2020 Gallery
These quilts are all openly described for accessibility and to acknowledge (as much as possible) the creative pattern authors, teachers, fabric designers, and fellow quilters whose efforts have made my quilts possible!
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“The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.” – Rohinton Mistry
Bright Bargello
Fall/Winter 2020 Christmas 2020 (though shipping delays led to this quilts being a delayed “Christmas-in-January” gift) My mom helped piece this quilt, making it an extra special gift for my mother in law! Description: brightly colored twin size bargello quilt following “Modern Bargello Quilt” pattern by Angela Walters using #BoundlessCollage tone-on-tone fabrics in purples, blues, pinks, and greens, arranged in three circular sections comprised of repeating and reflecting patterns of rectangles. Quilted (by me) with contrasting thread which outlines the seams and borders in the pattern.
Great Smokey Mountains
Winter 2020 First of two gifted quilts, Christmas 2020 Description: a national parks themed lap quilt with four panels with scenes from the Great Smoky Mountains, arranged 2×2, separated by “bear claw” blocks and bordered with triangles, fabrics and National Tours pattern are from a national parks themed collection by @rileyblakedesigns, quilted (by me) with brown thread in a wavy pattern of concentric diamonds
#POD
Summer/Fall 2020 ProjectOfDoom (POD) paper-pieced quilt, with patterns from @fandominstitches Long-arm quilting from @quiltersstudiova Image description: large quilt depicting a bookshelf against a stone wall, with a star-filled sky in the background On top of the bookshelf: Hedwig the owl, potion bottles, a book, and Ministry of Magic paper airplane messages. In the upper left corner, a Hogwarts crest. In the upper right corner, the Wesley’s flying car On the top shelf of the bookcase: time turner, books, kitten plate, Luna’s glasses, and lantern Second shelf down: books, butter beer, snitch, Tri-Wizard Cup, framed picture of Dumbledore Third shelf down: books, quill, Harry’s glasses, flying key with broken wing, candlestick, teacup Fourth shelf down: books, crystal ball, Crookshanks the cat and the sorting hat, potion bottles Fifth shelf down: potion bottle, books, Harry’s wand, Gryffindor tie Bottom shelf: pumpkin, Scabbers the rat, books, test tube, cauldron Left of the bookshelf: Leaky Cauldron sign, torch, Hagrid’s pink umbrella Under the bookshelf: green carped, sleeping green dragon Right of the bookshelf: Fawkes the phoenix on a perch, torch, Firebolt broom
Four Storms at Sea
2019-2020 Over a year in the making, this is my first self-designed (not from a pattern) quilt — king size with batik fabrics from @quiltersstudiova (they also did a beautiful job with the long arm quilting!) My design was inspired by Wayne Kollinger’s “Quarter of Four” blocks (waynekollingersquiltblog.blogspot.com), which are derived from the traditional Storm at Sea pattern. This was a lot of fun – and I am happy to have it on my bed!
Home Awaits
Spring 2020 HomeAwaits quilt from a kit by @connectingthreads I started this quilt while working far from home, looking forward to ending the school year and coming home. Little did I know that I’d be heading home sooner than expected and that I’d be getting a lot of time at home to make up for being gone!
Baby Bricks
Winter 2020 BricksAndStones (@redpepperquilts) baby quilt made with #myimaginationfabric from @claretheresegray for Windham Fabrics