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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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The notion I purchased recently was a new seam ripper. Always have to have more than one! lol Thanks for the giveaway. vickise at gmail dot com
I have not purchased any quilting supplies as of yet because I am just getting interested in quilting and I have just been doing research and looking at all the lovely quilts. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway.
smjohns63 at yahoo dot com
My latest notion that I bought is a new seam ripper that has the rubbery ends to grab the stray threads. Am loving it!!!
Thanks!
Fusion Fabric marking pens that disappear with heat! These babies saved my eyes this week while working w white on white, black on black and red on red. Marked, sewed, appliquéd and the black markings vanished completely with heat from my iron! In love!
I’ve been buying different styles of thimbles trying to find one i like, no luck yet.
I got an add-a-quarter ruler for paper piecing and have found it useful for other things as well.
My recent aquisition and must have tool for all quilters who desire to organize their stash…Head to the office supply store and purchase the large paper supply dividers. Mine stands roughly 24 X 28 inches and has perfectly sized compartments for fat quarters and it is oh so easy to see the spectrum of my stash collection! I plan to purchase another in the near future! Love the look!!!
The latest I bought was a new scissors. A Gingher. I wanted a really good scissors as I was using a cheap one I’ve had forever and it was in bad shape.
Still waiting for my order to come in but I’m really looking forward to the new Creative Grids Pineapple Trim Tool designed by Jean Ann Wright. I LOVE her CG Log Cabin Trim tool so can’t wait to start a new pineapple blocks quilt.
The most current tool that I bought was a few of the Creative Grid rulers……..I really like them because of the gripper areas on them. They don’t slide around as easily as some other rulers. One is an 8 inch square and the others are more specific designs.
I have to say that I love my Frixion pens and the ink that disappears with heat. Another wonderful tool is my binding tool–I use it all the time to finish the ends of quilt bindings, making a very nice joining.
I bought a 3/8 inch bias binding maker from Clover. I have the 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch. They work great for stems on my applique pieces.
The notion I purchased recently was a new seam ripper. Thanks for the giveaway.
Thanks Milka`s sewutopia
My most recent quilting tool was a 3.5 inch square ruler and I have found it very helpful in squaring up half square triangles. Can’t live without it!
My most recent notion accquisition is an Omnigrid 31/2 X 24″ ruler. One can never have enough rulers, I like having a variety of sizes and shapes available so I cut whatever I need for my next project. I am a big fan of Marie Bostwick and her Cobbled Court Quilts series, so keeping my fingers crossed to win.
I just bought an add a quarter ruler. I saw Carol Doaks blog on craftsy “the card trick”. It is great!
Gosh, wish we could vote for more than 6……there are some real beauties this time!
I recently added a deckle blade for my rotary cutter and love it!
The most recent notion I purchased was a Kwik Klip, to help close safety pins. Brilliant tool! Thanks for the giveaway!
the most recent notion I bought was an appliques pressing sheet to replace the one I can’t find. (the joys of packing to get ready for moving – can’t find a thing)
The most recent tool I have used is not really a quilting tool, but it very useful. I learned about Nexcare flexible clear bandage tape on Bonnie Hunter’s blog. you put it on the backs of your rulers to keep them from slipping when you are doing your rotary cutting. it works great.
My latest “must-have” was a pair of Machinger gloves. I’m recently addicted to free motion stippling and want to do more of my own quilting. The gloves took a little getting used to, but do make a difference in handling the fabric. So far, they seem to help elevate that sore shoulder syndrome!
My most recent addition to my quilting notions is a beautiful seam ripper made by my husband. He is a woodworker and turned a handle on his lathe. Love it.
At quilt retreat this past weekend I purchased the QCR ruler by Sew Kinda Wonderful. Haven’t gotten a chance to use it yet but have been admiring her on line samples. Saw it demonstrated at retreat and looks easier than I originally thought. Thanks for the chance to win.
I recently bought a new Ott light – it really help these aging eyes see clearly!
My most recent tool purchase has been June Tailors Super Cut Ruler (18″x12)! Absolutely love it!! Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful book!
