilts from Maggie Ball’s books is, she cuts down complicated parts into a fairly simple to make quilt, even for a beginner. Once I understood the system of cutting, strip piecing and [...]
