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4Birds By: TrischP,
Kansas, USA
I made the three improv blocks at a workshop using Echino fabric that was leftover from recovering a chair. I played with the blocks for quite a while before I came up with the idea for the background.
Quilt size: width: 27" height: 39"
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A nation Divided By: Joyce Scaggs,
Missouri, USA
“150 years since our “CIVIL WAR” top-underground RR blocks (safe house & go south w/ 2 blocks depicted in one block) & US Am flag
middle- border state flags ,Cherokee & Qauntrill and an appliqued Eagle.
bottom- Cot quilt BL., Confederate flag & a block that spoke of Sherman’s march across
Quilt size: width: 42" height: 42"
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A Pearl for Me By: Sberrymum,
New Zealand
This was made to celebrate 30 years for my local guild (Rose City Quilters). The sand is formed with rectangular shapes (Gloria Loughman style) and the sea is painted. Oyster shells were made with brown paper bags, the sea sponge from a French knitted length of wool (over-dyed).
Quilt size: width: 19" height: 39"
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A Promise of Spring By: Heather,
Ontario, Canada
This was made for a challenge from Northcott Fabrics. While I didn’t win, I did have fun making it and pushing myself to try machine quilting. It is now on loan to my dentist and is hanging in his office.
Quilt size: width: 32" height: 32"
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Appalachian Beauty By: Sharon Elliot,
South Africa
My first attempt at wall art. Original pattern from Bigfork Bay Cotton Co. I played with the colors and decided to do something different and use only tones of pink. It was a fun project to do.
Quilt size: width: 24.5" height: 27"
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baby rattles By: beaquilter,
North Carolina, USA
Baby rattles, a quilt I designed in EQ and foundation pieced using Riley Blake vintage baby fabrics. May have seen this in McCall’s magazine :)
Quilt size: width: 48" height: 48"
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Basket Of Flaowers By: Rita McCart,
Missouri, USA
I found this old 6″ pattern in a junk store, thought it would be cool to make a huge one for this contest. I added the multi colored border to bring in and accentuate the colors in the urn. This is my first time quilting like this! I think I did an excellent job!! :)
Quilt size: width: 33.5" height: 33.5"
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Bear Lake By: Nellie,
Tennessee, USA
If you’ve ever walked to the far side of Bear Lake in the Rocky Mountain National Park, you’ll recognize this view. For a number of years I had in mind to create an art quilt about my beloved Colorado and this was it.
Quilt size: width: 45" height: 34"
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Beginning to Bud By: Heather Gunter,
Missouri, USA
Originally a guild challenge quilt with the theme “3Bs,” members were challenged to create a wallhanging using a green batik (given), 3 or more buttons (mine are layered), and another B word (budding flower design). Hand quilted and based off of a design by Debbie Mumm.
Quilt size: width: 14" height: 36"
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Bekah’s landscape By: Mary Ellen,
New York, USAtarget=”_blank”>thestarryhomecrafter
I was challenged to make a landscape quilt and I decided to do it from my cat’s point of view. I used hand dyed fabrics and hand quilted bugs onto the sky.
Quilt size: width: 23" height: 18"
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Blocks boxes By: Lies Bos-Varkevisser,
Netherlands
I love quilts with an extra. In this case the 3D-effect. Made in a complimentary color scheme. I designed the quilt myself. The drawing was made on isometric paper.
Quilt size: width: 23" height: 27"
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Blooming Aussies By: Sue Preece,
Australia
Once I saw this Australian native floral fabric range I fell in love with it and so did my husband! I chose to free motion outline all the flowers to highlight them using embroidery thread.
Quilt size: width: 39" height: 39"
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Blue Pomegranate By: Bunny,
Ontario, Canada
This is a pattern by Esther Aliu It is in Australian Patchwork and Quilting Vol.19 No.3. I belong to Esther’s Yahoo list and one of the gals on our list made one and I loved it. I found the magazine on eBay. It was red in the magazine but I am a blue person so I made it in blue.
Quilt size: width: 22″" height: 26″"
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Bubble By: Ina van Engen,
Netherlands
This quilt i made after receiving a piece of lace made by a patient.I’m a RN and nursed this very creative woman who suffered from a stroke. Not being able to design and make anything she so loved,we enjoyed talking about techniques and everything that has to do with fabric.
