Tag: art quilt
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Creating a Monochromatic Quilt: My Charseuss Journey
95 % Chartreuse A guild challenge was to make a monochromatic quilt using one color, with the option of adding up to 5% of the complementary color. The required measurements are 15″ x 45″. It seemed like a great introduction to making a ‘challenge’ quilt. And it was challenging! Hand-dyed, Commercial Fabrics, and Repurposing The…
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Using Text With Quilts
Applique Including text on art quilts is very easy to do. There are many options from which to choose. As none of these pieces are to be laundered, all of them will hold up well. If adding text to a utility quilt, I would recommed using appliqued lettering because the fabric and stitching can withstand…
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Burning a Quilt
Complete A Quilt The small disappearing pinwheel quilt in the center of this piece was started in January as a supply item for Laura Hartrich’s Thread Rays: a Unique Quilting Treatment class at QuiltCon. At the time, I felt the USA was holding on as a people united by our country, – but just barely,…
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Cat Hand Tree Collage Quilt
You may be saying, “What in the world is a Cat Hand Tree Collage Quilt?” or possibly, “Why would anyone want one?” I wanted to make an original collage quilt. It started as a tree. I feel like there is some powerful symbolism in hands and like to incorporate them in my work when I…
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Sometimes I just want to sew!
I just want to sew something! There are times when I just want to sit at my sewing machine and mindlessly run the fabric under the presser foot. I do not want to have to think too hard about what I am making. Nor do I want to pay attention to a technique that is…
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Creative Roundup – Lots of Photographs
For lack of a better post title, the following is some of what I have been doing the last few months. Dyeing scarves Chenilled a puppy quilt from hand dyed flannel The puppy quilt was for the little fellow pictured below. We got him from a rescue and he turned out to be sick. I…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 