Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Two new quilts

I had a lot of fun making both of these quilts, mostly because I was just following the styles of the two books I'm writing about, not a specific pattern - that means no measuring!  I just cut & sewed, squared things up on the cutting mat as I went along. 

Here's the quilt I made from the book "Quilt Modern".  It pretty closely follows one of the quilts in the book, I just loved the colors and look of it.  I added the skinny bars of color to break up all the gray.  I love pebble quilting so that's how I stitched the gray area, as it was in the book. 





 

 
I also made a quilt after reading "Inspired Art Quilting" by Jean Wells'.  A photo I took in Bermuda (see last post) was the idea source for this quilt.  I loved the orange berries against the blue ocean and the neutral grays of the branches.  I really enjoyed making this quilt and know that I will make more photo inspired abstract quilts in the future.  Again, no measuring! 
This weekend I am beginning a huge project - reorganizing my whole house!  I'm flying in my sister, Valerie, to help me for a few weeks (yes, it will take that long).  I'm also going to rework part of my studio and go through ALL of my supplies and get rid of a lot of things that are clogging up my life.  I'm going to squeeze in some time to sew and blog so look back to see what I'm up to! 
 
 
 
 
 

4 comments:

  1. lovely new quilts! enjoy your reorganizing time and then come and do my house please!

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  2. You did a wonderful job of abstracting that berry photo into a quilt. Love the colors!

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  3. Thanks, Natalya! I am SO looking forward the re-org project.

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  4. Thanks, Norma - I enjoyed making the quilt, I am going to re-visit that berry bush the next time I'm in Bermuda. I just love the colors of the berry bush with the ocean behind it. And, well, I love the rest of Bermuda too!

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