Quilt size: width: 19" height: 41"
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Chasing Rainbows By: Linda Byrd,
Texas, USA
I like to make quilts using even the smallest scrap of fabric. I pieced this string quilt on a muslin foundation and arranged the blocks to form a star. The name of the quilt was inspired by the Goose Chase border surrounding the rainbow colors of the quilt.
Quilt size: width: 50" height: 50"
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Cinco de Yellow By: Vicki in MN,
Minnesota, USA
My inspiration for this quilt was Angela Walters-I took her machine quilting modern class last year and love her style of quilting. The pattern for this quilt was a freebie on her website and I used fills from her class/book for the quilting designs.
Quilt size: width: 38" height: 38"
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Circle on a circle in a circle, round and round by round By: maritm,
Norway
This is a wall hanging that I made in connection with an online course on Quilt University. The course was called “going in circles” by Leslie Lacika. It was a extremely creative process and fun. The quilt is made from bali fabrics, beads, felt balls and some washers from the hardware
Quilt size: width: 12" height: 24"
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Cobblestone By: Barbara Kemp,
Ontario, Canada
Civil War fabric and wool applique. I want to make several minature quilts for the wall by our hall stairs.
Quilt size: width: 18" height: 18"
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Come to the Water By: Elaine,
California, USA
I took a Rob Appell workshop and this was the end result. it was a gift to my DIL for her birthday. It is appliqued with heavy quilting.
Quilt size: width: 42" height: 42"
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Curvy points By: Angelahen,
United Kingdom
This is my first art quilt. I have used curved piecing techniques to assemble the quilt. It has then been heavily quilted both by hand and by machine.
Quilt size: width: 17" height: 29"
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Dragon Fly Quilt By: Lynn,
Oregon, USA
This is reverse Applique. When I got the pattern I was just learning Needle Turn Applique now I love it. It was quilted by a good friend of mine.
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 36"
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Dresden Plate By: grumil,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
For this project I chose the most beautiful materials which I had. I wanted to do something special for the largest fabric store in our city, as a sample of my work. People in the shop are fantastic responded to my offer to work with them and my work.My Wall hanging is still with them!
Quilt size: width: 16" height: 16"
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Dutch Windmill and Flower Field Hanging By: Yvonne Bamlett,
Alberta, Canada
This is what I think the fields of colourful spring flowers in Holland would look like, with the huge windmill as a backdrop. The windmill and sails are all appliqued. The border sashing is mauve and pink tulips.
Quilt size: width: 21" height: 27"
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Elephant By: Flo @ Butterfly Quilting,
Saskatchewan, Canada
I fell in love with this amazing image of the charging elephant, and the vibrant colours of the sunset. This is my imaginary African Safari!
Quilt size: width: 36" height: 30"
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Fishy Wall Hanging By: Rhianon Taylor,
United Kingdom
This was made to use up my batik scraps. Decided to do the fish and seahorse blocks to break up the string blocks. I used transfer foils to add shimmer. It is my own design and is free motion quilted on my domestic machine.
Quilt size: width: 43" height: 47"
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Flight to New York By: Mary L,
Kansas, USA
New York Beauty Blocks made as part of a group challenge. My original border.
Quilt size: width: 36" height: 36"
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Flying Fish School By: Karen H,
Ontario, Canada
This is a challenge & one of the three fabrics was goldfish. I turned them into birds hence the name Flying Fish. The centre of the quilt is a school of fish fry made only of challenge fabrics. I added blues & whte. Soon the fry will soear above the waves like the othersi! Close-ups are on my blog
Quilt size: width: 28.5" height: 28.5"
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Garden hexagon wallhanging By: Helen Meppem,
Australia
I loved making little hexagons and got the inspiration from Janette Huff’s book “Quilts from Grandmother’s Garden”. I have it hanging on the wall under a special little shelf my husband made for me. I am into gardening as well so it suited me.
Quilt size: width: 14.5" height: 16.5"
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Girls’ Night Out By: Barb@Witsend,
Ontario, Canada
I made this quilt for my sister, from a kit she bought. It was originally called the Ninepatcher-Family Reunion by Mickey Depre, but I made all the Nine Patches girls so we call it Girls’ Night Out. If you look closely you can see they are all wearing crystal jewelry.
Quilt size: width: 32" height: 39"
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Gone Fishing By: Quiltingranny,
Washington, USA
I made this wall hanging several years ago for my husbands home office wall. I tea died the main fabric, placed our names inside the heart, used an old shirt of hubbies for the overalls and fabric paint to outline the sun, water and fish. I found the pattern in an older quilting magazine.
