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Nontraditional quilts

Pick up sticks – another scraps quilt project

Over my Christmas break, I had the flu. I wasn’t feeling well enough to do much of anything, but I did wander up to the studio towards the end of the week. I had a pile of scraps sitting by my sewing table and decided to stitch them together and see what happened.

Creating a quilt for a challenge project: Book to fabric

Every other year, my local quilt guild has a show, and there is always a challenge project.  It encourages people to create something special in a theme to share with the visitors.  It often has restrictions as to size and other details.

Eternity

Barmaids and Gunslingers: Designing an art quilt

For my parents 50th anniversary, I decided to make them a small quilt.  Many of my quilts are wall hangings, instead of bed quilts.  I like to create designs that are unique.  This one was based off a photograph my parents had had taken while they were on vacation in Wyoming some years ago.  They had used it as a Christmas card a few years later and I had my copy of that.

Barmaids and Gunslingers

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