The Sultan’s Rings quilt now features as a project in Volume 25 (May 2007) of Quilters Companion magazine: When you agree to a magazine project commission, you have to be ready to share in a particular kind of way and accept the reality that your quilt may end up with “cousins” all […]
Contemporary Quilts
Daylight decision
I came back into my studio this morning, quickly shuffled the units and sewed this 4 row x 7 unit layout before I changed my mind: If you click to the large image, you will see that I have even started quilting. I’m treating this as a practice piece before I make a start on […]
Sunset Strata
I’ve enjoyed Alison’s series of March posts “Anatomy of a Commission” and thought I would do something similar with my experimentation with the layering technique set out in Ineke Berlyn’s book. First I reviewed some photos from my recent trip to Western Australia and cropped a slice from one of the Indian Ocean sunset shots: […]
Landscapes and Contemporary Quilts
Browsing the shelves in a Sydney bookstore on Thursday, I couldn’t resist coming home with this book by Ineke Berlyn: As you will know from my contemporary quilt gallery, I prefer piecing to applique techniques and do not go in for much surface design and embellishment. Yet the quilts featured in this book appeal to […]
fishnet
My fishnet quilt started out as a possible entry for last year’s Down Under Quilts calendar competition which had the theme of crossroads. The quilt had other ideas and ended up like this: fishnet now features as a project in Issue 106 of Down Under Quilts. Look for this cover in your newsagent:
A New Challenge
I received my January issue of Down Under Quilts today and was interested to see that the theme for the 2008 Calendar Competition is my secret garden. Entries close on Friday 27 April 2007 so that gives me four clear months (ha!) to synthesise my design ideas and turn them into a quilt, or two. […]