Quilt size: width: 11" height: 13"
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greens and reds By: jane,
United Kingdom
This is a quilt that I made for a baby going into a cotbed for the first time.
I chose the red’s and greens to reflect the colours of tulips and grass that grow so rich and lush here. The black lines are the field wall’s that separate the farmers areas along the mountains.
Quilt size: width: 34" height: 54"
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Heart Wallhanging By: Norma,
California, USA
This pattern was reduced down to a wall hanging by a local quilt shop. It hangs in my bedroom and always makes me smile in the morning, I love the pretty colors. I finished on Feb 13; just in time for Valentine’s Day!
Quilt size: width: 32" height: 39"
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Hearts, Hearts, Hearts! By: dawn,
Illinois, USA
I made this wall hanging after stitching these cute hearts that I found on the blog, Kviltstina back in 2010. I was new to blogging and quickly become engrossed by all the inspiration. I hadn’t stitched anything in a very long time and I had never included stitchery in a quilt before.
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 18.5"
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Hexagon Break By: Karen Klamczynski,
Utah, USA
This quilt has hand-made double hexagons appliqued onto a whole cloth background. These are my first hexagons; each has a layer of batting inside. I free-motion quilted around the hexagons with my home machine, quilting “ribbons” and different fillers. I love the look of the batik double-hexies!
Quilt size: width: 21" height: 27"
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Hillside Village By: Nancy Rogers,
Massachusetts, USA
I made this quilt during a trip to the beach with quilting friends in 2011. It is from Flavin Glover’s book A New Look at Log Cabin Quilts (I think that’s the name, I don’t have the book any more.) It was fun to make and took MANY 1″ strips of different fabrics.
Quilt size: width: 37" height: 37"
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Improvo Tulip By: debble,
Pennsylvania, USA
This was my first attempt at both improvisational piecing and free motion feathers. It is completed without a binding.
Quilt size: width: 19" height: 26"
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In the Garden of Good and WeEvil By: Lynn Provencher,
Florida, USA
Quilt designed for Project Quilting – the challenge was to create something from page 28 of a random publication. I chose a gardening catalog. That page featured bugs, pests and plant diseases. Yikes!!! Free form pieced carrots and appliqued ‘friends’. I had a blast!
Quilt size: width: 33" height: 22"
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Jacaranda Tree By: Jennifer Houlden,
Ontario, Canada
While we lived in Outback South Australia my husband photographed a lone tree in the Outback. As I created this piece was inspired by the purple jacaranda flowers and the peeling bark on the gum trees in the town we lived in. I’m also a huge fan of Bargello and use them to build depth in my quilts.
Quilt size: width: 37" height: 51"
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Lady in red By: Turid Bakken,
Norway
I made this for a TV auction for charity. I don’t know who is the owner now, but I know that they got a nice sum of money for it.
Quilt size: width: 9" height: 17"
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LITTLE RED BIRD By: Linda Douglas,
Montana, USA
“Little Red Bird Quilt” is a 20″ square Wall Hanging of Red and White cotton fabrics machined pieced and top stitched with hand Redwork Embroidery of the little bird. It was so fun to make and will be gifted to a friend.
Quilt size: width: 20" height: 20"
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Metamorphosis By: Krista,
Ontario, Canada
This quilt was inspired by Escher’s “Metamorphosis” drawing. I designed it in black and white, morphing from triangles through diamons to hexagons. One block of each shape was highlighted in red, for added visual interest.
Quilt size: width: 40" height: 30"
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MIgrating geese By: Christa,
Saskatchewan, Canada
Ever since I went to International Quilt Festival in Chicago I have loved compasses. I love how the geese are trying to find their direction while swirling around the compass!!
Quilt size: width: 30" height: 40"
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Morning Glow By: Marie Joerger,
New Hampshire, USA
The quilt was created for a challenge for my art group – The Creative Conglomeration and was my first attempt at Cathedral Windows. I made 2 identical quilts then cut them to use in the ‘windows.’ It turned out much more involved than I thought :) but then these creative challenges usually do!
Quilt size: width: 15" height: 15"
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My Husband’s Valentine By: Newbie Jen,
California, USA
I made this wall hanging for my husband for Valentine’s Day this year. The heart is pieced using both precise curves (top) and improv curves (the bottom). I also free motion quilted the lyrics to a song we played at our wedding, “I love you more today than yesterday” in my own handwriting.