Paulette
The lastest notion I bought…hmmm…. it is the Easy Angle ruller, have not had a chance to use them yet. Darn!
Bought new blades for my rotary cutter. Fresh blades are needed when not cutting cleanly any more.
I just purchased a 10 inch SewEasy wedge ruler. I cut wedges out on the weekend but have not had a chance to stitch yet. Can’t wait to get back to my machine and play.
Bought the new seam ripper with the rubber tip for ‘erasing’ the small pieces of thread. Haven’t used it enough to know if the rubber tip really works or not.
The last notion I bought was a smaller ruler. After constantly fighting with my large one and knocking of fabric I am loving the smaller ruler.
I just bought the 8″ quick quarter ruler. It works great for making HSTs. Thanks for the chance to win a copy of Marie’s book.
Bought two things…..Karen K Buckley scissors and some fusible batting tape. They’re both great.
I enjoy my new CLover open thimble. It is kinder to my arthritic knuckles and more comfortable in hot weather.
My most recent purchase are the small red clips to hold your binding in place while you stitch it down, what a clever idea no poked fingers.
The latest notion I bought was the red binder clips; they work great, but are expensive and I continue to use the older style ‘hair clip’ ones–in fact, I just use my old, mis-matched hair clips!
My most recent quilting tool purchase was the binding tool. As some said above, it is a must have for those of us who don’t like to guess on the binding closure. It is also useful for a template for friendship braid quilts.
The latest notion I bought was The Strip Tube Ruler. I haven’t had a chance to use it yet. Have only sewed half of my strips together so far.
I am the lucky wife married to my darling husband who bought me an AccuQuilt Go! for my birthday. I’ve been wanting one, well…forever. I’m in strip heaven!
The last notion I purchased was a new pkg. of Thangles. I LOVE using them for HST’s and yes, I recommend them to anyone who wants perfect accurate HST’s which require no trimming or squaring up. Thanks for the chance to win Marie’s newest book.
A friend bought me a seam ripper with a built inlight. My old eys really appreciate and i would reccommend it. I dont know where she got it at. Barbara babscorbitt@gmail.com
The latest quilting tool/notion I purchased is a Quilter’s Cut and Press – two sided cutting board and pressing surface. I can cut then quickly flip board over to press. Also good for squaring small art quilts.
The last tool I bought was a folding 18 x 24 cutting mat to take to a quilting workshop. I love this mat. Now I use this more than my large 24 x 36 cutting mat whenever possible. I would recommend this to all quilters. It is easy to take with you and does not take up too much room on your cutting table. This is a necessary tool, especially if you have a limited space for your quilting area.
Anna Marie
My most recent purchase was a Sew Ezi table. I know that is somewhat larger than a notion but so far I am loving it.
The last notion I purchased was the Easy Angle ruler by Simplicity. It was suggested for doing Bonnie Hunter’s Easy Street mystery quilt to make the HST’s. It made it so easy to make them using my 2 1/2″ strips without having to cut fabric that is not one of my normal sizes that I keep in my stash. Thanks for the chance to win a copy of Marie’s book.
My most recent notion purchase was curved rulers – love ’em! Not only can I use them for curved piecing, but also to mark curves for quilting!
The latest notion I bought was a ripper from Seam-fix that has a rubber tip on the lid that helps pull out let over thread from ripped out seams. Works greatLinda C
The most recent notion I bought is a package of “Frixion” pens. I actually bought them at an office supply store. I find they are great for marking cutting lines, since they leave a nice thin line, and ironing removes the mark. I am not sure I would use them to mark quilting lines, though, because I noticed that even after they are removed, they leave a bit of a mark.
I have read all of Marie’s books, to date and would love a copy of this one.
The last notion I bought was a new rotary cutter. I think rotary cutters ARE a must have for almost all quilters.
My most recent quilting notion purchase was the Quick Curve Ruler from Sew kind of Wonderful. It makes curve piecing achievable (in my book anyway!). Love it.
The most recent tool I purchased is a small revolving rotary cutting mat. I definitely think it would be useful for all quilters. It helps with cutting accuracy and is a timesaver too.