2021 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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“Quilting: Cutting perfectly good fabric into pieces and sewing them back together again.” – unknown
Stained Glass Celebration
Fall/Winter 2021 LeadedGlassQuilt given as a Christmas gift, created from AQS pattern by @TraceyJayQuilts using fabrics from @QuiltersStudioVA Image description: 72” square quilt with colorful diamond and hexagon blocks intersected by narrow strips of white background fabric, giving the appearance of stained or leaded glass. Colors transition from lime green in lower left to blue/purple, to red/pink, to orange, to yellow in the upper right. The colorful blocks overflow into the wide white border at the upper right and lower left. Multicolored binding made from scraps of the fabrics in the quilt top.
Scenes from Alaska
Winter 2021 Wall hangings for an Alaskan home! Quilt panels designed by @dawngeretyart. Image description: two colorful wall hangings, each featuring a panel surrounded by multiple borders of alternating strips of squares and strips of fabric featuring swimming salmon. One panel shows a large grizzly approaching a river; the other shows a field on wildflowers in front of a mountain range.
Women’s Rights are Human Rights
Fall/Winter 2021 Women’s Rights Are Human Rights quilt, a birthday gift for a great friend! twin-size quilt with International Sisters Block (instructions from @SewPreetiQuilts ) incorporating paper pieced lettering #ModernInternationalAlphabetFPP from patterns by @Amarar_Creacions Fabrics from my stash and @ArtGalleryFabrics #OpenHeartCollection by @MaureenCracknell, found at my favorite quilt shop, @QuiltersStudioVA ! Image description: rectangular quilt oriented “landscape”; 24 on-point blocks representing female figures of different skin tones in dresses and head wraps of various fabrics; lettering in the center in blue, green, and orange reads “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”, border fabric (triangles) has pink and orange geometric flowers, backing fabric features a variety of female side profiles with flowers
Frida y Día de los Muertos
Fall 2021 Quilt made as a gift for a good friend; paper piecing patterns by Ingrid Alteneder of @joejuneandmae Fabrics and inspiration from @quiltersstudiova image description: brightly colored quit (yellow, pink, turquoise, purple, green) with head and shoulders image of Frida Kahlo (paper pieced fabric) at the center surrounded by sacred hearts, sugar skulls, crosses, and flowers on light blue and turquoise backgrounds, arranged in diagonal rows of on-point diamonds; the back of the quilt is pieced in a woven design with wide strips of colorful fabrics featuring Frida and Día de los Muertos themes
Calvin, Hobbes, and the Starry Night
Summer 2021 I finished this quilt a few months ago and my terrific husband just hung it in our foyer. The background is a modified version of the half-square triangle Starry Night pattern from @emmaleedesigns_ , with fabrics and long arm quilting from @quiltersstudiova Image description: a swirling background of blues, yellow, green, pink, purple, and red, with moon and stars, all created through an arrangement of colorful squares, each square made of two right triangles. The comic strip characters Calvin and Hobbes (by Bill Watterson) are shown in black silhouette, walking with arms outstretched in front of the Starry Night sky
Star Baby
Spring 2021 Baby quilt for a little guy, made following the #StarBabyQuilt pattern/tutorial by @diaryofaquilter Fabric is from the Hungry Animal Alphabet collection by @rileyblakedesigns, designed by @jweckerfrisch, children’s book illustrator Image description: square quilt made from an arrangement of relatively large triangles (half-square triangles), the arrangement and color of the fabrics reveal an 8-pointed star. Fabrics are reds, yellows, blues, and greens, featuring animals and foods associated with different letters of the alphabet, as well as stripes, checks, handwriting and typewritten letters of the alphabet, and sunflowers
Flying Away
Spring 2021 Flying geese quilt made as a graduation gift; pattern is a variation of #RemixedGeese pattern (@robertkaufman) with inspiration from #SunAndSeaQuilt by @connectingthreads Fabric from @quiltersstudiova (I especially loved the white-on-white background fabric which features honey bees and coordinates with some of the other fabrics which also have bees, and the backing which has a honeycomb design) Image descriptions: photos of a rectangular quilt draped over a wooden deck railing; quilt features a semi-random arrangement of pairs of isosceles triangles in light blue, aqua, mint, and gold colors on a white background.
Alaska Baby
Winter 2021 This arctic themed quilt went to a great home in Nome, Alaska! I used a mix of scraps and great fabric finds from @quiltersstudiova and followed the North Stars pattern by @elizabethagh Image description: a large, square quilt comprised of 9 blocks, arranged 3×3. Each block features an arctic animal or pair of animals: polar bear, foxes, musk ox, owl, seal, walrus, otters, reindeer, and narwal. Smaller patchwork star patterns accompany the animals in their blocks. The sashing and backgrounds are light grey and silver fabrics. The quilt was finished with wavy diagonal quilting and a multicolor, scrappy binding.