Quilt size: width: 22" height: 22"
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ocean eddies By: Diane,
New Jersey, USA
I made this quilt when taking Daphne Greig’s Ripless Paper Piecing class. When Daphne saw the colors I picked she said that they reminded her of modern quilts. I searched for more info about modern quilting on the internet. I found a whole community with my quilting aesthetic and never new existed!
Quilt size: width: 25" height: 25"
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Once Upon a Time By: Kathy Gentry,
Illinois, USA
This quilt was a birthday present for my 4-year-old granddaughter, Julia. It is all hand appliqued and hand quilted. The pattern is from a book entitled “Once Upon a Time” by Bonnie Kaster and Virginia Athey. The pattern is actually called “Cinderella”.
Quilt size: width: 39" height: 28"
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Our Wild Lilies By: Jenny in NZ,
New Zealand
A design by Adrienne Walker called Starlit that I fell in love with, these lilies grow wild in marshland around Northland and although beautiful can be very invasive. It has hung in our bedroom for the last 4 years since I completed it.
Quilt size: width: 40" height: 52"
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Reindeer Games By: Patti,
Saskatchewan, Canada
This paper pieced wall hanging is made with Oakshott shot cottons. The pattern is from Amy@ During Quiet Times. I did some straight line quilting through each block. Bound with a black and white stripe fabric.
Quilt size: width: 16" height: 24"
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River’s frogs and dragonflies By: Bonnie Coleman,
Florida, USA
River’s wall hanging quilt was made for my nieces little girl.. Her nursery theme was frogs and dragonflies. I embroidered the blocks using Anita Goodesign’s spring curls designs. I designed the quilt in EQ 7. The quilt can be used as a playmat or hung in her room..
Quilt size: width: 46" height: 46"
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Roaming the Hills By: Karey Hardesty,
Texas, USA
A landscape quilt with a 3D buffalo bordered with barb wire.
Quilt size: width: 36" height: 25"
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Seas the Day By: Anita in Florida,
Florida, USA
This was a quilt I made for a Doll Quilt Swap. I really love how it turned out. It is all raw edge applique.
Quilt size: width: 16" height: 16"
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Self-Made Man By: Glenda Penner,
British Columbia, Canada
Original design. Machine pieced, hand appliqued, hand quilted. A rugged, weathered settler and draft horse toil in silhouette against the pieced and plaid backdrop of a Canadian homestead. Some of the plaid fabrics used are from shirts worn by my father (1924-2010) and my father-in-law(1902-1983)
Quilt size: width: 19" height: 16"
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Sheep By: Joy Morgan,
United Kingdom
Quite a few years old, but always much admired. My Sheep wallhanging was loosely based on an old quilt pattern I had, which sadly I can no longer find. The sheep themselves I made from a wooly fleece type of fabric. The quilt is stitched mainly using freemotion quilting.
Quilt size: width: 15" height: 25"
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Shokaku (Flying Cranes) By: Beret Nelson,
Alaska, USA
I have a wildlife photographer friend who allows me to use his photos for my quilts, (sparkyphotos.com) which has been lots of fun!
Quilt size: width: 40" height: 32"
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So Romantic! By: Jennifer Schifano Thomas,
North Carolina, USA
This is my first of two Improved Nine Patch quilts I am making. It has yet to be quilted, but I already have a special spot for it to hang in my studio when it is complete. I love it – it’s So Romantic!
Quilt size: width: 32" height: 32"
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Steampunk Rainbow By: Teri Emerson,
North Carolina, USA
Original design modern art cogs & shapes. Includes various quilt techniques. There is a 3D moving zipper element with 3D quilt ID tag, paper-pieced flying guess circle, plus hand & machine applique with text fabric. Made as a gift for a man, the look is masculine, modern, contemporary & colorful.
Quilt size: width: 24" height: 24"
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summer By: tricia scott,
Pennsylvania, USA
Applique bird house with bird, bee, lady bug, and turtle. Flowers made from tiny yoyo’s and beads for centers
Quilt size: width: 16" height: 20"
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Summer Lovin By: Lea Brummett,
Indiana, USA
Summer Lovin was made for my quilting studio. The applique pattern is Miss Kelley, by Erin Russek. I changed the border to a inner scalloped border. Fusible raw edge applique for the center. Invisifil 100wt thread was used for blanket stitch around the applique and for the quilting.
Quilt size: width: 35" height: 35"
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Sunrise Twister By: Lee Franklin,
Florida, USA
This was made in a class at my guild, from a charm pack. I’m happy with the results.
