My newest project in Love of Quilting May/June 2023. Look for the magazine on newsstands. It features a dimensional mock cathedral window border. I love using that technique for borders as well as for accent within a quilt design. The center block is a pieced …
As I’m watching the media replay what they consider the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2022 I wish to share the good of my year pursuing my quilting passion. I tend to be a person who is thinking about “what’s next” rather than …
Many asked for a process and even a pattern for my creative art quilt, Green House Effect. It is an art quilt so not a pattern but I can share an overview of the process as I made it. When making an art quilt it is important to remember that an original idea changes as techniques for completing portions need to be considered. It is not a step by step pre-planned event for me. It emerges. Hopefully this will give you an idea to spark your own creative, wonky house project. Enjoy!
I started with a small sketch on a piece of scratch paper about 4 x 6 and then enlarged to 8.5 x 11 on my copy machine. From there I enlarged with an overhead projector to the finished size I desired. I cut apart the pieces and used them as templates for the creation.
This is how I finished with a faced back and pocket corners to insert a dowel for hanging.
The making of Evan and Cassie’s infinity wedding quilt, from fabric selection to completion. Congratulations and many years of happiness!
I am so honored to have had my quilt Roses Remembered on display at the International Quilt Festival. It is now going to be part of their traveling exhibit for the 2023 year. The pattern is now available on my Etsy site, PosieLaneLinens. It is …
I have enjoyed presenting to several wonderful quilt guilds in Missouri and Texas this year and looking forward to several more programs before the year ends. As I just received word that one of my quilts will be on exhibit in Houston this fall I thought it might be time for a reminder of those programs that are newer on my list of offerings. It is always my pleasure to adapt any of the topics to fit the interests of the group/guild.
An update of the newest programs I offer:
“Hand Me Down Quilts” is a one-hour trunk show focused on my book and how we can share the stories of our quilts past and present as inspiration for future generations of quilters. My book is available for sal
e and a workshop on any of the quilts in the book is also offered. One of the quilts, “Roses Remembered” has been exhibited in the AQS Branson show and will be in the International Quilt Festival’s special exhibition, In the American Tradition this November.
“Languishing Linens” is a one-hour trunk show of floral quilts, appliqued, embellished using a variety of fabrics including vintage linens. Also available is a six-hour workshop using artisan dyed vintage linens or your personal linens as background for dimensional flower arrangements to finish as a small quilt.
“Through the Looking Glass” is a one-hour trunk show/lecture on history and methods of making cathedral window quilts. A six-hour workshop involves making a 24” table topper with a mock cathedral window technique.
“Mystery Quilt 2022” is a perfect workshop for guild/family, friends or a quilt retreat. Clues for fabric selection and cutting are sent ahead of workshop to facilitate a finished top at end of workshop. Overnight retreats assure a finished top.
I also love to share the artistic side of quilting through fabric dyeing and painting, surface design and other artistic quilt techniques.
A great quilt group asked lots of questions as I shared my inspirations and reflections related to the quilts I make. I truly enjoyed being the May program for their guild and appreciated that a friend rode shotgun for the trip to St. Louis …
Down the road, around the bend, there’s an empty barn nearing its end. Sagging roof, windows gaping, weathered wood, rusted hinges, swiftly aging. (my adaptation of the first verse of a poem by Vance Oliphant) For the last ten years my morning walk has taken …
One of my favorite quilts in my new book, Hand Me Down Quilts, is the one titled “Ring Around the Rosy”. I have made it many times in a variety of fabric styles as a baby quilt. Hope you will consider it for your next new baby project or picnic blanket. Some quilters shy away from foundation piecing and it’s not a favorite technique for me but the finish is so gratifying! Originally this part of the design was to be improvisational but a template is given with the pattern so precise points can be made for those desiring that nod to perfection. I especially like the bias binding application so I don’t have to turn under those bulky seam allowances. If you’re new to foundation piecing the photos below will give you an idea of the technique and illustrate the simplicity of this particular application. One tip I suggest for this project is that you rough cut some freezer paper templates in the size of each section of the arc and use that to precut the shape to be used in each section. For me, it seems to feel like less waste of fabric (photo 1).
Photo 2 shows why this can be very improvisational. I missed the line on the left so just continued to make adjustments, still the same number of points in the arc but a slightly different shape! Photo 3 shows how I simply redrew the line and continued with the piecing. It’s OKAY to be improvisational even if it’s unintentional!!
Photos 4 and 5 shows ¼” seam allowance added and then trimming of excess. Photo 6, sew on the bias binding, paper foundation is still attached but can now be removed. Photo 7, press toward the seam allowance and then fold to wrong side (photo 8).
Photo 9 shows how I apply the arc to the block. And repeat for a finish (photo 10)!!
Ready for quilting. Hope you’ll try it!!
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I am so pleased to share that with my daughter’s expertise I have the final proof done for my quilt book titled “Hand Me Down Quilts”. I hope it will be available by mid-October. It is not a how-to quilt book but has 14 patterns …