Just one quilt finish to share today - myHome Away From Home that I started at QuiltCon in a class with Denyse Schmidt! From the beginning block, it started growing on me, and before I was midway through the matchstick quilting, I was smitten.
Just for fun, I thought I'd share a video - a bit of a blast from the past - of when Denyse was on the Martha Stewart show in 1998 and "talks about quiltmaking and shares her ideas and designs for quilts." Pretty much a pivot point for modern quilting.
A few weeks ago, I signed up for Krista Hennebury's Courthouse Colour Play class with Seattle MQG, a design I've been oogling over on Instagram. That got me obsessing over courthouse step quilts and I haven't stopped. So stay tuned for my class project, but meanwhile, enjoy the variations in the quilts I've rounded up for you! They are a little less organic than Krista's but all equally delightful. [poppyprint]
My guild-mateAra Janeand her young daughters,Solveig and Ingrid, have been working on a quilt together that I heart so much! According to Ara Jane, "They picked the fabrics and are telling me where they go, I’m just doing the sewing." Knowing that just makes me love it more.
This hand-quilted beauty is by Elina Temmes, who used Karen Lewis' pattern from her Wabi-Sabi Sewing book. The fact that this quilt is one big 'block', was one of the features Elina enjoyed in making it. "Starting from the first patch on this quilt-top [it] has been in one piece all the time. Love working like this!"
Here's another "one-block" wonder, created by Ruth Hase Gutierrez with a mix of quilting solids and her own naturally dyed fabrics. AND.... it's hand-quilted, with red thread on the light fabrics, and white on the reds. Perfection.
Finally is my own Grape Fizzy, definitely a loose improvisation on the traditional Courthouse Steps pattern, but it's a design worth playing around with!
As I began working on this issue, "What's Up" was still decompressing from QuiltCon! And now that I've been home a few weeks, I've noticed we're in a QuiltCon lull, where most of us have recovered from this year's, but aren't yet thinking much about next year's. That said, I've gathered all sorts of great posts, podcasts, and more from Nashville, and I didn't want to not share them with you, just in case you missed them. Enjoy!
This stunner is "A Piece of the Action" and was made by Heather Pregger, with all but the black fabric being her own hand dyeds. Constructed in an improv "triangular curvy" log cabin sort of way, I think the pod shapes are just so interesting. [heapregger]
20" x 28"
