Recently I taught down in hot, dry OKLAHOMA. For the class I did, they choose to make Duluth Trees. EVERYONE did such a tremendous job creating their designs and almost everyone went home with their quilt tops ready for the next step of quilting and finishing them up. My quilt Duluth Trees was designed after…
I am assuming, and you know what happens when you assume, that when I get to Colorado there will tons of pine trees and it will smell very piney. So I was inspired to create this two new small sale quilts. Lonely Pines 9″ x 12″ And Pine Forest 14″ x 10″ What do you…
Are you an art collector? It doesn’t take a whole lot of money to collect art. I do it as often as I can. I admire so many of the people working in the quilting industry and I want to have a little piece of their work in my home to enjoy year round. I have…
For all you local quilters in the west suburbs of Chicago land, I will be teaching this Saturday at Sew Generously in St Charles, IL. I will be the featured artist at Sew Generously in St Charles IL on May 10, 2014. In the morning I will give my lecture on Machine Quilting and in…
“For me, the art process is not complete without the viewer.” James Christiansen Sunset Afternoon
I love to make and use gradated fabrics. I love doing gradations from one color to another to create beautiful multi colored fabrics and then using them to create my art quilts. Blue Sunset Pines is a perfect example of just that. I started with my Blue Sunset gradated fabric, this fabric starts out yellow…
I used to grow Sunflowers in my garden. Now I grow them in my flower box next to the garage. Ya gotta just love Sunflowers, always so bright and pretty and BIG. 40″ x 50″ Sunflowers I designed this quilt pattern, Petite Sunflowers, after making and selling a much larger version of this design. I…
The great thing about fusing art quilts is that you can use your fused scraps right up to the very last little bit. I am currently working on making a few Tiny Landscapes. Here is my drawing of this little landscape, Trees on the Hill. I drew it up so that I could keep my…
I participated in a SAQA webinar yesterday. Three art quilters talked about selling their art quilts from three different prospective’s. If you are a SAQA member you can go on line a view the recorded webinar. One of things that I spoke about was mounting small quilts on to Plexiglas frames. I wanted to show you that process.…
I thought you might enjoy seeing a view of some of my classes at the AQS show in Lancaster. Here are shots from the dyeing class - we had 23 people. And my Field Poppies class we had 22 people. Everyone had a good time and made great things.
Here are a few of the prize winners at the AQS show in Lancaster. I just love the way the Japanese make their quilts. So much detail in this gem of a quilt. This is an all silk quilt. The quilting in it is fantastic. This quilt is done in all gold lame. I wonder…
I don’t think I showed you these two little quilts finished. Tiny Iris and Tiny Autumn Mums. These tiny patterns are included in the larger version pattern. I love making these little pieces, they make up so fast AND they seem so precious. You can purchase these on my website on the Small Quilts page.…