Showing posts with label Blogger's Quilt Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger's Quilt Festival. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2015

A Glimpse Through the Lattice -- Cattails

A Glimpse Through the Lattice -- Cattails
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Thanks to Amy's Creative Side for hosting another fine Quilt Festival.  
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The process began by drawing a grid on the brown and gold background fabric. I fused “Heat and Bond” to the back of the printed fabric.
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Then I cut squares from the printed fabric and fused them to the background.
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Cutting and fusing only a few pieces at a time helped me keep the patches in order.
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Quilted +/- 1/8”
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Thinking of this quilt that I made back in 2014 …
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… I positioned some sample chairs on the floor.
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But then I decided to try a bouquet of cattails. Using paper I cut out a vase, reeds, and the cattail heads and auditioned placement.
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Then I cut the cattail bouquet from dark brown fabric and
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arranged it on the quilted background.
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A Glimpse Through the Lattice – Cattails  
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Cattails on the edge of a pond summon memories of simpler times, lazy summer days and the song of frogs croaking in chorus among the reeds. Birds alight atop the sturdy cattail stalks and herald the dawn. By bringing a bit of the country life indoors to create a cattail bouquet, one can catch a glimpse through the lattice of natural pleasures ad the cycle of life.
Size: 36” X 37”
Fabrics: Commercial Cottons
Techniques: Fused appliqué, heavily machine quilted
Finishing: Facing turned to back

This quilt will be in Little Rock, AR with The National Quilting Association’s (NQA) quilt show.
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Linking to:
Creations by Nina-Marie

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Art Quilt – Meditation

I’m joining other quilt enthusiasts for

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Thanks to Amy over at Amy’s Creative Side for hosting this wonderful online quilt show.

I started this quilt as a sample for C-Spire and then it never materialized, so I decided to make an art quilt out of it.
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Meditation
Size: 11.75” X 15.25”
Technique: machine pieced, fused, and heavily quilted
Category: Art Quilts
$85.00

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

This has been my prayer many times and continues to be.

Friday, May 16, 2014

Fiesta Fireworks–2014 Blogger’s Quilt Festival

 I’m joining the Spring 2014 Blogger’s Quilt Festival sponsored by Amy’s Creative Side.
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Twice a year we get to enjoy an online quilt show from our own home hosted by Amy.
I have picked “Fiesta Fireworks” for my entry this time.
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It has a woeful tale of not meeting the requirements of the challenge it was created for. I should have paid more attention to the fine print. You can read about it HERE and HERE.

It was made to be a quilt of “Celebration.”

“Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord and joyfully celebrate His mighty acts, for great is the glory of the Lord.” –Psalm 138:5 (Amplified Bible)

And I just learned this week that it has been juried into the AQS Quilt Show in Charlotte, SC.

Yes! Let’s celebrate!

Fiesta Fireworks
Dimensions: 39”X41”
Materials: cotton, tulle with glitter, cotton and polyester thread
Techniques: piecing of so
me of the blades, fusing, applique
Free motion quilted on a home sewing machine.
Category: Art Quilts

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Cypress With Moss – Fiber Art Quilt -- Blogger's Quilt Festival

I discovered that you could have two entries in Amy’s Creative Side’s Blogger’s Quilt Festival.


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With that in mind I decided to enter
into the ‘wall hanging’ category.

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I cut out the pieces from cotton fabric and fused them onto a cotton background. It measures 16”X20” and is heavily machine quilted.
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She gave me permission to translate her work into fiber art. So, from a picture of her watercolor painting “old cypress with spanish moss / Sky Lake WMA - Swiftown / September” on the right, I made this fiber art piece on the left that I call
“Cypress With Moss.”
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I used “fast finished triangles” on the back so it is ready for mounting.
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Detail
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Label on the back.
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You can see more of my process HERE and HERE.

Statics
Dimensions: 16”X20”
Fiber: Mostly cotton
Techniques: applique, fused, machine quilted
Mounting: Fast Finished Triangles
Category: Wall Hanging

Friday, October 25, 2013

Tweet – Blogger’s Quilt Festival

Amy over at Amy’s Creative Side is hosting her 2013 Fall Blogger’s Quilt Festival. If you can’t make it to Houston for the Quilt Show there, you can enjoy this Quilt Show from your own home here and at your own convenience.
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 My entry for the show is

Tweet

Tweet 

Statics
Size: 20” X 16”
Fiber: Mostly cotton
Thread: An assortment of cotton and polyester
Fast Finished Triangles for easy mounting.
Exhibited at RAC Fiber Art Show 2013
Category: Art Quilt

I made Tweet as a companion to Twitter. You can see it here.

Inspiration: Red Robin on Pinterest by Yolanda from TinyKiwiCreations. Used by permission.  

Here are some close up pictures to see the detail.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Granny’s Scraps Quilt


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 Twice a year we get to enjoy an online quilt show from our own home hosted by Amy.
 
I’m calling my entry “Granny’s Scraps” and entering into the Group/Bee Category.
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You see, last year Evie found a pile of 3” scrappy squares at our Magnolia Sewing Circle from cottons, polyester/cotton, and shirting. She brought them over to my house and wanted help in designing a quilt.
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What could we make with such an odd collection? … We divided the squares into 3 piles, light, medium, and dark.
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Then we put them up on my design wall in “granny square” fashion dividing the lights from the mediums with a single row of darks.
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We were right pleased with the outcome and took it to our Magnolia Sewing Circle to get help with the hand quilting.
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Mary, Thelma, Paul’s mom, and Anna Mae have a turn putting in stitches.
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Even the children like to be around the quilt.
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Here it’s all finished and ready for it’s new home.
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Detail and backing.
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Granny’s Scraps
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Finished: May 15, 2013
Dimensions: 90"X74"
Fiber: cotton, poly/cotton, shirting
Hand Quilted by Magnolia Sewing Circle Ladies

Category: Group/Bee

Creations by Nina-Marie


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