Quilt size: width: 25" height: 30"
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The Lincoln Home By: Homesewn by Carolyn,
New Hampshire, USA
The Lincoln Home is a quilt I made as a thank you to the people who took care of my grandmother. I made it from their brochure.
Quilt size: width: 40" height: 25"
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THE NAITIVITY By: Jean,
Ohio, USA
This is a wall hanging with over 100 pieces appliqued on a pieced background. It has hand embroidery as well. It is machine quilted. I made 6 of these one Christmas and gave 5 of them for gifts. They were the first to finish on my new sewing machine.
Quilt size: width: 48" height: 48"
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The Wizard of OZ By: Nina,
Virginia, USA
The Wizard of Oz is my favorite movie. I used a panel of images from the movie and arranged them in order of the story with “filmstrip” borders. One of my favorite quotes is at the bottom.
Quilt size: width: 21" height: 37"
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Thimbleberries Tisket a Tasket By: Tina,
Florida, USA
BOM Pattern By Bunny Hill Designs. I Made This Wallhanging With My Thimbleberries Bee For Our Year Project. It Was Challenging To Find The Right Thimbleberries Fabric.
Quilt size: width: 37" height: 47"
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Tree wall hanging By: Marelize,
South Africa
This quilt was inspired by a photo I’ve seen in a magazine (can’t recall which). I chose free motion quilting designs inspired by nature from The Free Motion Quilting Project with Leah Day
Quilt size: width: 26" height: 26"
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Trilliums By: Ruth Quinn,
Ontario, Canada
Took a class to learn how to make an art quilt. Used my own picture and here is the finished result.
Quilt size: width: 15" height: 20"
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Underground 150 By: Dianna Rush,
United Kingdom
This quilt celebrates the 150 year of the London underground. I looked at lots of designs and images and found many circles in the imagery. So I settled on this as the focus. I used colours of some of the tube lines. The circle represents the many tunnels covered by the trains running underground.
Quilt size: width: 30" height: 30"
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Word Salad By: Purdygirlpeg,
Washington, USA
A work-in-progress made from the quilt pattern in Shannon Mullen’s “Your Space.”
I will be quilting the project with machine-embroidered words inspired by the colors of the fabrics interpreted with an organic/gardening theme: orange, beet, avocado, radish, lettuce, etc.
Quilt size: width: 36" height: 42"
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I got a Frixion marking pen – Just swipe the iron and the mark is gone – I love it!
The Bottom Line thread by Superior – I just bought several 3000m cones. It is terrific for beautiful machiine quilting. It has a lovely sheen and you don’t get heavy build up when travelling. And it comes in more than 60 glorious colours. I’m hooked on this thread!
I love my Sewline ceramic lead pencil with the rotating barrel that holds 3 colors of the leads! Especially useful when I’m marking my multi-color batik quilt!
I just bought some quilting gloves for FMQ and would definitely recommend them to everyone!
I just bought some new sewing machine feet. I am trying to start FMQ, so I had to get the right foot! I guess if you FMQ it is a must!
The last quilty thing I purchased was machingers quilting gloves. They fit wonderfuly and I wouldn’t machine quilt again without them.
I purchased a second Quilt Halo designed by Sharon Schamber. I already had one but it wasn’t working well for me – it didn’t hold the fabric down well enough for me to do free motion quilting. But I saw a video that Sharon’s daughter did & she used a second quilt halo stacked on top of the other. And it works great now with 2 of them stacked up. Thanks for the chance to win – I love Marie Bostwick’s books.
I just bought some rubber tipped quilting gloves for fm quilting. They are great.
HELLO! THE PURCHASE OF THE TABLE EXTENSION FOR MY SEWING MACHINE IS RECOMMENDED,SUCH A NEAT ADDITION! THANKS FOR SHARING!
I love the Frixon pens, too; they are magic!
Lets see…I think I bought a can of spray basting glue recently. I recommend it if you can afford it. I found that it was expensive and doesn’t go very far. I think I will go back to the old fashioned basting with needle and thread for the price.
The most recent notion purchase I made was a pair of gloves. Wow! What a difference! I am sew happy to have them and don’t know how I managed without them.
Hmm. I dont’ remember the latest notion, but I bought Gingham thread snips and i’m in love with them. SO easy to cut thread and I have carpal tunnel (at 33!!) and it’s easy for my hands.
They are all amazing!
Just bought some frixion pens. Love them the mark is removed by heat.
Thanks!
