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It’s Been Awhile!

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I can’t believe the last time I shared anything on my website was in 2021. I have created quite a few quilts in the last five years and it is high time I shared some photos and some thoughts about them.

Let’s start with some mini quilts: These are between 16″ and 20″ wide.

The TV quilt was made for the Boston Modern Quilt Guild Dewey Decimal Challenge. This has been going from library to library for about 4 years now. I miss that little quilt!. This house quilt is my Niece Chrissy’s house in Panton VT.

I made these two denim quilts as part of a Boston Modern Quilt Guild challenge to reuse denim fabric. The Xs and Os Quilt was exhibited at the Museum of Science and the Star was exhibited at the Boston Public Library.

These are full sized quilts. I still have 11 of these quilts. The others have been gifted for various reasons.

Here are some Progression Panel Quilts using Convergence Blocks in the corners. This was a very popular class at Quilters Common. I do miss Quilters Common. I have a pattern for a Progression Panel Quilt available on my FREE Patterns page.

Here are some quilts made as group projects for various charities.

Here are quilts that are collaborative efforts. The Seven Sisters Quilt is made with a collection of blocks I got on eBay. Each block was made and signed by a different woman. I had fun putting it together. The second was a BMQG Bee. We had groups of six people and this is the design, my Improv Recipe, I chose for the group I was in when it was my turn. So fun, and these are quilts we were told to keep and enjoy.

I was asked to make more Tie Quilts. These ties belonged to Jane’s brother who died too soon, and she asked if I would make quilts for his 3 kids, and there were enough to make one for her, too. Coincidentally, these were also Tom’s ties, for those who remember the last Tie Quilt that I made.

For Vaughn 50” x 50”
For Aaron 50” x 50”
For Breanne 50” x 50”
For Jane 50” x 50”

This gives you a pretty good idea of what I have been doing! I am going to do some more posts focusing on some quilts that have interesting stories that must be shared properly!

Virtual Quilt Show

The Boston Modern Quilt Guild is playing with the idea of a virtual quilt show. I am going to play with that idea here with some of my quilts.

Click Here to see BMQG Group Quilts

Thank You Jane, 2108.

Jane Stickle finished her quilt in 1863. People are still enchanted and challenged by her unique quilt blocks. Even with all of my modern gadgets and fancy machines I still had a lot to learn from Jane. Could not have managed to get through all of the blocks without help from the Jane Stickle Group lead by Pat Kowalczyk at Quilters Common, which met for 4 years starting in 2013.

 

Checkerboard Skew Revisited, 2020

In 1973 Beth Gutcheon included this design in her book “The Perfect Patchwork Primer”. This book inspired quilters to take a fresh look at quilting and her designs are still making us ask what is a modern quilt and showing how timeless modern is.

 

Seeing Red, 2020

Are you seeing a red and white quilt? This is actually a pink and white quilt, but color is often a matter of opinion. The design is based on a half scale Fibonacci sequence used to determine the width of strips used. I borrowed Ricky Tims Convergence technique and sewed the strips together, rotated and then cut strips again.

 

Storm, 2020

During the pandemic I found myself trying a virtual workshop. I took Mid Century Modern with Carole Lyles Shaw. This is improv to the max. You start out with a big pieced circle and then you just keep slicing, relocating and adding. I posted my progress online and Carole commented that I should keep slicing! At some point I was satisfied with my slicing and this is the stormy result.

 

Process Color, 2019

I wanted to work with the four colors of ink that I am always feeding my printer to see how bold they might look together. I had been playing with the Ricky Tims Convergence Quilts style so I went from there and here is the result.

Hope, 2020

I am working with a group of ladies in the do.Good Stitches Hope circle of quilters. We are an online community working through Instagram and Flickr to design and share quilt blocks. I designed this quilt, collected the blocks and put this quilt together. It is always amazing how the quilts come together with just a little bit of prompting for fabric selection. The rainbow of colors gives us all hope for less cloudy days ahead.

The following contributed blocks to this quilt: Sherryl Barnum, Jeanine Conner, Angie Fitzreiter, Heather Flegel, Cath Hall, Christie Kline, Suzy Lampman, Susan McKinney, Jennifer Mendola, Sarah Terry

 

Garden Trellis, 2020

This is another one of my Stack and Wack quilts with a new more complicated block that makes the quilt look like a Garden Trellis. I have a pattern for this quilt and was scheduled to teach it at Quilters Common, but then suddenly everything changed. Hopefully I can get back to teaching classes later this year!

 

And here are two Group Quilts that the BMQG have put together:

“Orange You Glad We Made This Quilt?” and “Shattered” are group quilts created through distanced and virtual togetherness. The design process began with a group brainstorming in a park. Participants then made curvy starter-blocks using materials provided by the guild, followed by a virtual workshop where the starter-blocks were altered by random prompts. The improvised blocks were brought together at a backyard design session where two quilt designs emerged. Although the two quilts were made from improvisational blocks that were essentially the same, the resulting quilts were very different. The process was truly collaborative and fun.

Orange You Glad We Made This Quilt?, 2020, Long Arm Quilting by Rebecca Loren

 

Shattered, 2020, Long Arm Quilting by Patrice Denault