Quick stats:
- Total submissions: 43
- Total countries: 6
- Total provinces: 2
- Total states: 21
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3 Trees By: Diane Lapacek, Wisconsin, USA The trees were made from narrow shtreds of fabric and tinsel, then appliqued in place. Stars were cut from a Caramel Delights package and twisted fibers frame the piece. Quilt size: width: 24" height: 20" |
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A Lone Winter Tree By: Marty Mason, Louisiana, USA Snippits of fabric and thread sketching….I wanted minimal to express the aloneness of my winter tree. Quilt size: width: 14" height: 19" |
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A Winter Snowscape By: Pam Geisel, Ohio, USA Four snowflakes are swirling to the snow-covered ground in this quilted landscape. Tiny stars peek out of the vibrant blue sky and clear beads glitter in the snow. Machine pieced and quilted, hand embroidered. Quilt size: width: 24" height: 18" |
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A Winter View By: Debbie, South Carolina, USA I loved the striking graphic effect of this pattern from Quilter’s World 2009. The cardinal is my symbol of hope, so this pattern called to me. It reminds me of the view from my kitchen window in winter. I rarely follow a given pattern, but I only added a couple of extra cardinals. Quilt size: width: 54" height: 76" |
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After the Harvest By: Lisa Quintana, Ohio, USA A common sight in the midwest after the corn is harvested is the western wind blowing across the fields of stubble. In Michigan, where I grew up, it wasn’t until late December that more substantial snow came. Here in SW Ohio, the stubble rarely holds much snow at all.,just bleak, frozen ground. Quilt size: width: 30" height: 17.2" |
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Aurora Borealis By: Deborah Vollbracht, Kentucky, USA I made this original design living in Alaska in the winter, trying to capture the spirit of the spectacular aurora borealis. Hand dyed background mimics the aurora. White crystal beads are sprinkled in the sky to shine as stars on a crisp night. Quilt size: width: 41" height: 12" |
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Autumn to Winter By: Persimon Dreams, Wisconsin, USA I converged two tree printed batiks and two hand-dyes to create this quilt. Two of the fabrics were autumnal and two were wintery. The quilt reads ‘seasons transitioning’ to me and I’m really happy with it. This is one of my first quilts I quilted on my long arm. Quilt size: width: 30" height: 30" |
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Blue Night By: Eldrid Røyset Førde, Norway The inspiration for this quilt is a childhood memory of walking through the woods on cold and wintry evenings, the errand was often to fetch the milk on one of the neighbouring farms. On the way we passed houses with an inviting glow shining through the windows. Quilt size: width: 24" height: 24" |
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Cabin in the Woods By: Kathi Iacovelli, Pennsylvania, USA A gift for my Secret Quilter pal last December, this little quilt uses the technique I call free-style-cut, fuse, sew, quilt! Quilt size: width: 16" height: 10" |
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Christmas Visitors By: Everythingquilts, Kentucky, USA This mini quilt was created for a swap on the HGTV quilting and needlework forum. It measures 13×14″ and was paper pieced. It’s hard to see but there is snow flakes stitched with a sparkly thread that is to look like snow/ice on the sky areas. Quilt size: width: 13″" height: 14″" |
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En Patufet By: Mariangels Ferrando, Spain Is a quilt based in a popular tale from Catalonia. I did it for my daughters’son. He’s two years ould and loves the tale of the little Patufet. Quilt size: width: 30" height: 60" |
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Finding the Right Tree By: Calicojoan, Colorado, USA A little irreverent winter landscape from Eat Cake Graphics. I laughingly named it “Don’t eat yellow snow”. It hung over my dining room table for years, until hubby had enough, and made it come down. Guess it’s really not proper dinner proticol! LOL!! Quilt size: width: 41" height: 24" |
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First Impression By: Kathleen Murphy, Massachusetts, USA I used my own hand dyed fabrics combined with commercial batiks to create this winter scene from my back yard. It’s all machine pieced and machine quilted. Quilt size: width: 16" height: 20" |
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First Snow By: Cindy Herndon, Maryland, USA Appliqued trees on a field of snow capture the serenity of a dusky snow fall. A few trees desperately hold a leaf or two. Quilt size: width: 31.5" height: 26" |
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First Winter Snow By: Victoria Plesa, California, USA This is an original design of mine inspired by the many snow storms we enjoy while living at an altitude of a mile high. Not a sight you’d expect in “Sunny California”. Quilt size: width: 32" height: 34" |
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Frosty… the snowman By: Cute pincushion, California, USA This is Frosty, winter landscape mini I made for the holidays :-) Quilt size: width: 18" height: 15" |