Clover Wonder Clips … a notion I couldn’t live without. I use these more than pins.
i finally got pinking and wave blades for my rotary cutter. pinked the edges of the fabrics i got to see if pinked edges wash without fraying. will after these get washed.
I bought a leather thimble and love it so much more than the metal ones I had. It feels so natural and my finger doesn’t sweat. Would love to win your book! Thanks. And the quilts were wonderful.
The frisson marking pens. They are my new best friend and so affordable at staples.
I love the binding clips I bought recently. No more pin pricks and they have 1/4 inch marks on them too!
I bought a Curvemaster foot for my sewing machine when I decided to make the Retro Flowers quilt and I am amazed at how easy it is to do curved piecing with that foot! I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to undertake a Drunkard’s Path or other curved pattern, especially if you are new to it (as I am).
The Easy Angle and Companion rulers are my latest purchase. I got them to make Bonnie Hunter’s Easy Street. Once i got the concept in my brain, they are great.
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The most recent tool I purchased was a combination cup holder / thread catcher that you clamp on your table. I can’t say I would recommend it, as the opening for the cup is clear around the other side of the holder. If I were left handed, and had it on my left side, that might be better. The thread catcher is handy, though.
I have these itty bitty scissors called a grasshopper. They are so wonderful for snipping stitches and the seam comes apart with such ease. I have one by the machine and one in my art bin I take to classes. Fabulous tool!
Hera Marker has to be one of my best investments ever. Great on light or dark fabrics.
My most recent notion was a 10 pack of thread from Connecting threads. $21.00 for 10 – 1200 yard spools of 50 wt. thread is much better than $2.16 for 400 yards at walmart! :)
Hi yes i would highly recommend the new notion i got…which is the seam ripper wth the led light and magnifier…it did take a little adjusting but now i love it
Last weekend I bought some sewing tweezers. I haven’t had time to use them much yet, but so far they have been pretty handy for lining up some tricky edges and making the sewing a little easier.
I bought some bent pins for pinning quilts that are great
Stitchin’ Lines – a paper stitching product that makes sewing half-square triangles and flying geese rectangles fast, easy and accurate. Yes, I recommend it!
A quilting foot for my sewing machine. It has made such a difference. Beautiful even feeding makes the quilt top look perfect. Love it. Love it!
I recently bought a new rotary cutter that you can use right or left handed. I love it since that is the way that I cut things!
I bought some auriful thread! Its fabulous!
Rulers, rulers, rulers!! It’s an addiction!
Beautiful entries
I purchased quilting gloves for free motion quilting. What a difference. These are a must have for any free motion quilter. I wish I had purchased them years ago.
Carolyn
I love those Frixion pens… magic!!
I just purchased a clover bias tape maker and it is wonderful for applique! :) A must have!
I just purchased the Gipsy Magnetic wrist pin cushion. Works really well and holds lots of pins.
Creative Grids Quick Trim and Circles Ruler. It is the most amazing ruler. Speeds up binding by half, makes circles so easy and handy size, 3 1/2 x 12 1/2!
I replaced my seam ripper… yes, every quilter needs one or more of these.
Batting tape! I highly recommend it. Soon my 40 gallon box of scrap batting will get promoted to a fabric box :-)
The latest thing I bought was a plain old seam ripper. Handy dandy tool, that!
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I got 2 GO! dies this week, plus lighted seam rippers. i gave one to a friend a few years ago, and she swears by it. I use one occasionally, and it has a good tip for picking tiny stitches. I like using GO! dies, too. Fun and easy!
I recently bought the “Curves for Squares” ruler by Karla Alexander. I enjoy using it, but wouldn’t say it is a have to have. There is also a “Curves for Rectangles” that I am contemplating buying for an upcoming quilt to depict ocean waves…unless I decide the squares will do.
I really like the wonder clips!
Four months ago, I purchased the hand-held small Sewline needle threader as I thought it be would perfect for take-along projects, however, it has broken twice and the replacement cartridge is $5, so not very happy with it. Thanks for this wonderful opportunity. Judy C in NC
for additional light , a
lamp that makes it easier on the eyes to see.
The most useful notion that I have purchased recently is an Olfa revolving mat. I love that I can lock it so it doesn’t turn as well. It is so handy to take with me for retreats and classes.
The most recent notion/tool I have purchased is the Easy Dresden Ruler by Darlene Zimmerman. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. I would recommend it if someone wants to make a Dresden quilt and doesn’t want to make templates.