From Wise Craft Quilts Book. Inspired by the traditional Japanese practice of creating useable cloth from stitching rags together and adding patches to worn areas to strengthen them. The decorative, Sashiko-inspired stitching further strengthens the surface as well as adding a decorative element.
Exhibited at Quiltcon 2017, Pasadena, California.
Our family had just returned from a Spring Break to Vancouver, BC. When I finished this quilt, I asked my husband to help me name it. The combo of the hand appliquéd dutch tulips, the warm tones, and his cheeky mood, De Dutch was his response.
Hand appliquéd and hand quilted, as well as some machine free motion quilting.
The second I saw this Alexander Henry Day of the Dead Toile fabric, I had to make a quilt for Halloween. And I don’t even like Halloween all that much…
Inspired by Summers spent with family on Useppa Island in Florida. Blue water, white sand, and tanned men and women wearing their best madras and Lilly Pulitzer.
The brightest quilts happen when I don’t know where I’m going…
Scrap yellows, golds, pinks, fuchsias. Free motion stitched flowers.
Small bright boxes surrounded by men’s shirtings, woven dobbys, and low value prints.
One of my favorite quilts of all time. Made with scraps, my husband’s old shirts, and other thrifted clothing. Free motion quilted by me.
From my book Wise Craft Quilts. Made from a collection of salesman sample swatches from the 1950’s. Wool, Rayon, Nylon, Sharkskin, you name it, its in here. Some swatches were overdyed with Koolaid.
Instructions to make a quilt similar to this are in my book. If you are ever lucky enough to get your hand’s on mid-century salesman sample swatches, grab them.
Instructions to make this quilt are in my book Wise Craft Quilts
Inspired by making friendship bracelets with my daughter one summer.