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Glacier By: Lynda Hermann, Washington, USA This is a pattern by Liza Moore using McKenna Ryan fabrics. I have had the pattern and fabric for several years. Once the top is quilted, I will be adding crystals which really finishes the quilt perfectly. My best friend has asked for the quilt when I am done, will be her birthday surprise. Quilt size: width: 50" height: 70" |
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Hot Chocolate By: Kathy Stockbridge, Washington, USA I made this quilt for a good friend expecting her third child. It was completed during a very snowy winter in 2008. I decided to take a picture of it in the snow. Quilt size: width: 54" height: 60" |
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Icy Fun By: Jeanie Lemmo, Colorado, USA I belong to a group of quilters who complete a 12 inch fully finished “quilt” each month interpreting a chosen word. This quilt represents “ICE”. Quilt size: width: 12" height: 12" |
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Log Cabin in the Snow By: Christine, California, USA A cozy cabin in the snow. My friend, Jackie, hangs this quilt up on her wall every winter. Quilt size: width: 39" height: 39" |
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Marcy’s Penguins By: Patricia Hersl, Delaware, USA My new daughter-in-law picked this out of a catalogue as something she would like. It is hand appliqued and machine quilted using hand-dyed fabrics. Pattern by Whistlepig Creek. Quilt size: width: 24" height: 20" |
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Margaret Griffiths By: Margaret Griffiths, Virginia, USA I enjoyed doing this technique of negative/positive split spaces. And it turned out to look like a long cold winter’s night. Hence the name – Long Winter Night. I donated it to; The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) for Amni Sims, (Priority Quilts) Quilt size: width: 9" height: 12" |
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Mmmm, Maple Syrup Time By: Debbie Collins, Ontario, Canada A quilt to always remind me of Maple Syrup Time with my dad. Warmth of the fire after gathering the syrup by hand on a nice winter day. We have a new shed and evaporator this year and we are going to try making maple sugar butter. Its so good. Quilt size: width: 36" height: 36" |
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My Holiday Dream By: Amy Crunk, Alabama, USA Living in Alabama we don’t see much snow & certainly never have enough for a sleigh ride so this is what my dream is for a winter holiday would look like. We’ve had ONE inch of snow this winter so I guess I’ll just keep dreaming! Quilt size: width: 40" height: 35" |
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Owl in Winter By: Cynthia Zoller, New Hampshire, USA This little quilt is made using raw edge applique with a layer of tulle put over the landscape before quilting. It is a night scene and a little difficult to photograph. There is an unseen mouse hiding behind the snow dunes hoping to escape the talons of the swooping owl. Quilt size: width: 10" height: 12" |
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Ring-Necked Pheasant By: EllenB, Michigan, USA Paper pieced pattern by Veronica Jones of Selkirk Creations. Most of the pattern is paper pieced except for the fence posts which are machine appliqued and the fence wires which are hand embroidered. I did the machine techniques (including the machine quilting) on my domestic sewing machine. Quilt size: width: 38" height: 28" |
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Silver Trees By: Julie Brown Neu, Massachusetts, USA This is one of a 52 week journal quilt series, based on a previous drawing from my sketch book. Quilt size: width: 8" height: 8" |
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Snow Globe By: Yvonne Bamlett, Alberta, Canada The Snow Globe is such a cute way to display this snow man. The tree is embroidered and tiny red beads have been added for a little color. The snowy blue was perfect and the scarf has fringes to give a some depth. All done with applique. I love the country colors. I just want to shake it! Quilt size: width: 23" height: 24" |
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Snowdrops By: Jenny in NZ, New Zealand A yet unfinished Block from the EstherAliu Mystery applique BOM “Forget Me Not ” that I have been making for past 12 months. Mount and frame fabrics that I will be using I added thru photo editing. Quilt size: width: 9" height: 12" |
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Snowfall By: art2wear, Netherlands A coat made with a lot of different fabrics, including a Kona Bay fabric of mt Fuji. Quilt size: width: m/l" height: m/l" |
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Sweet Skating Sue By: Amy @ Butterfly Angels, Louisiana, USA Jennifer Offenstein (sewhooked.com) offered a miniquilt swap that had to use her Sweet Skating Sue block (lower right corner). I took her pattern and expanded on the theme, adding mini sues, trees, a lodge, and a ice path. Then it was shipped to Australia. Quilt size: width: 24" height: 24" |
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Vintage skiis By: Carol aka landscapelady, Vermont, USA I saw a vintage postcard with this scene and just had to make a quilt from it. You can just feel the quiet of the snow covered slope and take in the beauty of winter. Quilt size: width: 15" height: 18" |
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Water and Ice By: Creative Lady, Wisconsin, USA This quilt is made in Blues and Greens, Created to be appliqued with Snowmen and Trees ” Frosty’s Cabins” a pattern designed by Laura DeMarco & Rita DeMarco. The Border I added does not seem to lend itself to this so I did not applique anything to it. I am thinking of a Vine and leaf applique. Quilt size: width: 34" height: 43" |
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While In Vermont By: Helen, New Jersey, USA We have been skiing in Vermont for many years. While there a local quilt shop was holding a landscape class that my mother and I joined in on. When seeing this little piece it brings wonderful warm memories of our family in Vermont. Quilt size: width: 14" height: 15" |
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White Birches By: Susan Arnold, California, USA This is a black and white quilt of birch trunks, with three cardinals in the branches. I wanted something seasonal with screaming Christmas, and this is perfect! Quilt size: width: 38.5" height: 50" |
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Winter Angel By: Cleary Kipe, Florida, USA Not sure if this qualifies. I made this table topper with blocks from a New Year’s Swap. The blocks are made out of fabrics to represents snow and lights. The Angel in the woods is printed on fabric. I have this on my table by my couch during all of January. Quilt size: width: 35" height: 39" |
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winter birches By: beverly rigler, Connecticut, USA This is a scenic art quilt depicting birch trees in the winter. Quilt size: width: 18" height: 25" |
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Winter Forest By: Michele Groth, California, USA I was inspired to make this quilt by a picture of a winter quilt I saw pictured in a quilt magazine. The fabric reminded me of the bark of aspen trees in the mountains of Colorado where I grew up. The quilt hangs in a corner of the hallway where the bend gives the quilt added dimension. Quilt size: width: 23" height: 28" |
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Winter in My Dreams By: Linda Winters, Texas, USA This quilt is one of the very few raw edged applique quilts I have done. It is my own design and was inspired by the bulletin boards I used to have my elementary students make, putting up figures they each cut from colored paper. It is a “dream land” as I live where our winters are extremely mild. Quilt size: width: 43" height: 33" |
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Winter magic By: Eva Johansen, Norway Collage, made of hand painted fabrics, silk and batik. Fused with Steam-A-Seam. Last year, I gave my self a challenge. I made 12 notes with different techniques /challenges and put them in a jar to draw every month and use the technique in a quilt measuring 12 x 12 inches. Quilt size: width: 12" height: 12" |
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Winter Mystery By: Julianne, California, USA This is a mystery quilt that I made at my LQS recently. I used a very wintery woodsy fabric and Kona Cardinal. I had no idea what it would look like in the end, but its just lovely. Its going to be a Christmas 2013 gift for a family member…gotta keep them snuggly in the wintertime! Thanks! Quilt size: width: 54" height: 62" |
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Winter wonderland (Darlene Contadino) By: Darlene Contadino, Ohio, USA I really like the feature fabric, so I decided to make this quilt for the bedroom my granddaughter stays in when she visits. It is my own design. I wanted a winter quilt. This is my first seasonal quilt Quilt size: width: 75" height: 90" |
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Winter Wonderland (Jan) By: Jan, Kentucky, USA This machine appliqué wallhanging makes use of the same piece of fabric for the aspens and snowy background night sky. It is Jane Sassaman’s Sunshine and Shadow Dots. It was perfect to show the contrast of the trees as they blend into the snow. Pattern is from “Follow the Dots” by Segna/Crow. Quilt size: width: 25" height: 32" |
Batiks are always inspiring for me, as well as hand dyed fabrics. There is that little surprise in them that adds the sparkle to any project!
I love tye dyes and fall colored fabric and the denuims and reds draw my eyes , i am constantly thinking of a new quilt block designs for these fabrics and …i am a couple of yrs new to this !
I love to sew with hand dyed, they are so unique!
Batiks are my all time favorite but would love to get my hands on some hand dyed. Great giveaway and inspiring quilts. Thanks
I can’t stop collecting batiks!!!! I have a lot of projects in my sewing room, and most of them are batiks! So many fabrics, so little time!
Most any fabric will send me to my sewing room. I do love batiks
I love nearly all fabrics, but especially hand dyed stuff. People are so very creative. :)
Great colours like purple, pink, red and yellow make me starting a new project right away ;-)
Thanks for the chance to enter the giveaway. I love all fabrics and plan to use up as much as possible from the sewing room this year. New fabric is always great.
Happy days.
Bev.xoxo
Tone on Tone clear clean crisp Teal fabrics. I love them in hand dyes, Batiks and prints
Ooh so many beautiful items! very hard to vote! I confess to have been bitten by the batik bug ;-)
I love batiks.
I love to work with a wide variety of fabrics, so this is a hard question. Right now I’m finishing up a quilt done in dark red, gold, blue, green and creams – very country looking, but getting ready to start a quilt in bright clear limes, teals and purples with black and whites. I love them both!
I love looking at all the beautiful quilts submitted. I vote for the ones that appeal to my eye.Being relatively new to quilting, ANY and ALL fabrics bring out new ideas and dreams. I have a special fondness for brights, tone on tones and hand dyed materials.
I will say I’m inspired by country the most, though if I had hand dyed or batiks, I ‘m sure I would be inspired by them, too.
Retro-Mod fabrics make me so excited…. I love them. Think Austin Powers!
I’m a total sucker for batiks. Seriously can not resist touching them & taking them home to start a new project. I’m fairly new to hand dyes, but love them as well. Such rich tones to play with.
When I get text prints I immediately want to create!
Love Vickies hand dies.
I love bright, rich batiks and hand dyes. They make me itch to sew!
So, the hand dyes you offer are great! Thanks for the chance.
I love 30s repros! They make me so happy when I work with them.
Bright and bold, saturated colors that absolutely defy the fact that I live in Anchorage, Alaska and have 4 more long months of winter left to endure!
Batiks are my very most favorite fabrics. Would love to try the hand dyes in a project.
I am a country quilter…love the earthy tones – greens, barn reds, dusty blue and all the tans. Add black or yellow and the blends are beautiful. The batiks have added to the mix!
Almost any NEW fabric makes me want to rush home and start sewing. I do have some batiks that I think are so pretty I don’t want to cut them or ruin them in some way. I am just so happy to own them! :)
Batiks! I can’t get enough of them. The rich hues and brilliant colors, the deep blues and purples, the endless project possibilities! I always get sidetracked at the Batik section.
A wonderful collection of quilts, so very hard to choose favorites.
I love the blue, green and purple batiks, especially if they’ve got some kind of nature theme, be it butterflies or seahorses, or maybe leaves…doesn’t matter, I just love playing with ’em all!
Reproduction prints, I just love sewing them together and seeing a beautiful quilt emerge.
Debbie
Batiks in most shades especially yellows, blues and purples.
Love the quilts on show this week, I have a very long short list to work thru before I vote.
Jenny
I love batiks!
What absolutely phenomenal entries this week – oh gosh, so hard to choose only 4!
Perhaps the question should be what fabric makes me NOT want to run and hide in my workroom and play? That would be so much easier to answer…but ok…I’ll go with batiks..they make me tingle!
I love any fabrics that are for my crafts but not so keen to get on my machine when hubby needs alterations to hems on jeans or my daughter wants curtains made.
Love to open drawers and just handle material too.
Have a fabric fetish I must admit but I really, really like anything primitive :)
So many wonderful quilts…hard to pick just four! I love the beautiful rich colors of hand dyes and batiks. Just can’t get enough of them.
hard to pick favs … like them all! love my batiks most of all!
Wow… Great quilts and great contest :-)
Great quilts…. Hard to pick 4 :-)
I love batiks….. I love working with them. So elegant and gracious :-)
Great quilts!
I love batiks and the 1930s
Thanks for the give away
I’m mad for blue fabrics, particularly ones with lush detail and rich, strong shades of blue.
I love blue, it’s my favorite color, I have loads of blue, but recently when I went to pull fabrics for a project I discovered I have no pink. That just won’t do, with one baby grand daughter and another on the way. What has me running to my sewing room, batiks…I just love them. I don’t own hand dies, I’ve been afraid of dye stability and ruining projects – nearly everything I make will be washed. I need to get past that, because I do love the look of them, and I do a lot of applique and know they would enhance the projects.
Any fabric inspires me… it doesn’t take much. However, at the moment, I’m working on Quilts for Kids, so really cute juvenile prints call to me.
bright sunny colors, fabrics that make me feel happy – and that is usually batiks or hand dyes.
I find beauty in most fabrics but have never had an opportunity to use the hand-dyed so I’d love to win that. Thank you.
Todos os tecidos me atraem,mas eu escolho 1930.
Obrigada.
tiacarminhapezzuto@gmail.com
Big modern prints and solids! It’s difficult to not start a new quilt every weekend. :)
I love hand-died fabrics, especially blues. Thanks for the giveaway!
I had a load of hand dyes that I cut immediately after ironing. Probably the fastest I’ve ever done that. Usually it takes me a lot of time to marinate a quilt.
Very difficult to decide on which to vote for. All the entries are wonderful and makes winter more desirable.
The fabric that makes me want to drop everything and quilt depends on my mood. There isn’t a fabric that I don’t like in the right place in the right quilt.
I love 1800 reproductions fabrics but also love batiks, country, hand dyed etc, etc. I just love fabrics and love to look at quilts. Also love to make them!
It was very hard to decide this time because there were so many beautiful ones!